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Title Courts, judges & politics : an introduction to the judicial process / [edited by] Walter F. Murphy, C. Herman Pritchett, Lee Epstein.

Imprint Boston : McGraw-Hill, c2002.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  347 C836 2002    ---  Available
Edition 5th ed.
Description xxii, 770 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Political jurisprudence -- Courts in constitutional democracies -- Judicial organization -- Judicial selection and retention -- The bar -- Access to judicial power -- Instruments of judicial power -- Limitations on judicial power -- Judicial decision making -- Precedents and legal reasoning -- Statutory interpretation -- Constitutional interpretation -- The processes of judicial decision making -- The impact of judicial decisions.
Subject Justice, Administration of -- United States.
Judicial process -- United States.
Political questions and judicial power -- United States.
Added Author Murphy, Walter F., 1929-2010.
Pritchett, C. Herman (Charles Herman), 1907-1995.
Epstein, Lee, 1958-
Added Title Courts, judges, and politics
ISBN 0070441677 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780070441675 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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