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Author | : Richard A. Posner |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2017-09-07 |
Genre | : Courts |
ISBN | : 9781976014796 |
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In this book Judge Posner focuses on the problems of the pro ses, the people, often prisoners, who bring lawsuits without a lawyer and the staff attorneys who review these lawsuits and make recommendations to the judges on how to decide the cases. He has done extensive research into the procedures of all thirteen circuits and compares their performance. This is the most extensive comparative review of the staff attorney programs in the circuit courts that has ever been done. Judge Posner has many suggestions for improving the way these cases are handled. In addition, he discusses the need for televising the circuit court hearings. He is a believer in government transparency, and feels the public should have easy access to the workings of the courts. Finally, he reviews the duties of the circuit chief judge and recommends clarification of the position.
Author | : Richard A. Posner |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1999-09-15 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780674296275 |
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Drawing on economic and political theory, legal analysis, and his own extensive judicial experience, Posner sketches the history of the federal courts, describes the contemporary institution, appraises concerns that have been expressed with their performance, and presents a variety of proposals for both short-term and fundamental reform.
Author | : Richard A. Posner |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 1999-09-15 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0674296273 |
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Drawing on economic and political theory, legal analysis, and his own extensive judicial experience, Posner sketches the history of the federal courts, describes the contemporary institution, appraises concerns that have been expressed with their performance, and presents a variety of proposals for both short-term and fundamental reform.
Author | : Roger C. Cramton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
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The Supreme Court today exercises power over the lives of citizens that, in important respects, exceeds that of other branches of the federal government. Life-tenured justices wield this enormous power for two or three decades and the only process that provides some accountability to the people occurs as new appointments regenerate the Court. Because justices now serve so long, that process occurs only rarely and irregularly and may be affected by a justice's desire to have a successor appointed by a like-minded president. Some presidents have great influence on the Court's future decisions by the happenstance that they receive three or more appointments; other presidents have little or no influence because no vacancies arise during their terms. This collection of essays by eminent legal scholars provides a comprehensive, balanced, and compelling examination of a largely neglected, but very important, subject. What are the harmful consequences of the lengthening tenure of Supreme Court justices? Do those consequences suggest that reform is necessary or desirable? Can the problem be remedied by congressional enactments or is a constitutional amendment required? "[Q]uite accessible, devoid of a lot of legal jargon... a must read for anyone interested in the politics of judicial reform, as well as those interested in the current debate among legal academics about the effects of life tenure on judges." -- Law & Politics Book Review
Author | : Patrick B. McGuigan |
Publisher | : University Press of America |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
Download A Blueprint for Judicial Reform Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This comprehensive study of judicial reform contains recommendations from numerous leading scholars who advocate major changes in the federal court system. Some of the proposals entail establishing the right to reverse Supreme Court rulings by Congress, giving Congress veto power over federal rule-making agencies and granting tax credits to lawyers who voluntarily provide free legal services to the poor.
Author | : Richard A. Posner |
Publisher | : Harvard |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : LAW |
ISBN | : 9780674975774 |
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No sitting federal judge has ever written so trenchant a critique of the federal judiciary as Richard A. Posner does in this, his most confrontational book. He exposes the failures of the institution designed by the founders to check congressional and presidential power and resist its abuse, and offers practical prescriptions for reform.
Author | : Carl Baar |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Court administration |
ISBN | : |
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A report to the Federal Judicial Center.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 78 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Courts |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Sarah A. Binder |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2009-12-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0815703910 |
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For better or worse, federal judges in the United States today are asked to resolve some of the nation's most important and contentious public policy issues. Although some hold onto the notion that federal judges are simply neutral arbiters of complex legal questions, the justices who serve on the Supreme Court and the judges who sit on the lower federal bench are in fact crafters of public law. In recent years, for example, the Supreme Court has bolstered the rights of immigrants, endorsed the constitutionality of school vouchers, struck down Washington D.C.'s blanket ban on handgun ownership, and most famously, determined the outcome of the 2000 presidential election. The judiciary now is an active partner in the making of public policy. Judicial selection has been contentious at numerous junctures in American history, but seldom has it seemed more acrimonious and dysfunctional than in recent years. Fewer than half of recent appellate court nominees have been confirmed, and at times over the past few years, over ten percent of the federal bench has sat vacant. Many nominations linger in the Senate for months, even years. All the while, the judiciary's caseload grows. Advice and Dissent explores the state of the nation's federal judicial selection system—a process beset by deepening partisan polarization, obstructionism, and deterioration of the practice of advice and consent. Focusing on the selection of judges for the U.S. Courts of Appeals and the U.S. District Courts, the true workhorses of the federal bench, Sarah A. Binder and Forrest Maltzman reconstruct the history and contemporary practice of advice and consent. They identify the political and institutional causes of conflict over judicial selection over the past sixty years, as well as the consequences of such battles over court appointments. Advice and Dissent offers proposals for reforming the institutions of judicial selection, advocating pragmatic reforms that seek