Inside Appellate Courts The Impact of Court Organization on Judicial Decision Making in the United States Courts of Appeals

Name: Inside Appellate Courts The Impact of Court Organization on Judicial Decision Making in the United States Courts of Appeals
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ISBN: 9780472112562

ISBN-10: 0472112562

ISBN-13: 9780472112562

Edition: 2002

Authors: Jonathan M. Cohen

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Inside Appellate Courts is a comprehensive study of how the organization of a court affects the decisions of appellate judges. Drawing on interviews with more than seventy federal appellate judges and law clerks, Jonathan M. Cohen challenges the assumption that increasing caseloads and bureaucratization have impinged on judges' abilities to bestow justice. By viewing the courts of appeals as large-scale organizations, Inside Appellate Courts shows how courts have walked the tightrope between justice and efficiency to increase the number of cases they decide without sacrificing their ability to dispense a high level of justice. Cohen theorizes that, like large corporations, the courts must…

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List price: $84.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 1/31/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 248
Size: 6.73" wide x 8.94" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Charles Parsons holds an AB (mathematics) and PhD (philosophy) from Harvard University and studied for a year at King's College, Cambridge. He was on the faculty at Harvard University from 1962–5 and 1989–2005 and at Columbia University from 1965–89. His publications are mainly in logic, philosophy of mathematics, and Kant. He was an editor of the posthumous works of Kurt Gï¿½del (Collected Works, Volumes III–V).



Preface and Acknowledgments


List of Tables



The Bureaucratization of the U.S. Courts of Appeals



The Organizational Character of the U.S. Courts of Appeals



The Formal Features of the U.S. Courts of Appeals



The Internal Structure of the Appellate Judicial Chambers and the Role of the Law Clerk



Structure and the Interaction among Judicial Chambers



Organizational Culture in the Appellate Judicial Process



Tilting the Balance: Organizational Behavior and Organizational Change in the U.S. Courts of Appeals


Index