Who Is to Judge? - The Perennial Debate Over Whether to Elect Or Appoint America s

List of contents

• Chapter 1: Introduction


• Chapter 2: A Short and Pointed History of Judicial Selection


• Chapter 3: The New Judicial Selection Landscape


• Chapter 4: The Arguments


• Chapter 5: Why Everyone is Wrong


• Chapter 6: Managing the Selection Debate


• Chapter 7: The Future of Judicial Selection

About the author

Charles Gardner Geyh is the John F. Kimberling Professor of Law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law. He has authored or edited multiple books including Courting Peril (Oxford), Understanding Civil Procedure (edited with Gene Shreve and Peter Raven-Hansen), What's Law Got to Do with It?, and When Courts and Congress Collide.

Summary

Who Is to Judge? tackles the judicial selection debate head on. Judicial politics expert Charles Gardner Geyh exposes the exaggerations of binary arguments in support of either elective or appointive systems, approaching middle ground and ultimately arguing that no single system of selection is optimal for all jurisdictions at all times.

Additional text

Geyh wades into the age-old question of how best to select and retain state court judges. It is a divisive issue that arises whenever there are judicial scandals or court decisions on which the citizenry is deeply divided. Geyh presents an invaluable analysis of the pros and cons of each system and defuses many of the traditional arguments for and against systemic change. A must-read for those interested in preserving public confidence in our state court judiciaries.

Product details

• Authors: Charles Gardner Geyh, Charles Gardner (Professor of Law Geyh, Geyh Charles Gardner
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.04.2019
• EAN: 9780190887148
• ISBN: 978-0-19-088714-8
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; USA, LAW / Civil Procedure, LAW / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice, LAW / Constitutional, United States of America, USA, Law & society, Courts & procedure, Legal systems: courts and procedures, Law and society, sociology of law