Fish The Politics of Federal Judicial Administration

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6832-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 552 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

Although administrative policy-making is overshadowed by the drama of judicial decision-making, it is a vital part of the judicial process. Peter Graham Fish examines the structure and legislative history of the various institutions of the federal judicial administration, their development, and their operation. He focuses on the lower courts to show that, although it is delimited by a network of formal institutions, the federal judicial administration is characterized by informality and voluntarism and depends, as he emphasizes, on the roles played by individual judges.

As administrators, judges become deeply involved in politics, and Peter Graham Fish concentrates on the politics of the national judicial administration. Within this framework he raises enduring issues: Shall local federal judges be wholly independent or must they conform to uniform standards of law and administration? Shall administration be separate and diffused or united and centralized? Shall politics be superior or subordinate to so-called standards of "'efficiency"? Shall the interests of trial judges prevail over or be subordinate to the regional and national interests of appellate judges? How shall money, manpower, jurisdictional, and structural changes be distributed among the courts? To what extent, if any, should judges modify their behavior or institutions to meet external criticism?

Originally published in 1973.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Fish, Peter Graham

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. vii
Illustrations, pg. ix
Preface, pg. xi
Sources Frequently Cited in the Notes, pg. 1
1. Administrative Heritage and Reform, 1789-1922, pg. 3
2. The Judicial Conference: Formative Years under Taft and Hughes, pg. 40
3. The Justice Department as Judicial Administrator: Problems, Protest, and Reform Proposals, pg. 91
5. The Administrative Office of the United States Courts, Part I, pg. 166
6. The Administrative Office of the United States Courts, Part II, pg. 200
7. The Judicial Conference of the United States, 1939-1969, pg. 228
8. The Committee System of the Judicial Conference, pg. 269
9. The Judicial Conference and Congress, pg. 301
10. Administrative Regionalism and CentraHsm: From Circuit Conferences to the Federal Judicial Center, pg. 340
11. The Circuit Councils: Linchpins of Administration, pg. 379
12. Politics and Administration: A Dilemma, pg. 427
Appendix A. Judicial Conference Reports, pg. 438
Appendix B. Judicial Conference Attendance by Years, pg. 440
Appendix C. Judicial Conference Attendance by Circuit, pg. 451
Bibliography, pg. 457
Index, pg. 499