Public Law Graduate Student Reading List

Abraham, Henry. 1999. Justices, Presidents, and Senators. Boston: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.

Baum, Lawrence. 1997. The Puzzle of Judicial Behavior. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Brenner, Saul and Harold Spaeth. 1995. Stare Indecisis: The Alteration of Precedent on the U.S. Supreme Court: 1946-1982. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Caplan, Lincoln. 1987. The Solicitor General and the Rule of Law. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Cardozo, Benjamin. 1985 [1921]. The Nature of the Judicial Process, 8th Edition. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Clayton, Cornell, and Howard Gillman. 1999. Supreme Court Decision-Making: New Institutionalist Approaches. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Epstein, Lee (ed.). 1995. Contemplating Courts. Washington: CQ Press.

Epstein, Lee, and Jack Knight. 1998. The Choices Justices Make. Washington: CQ Press.

Epstein, Lee and Joseph Kobylka. 1992. The Supreme Court and Legal Change. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Frank, Jerome. 1949. Courts on Trial: Myth and Reality in American Justice. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

_______. 1970. Law and the Modern Mind. Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith.

Goldstein, Leslie F. 1991. In Defense of the Text: Democracy and Constitutional Theory. Savage, MD: Rowman and Littlefield

Holmes, Oliver Wendell. 1991 [1881]. The Common Law. Boston: Dover.

Johnson, Charles A., and Bradley C. Canon. 1984. Judicial Policies: Implementation and Impact. Washington: CQ Press.

Lawrence, Susan E. 1991. The Poor in Court: The Legal Services and Supreme Court Decision-Making. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Levi, Edward H. 1949. Introduction to Legal Reasoning. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Maltzman, Forrest, James F. Spriggs, and Paul J. Wahlbeck. 2000. Crafting Law on the Supreme Court: The Collegial Game. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Murphy, Walter. 1964. Elements of Judicial Strategy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Murphy, Walter, C. Herman Pritchett, and Lee Epstein. 2002. Courts, Judges, and Politics: An Introduction to the Judicial Process. Boston: McGraw-Hill.

Murphy, Walter F., and Joseph Tanenhaus. 1972. The Study of Public Law. New York: Random House.

Peltason, Jack. 1955. The Federal Courts in the Political Process. Garden City, NY: Doubleday.

_______. 1961. Fifty-Eight Lonely Men: Southern Federal Judges and School Desegregation. New York: Harcourt Brace & World.

Perry, H.W., Jr. 1991. Deciding to Decide: Agenda Setting in the United States Supreme Court. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Pritchett, C. Herman. 1948. The Roosevelt Court: A Study in Judicial Politics and Values, 1937-1947. New York: The Macmillan Company.

Richardson, Richard, and Kenneth Vines. 1970. The Politics of Federal Courts: Lower Courts in the United States. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company.

Rohde, David W. and Harold J. Spaeth. 1976. Supreme Court Decision Making. San Francisco: W.H. Freedman.

Rosenberg, Gerald. 1991. The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Schubert, Glendon. 1959. Quantitative Analysis of Judicial Behavior. Glencoe: The Free Press.

_______ (ed.). 1963. Judicial Decision Making. New York: Free Press.

_______ (ed.). 1964. Judicial Behavior: A Reader in Theory and Research. Chicago: Rand-McNally.

_______. 1965. The Judicial Mind: The Attitudes and Ideologies of Supreme Court Justices, 1946-1963. Evanston: Northwestern University Press.

_______. 1974. The Judicial Mind Revisited. London: Oxford University Press.

Schmidhauser, John. 1979. Judges and Justices. Boston: Little, Brown.

Segal, Jeffrey A. and Harold Spaeth. 1993. The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model. New York: Cambridge University Press.

_______. 1999. Majority Rule or Minority Will: Adherence to Precedent on the U.S. Supreme Court. New York: Cambridge University Press.

_______. 2002. The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model Revisited. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Spaeth, Harold J. and Saul Brenner. 1990. Studies in Supreme Court Behavior. New York: Garland.

Tarr, G. Alan and Mary Cornelia Aldis Porter. 1988. State Supreme Courts in State and Nation. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Vose, Clement E. 1959. Caucasians Only. Berkeley: University of California Press.

_______. 1972. Constitutional Change. Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books.