The Puzzle of Judicial Behavior

by Lawrence Baum

Book Overview

From local trial courts to the United States Supreme Court, judges' decisions affect the fates of individual litigants and the fate of the nation as a whole. Scholars have long discussed and debated explanations of judicial behavior. This book examines the major issues in the debates over how best to understand judicial behavior and assesses what we actually know about how judges decide cases. It concludes that we are far from understanding why judges...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 047208335X
• ISBN13: 9780472083350
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 9.2"