Rationing the Constitution - How Judicial Capacity Shapes Supreme Court Decision-Making

Compared to the vast machinery surrounding Congress and the president, the Supreme Court is a tiny institution that can resolve only a small fraction of the constitutional issues that arise in any given year. Andrew Coan shows that this simple yet frequently ignored fact is essential to understanding how the Supreme Court makes constitutional law.

Info autore

Andrew Coan is Associate Director of the William H. Rehnquist Center on Constitutional Structures of Government and Professor of Law at the University of Arizona. He served as a law clerk to Judge Richard A. Posner on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

Riassunto

Compared to the vast machinery surrounding Congress and the president, the Supreme Court is a tiny institution that can resolve only a small fraction of the constitutional issues that arise in any given year. Andrew Coan shows that this simple yet frequently ignored fact is essential to understanding how the Supreme Court makes constitutional law.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Andrew Coan
• Editore: Harvard University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9780674986954
• ISBN: 978-0-674-98695-4
• Pagine: 280
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Law, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, LAW / Constitutional, Political science & theory, Political science and theory, Constitution: government & the state, Constitution: government and the state, Judicial Review, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general