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 | Advice and Dissent: The Struggle to Shape the Federal Judiciary ISBN: 9780815703914 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Brookings Institution Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Judges -- Selection and appointment -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Are Judges Political?: An Empirical Analysis of the Federal Judiciary ISBN: 9780815782353 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Brookings Institution Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Judges -- United States; Judicial process -- United States; Political questions and judicial power -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Battle over the Bench: Senators, Interest Groups, and Lower Court Confirmations ISBN: 9780813929989 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Virginia Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Judges -- Selection and appointment -- United States; Political questions and judicial power -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Battleground New Jersey: Vanderbilt, Hague, and Their Fight for Justice ISBN: 9780813569741 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Rutgers University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Vanderbilt Arthur T. 1888–1957; Hague Frank 1876–1956; Judges -- United States -- Biography; New Jersey -- Politics and government -- 1865–1950; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Being Brown: Sonia Sotomayor and the Latino Question ISBN: 9780520972087 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Sotomayor Sonia 1954–; Judges -- United States -- Biography; Hispanic American judges -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Beyond the Formalist-Realist Divide: The Role of Politics in Judging ISBN: 9781400831982 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Judges -- United States; Judicial process -- United States; Law -- Political aspects -- United States; Law -- United States -- Philosophy; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Brandeis And America ISBN: 9780813161693 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Kentucky Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Brandeis Louis Dembitz 1856-1941; Judges -- United States -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Brandeis and the Progressive Constitution: Erie, the Judicial Power, and the Politics of the Federal Courts in Twentieth-Century America ISBN: 9780300147391 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Yale University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Brandeis Louis Dembitz 1856–1941; Judges -- United States -- Biography; Law and politics; Progressivism (United States politics); ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson of Kentucky: A Political Biography ISBN: 9780813158860 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Kentucky Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Vinson Fred M. 1890-1953; Judges -- United States -- Biography; United States. Supreme Court -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Choosing State Supreme Court Justices: Merit Selection and the Consequences of Institutional Reform ISBN: 9781439913413 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Temple University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Judges -- Selection and appointment -- United States -- States; Judges -- United States -- States -- Election; Courts of last resort -- United States -- States; Judicial process -- United States -- States; Political questions and judicial power -- United; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Citizens, Courts, and Confirmations: Positivity Theory and the Judgments of the American People ISBN: 9781400830602 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Judges -- Selection and appointment -- United States; United States. Supreme Court -- Officials and employees -- Selection and appointment; Alito Samuel A. 1950–; Public opinion -- United States; Alito Samuel A. 1950 -- United States Supreme Court con; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Conversations with Abner Mikva: Final Reflections on Chicago Politics, Democracy’s Future, and a Life of Public Service ISBN: 9780700627394 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Kansas Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Mikva Abner J.; Legislators -- United States -- Biography; Judges -- United States -- Biography; United States. Congress. House of Representatives -- Biography; Illinois. General Assembly. House of Representatives -- Biography; Legislators -- Illinois --; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Courting Change : Queer Parents, Judges, and the Transformation of American Family Law (1) ISBN: 9780814777442 Platform/Publisher: PQ ebrary / NYU Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a time Subjects: Gay parents : Legal status laws etc. : United States.; ■ Detailed Information (with preview link) | |
| Courting Change: Queer Parents, Judges, and the Transformation of American Family Law ISBN: 9780814777442 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / NYU Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Gay parents -- Legal status laws etc. -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Disqualifying the High Court: Supreme Court Recusal and the Constitution ISBN: 9780700622726 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Kansas Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Judges -- Recusal -- United States; Judges -- Disqualification -- United States; United States. Supreme Court; Constitutional law -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Divergent Paths: The Academy and the Judiciary ISBN: 9780674915596 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Harvard University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Judicial process -- United States; Judges -- Training of -- United States; Law -- Study and teaching -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Diversity Matters: Judicial Policy Making in the U.S. Courts of Appeals ISBN: 9780813937199 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Virginia Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Judges -- United States; Minority judges -- United States; Women judges -- United States; Judicial process -- United States; Appellate courts -- United States; Sex discrimination against women -- Law and legislation -- United States; Race discrimination -; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Henry Friendly, Greatest Judge of His Era ISBN: 9780674064935 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Harvard University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Friendly Henry J.; Judges -- United States -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | How Judges Think ISBN: 9780674033832 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Harvard University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Judicial process; Judicial process -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | In Pursuit of Right and Justice: Edward Weinfeld as Lawyer and Judge ISBN: 9780814759097 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / NYU Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Weinfeld Edward 1901–1988; Judges -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography; United States. District Court (New York : Southern District) -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Innocent Until Nominated: The Breakdown of the Presidential Appointments Process ISBN: 9780815716662 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Brookings Institution Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: United States -- Officials and employees -- Selection and appointment; Cabinet officers -- Selection and appointment -- United States; Government executives -- Selection and appointment -- United States; Judges -- Selection and appointment -- United State; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Ipse Dixit: How the World Looks to a Federal Judge ISBN: 9780295801254 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Washington Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Judges -- United States; Lawyers -- United States; Practice of law -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | John Marshall Harlan: The Last Whig Justice ISBN: 9780813149851 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Kentucky Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Harlan John M. (John Marshall) 1833-1911; Judges -- United States -- Biography; United States -- Constitutional history; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Judges and Their Audiences: A Perspective on Judicial Behavior ISBN: 9781400827541 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Judges -- United States; Judicial process -- United States; Law -- Psychological aspects; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Judges and Unjust Laws: Common Law Constitutionalism and the Foundations of Judicial Review ISBN: 9780472022953 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Michigan Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Judge-made law -- Great Britain; Judge-made law -- United States; Judicial review -- Great Britain; Judicial review -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion ISBN: 9780700623679 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Kansas Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Brennan William J. (William Joseph) 1906–1997; Judges -- United States -- Biography; United States. Supreme Court -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Justice Rehnquist and the Constitution ISBN: 9781400859870 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Rehnquist William 1924–; Judges -- United States -- Biography; Federal government -- United States; United States -- Constitutional law; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Lincoln''s Forgotten Ally: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky ISBN: 9781469602738 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of North Carolina Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Holt Joseph 1807–1894; United States. Army. Judge Advocate General’s Dept -- History; Judges -- United States -- Biography; United States -- Politics and government -- 1849–1877; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Miles Lord: The Maverick Judge Who Brought Corporate America to Justice ISBN: 9781452955537 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Lord Miles; Judges -- United States -- Biography; District courts -- United States -- Officials and employees -- Biography; Judges -- Minnesota -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Most Humble Servants: The Advisory Role of Early Judges ISBN: 9780300146561 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Yale University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Advisory opinions -- United States -- History; Judicial opinions -- United States -- History; Advisory opinions -- Great Britain -- History; Judicial opinions -- Great Britain -- History; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Not Guilty: Are the Acquitted Innocent? ISBN: 9780814725344 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / NYU Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Judicial error -- United States; Criminal procedure -- United States; Criminal justice Administration of -- United States; Jury -- United States; Judges -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk ISBN: 9781400828692 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Patent laws and legislation -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Patriots and Cosmopolitans: Hidden Histories of American Law ISBN: 9780674045286 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Harvard University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Judges -- United States -- Biography; Lawyers -- United States -- Biography; Law -- United States -- History; United States -- Biography; Nationalism -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Philip Pendleton Barbour in Jacksonian America ISBN: 9780817389598 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / The University of Alabama Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC SC TN VA WV).; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political.; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory.; HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.; Politicians; Judges; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Rationing the Constitution: How Judicial Capacity Shapes Supreme Court Decision-Making ISBN: 9780674239180 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Harvard University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Constitutional law -- United States; United States. Supreme Court; Judges -- Workload -- United States; Judicial process -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Slaves, Slaveholders, and a Kentucky Community''s Struggle Toward Freedom ISBN: 9780813176680 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Kentucky Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Holt Sandy 1824?-1896; African Americans -- Kentucky -- Biography; African American soldiers -- 19th century -- Biography; Slaves -- Kentucky -- Biography; Holt Joseph 1807-1894; Slaveholders -- Kentucky -- Biography; Judges -- United States -- Biogra; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Suburbs under Siege: Race, Space, and Audacious Judges ISBN: 9781400864263 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Discrimination in housing -- Law and legislation -- United States; Land use -- Law and legislation -- United States; Courts -- United States; Race relations -- United States; Social justice -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings in the U.S. Senate: Reconsidering the Charade ISBN: 9780472120277 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Michigan Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: United States. Supreme Court -- Officials and employees -- Selection and appointment; Judges -- Selection and appointment -- United States; United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary; Legislative hearings -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark: A Life of Service ISBN: 9780292793491 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Texas Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Clark Tom C. (Tom Campbell) 1899–1977; United States. Supreme Court -- Biography; Judges -- United States -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Behavior of Federal Judges: a theoretical and empirical study of rational choice ISBN: 9780674067325 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Harvard University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Judicial process -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Chief Justiceship of Melville W. Fuller, 1888-1910 ISBN: 9781611171716 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of South Carolina Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Fuller Melville Weston 1833–1910 -- Biography; United States. Supreme Court -- History; Judges -- United States -- History; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Federal Courts: Challenge and Reform, Revised Edition ISBN: 9780674042247 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Harvard University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Courts -- United States; Judicial process -- United States; Judges -- United States; Court congestion and delay -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Great Justices, 1941-54: Black, Douglas, Frankfurter, and Jackson in Chambers ISBN: 9780472021581 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Michigan Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: United States. Supreme Court -- Biography; United States. Supreme Court -- History -- 20th century; Judges -- United States -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Next Justice: Repairing the Supreme Court Appointments Process ISBN: 9781400827824 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: United States. Supreme Court -- Officials and employees -- Selection and appointment; Judges -- Selection and appointment -- United States; Political questions and judicial power -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Nominee: A Political and Spiritual Journey ISBN: 9781621039945 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Mississippi Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Southwick Leslie H. 1950–; Judges -- United States -- Biography; United States. Court of Appeals (5th Circuit) -- Officials and employees -- Selection and appointment; Judges -- Selection and appointment -- United States; Political questions and judicia; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The People''s Courts: pursuing judicial independence in America ISBN: 9780674062825 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Harvard University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Judges -- United States -- States -- Election -- History; Judicial independence -- United States -- History; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Presidential Appointee''s Handbook ISBN: 9780815728948 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Brookings Institution Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: United States -- Officials and employees -- Selection and appointment; Cabinet officers -- Selection and appointment -- United States; Government executives -- Selection and appointment -- United States; Judges -- Selection and appointment -- United State; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Presidential Appointee''s Handbook ISBN: 9780815701712 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Brookings Institution Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: United States -- Officials and employees -- Selection and appointment; Cabinet officers -- Selection and appointment -- United States; Government executives -- Selection and appointment -- United States; Judges -- Selection and appointment -- United State; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan ISBN: 9780814337202 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Wayne State University Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: Judges; Justice Administration; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Thomas Goode Jones ISBN: 9780817389888 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / The University of Alabama Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Lawyers & Judges.; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical.; HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC SC TN VA WV).; Governors; Lawyers; Judges; ■ Detailed Information |