What's law got to do with it? : what judges do, why they do it, and what's at stake / edited by Charles Gardner Geyh.

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011.

1st edition

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Judges -- United States.

Judicial process -- United States.

Law -- Political aspects -- United States.

1. What's law got to do with it : thoughts from "the realm of political science"

2. On the study of judicial behaviors : of law, politics, science and humility

3. Law and policy : more and less than a dichotomy

4. Law is politics

5. Path dependence in studies of legal decision-making

6. Looking for law in all the wrong places : some suggestions for modeling legal decision-making

7. Stare decisis as reciprocity norm

8. How judicial elections are like other elections and what that means for the rule of law

9. On the cataclysm of judicial elections and other popular anti-democratic myths

10. Are judicial elections democracy-enhancing?

11. Judging the politics of judging : are politicians in robes inevitably illegitimate?

12. The rule of law is dead! Long live the rule of law!

13. Views from the bench.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780804775335

xi, 355 p. : ill. ; 23 cm