Book Description
How oral arguments influence the decisions of Supreme Court justices.
Author : Timothy R. Johnson
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 11,45 MB
Release : 2004-07-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780791461037
How oral arguments influence the decisions of Supreme Court justices.
Author : Ryan C. Black
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 14,41 MB
Release : 2012-10-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 0472118463
Oral arguments are a key aspect of the Supreme Court's decision-making process
Author : Lawrence Wrightsman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 10,65 MB
Release : 2008-04-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 0195368622
Of all the steps in the Supreme Court's decision-making process, only one is visible to the public: the oral arguments. By carefully analyzing transcripts of all the oral arguments available to the public, Professor Wrightsman provides empirical answers to a number of questions about the operation of oral arguments. This book provides a model for understanding the dynamics of judicial decision making from an empirical perspective.
Author : Ryan Malphurs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 30,63 MB
Release : 2013-01-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1136182292
While legal scholars, psychologists, and political scientists commonly voice their skepticism over the influence oral arguments have on the Court’s voting pattern, this book offers a contrarian position focused on close scrutiny of the justices’ communication within oral arguments. Malphurs examines the rhetoric, discourse, and subsequent decision-making within the oral arguments for significant Supreme Court cases, visiting their potential power and danger and revealing the rich dynamic nature of the justices’ interactions among themselves and the advocates. In addition to offering advancements in scholars’ understanding of oral arguments, this study introduces Sensemaking as an alternative to rational decision-making in Supreme Court arguments, suggesting a new model of judicial decision-making to account for the communication within oral arguments that underscores a glaring irony surrounding the bulk of related research—the willingness of scholars to criticize oral arguments but their unwillingness to study this communication. With the growing accessibility of the Court’s oral arguments and the inevitable introduction of television cameras in the courtroom, this book offers new theoretical and methodological perspectives at a time when scholars across the fields of communication, law, psychology, and political science will direct even greater attention and scrutiny toward the Supreme Court.
Author : Jennifer Barnes Bowie
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 10,96 MB
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0813936004
For most of their history, the U.S. courts of appeals have toiled in obscurity, well out of the limelight of political controversy. But as the number of appeals has increased dramatically, while the number of cases heard by the Supreme Court has remained the same, the courts of appeals have become the court of last resort for the vast majority of litigants. This enhanced status has been recognized by important political actors, and as a result, appointments to the courts of appeals have become more and more contentious since the 1990s. This combination of increasing political salience and increasing political controversy has led to the rise of serious empirical studies of the role of the courts of appeals in our legal and political system. At once building on and contributing to this wave of scholarship, The View from the Bench and Chambers melds a series of quantitative analyses of judicial decisions with the perspectives gained from in-depth interviews with the judges and their law clerks. This multifaceted approach yields a level of insight beyond that provided by any previous work on appellate courts in the United States, making The View from the Bench and Chambers the most comprehensive and rich account of the operation of these courts to date.
Author : Lawrence S. Wrightsman
Publisher :
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 11,12 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Forensic orations
ISBN : 9780199867554
When the Supreme Court decides a case, the litigants make an oral presentation. This is the only public part in the steps in the Court's decision, so it provides an important window into its decision-making processes. Using transcripts, the author examines how the oral arguments work, and their effect on the Court's decisions.
Author : Peter H. Irons
Publisher :
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 39,42 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Law
ISBN : 1565840526
This book contains transcripts of twenty-three live recordings of landmark cases argued before the United States Supreme Court between 1955 and 1993.
Author : Matthew M.C. Roberts
Publisher : LFB Scholarly Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 16,70 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Amici curiae
ISBN : 9781593325046
Members of the Supreme Court are supposed to base decisions on the law, but often their choices are better explained by political ideology and party loyalty. Roberts sheds light on this problem by looking at a part of the CourtOCOs life that has never been systematically studied. Most cases feature extra briefs written by third parties known as amici curiae. He examines the rare occasions on which the Court allows these extra groups to participate not just by filing briefs but by appearing before the Court during oral arguments. By tracing how these groups influence the justicesOCO behavior, Roberts presents a strong case that the Court is driven by more than politics."
Author : Ryan C. Black
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 17,79 MB
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 1107015294
This book examines whether and how the Office of the Solicitor General influences the United States Supreme Court. Combining archival data with recent innovations in the areas of matching and causal inference, the book finds that the Solicitor General influences every aspect of the Court's decision making process.
Author : Lawrence S. Wrightsman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 24,76 MB
Release : 2006-03-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0198041756
With the media spotlight on the recent developments concerning the Supreme Court, more and more people have become increasingly interested in the highest court in the land. Who are the justices that run it and how do they make their decisions? The Psychology of the Supreme Court by Lawrence S. Wrightsman is the first book to thoroughly examine the psychology of Supreme Court decision-making. Dr. Wrightsman's book seeks to help us understand all aspects of the Supreme Court's functioning from a psychological perspective. This timely and comprehensive work addresses many factors of influence including, the background of the justices, how they are nominated and appointed, the role of their law clerks, the power of the Chief Justice, and the day-to-day life in the Court. Dr. Wrightsman uses psychological concepts and research findings from the social sciences to examine the steps of the decision-making process, as well as the ways in which the justices seek to remain collegial in the face of conflict and the degree of predictability in their votes. Psychologists and scholars, as well as those of us seeking to unravel the mystery of The Supreme Court of the United States will find this book to be an eye-opening read.