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The view from the bench and chambers : examining judicial process and decision making on the U.S. Courts of Appeals / Jennifer Barnes Bowie, Donald R. Songer, and John Szmer.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Constitutionalism and democracyPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2014Description: x, 284 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780813935997
  • 0813935997
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • KF8750 .B69 2014
Contents:
Introduction : the courts of appeals in the U.S. legal system -- The judges and cases -- The preliminaries : setting the agenda, oral argument, and assigning the opinion of the court -- Decision making and writing the opinion of the court -- Separate opinion writing on the courts of appeals -- Explaining attitudinal and legal influences on decisions -- Strategic accounts of decision making -- The congruence of social science and the perceptions of the judges.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-274) and index.

Introduction : the courts of appeals in the U.S. legal system -- The judges and cases -- The preliminaries : setting the agenda, oral argument, and assigning the opinion of the court -- Decision making and writing the opinion of the court -- Separate opinion writing on the courts of appeals -- Explaining attitudinal and legal influences on decisions -- Strategic accounts of decision making -- The congruence of social science and the perceptions of the judges.

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