Table of Contents

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

About the Author

Lee Epstein is the Ethan A.H. Shepley Distinguished University Professor at Washington University in St. Louis. She is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Professor Epstein's research and teaching centres on law and legal institutions, especially the behaviour of judges. She has received 12 grants from the National Science Foundation and is the author or co-author of over 100
articles and essays and 17 books, most recently, The Behavior of Federal Judges (with William M. Landes and Richard A. Posner) and An Introduction to Empirical Legal Research (with Andrew D. Martin). The
New York Times and other news media frequently cite her work on the U.S. Supreme Court. Stefanie A. Lindquist serves as Deputy Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs, and Foundation Professor of Law and Political Science, at Arizona State University. Her research and teaching falls at the intersection of law and politics. Her previous publications include Measuring Judicial Activism (with Frank Cross, 2009).

Reviews

Life moves pretty fast and keeping up with all that goes on in a field as exciting as judicial politics is difficult. Epstein and Lindquist have assembled an all-star team of leading researchers, who have produced accessible essays that both inform readers about the topic and offer innovative ideas for future research. This volume provides a tremendous service to both scholars and students in the discipline and should be read by anyone with even a passing interest in judicial behavior.
*Ryan C. Black, Associate Professor of Political Science, Michigan State University*