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The People’s Courts

Pursuing Judicial Independence in America

Jed Handelsman Shugerman

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$43.00 • £37.95 • €39.95

ISBN 9780674055483

Publication Date: 02/27/2012

400 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

2 line illustrations, 2 graphs, 7 tables

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Jed Handelsman Shugerman is Associate Professor at Fordham University School of Law.

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Listen to Jed Shugerman discuss the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision-making process and the pros and cons of judicial elections on Slate’s “Political Gabfest” podcast
Read more about the history of the Supreme Court and its struggle for independence in the New Yorker

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2009 Cromwell Dissertation/Article Prize, American Society for Legal History, awarded for the dissertation version of this book

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