Specializing the courts [[electronic resource] /] / Lawrence Baum

• Autore: Baum Lawrence
• Pubblicazione: Chicago ; ; London, : University of Chicago Press, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (298 p.)
• Disciplina: 347.73/14
• Soggetto topico: Judges - United States; Courts - United States
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: A first look at judicial specialization -- Perspectives on causes and consequences -- Foreign policy and internal security -- Criminal cases -- Economic issues : government litigation -- Economic issues : private litigation -- Putting the pieces together.
• Sommario/riassunto: Most Americans think that judges should be, and are, generalists who decide a wide array of cases. Nonetheless, we now have specialized courts in many key policy areas. Specializing the Courts provides the first comprehensive analysis of this growing trend toward specialization in the federal and state court systems. Lawrence Baum incisively explores the scope, causes, and consequences of judicial specialization in four areas that include most specialized courts: foreign policy and national security, criminal law, economic issues involving the government, and economic issues in the private sector. Baum examines the process by which court systems in the United States have become increasingly specialized and the motives that have led to the growth of specialization. He also considers the effects of judicial specialization on the work of the courts by demonstrating that under certain conditions, specialization can and does have fundamental effects on the policies that courts make. For this reason, the movement toward greater specialization constitutes a major change in the judiciary.
• Titolo autorizzato: Specializing the courts
• ISBN: 1-283-05809-X; 9786613058096; 0-226-03956-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910458459603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Chicago series in law and society.