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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787821903321

Autore

Bowie Jennifer Barnes

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charlottesville, [Virginia] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8139-3600-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (296 pages)

Collana

Constitutionalism and Democracy

Disciplina

347.73/24

Soggetti

Appellate courts - United States

Judicial process - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.