The Puzzle of Judicial Behavior.

From local trial courts to the United States Supreme Court, judges' decisions affect the fates of individual litigants and the fate of the nation as a whole. Scholars have long discussed and debated explanations of judicial behavior. This book examines the major issues in the debates over how b...

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Language:English
Published: University of Michigan Press 2009.
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