Table of Contents
Part I: Staffing the Court
1. Appointing Federal Judges, Nancy Scherer
2. Appointing Supreme Court Justices, Christine L. Nemacheck
3. Judicial Elections: Judges and Their 'New-Style' Constituencies, James L. Gibson and Michael J. Nelson
4. Federal Judicial Tenure, Albert Yoon
5. Law Clerks, Artemus Ward
Part II: The Litigation Process and Appellate Review
6. Gatekeeping and Filtering in Trial Courts, Christina L. Boyd
7. Access to Intermediate Appellate Courts, Donald R. Songer and Susan B. Haire
8. Agenda-Setting on the United States Supreme Court, Ryan J. Owens and James Sieja
9. Courtroom Proceedings in U.S. Federal Courts, Timothy R. Johnson
Part III: Judicial Decision-Making and Opinion Content
10. Opinion Writing, Pamela C. Corley
11. Vertical Stare Decisis, Thomas G. Hansford
12. Law in Judicial Decision Making, David Klein
13. The Strategic Analysis of Judicial Behavior and the Separation of Powers, Chad L. Westerland
14. Judicial Review, Tom Clark
15. The Role of Personal Attributes and Social Backgrounds on Judging, Tracey E. George and Taylor Grace Weaver
16. Ideology and Partisanship, Justine D'Elia-Kueper and Jeffrey A. Segal
17. The Economic Analysis of Judicial Behavior, Lee Epstein and Jack Knight
Part IV: Judges and their Publics
18. Judges and Their Audiences, Lawrence Baum
19. Interest Groups and the Judiciary, Jared Perkins and Paul M. Collins, Jr.
20. The Relationship between Courts and Legislatures, Thomas M. Keck
21. Courts and Executives, Jeffrey L. Yates and Scott Boddery
22. Covering the Courts, Rorie Solberg
23. The Supreme Court and Public Opinion, Joseph Daniel Ura and Alison Higgins
24. Judicial Impact, Matthew E.K. Hall
Part V: Methods and Approaches to Studying the Courts
25. Cognition in the Courts: Analyzing the Use of Experiments to Study Legal Decision-Making, Eileen Braman
26. New Measurement Technologies: A Review and Application to Nuremberg and Justice Jackson, Daniel E. Ho and Michael Morse
27. The Use of Observational Data to Study Law and the Judiciary, Sara C. Benesh