Keeton on judging in the American legal system / Robert E. Keeton

Author:: Keeton, Robert E.
Additional Titles:: Judging in the American legal system
Published:: Charlottesville, Va. : LEXIS Law Pub., [1999]
Copyright Date:: ©1999
Physical Description:: xxvi, 743 pages : forms ; 26 cm
Additional Creators:: Keeton, Robert E.

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Contents:

Basic ideas about judging in a legal system -- Law and facts -- Tailoring tests for deciding cases -- Recurring themes in tests for legal accountability -- Limits on state and national governmental powers -- Change and its consequences -- Making merits and managerial decisions -- Independence and commitment of the third branch -- Judge and jury -- A judge's writing and speaking -- Judging statutes -- More about reasoned choice -- More about legal tests -- More about professional roles -- Managing cases and caseloads -- Pretrial motions for judgment. and Overseeing trials and other evidentiary proceedings -- More about deciding disputes involving facts, law, risk, cause, and duty -- More about judge and jury -- Judgments.

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ISBN:

0327010592

Note:

"Part One ... contains substantial portions of material that appeared in my book Judging (West 1990), and less extensive materials from Judging also have been included elsewhere in the book"--Acknowledgments.

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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