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Decision Making in the U.S. Courts of Appeals
Frank B. Cross
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Description for Decision Making in the U.S. Courts of Appeals
Paperback. This book studies the decisions of the United States circuit courts and their grounding in law and judicial ideology. Num Pages: 264 pages, 119 tables, 6 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LNAA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 358.
This groundbreaking book analyzes the decisions made by the United States circuit courts over the past half century. These courts have a profound impact on the law—they issue many more decisions in many more areas of law than the Supreme Court. Cross demonstrates that while the courts' judges are influenced by ideology and by the appointing president, legal requirements exercise a much stronger influence on their decisions. He also shows that these courts are independent of the other branches of government and free from undue influence of various parties. The book further introduces new research on the precedent-setting power of decisions.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804757133
SKU
V9780804757133
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99-50
About Frank B. Cross
Frank B. Cross is Professor at the University of Texas Law School and Herbert D. Kelleher Centennial Professor of Business Law at the University of Texas McCombs School of Business.
Reviews for Decision Making in the U.S. Courts of Appeals
"Decision Making in the U.S. Courts of Appeals is a fascinating, indeed seminal, piece of work full of often surprising insights. Any serious political scientist and interdisciplinary legal academic will have to read this book and confront its careful, meticulously designed arguments and evidence."
Sanford Levinson
University of Texas
"Cross's new book is a law professor's effort to explore the competing explanations for judicial decisions... The book will certainly not resolve the debate over the attitudinal model, but it will be impossible for specialists to ignore it as they continue to work toward a comprehensive understanding of judicial decision making."
CHOICE "Cross provides useful and novel integration of legal, political science, and economic research to understand circuit court decision making. His new avenues for empirical analysis... advance his goal of initiating future theoretical and empirical research by legal and social science scholars. Many of his findings will have great utility for those seeking determinants of circuit court and other collegial decision making."
Law & Politics Book Review "This is one of the most important empirical studies ever of the federal judiciary. Many of Cross's findings are striking and fresh, and he is able to show that the simple 'realist' story underrates the role of legal constraints—and that ideology matters too."
Cass Sunstein
University of Chicago
Sanford Levinson
University of Texas
"Cross's new book is a law professor's effort to explore the competing explanations for judicial decisions... The book will certainly not resolve the debate over the attitudinal model, but it will be impossible for specialists to ignore it as they continue to work toward a comprehensive understanding of judicial decision making."
CHOICE "Cross provides useful and novel integration of legal, political science, and economic research to understand circuit court decision making. His new avenues for empirical analysis... advance his goal of initiating future theoretical and empirical research by legal and social science scholars. Many of his findings will have great utility for those seeking determinants of circuit court and other collegial decision making."
Law & Politics Book Review "This is one of the most important empirical studies ever of the federal judiciary. Many of Cross's findings are striking and fresh, and he is able to show that the simple 'realist' story underrates the role of legal constraints—and that ideology matters too."
Cass Sunstein
University of Chicago