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Book SynopsisCourts of Appeals were designed to be a unifying force in American law and politics, but they also contribute to decentralization and regionalization of federal law. Woodford Howard studies three aspects of this problem: first, what binds the highly decentralized federal courts into a judicial system; second, what controls the discretion of judges
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*List of Appendixes, pg. ix*List of Tables, pg. xi*List of Figures, pg. xv*Preface, pg. xvii*One. Courts of Appeals in the Governing Process, pg. 3*Two. The Flow of Litigation in Three Courts Of Appeals, pg. 23*Three. The Flow of Litigation in the Supreme Court, pg. 57*Four. The Making of Circuit Judges, pg. 87*Five. The Purposes of Courts of Appeals, pg. 125*Six. Judicial Values and Judicial Votes, pg. 159*Seven. Consensus and Conflict in Circuit Courts, an Informal View, pg. 189*Eight. Leadership in the Allocation of Work, pg. 222*Nine. Strategies of Reform, pg. 261*Appendix, pg. 297*List of Abbreviations, pg. 345*Bibliographic Notes, pg. 347*Index, pg. 399
