Linda Greenhouse
This collection of essays is a fascinating examination of the many aspects of judicial independence and interdependence, placing the age-old debate over the courts and their role in a nuanced light that enhances our understanding and helps us separate genuine threats from politics as usual.
Sanford Levinson
'Judicial independence' is an oft-proclaimed, but all too rarely analyzed, mantra within our public dialogue. It is unclear exactly what it means or how much of it is actually desirable. These essays provide valuable guidance toward a more informed debate, given that we will scarcely stop proclaiming (and debating) both its actuality and desirability.
Sanford Levinson, University of Texas Law School
Mark A. Graber
A sophisticated approach to judicial independence that takes constitutional politics seriously. Peabody and his fellow authors provide vital information on the political foundations of contemporary judicial criticism and the threat (or non-threat) those criticisms raise to constitutional government in the United States.
Mark A. Graber, University of Maryland
Linda Greenhouse
This collection of essays is a fascinating examination of the many aspects of judicial independence and interdependence, placing the age-old debate over the courts and their role in a nuanced light that enhances our understanding and helps us separate genuine threats from politics as usual.
Linda Greenhouse, Yale Law School
From the Publisher
A sophisticated approach to judicial independence that takes constitutional politics seriously. Peabody and his fellow authors provide vital information on the political foundations of contemporary judicial criticism and the threat (or non-threat) those criticisms raise to constitutional government in the United States.—Mark A. Graber, University of Maryland
'Judicial independence' is an oft-proclaimed, but all too rarely analyzed, mantra within our public dialogue. It is unclear exactly what it means or how much of it is actually desirable. These essays provide valuable guidance toward a more informed debate, given that we will scarcely stop proclaiming (and debating) both its actuality and desirability.—Sanford Levinson, University of Texas Law School
A timely and important book, featuring insightful explorations into the scope and limits of judicial independence. Deserves attention from anybody who cares about courts.—Keith E. Whittington, Princeton University
This collection of essays is a fascinating examination of the many aspects of judicial independence and interdependence, placing the age-old debate over the courts and their role in a nuanced light that enhances our understanding and helps us separate genuine threats from politics as usual.—Linda Greenhouse, Yale Law School
This edited volume of essays on the relations between courts (primarily the U.S. Supreme Court) and other branches of government documents and analyzes a remarkable political jousting that has ebbed and flowed throughout the nation's history. It is a demonstration of the power of political science to reveal rarely acknowledged realities of the judicial process in a democratic society.—Richard A. Posner, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School
Richard A. Posner
This edited volume of essays on the relations between courts (primarily the U.S. Supreme Court) and other branches of government documents and analyzes a remarkable political jousting that has ebbed and flowed throughout the nation's history. It is a demonstration of the power of political science to reveal rarely acknowledged realities of the judicial process in a democratic society.
Richard A. Posner, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School
Keith E. Whittington
A timely and important book, featuring insightful explorations into the scope and limits of judicial independence. Deserves attention from anybody who cares about courts.
Keith E. Whittington, Princeton University