00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000003084 20221109112227 0010-0520003084 221109################|##########|#eng## 0521780381 eng 347.7326 347.7326 SEG s Segal, Jeffrey A. Harold J. Spaeth Sara C. Benesh Supreme Court in the American Legal System / Jeffrey A. Segal Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005 xiv, 409p. : : illus. ; 24 cm. Indeks : p.393-409 This book examines the American legal system, including a comprehensive treatment of the U.S. Supreme Court. Despite this treatment, the in of the title deserves emphasis, for the authors extensively examine lower courts, providing separate chapters on state courts, the U.S. District Courts, and the U.S. Courts of Appeals. It analyzes these courts from a legal/ extralegal framework, drawing different conclusions about the relative influence of each based on institutional structures and empirical evidence. It is also tied together through its attention to the relationship between lower courts and the Supreme Court. Additionally, Election 2000 litigation provides a common substantive topic linking many of the chapters. It provides extended coverage of the legal process, with separate chapters on civil procedure, evidence, and criminal procedure. This volume contains original research, such research is presented at a level that does not require methodological sophistication. All data used for the authors' original research, and all commands to run the analyses, are provided on the book's Web site. United States. Supreme Court Judicial process - United States 11585/MKRI-P/XII-2008 11585/MKRI-P/XII-2008