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Author: Bernard Schwartz (Webb Professor of Law, Webb Professor of Law, New York University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.50cm
, Height: 2.90cm
, Length: 24.10cm
Weight: 0.820kg
ISBN: 9780195053173
ISBN 10: 0195053176
Pages: 496
Publication Date: 06 October 1988
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
Presents invaluable fragments of information about the workings of the Supreme Court of the US....The author offers a fascinating and instructive look at the decision-making practices of the Supreme Court....All students of the Court, of the judicial process, and of recent constitutional history are in Schwartz's debt for these presentations....Highly recommended for college and university libraries. --Choice<br> Examines the process that led to ten of the most important decisions of the Warren E. Burger era on the Supreme Court. He embroiders drafts of the decisions with finely detailed commentary on the conferences, the assignment of opinions and the zigzags of consensus....The Unpublished Opinions of the Burger Court has a fascinating tone and scrutinizes incidents of judicial deal-making...At the same time, it explains, uncondescendingly, why the politicking matters. --The New York Times Book Review<br> Schwartz' work on the Burger Court's unpublished opinions is a fasciating sequel to his Warren COurt books....The drafts and internal memoranda help explain the workings of the Court: how the justices chane their vote and how final opinions are changed before they finally emerge. --Leon Friedman, Attorney<br>
'Schwartz's book certainly is thought-provoking and his commentary probing ... informative and immensely stimulating International and Comparative Law Quarterly
Presents invaluable fragments of information about the workings of the Supreme Court of the US....The author offers a fascinating and instructive look at the decision-making practices of the Supreme Court....All students of the Court, of the judicial process, and of recent constitutional history are in Schwartz's debt for these presentations....Highly recommended for college and university libraries. --Choice Examines the process that led to ten of the most important decisions of the Warren E. Burger era on the Supreme Court. He embroiders drafts of the decisions with finely detailed commentary on the conferences, the assignment of opinions and the zigzags of consensus....The Unpublished Opinions of theBurger Court has a fascinating tone and scrutinizes incidents of judicial deal-making...At the same time, it explains, uncondescendingly, why the politicking matters. --The New York Times Book Review Schwartz' work on the Burger Court's unpublished opinions is a fasciating sequel to his Warren COurt books....The drafts and internal memoranda help explain the workings of the Court: how the justices chane their vote and how final opinions are changed before they finally emerge. --Leon Friedman, Attorney
