Oxford handbook of U.S. judicial behavior

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Appointing Federal Judges / Nancy Scherer -- Appointing Supeme Court Justices / Christine L. Nemacheck -- Judicial elections : judges and their "New-Style" constituencies / James L. Gibson and MIchael J. Nelson -- Federal judicial tenure / Albert Yoon -- Law clerks / Artemus Ward --Gatekeeping and filtering in Trial Courts / Christina L. Boyd -- Access to intermediate appellate Courts / Donald R Songer and Susan B Haire -- Agenda-setting on the U.S. Supreme Court / Ryan J. Owens and James Sieja -- Courtroom proceedings in U.S. Federal Courts / Timothy R. Johnson -- Opinion writing / Pamela C. Corley -- Vertical Stare Decisis / Thomas G. Hansford -- Law in judicial decision-making / David Klein -- The strategic analysis of udicial behavior and the separation of powers / Chad L. Westerland -- Judicial review / Tom Clark -- The role of personal attributes and social backgrounds on judging / Tracy E. George and Taylor Grace Weaver -- Ideology and partisanship / Justine D'Ella-Kueper and Jeffrey A. Segal -- The economic analysis of judicial behavior / Lee Epstein and Jack Knight -- Judges and their audiences / Lawrence Baum -- Interest groups and the judiciary / Jared Perkins and Paul M. Collins, Jr. -- The relationship between ccourts and legislatures / Thomas M. Keck -- Courts and executives / Jeffrey L. Yates and Scott Boddery -- Coving the Courts / Rorie Solberg -- The Supreme Court and public opinion / Joseph Daniel Ura and Alisonn Higgins Merrill -- Judicial impact / Matthew E.K. Hall -- Cognition in the Courts : analyzing the use of experiments to study legal decision-making / Eileen Braman -- New Measurement technologies : a review and application to Nuremberg and Justice Jackson / Daniel E. Ho and Michael Morse -- The use of observational data to stud law and the judiciary / Sara C. Benesh.