Specializing the Courts (Chicago Series in Law and Society (Hardcover)) (Hardback)
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Short Description for Specializing the Courts 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. This title presents a comprehensive analysis of this growing trend toward specialization in the federal and state court systems.
Full description- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- Published: 15 February 2011
- Format: Hardback 288 pages
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- Categories: Political Science & Theory | Constitution: Government & The State | Courts & Procedure | Civil Procedure, Litigation & Dispute Resolution
- ISBN 13: 9780226039541 ISBN 10: 0226039544
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Full description for Specializing the Courts
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.
