Party Politics or Judicial Independence? The Regime Politics Literature Hits the Law Schools
Year: 2007
Type: article
Abstract: Focusing on recent books published by Michael Klarman, Mark Tushnet, and Jeffrey Rosen, this article traces the development of a longstanding tradition of Supreme Court scholarship within political science (the literature) and its recent migration to the legal academy. These recent books provide illuminating accounts of the Court’s relationship to the broader political system, and they collectively represent a significant improvement over conventional legalistic accounts of the Court’s decision-making. Nevertheless, in borrowing so heavily from the regime politics tradition, these legal scholars have exacerbated two problems which have been present in that literature from the beginning.
Source: Law & Social Inquiry
Author: Thomas M. Keck
Institution: Syracuse University
Language: English
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2149894096