Lexington Books
Pages: 172
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Trim: 6¼ x 9
978-1-4985-4299-9 • Hardback • October 2018 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
978-1-4985-4301-9 • Paperback • August 2023 • $39.99 • (£30.00)
978-1-4985-4300-2 • eBook • October 2018 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
Salmon A. Shomade is visiting associate professor of political science and adjunct professor of law at Emory University.
Preface
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Decision Making in the U.S Supreme Court and State Supreme Courts
Chapter 2: Chief Justice Roy Moore and the Alabama Supreme Court 2001–2003
Chapter 3: Elevating Chief Justice Bernette Johnson in Louisiana
Chapter 4: Verbal and Physical Assaults in Wisconsin Supreme Court
Chapter 5: Controversies, State Court Judges and Decision Making
Bibliography
In this book Salmon Shomade probes three extraordinary episodes in state supreme courts, analyzing their impact on those courts and their implications for explanation of judicial behavior. Taking a careful and creative approach, Shomade provides valuable insights on decision making in appellate courts.
— Lawrence Baum, The Ohio State University
"Like Martin Shapiro before him, Shomade convincingly argues that political scientists must broaden their focus beyond the U.S. Supreme Court and include state courts if we truly want to understand courts as political institutions and test dominant models. Other scholars have studied increasingly contested judicial races as a facet of political realignment, but Shomade takes the inquiry deeper to the institution itself, exposing the significant racial and gender dimensions of political and interpersonal conflict, offering a rare intersectional approach to law and courts." - Sally Kenney, Tulane University— Sally Kenney, Tulane University