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Patrick Fagan
Year 1990
Abraham, Henry J. Justices and Presidents. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
Atkins, Burton and Henry Glick. "Formal Judicial Recruitment and State Supreme Court Decisions," American Politics Quarterly 2 (1974): 427-449.
Auerbach, Jerold S. Unequal Justice. London: Oxford University Press, 1976.
Barber, Sotirios A. On What the Constitution Means. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1984.
Baum, Lawrence. "Policy Goals in Judicial Gatekeeping: A Proximity Model of Discretionary Jurisdiction," American Journal of Political Science 21 (1977): 13-33.
Baum, Lawrence. "Measuring Policy Change in the US Supreme Court," American Political Science Review 82 (1988): 905-912.
Bisharat, George E. Palestinian Lawyers and Israeli Rule. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1989.
Bork, Robert. "Neutral Principles and Some First Amendment Problems," Indiana Law Journal 47, 1 (Fall 1971): 1-19.
Brenner, Saul. "The New Certiorari Game," Journal of Politics 41, 2 (1979): 649-655.
Bullock, Charles S. and Charles M. Lamb. Implementation of Civil Rights Policy. Monterey: Brooks/Cole Publishing, 1984.
Canon, Bradley. "The Impact of Formal Selection Process on the Characteristics of Judges, Reconsidered," Law & Society Review 6 (1972): 579-593.
Carp, Robert and Russell Wheeler. "Sink or Swim: The Socialization of a Federal District Judge," Journal of Public Law 21 (1972): 359-390.
Casper, Jonathan D. "Having Their Day in Court: Defendent Evaluations of the Fairness of their Treatment," Law & Society Review 12, 2 (Winter 1978): 237-251.
Cole, George F. (ed) Criminal Justice: Law and Politics. Monterey: Wadsworth, 1984.
Collins, Hugh. Marxism and Law. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
Conley, John M. and William M. O'Barr. "Fundamentals of Jurisprudence: An Ethnography of Judicial Decision Making in Informal Courts," The North Carolina Law Review 66, 3 (March 1987): 467-507.
Cooper, Philip J. Public Law and Public Administration. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1988.
Cox, Archibald. The Court and the Constitution. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987.
Cox, Archibald. The Role of the Supreme Court in American Government. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976.
D'Entreves, Alessandro Passerin. Natural Law. London: Hutchinson University Library, 1972.
Douglas, William O. The Court Years: 1939-1975. New York: Vitage Books, 1970.
Dworkin, Ronald. Law's Empire. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986.
Dworkin, Ronald. Taking Rights Seriously. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978.
Edelman, Martin. Democratic Theories and the Constitution. Albany: SUNY Press, 1984.
Eisenstein, James, Roy B. Flemming and Peter Nardulli. The Contours of Justice. Boston: Little Brown, 1988.
Ely, John Hart. Democracy and Distrust. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980.
Engel, David. "The Oven Bird's Song: Insiders, Outsiders, and Personal Injuries in an American Community," Law & Society Review 18 (1984): 551-582.
Feeley, Malcolm. "Another Look at the Party Variable in Judicial Decision-making: An Analysis of the Michigan Supreme Court," Polity 4 (1971): 91-104.
Felstiner, William and Austin Sarat. "Lawyers and Legal Consciousness: Law Talk in the Divorce Lawyer's Office," Yale Law Journal 98, 8 (June 1989): 1663-1688.
Felstiner, William and Austin Sarat. "Law and Strategy in the Divorce Lawyer's Office," Law & Society Review 20, 1 (1986): 93-134.
Flango, Victor E. and Craig R. Ducat. "What Difference does Method of Judicial Selection Make? Selection Procedures in State Courts of Last Resort," Justice System Journal 5 (1979): 25-44.
Friedman, Lawrence. Total Justice. Boston: Beacon Press, 1987.
Friedman, Lawrence. American Law. New York: Norton, 1984.
Fuller, Lon L. "The Adversary System," in Kenneth I. Winston. (ed) The Principle of Social Order: Selected Essays of Lon L. Fuller. Durham: Duke University Press, 1981.
Funston, Richard. "The Supreme Court and Critical Elections," American Political Science Review 69, 3 (September 1975): 795-813.
Galanter, Marc. "Why the 'Haves' Come Out Ahead: Speculations on the Limits of Legal Change," Law & Society Review 9, 2 (Fall 1974): 950-997.
Giles, Michael and Thomas Walker. "Judicial Policymaking and Southern School Desegregation," Journal of Politics 37 (1975): 917-937.
Gilmore, Grant. The Ages of American Law. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977.
Glick, Henry. "Policymaking and State Supreme Courts: The Judiciary as an Interest Group," Law & Society Review 5 (1970): 271-291.
Gluckman, Max. "The Limitations of the Case-Method in the Study of Tribal Law," Law & Society Review 7, 4 (1973): 611-641.
Goldman, Sheldon. "Voting Behavior on the US Courts of Appeals Revisited," American Political Science Review 69 (1975): 491-506.
Greene, Edith. "Media Effects on Jurors," Law and Human Behavior 14, 5 (1990): 439-450.
Hagan, John. "The Legislation of Crime and Delinquency: A Review of Theory, Method, and Research," Law & Society Review 14, 3 (Spring 1980): 603-628.
Hall, Kermit. The Magic Mirror. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Hand, Learned. The Bill of Rights. New York: Atheneum, 1986.
Hans, Valerie P. and Neil Vidmar. Judging the Jury. New York: Plenum Press, 1986.
Harrington, Christine B. Shadow Justice: the Ideology and Institutionalization of Alternatives to Court. Westport. Greenwood Press, 1985.
Hastie, Reid, Steven Penrod and Nancy Pennington. Inside the Jury. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983.
Hegel, George W.F. Natural Law. translated by T.M. Knox. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1975.
Heinz, John P. and Edward O. Laumann. Chicago Lawyers: the Social Structure of the Bar. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1982.
Hellman, Arthur. (ed) Restructuring Justice: The Innovations of the Ninth Circuit and the Future of the Federal Courts. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990.
Heumann, Milton and Colin Loftin. "Mandatory Sentencing and the Abolition of Plea Bargaining: The Michigan Felony Firearm Statute," Law & Society Review 13 (1979): 393-430.
Hooker, M.B. Legal Pluralism. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975.
Horowitz, Donald L. The Courts and Social Policy Washington: Brookings Institute, 1977.
Horowitz, Donald. "Courts as the Guardians of Public Interest," Public Administration Review 78 (March-April 1977): 148-154.
Howard, J. Woodford. Court of Appeals in the Federal Judicial System. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981.
Irons, Peter. Justice at War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983.
Jacob, Herbert. Justice in America: Courts, Lawyers and the Judicial Process. 4th Ed. Boston: Little Brown, 1984.
Johnson, Charles A. and Bradley C. Canon. Judicial Policies: Implementation and Impact. Washington: Brooking Institute, 1984.
Katz, Jack. Poor People's Lawyers in Transition. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1982.
Kluger, Richard. Simple Justice. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976.
Konecni, Vladimir J. and Ebbe B. Ebbesen. The Criminal Justice System: A Social Psychological Analysis. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1982.
Kritzer, Herbert M. "Political Correlates of the Behavior of Federal District Judges: A Best Case Analysis," Journal of Politics 40 (1978): 25-58.
Lind, E. Allan and Tom R. Tyler. The Social Psychology of Procedural Justice. New York: Plenum Press, 1988.
McEwen, Craig A. and Richard J. Maiman. "Mediation in Small Claims Court: Achieving Compliance through Consent," Law & Society Review 18, 1 (1984): 11-49.
Mensch, Elizabeth. "The History of Mainstream Legal Thought," in David Kairys (ed). The Politics of Law: A Progressive Critique. New York: Pantheon, 1982.
Merry, Sally Engle. "Going to Court: Strategies of Dispute Management in an American Urban Neighborhood," Law & Society Review 13, 4 (Summer 1979): 891-925.
Mertz, Elizabeth. "The Uses of History: Language, Ideology, and Law in the United States and South Africa," Law & Society Review 22, 4 (1988): 661-684.
Mnookin, Robert H. and Lewis Kornhauser. "Bargaining in the Shadow of the Law," Yale Law Journal 88 (1979): 950-997.
Murphy, Walter F. "The Art of Constitutional Interpretation," in M. Judd Harmon (ed) Essays on the Constitution of the United States. New York: Kennikat Press, 1984.
Nader, Laura. "The Direction of Law and the Development of Extra-Judicial Processes in Nation-State Societies," in P.H. Gulliver (ed), Cross-Examinations. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1978: 78-95.
Nardulli, Peter and James Eisenstein, Roy B. Flemming. The Tenor of Justice. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988.
O'Brien, David M. Storm Center: The Supreme Court in American Politics. New York: W.W. Norton, 1990.
Olson, Susan. "Interest Group Litigation in Federal District Court," Journal of Politics 52 (1990): 854-882.
Pachecho, Allegro. "Occupying an Uprising: The Geneva Law and Israeli Administrative Detention Policy During the First Year of the Palestinian General Uprising," Columbia Human Rights Law Review 21 (1989): 515-563.
Peltason, J. W. 58 Lonely Men. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1971.
Pennington, Nancy and Reid Hastie. "Juror Decision-Making Models: The Generalization Gap," Psychological Bulletin 89, 2 (1981): 246-287.
Posner, Richard A. The Federal Courts. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985.
Rathjen, Gregory James. "Policy Goals, Strategic Choice and Majority Opinion Assignments in the US Supreme Court: A Replication," American Journal of Political Science 18, 4 (November 1974): 713-724.
Rawls, John. A Theory Of Justice. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971.
Richardson, Richard and Kenneth Vines. The Politics of Federal Courts. Boston: Little Brown, 1970.
Rohde, David W. "Policy Goals, Strategic Choice and Majority Opinion Assignments in the US Supreme Court," Midwest Journal of Political Science 16, 4 (November 1972): 652-677.
Sarat, Austin and Joel B. Grossman. "Courts and Conflict Resolution: Problems in the Mobilization of Adjudication," American Political Science Review 69, 4 (December 1975): 1200-1217.
Scheingold, Stuart A. The Politics of Rights. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974.
Scheingold, Stuart A. The Politics of Law and Order. New York: Longman, 1984.
Schuck, Peter. Agent Orange on Trial. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987.
Schulhoffer, Stephen, "Is Plea Bargaining Inevitable," Harvard Law Review 97, 5 (March 1984): 1039-1107.
Schwartz, Bernard. Super Chief. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979.
Schwartz, Bernard. The Unpublished Opinions of the Warren Court. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
Schwartz, Bernard. The Unpublished Opinions of the Burger Court. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Scigliano, Robert. The Supreme Court and the Presidency. New York: Free Press, 1971.
Segal, Jeffrey and Albert Cover. "Ideological Values and the Votes of US Supreme Court Justices," American Political Science Review 83 (1989): 557-564.
Shapiro, Martin. Courts: a comparative and political analysis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.
Skolnick, Jerome H. Justice Without Trial. New York: John Wiley, 1975.
Slotnick, Elliot. "Federal Judicial Recruitment and Selection Research: A Review Essay," Judicature 71 (1988): 317-324.
Smart, Carol. Feminism and the Power of the Law London Routledge, 1989.
Songer, Donald. "The Impact of the Supreme Court on Trends in Economic Policymaking in the US Courts of Appeals," Journal of Politics (1987): 830-844.
Songer, Donald. "Concerns for Policy Outputs as a Cue for Supreme Court Decisions of Certiorari," Journal of Politics 41 (1979): 1185-1194.
Stidham, Ronald and Robert Carp. "Judges, Presidents, and Policy Choices: Exploring the Linkages," Social Science Quarterly 68 (1987): 395-407.
Tarr, G. Alan and Mary Cornelia Porter. State Supreme Courts: Policymakers in the Federal System. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1982.
Tate, Neal. "Judicial Institutions in Cross National Perspective: Toward Integrating Courts into the Comparative Study of Politics," in John Schmidhauser. (ed) Comparative Judicial Systems. Boston: Butterworth, 1987.
Thibaut, John and Laurens Walker. Procedural Justice: A Psychological Analysis. New York: John Wiley, 1975.
Tushnet, Mark. The NAACP's Strategy Against Segregated Education 1925-1950. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987.
Tyler, Tom R. "Procedural Justice Research," Social Justice Research 1, 1 (March 1988): 41-65.
Tyler, Tom R., Casper, Jonathan D. and Bonnie Fisher. "Maintaining Allegiance toward Political Authorities: The Role of Prior Attitudes and the Use of Fair Procedures," American Journal of Political Science 33, 3 (August 1989): 629-652.
Ulmer, S. Sidney. "Dissent Behavior and the Social Background of Supreme Court Justices," Journal of Politics 32, 3 (August 1970): 580-598.
Ulmer, S. Sidney. "Selecting Cases for Supreme Court Review: An Underdog Model," American Political Science Review 72 (1978): 902-910.
Walker, Thomas and Deborah Barrow. "The Diversification of the Federal Bench: Policy and Process Ramifications," Journal of Politics 47 (1985): 596-617.
Wasby, Stephen. Small Town Police and the Supreme Court. Lexington: Lexington Books, 1976.
Wasby, Stephen L., Anthony D'Amato, and Rosemary Metrailer. Desegregation from Brown to Alexander: An Exploration of Supreme Court Strategies. Carbondale: Illinois University Press, 1977.
Wasby, Stephen. The Impact of the United States Supreme Court: Some Perspectives. Illinois: Dorsey Press, 1970.
Weinreb, Lloyd L. Natural Law and Justice. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987.
Woodward, Bob and Scott Armstrong. The Brethren. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979.