American Courts

The highly respected American Courts: Process and Policy provides clear descriptions of the courts as well as activities of those various courts. Top Courts scholar and author, Lawrence Baum, explains what courts do, how people within them behave, and how they relate to the rest of the political system. The seventh edition features: discussion of current developments within the courts, including the Obama administration and the appointment of Supreme Court Justices Sotomayor and Kagan; analysis of the effects that growing partisan polarization has on the selection of judges and the functioning of courts; review of what implications and consequences might be had in the legal profession for lawyers and aspiring lawyers due to ever-changing national requirements--back cover.