What’s Law Got to Do With It What Judges Do Why They Do It and What’s at Stake 1st Edition by Charles Gardner Geyh – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery: 0804775338, 9780804775335
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ISBN 10: 0804775338
ISBN 13: 9780804775335
Author: Charles Gardner Geyh
In What’s Law Got to Do With It?, the nation’s top legal scholars and political scientists examine to what extent the law actually shapes how judges behave and make decisions, and what it means for society at large. Although there is a growing consensus among legal scholars and political scientists, significant points of divergence remain. Contributors to this book explore ways to reach greater accord on the complexity and nuance of judicial decisionmaking and judicial elections, while acknowledging that agreement on what judges do is not likely to occur any time soon. As the first forum in which political scientists and legal scholars engage with one another on these hot button issues, this volume strives to establish a true interdisciplinary conversation. The inclusion of reactions from practicing judges puts into high relief the deep-seated and opposing beliefs about the roles of law and politics in judicial work.
Table of contents:
Part I: Setting the Stage: the Debate over What Law Has to Do with What Judges Do
1 What’s Law Got to Do with It: Thoughts from “the Realm of Political Science”
2 On the Study of Judicial Behaviors: Of Law, Politics, Science, and Humility
Part II: Distinguishing Law from Other Influences on Judicial Decision-making
3 Law and Policy: More and Less than a Dichotomy
4 Law Is Politics
5 Path Dependence in Studies of Legal Decision-making
6 Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places: Some Suggestions for Modeling Legal Decision-making
7 Stare Decisis as Reciprocity Norm
Part III: What Law Has to Do with What Judges Do and Its Implications for Judicial Selection
8 How Judicial Elections Are Like Other Elections and What That Means for the Rule of Law
9 On the Cataclysm of Judicial Elections and Other Popular Antidemocratic Myths
10 Are Judicial Elections Democracy-Enhancing?
Part IV: What Law has to do with What Judges Do and Its Implications for Public Confidence in the Courts
11 Judging the Politics of Judging: Are Politicians in Robes Inevitably Illegitimate?
12 The Rule of Law Is Dead! Long Live the Rule of Law!
13 Three Views from the Bench
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