For courses in courts and judicial process; and law and society. The scope of its coverage, and its high academic quality, makes it attractive for graduate courses as well. Courts and Judicial Policymaking is the only comprehensive textbook on courts, law, and judicial policymaking. The authors wrote this book to fill a need for a comprehensive textbook on law and judicial policymaking. The authors present and combine both legal and political science perspectives, and provide an alternative to pre-existing and limited judicial process texts that do not combine legal academy and political science approaches, overemphasize federal courts, and present a limited comparative judicial process analysis; and, instead, offer a fresh perspective on the contemporary politics of law, courts, the legal profession, and judicial policymaking, often with

Courts And Judicial Policymaking

Banks, Christopher P.

O’Brien, David

Criminal Law

Pearson College Div

The American Legal Profession

This book is a tight and fresh analysis of the American legal profession and its significance to society and its citizens. The book's primary objective is to expose, and correct, the principal misconceptions--myths--surrounding prelaw study, law school admission, law school, and the American legal profession itself. These issues are vitally important to prelaw advisors and instructors in light of the difficult problems caused by the Great Recessions of 2008 and 2020-21 and the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Aimed equally at pre-law advisors and potential law students, this book can be used as a supplement in the interdisciplinary undergraduate law-related instructional market, including courses that cater to majors/minors in political science and criminal justice in particular. It can also be used in career counselling, internships, and the extensive paralegal program market. New to the Second Edition <ul> <li>Expanded coverage to include paralegal and legal assistant training. </li> <li>New material on women and minority law students who are transforming law schools and the profession.</li> <li>Explores challenges to the legal profession posed by economic recession, Covid-19, high tuition rates, exploding student loan debt, internet technological advances, and global competitive pressures including legal outsourcing and DIY legal services.</li> <li>Updated data and tables along with all underlying research</li> </ul>

Legal Education

Routledge

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (D.C. Circuit), along with twelve other U.S. courts of appeals, form the middle tier of courts in the federal judiciary between the district courts and the Supreme Court. Because of its location in the nation's capital, which is home to a great number of federal agencies charged with the administration of federal policy, the D.C. Circuit has evolved into a court where cases on administrative law predominate. As a result, not only has the D.C. Circuit grown in expertise in the area of administrative law, but it also shapes policy regarding administrative law through its decisions.
In this new book, political scientist Christopher Banks explains that this unique role evolved largely as a result of the politics of the nation's capital. He shows how, in the 1960s, the liberal D.C. Circuit led the way in making law protecting criminal defendants. This activism caused Congress, in 1970, to remove the court's power to hear "local" criminal appeals. This decision, along with new regulation and several judicial appointments by Republican Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, altered the court's docket and made the D.C. Circuit more conservative. As a result, the court's judicial role changed and led to the D.C. Circuit's preeminence in administrative law. Banks clearly shows the important implications of the court's political transformation.
Because there are few books on circuit courts and their impact upon national politics and law, Judicial Politics in the D.C. Circuit Court will be a welcome addition to the literature. It is a book for political scientists, legal scholars, and students.
"Curiously, with few exceptions very little has been written about the D.C. Circuit even though it occupies a central place in the federal court system. Situated in the nation's capital and once seen as an anomalous federal circuit court that had the unusual duty of taking care of federal law and superintending certain local matters arising from the District of Columbia, it emerged as a 'dominant judicial force' in the modern era for some of the reasons explained in this book. Perhaps the most telling one, though, is the fact that it is a political institution, a circumstance that goes against the popular myth that courts, especially influential ones, are apolitical."―from the Preface

Judicial Politics in the D.C. Circuit Court

Rules & Procedures

Johns Hopkins University Press

The U.S. Supreme Court and New Federalism: From the Rehnquist to the Roberts Court

Constitutional scholars Christopher P. Banks and John C. Blakeman offer the most current and the first book-length study of the U.S. Supreme Court's "new federalism" begun by the Rehnquist Court and now flourishing under Chief Justice John Roberts. Using descriptive and empirical methods in political science and legal scholarship, and informed by diverse approaches to judicial ideology, from historical to new institutionalist, they investigate how the U.S. Supreme Court rulings have shaped the political principle of federalism. While the Rehnquist Court reinvorgorated new federalism by protecting state sovereignty and set new constitutional limits on federal power, Banks and Blakeman show that in the Roberts Court new federalism continues to evolve in a docket increasingly attentive to statutory construction, preemption, and business litigation. In addition, they analyze areas of federalism not normally studied by scholars such as religious liberty and foreign affairs.

Blakeman, John C.

Legal History

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

The Judicial Process: Law, Courts, and Judicial Politics is an all-new, concise yet comprehensive core text that introduces students to the nature and significance of the judicial process in the United States and across the globe. It is social scientific in its approach, situating the role of the courts and their impact on public policy within a strong foundation in legal theory, or political jurisprudence, as well as legal scholarship. Authors Christopher P. Banks and David M. O’Brien do not shy away from the politics of the judicial process, and offer unique insight into cutting-edge and highly relevant issues. In its distinctive boxes, "Contemporary Controversies over Courts" and "In Comparative Perspective," the text examines topics such as the dispute pyramid, the law and morality of same-sex marriages, the "hardball politics" of judicial selection, plea bargaining trends, the right to counsel and "pay as you go" justice, judicial decisions limiting the availability of class actions, constitutional courts in Europe, the judicial role in creating major social change, and the role lawyers, juries and alternative dispute resolution techniques play in the U.S. and throughout the world. Photos, cartoons, charts, and graphs are used throughout the text to facilitate student learning and highlight key aspects of the judicial process.

The Judicial Process: Law, Courts, and Judicial Politics

O′Brien, David M.

Legal Theory & Systems

CQ Press

While emphasizing that lawyers fulfill a vital but often misunderstood public function in society, The American Legal Profession: The Myths and Realities of Practicing Law by Christopher P. Banks dispels some of the common misconceptions about the legal profession to show that the reality of being a lawyer is much different from what many students believe it to be. Many students know little about what law school is like or how it differs from undergraduate study, and this book corrects common myths about graduating law school and life after passing the bar. This brief primer is a nuts-and-bolts analysis of what it is really like to go into the legal profession, from start to finish, giving students considering a career in law a realistic overview of their potential legal careers.

The American Legal Profession: The Myths and Realities of Practicing Law

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Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

This timely book is a diverse collection of essays by nationally recognized scholars, politicians, and lawyers that challenges the popular myth that the U.S. Supreme Court is an apolitical institution. It analyzes the manner in which the U.S. Supreme Court superintends the electoral process through its judicial decision-making. As a provocative study of the intersection between law and politics, it considers whether the nation's highest court, as an inherently undemocratic and counter-majoritarian political institution, should enter the so-called political thicket and decide legal disputes concerning political corruption, campaign finance, political parties, patronage, and redistricting. Because there are few books on the U.S. Supreme Court and its impact on American electoral politics, Superintending Democracy is a welcome addition to social science and legal scholarship. It is a book for political scientists, legal scholars, and students who are interested in learning about American politics, constitutional law, or the political nexus between law and courts.

Superintending Democracy: The Courts and the Political Process (Law, Politics, and Society)

University Of Akron Press

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Courts And Judicial Policymaking

The American Legal Profession

The American Legal Profession

Judicial Politics in the D.C. Circuit Court

The U.S. Supreme Court and New Federalism: From the Rehnquist to the Roberts Court

The Judicial Process: Law, Courts, and Judicial Politics

The American Legal Profession: The Myths and Realities of Practicing Law

BUNDLE: Banks: The Judicial Process (Paperback) + Banks: The American Legal Profession (Paperback)

Superintending Democracy: The Courts and the Political Process (Law, Politics, and Society)