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  • An Introduction to Empirical Legal Research

    by Lee Epstein, Andrew D. Martin ...
    Is the death penalty a more effective deterrent than lengthy prison sentences? Does a judge's gender influence their decisions? Do independent judiciaries promote economic freedom? Answering such questions requires empirical evidence, and arguments based on empirical research have become an everyday part of legal practice, scholarship, and teaching. In litigation judges are confronted with ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Judicial Behaviour

    by Lee Epstein, Urška ^D%Sadl, Gunnar Grendstad, Keren Weinshall ...
    These are momentous times for the comparative analysis of judicial behaviour. Once the sole province of U.S. scholars—and mostly political scientists at that—now, researchers throughout the world, drawing on history, economics, law, and psychology, are illuminating how and why judges make the choices they do and what effect those choices have on society. Bringing together leading scholars in the ... Read more

    $216.99 CAD

  • The Behavior of Federal Judges

    a theoretical and empirical study of rational choice

    by Lee Epstein, William M Landes, Richard A Posner ...
    Federal judges are not just robots or politicians in robes, yet their behavior is not well understood, even among themselves. Using statistical methods, a political scientist, an economist, and a judge construct a unified theory of judicial decision-making to dispel the mystery of how decisions from district courts to the Supreme Court are made. ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD

  • The Supreme Court and Legal Change

    Abortion and the Death Penalty

    by Lee Epstein, Joseph F. Kobylka ...
    The authors analyze abortion and death penalty decisions by the Supreme Court and argue that they provide prime examples of abrupt legal change. After proposing that the strength of legal arguments has at least as much impact on Court decisions as do public opinion and justices' political beliefs, they focus on the way litigators propel certain issues onto the Court’s agenda and seek to persuade ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Supreme Court Compendium

    Two Centuries of Data, Decisions, and Developments

    by Lee Epstein, Jeffrey A. Segal, Harold J. Spaeth, Thomas G. Walker ...
    The Supreme Court Compendium provides historical and statistical information on the Supreme Court: its institutional development; caseload; decision trends; the background, nomination, and voting behavior of its justices; its relationship with public, governmental, and other judicial bodies; and its impact. With over 180 tables and figures, this new edition is intended to capture the full ... Read more

    $245.99 CAD

  • The Strategic Analysis of Judicial Behavior

    A Comparative Perspective

    by Lee Epstein, Keren Weinshall ...
    Series series Elements in Law, Economics and Politics
    The past decade has witnessed a worldwide explosion of work aimed at illuminating judicial-behavior: the choices judges make and the consequences of their choices. We focus on strategic accounts of judicial-behavior. As in other approaches to judging, preferences and institutions play a central role but strategic accounts are unique in one important respect: They draw attention to the ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans

    The Best of McSweeney's, Humor Category

    Edited by Kevin Shay, Lee Epstein, John Warner, Suzanne Kleid, Dave Eggers ...
    A hilarious collection from McSweeney's that "achieves the sensation of being hit by a hip, humorous train.... Breaks mold after mold in hilarious fashion" (The New York Times).Now more than ever, Americans are troubled by questions. As sweaty modernity thrusts itself upon us, the veil of ignorance that cloaked our nation hangs in tatters, tattered tatters. Our "funny bones" are neither fun nor ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Public Interest Law

    An Annotated Bibliography & Research Guide

    by Lee Epstein, Tracey E. George ...
    Series series Organizations and Interest Groups
    This volume convincingly lays to rest two held beliefs that have long impeded scholarly analysis of the role of courts and litigation in American politics: 1) that group resort to the courts is a rather recent phenomenon resulting from actions of the Warren Court and the Civil Rights Movement; and 2) that unique and distinctive features of the judiciary somehow place it beyond or outside analytic ... Read more

    $321.99 CAD

  • Advances in Management Accounting

    by John Y. Lee, Marc J. Epstein ...
    Series Book 21 - Advances in Management Accounting
    Volume 21 features articles on: the impact of framed information and project importance on capital budgeting decisions; the measurement of participation in budgeting practice and research; the impact of adverse selection and risk propensity on managers' project evaluation decisions; relative hedonic utility and budgetary conflict resolution; management control systems, environmental uncertainty, ... Read more

    $197.99 CAD

  • Constitutional Law for a Changing America

    A Short Course

    by Kevin T. McGuire, Thomas G. Walker, Lee Epstein ...
    Excellent balance of case excerpts and author explanation, highly appropriate for undergraduate students.—Dr. Wendy Brame, Briar Cliff UniversityPolitical factors influence judicial decisions. Arguments and input from lawyers and interest groups, the ebb and flow of public opinion, and especially the ideological and behavioral inclinations of the justices all combine to shape the development of ... Read more

    $145.99 CAD

  • Constitutional Law for a Changing America

    Rights, Liberties, and Justice

    by Kevin T. McGuire, Thomas G. Walker, Lee Epstein ...
    Series series Constitutional Law for a Changing America
    In Constitutional Law for a Changing America: Rights, Liberties, and Justice, bestselling authors Lee Epstein, Kevin T. McGuire, and Thomas G. Walker show students how political factors influence judicial decisions and shape the development of constitutional law. The Twelfth Edition, updated with additional material such as recent court rulings, more than 500 supplemental cases, and greater ... Read more

    $145.99 CAD

  • Constitutional Law for a Changing America

    Institutional Powers and Constraints

    by Kevin T. McGuire, Thomas G. Walker, Lee Epstein ...
    Series series Constitutional Law for a Changing America
    In Constitutional Law for a Changing America: Institutional Powers and Constraints, bestselling authors Lee Epstein, Kevin T. McGuire, and Thomas G. Walker show students how political factors influence judicial decisions and shape the development of constitutional law. The Twelfth Edition, updated with additional material such as recent court rulings, more than 500 supplemental cases, and greater ... Read more

    $145.99 CAD