Forecasting the Impact of Legislation on Courts


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Conference on Assessing the Effects of Legislation on the Workload of the Courts


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Includes background information on how legislation affects court workload & on historical development of judicial impact assessment as a tool by which to measure this effect. Contains the papers prepared for each of the three sessions -- policy (interbranch communications: the next generation); theory (caseloading in the balance, judicial impact statements: unpacking the discourse, judicial preferences, public choice & the rules of procedure, overcoming the competence/credibility paradox in judicial impact assessment); & applied (the impact of national legislation on State courts, observation on impact models on Federal courts).







Forecasting the Impact of Legislation on Courts


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Supreme Court Decision-Making


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What influences decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court? For decades social scientists focused on the ideology of individual justices. Supreme Court Decision Making moves beyond this focus by exploring how justices are influenced by the distinctive features of courts as institutions and their place in the political system. Drawing on interpretive-historical institutionalism as well as rational choice theory, a group of leading scholars consider such factors as the influence of jurisprudence, the unique characteristics of supreme courts, the dynamics of coalition building, and the effects of social movements. The volume's distinguished contributors and broad range make it essential reading for those interested either in the Supreme Court or the nature of institutional politics. Original essays contributed by Lawrence Baum, Paul Brace, Elizabeth Bussiere, Cornell Clayton, Sue Davis, Charles Epp, Lee Epstein, Howard Gillman, Melinda Gann Hall, Ronald Kahn, Jack Knight, Forrest Maltzman, David O'Brien, Jeffrey Segal, Charles Sheldon, James Spriggs II, and Paul Wahlbeck.




How Our Laws are Made


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The Common Law


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Judicial Impact Statements


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SNI


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Model Rules of Professional Conduct


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The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.