Courts, Judges, and Politics: An Introduction to the Judicial Process Book

Part I The Nature of Judging
1 Political Jurisprudence
Civil and Common Law Systems
Conceptualizations of Law: Schools of Jurisprudence
The Expanding and Contracting Declaratory Theory
Sociological Jurisprudence and Legal Realism
Political Jurisprudence
What Is to Come
Selected References
Readings
2 Courts in Constitutional Democracies
The Origins of Courts
The Roles of Courts
The Expansion of Judicial Power?
Selected References
Readings
Part II The American Legal System
Chapter 3. Judicial Organization
Establishing the American Legal System
Today's System of Federal Courts
State Courts
A New Judicial Federalism
Selected References
Readings
4 Judicial Selection and Retention
Selection of Federal Judges
Presidential Considerations
Judicial Selection in the States
Disciplining Judges
Selected References
Readings
5 The Bar
Becoming an Attorney
The Lawyer's Work
Challenges Confronting the Legal Profession
Selected References
Readings
Part III Judicial Power
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