Mayors Courts Of Hamilton County Ohio

Author : Lawrence Baum
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226039560
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Specializing the Courts written by Lawrence Baum and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Americans think that judges should be, and are, generalists who decide a wide array of cases. Nonetheless, we now have specialized courts in many key policy areas. Specializing the Courts provides the first comprehensive analysis of this growing trend toward specialization in the federal and state court systems. Lawrence Baum incisively explores the scope, causes, and consequences of judicial specialization in four areas that include most specialized courts: foreign policy and national security, criminal law, economic issues involving the government, and economic issues in the private sector. Baum examines the process by which court systems in the United States have become increasingly specialized and the motives that have led to the growth of specialization. He also considers the effects of judicial specialization on the work of the courts by demonstrating that under certain conditions, specialization can and does have fundamental effects on the policies that courts make. For this reason, the movement toward greater specialization constitutes a major change in the judiciary.