TY  - BOOK
AU  - Epstein,Lee
AU  - Landes,William M.
AU  - Posner,Richard A.
TI  - The Behavior of Federal Judges: A Theoretical and Empirical Study of Rational Choice
SN  - 9780674067325
AV  - KF5130 
U1  - 347.73/14 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Judicial process-United States
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- General Introduction -- Technical Introduction -- 1. A Realistic Theory of Judicial Behavior -- 2. The Previous Empirical Literature -- 3. The Supreme Court -- 4. The Courts of Appeals -- 5. The District Courts and the Selection Effect -- 6. Dissents and Dissent Aversion -- 7. The Questioning of Lawyers at Oral Argument -- 8. The Auditioners -- Conclusion: The Way Forward -- Acknowledgments -- Index
N2  - Federal judges are not just robots or politicians in robes, yet their behavior is not well understood, even among themselves. Using statistical methods, a political scientist, an economist, and a judge construct a unified theory of judicial decision-making to dispel the mystery of how decisions from district courts to the Supreme Court are made
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