TY - BOOK AU - Murphy, Walter F. AU - Pritchett, Herman C. AU - Epstein, Lee AU - Knight, Jack TI - Courts, judges and politics: an introduction to the judicial process. SN - 0072977051 AV - KF8700.A7 C67 PY - 2006/// CY - New York PB - McGraw Hill KW - Judicial process N1 - Includes index; Contents: The Nature of judging: Political jurisprudence -- Courts in constitutional democracies -- The American legal system: judicial organization -- Judicial selection and retention -- The Bar -- Judicial power: access to judicial power -- Instruments of judicial power -- Limitations on judicial power -- Judicial decision making: fact finding in the courts -- Precedents and legal reasoning -- Statutory interpretation -- Constitutional interpretation -- The Processes of judicial decision making -- The Impact of judicial decisions ER -