Specializing the Courts

Name: Specializing the Courts
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ISBN: 9780226039558

ISBN-10: 0226039552

ISBN-13: 9780226039558

Edition: 2010

Authors: Lawrence Baum

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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 Courtsprovides 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…

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List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.91" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



List of Tables


Preface


Acknowledgments



A First Look at Judicial Specialization


Questions to Address


Extent: The Landscape of Judicial Specialization


Plan of the Book


Appendix: The Scholarship on Judicial Specialization



Perspectives on Causes and Consequences


Consequences: The Impact of Judicial Specialization


Causes: The Sources of Judicial Specialization


Summing Up and Looking Ahead


Appendix: Research Strategy



Foreign Policy and Internal Security


Overseas Courts


Military Justice


The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Courts


The Removal Court


Discussion



Criminal Cases


Promoting Efficiency


Occasional Efforts to Attack Crime with Sanctions


Socialized Courts in the Progressive Era


Problem-solving Courts of the Current Era


Discussion



Economic Issues: Government Litigation


Revenue


Expenditures


Regulation


Discussion



Economic Issues: Private Litigation


Patents


Corporate Governance: The Delaware Courts


Business Courts


Bankruptcy


Discussion



Putting the Pieces Together


The Causes of Specialization


The Consequences of Specialization


Evaluating Judicial Specialization


The Future of Judicial Specialization


References


Index