The federal judiciary : strengths and weaknesses / Richard A. Posner.

Publisher's description: No sitting federal judge has ever written so trenchant a critique of the federal judiciary as Richard A. Posner does in this, his most confrontational book. Skewering the politicization of the Supreme Court, the mismanagement of judicial staff, the overly complex system...

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Main Author: Posner, Richard A. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.
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Table of Contents:
  • Noting weaknesses and strengths, and proposing a new research agenda
  • Some weaknesses of our legal system mistakenly denied by a critic
  • Tier one of the federal judiciary : the Supreme Court
  • Tier two of the federal judiciary : the federal courts of appeals
  • Tier three of the federal judiciary : the federal district courts
  • Civil litigation revisited.