Courts, Judges, and Politics: An Introduction to the Judicial Process - Brossura

Murphy, Walter F; Epstein, Lee; Pritchett, C. Herman

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0070441677 ISBN 13: 9780070441675

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2001

Riassunto

This classic reader has been a best selling component to the Judicial Process/Judicial Politics/American Legal System course for years. Now thoroughly updated while retaining the features that made it attractive for so long: organization, structure, coverage, narrative, choice of excerpts, and flexibility in use, Lee Epstein and Walter Murphy continue the tradition of this book.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Walter F. Murphy is the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Emeritus at Princeton University. Murphy was one of the creators of Courts, Judges, & Politics in 1961. His other books include Congress and the Court (1962), Elements of Judicial Strategy (1964); The Vicar of Christ (1979), and American Constitutional Interpretation (with James E. Fleming and Sotirios A. Barber, 2d ed. 1995). A former Commissioner of Civil Rights in New Jersey, Murphy served for 13 years as a member of that state's committee, monitoring judicial conduct.

Contenuti:

Part I "The Nature" of Judging

Chapter 1 Political Jurisprudence

Chapter 2 Courts in Constitutional Democracies

Part II The American Legal System

Chapter 3 Judicial Organization

Chapter 4 Judicial Selection and Retention

Chapter 5 The Bar

Part III Judicial Power

Chapter 6 Access to Judicial Power

Chapter 7 Instruments of Judicial Power

Chapter 8 Limitations on Judicial Power

Part IV Judicial Decision Making

Chapter 9 Fact Finding in the Courts

Chapter 10 Precedents and Legal Reasoning

Chapter 11 Statutory Interpretation

Chapter 12 Constitutional Interpretation

Chapter 13 The Processes of Judicial Decision Making

Chapter 14 The Impact of Judicial Decisions

Su questa edizione

• Editore: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0070441677
• ISBN 13: 9780070441675
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 5
• Numero di pagine: 792