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Publisher: University of Chicago Press Author: Lawrence. Baum Publication Name: Specializing the Courts Subject: American Government / Judicial Branch, General, Courts Item Weight: 15.1 Oz Publication Year: 2011 Book Title: Specializing the Courts width: 0.7 in Type: Textbook height: 0.1 in Item Length: 0.9 in Subject Area: Law, Political Science Series: Chicago Series in Law and Society Ser. Item Height: 0.1 in Format: Trade Paperback Number of Pages: 296 Pages ISBN: 9780226039558 Language: English Item Width: 0.7 in

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Specializing the Courts, Paperback by Baum, Lawrence, Brand New, Free shippin.... Specializing the Courts, Paperback by Baum, Lawrence, ISBN 0226039552, ISBN-13 9780226039558, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Most Americans think that judges should be, and are, generalists who decide a wide array of cases. Nonetheless, we now have specialized courts in many key policy areas. Specializing the Courts provides the first comprehensive analysis of this growing trend toward specialization in the federal and state court systems.Lawrence Baum incisively explores the scope, causes, and consequences of judicial specialization in four areas that include most specialized courts: foreign policy and national security, criminal law, economic issues involving the government, and economic issues in the private sector. Baum examines the process by which court systems in the United States have become increasingly specialized and the motives that have led to the growth of specialization. He also considers the effects of judicial specialization on the work of the courts by demonstrating that under certain conditions, specialization can and does have fundamental effects on the policies that courts make. For this reason, the movement toward greater specialization constitutes a major change in the judiciary.