Supreme Court - An Analytic History of Constitutional Decision Making

Informationen zum Autor Tom S. Clark is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Political Science at Emory University, Atlanta. His research focuses on judicial decision-making and his recent work has focused on the development of law. His first book, The Limits of Judicial Independence (Cambridge, 2010), won the William Riker Award for the best book in political economy from the American Political Science Association. Klappentext Provides a quantitative history of the development of constitutional law in the United States during the past 150 years. Zusammenfassung This book presents a quantitative history of constitutional law in the United States and uses a statistical model of law to bring together humanistic and social-scientific perspectives on legal history. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The history of constitutional law: inside and outside; 2. Modeling constitutional doctrine; 3. An empirical model of constitutional decision making; 4. The cases, votes, and opinions; 5. Patterns in constitutional law; 6. From civil war to regulation and federal power; 7. War, security, and culture clash; 8. Conclusion.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Thomas Clark, Thomas (Emory University Clark, Tom S. Clark, Tom S. (Emory University Clark, Clark Tom S.
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9781108422765
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42276-5
• Pagine: 450
• Serie: Political Economy of Instituti; Political Economy of Instituti; Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Political Economy, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Courts & procedure, Legal systems: courts and procedures, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general