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The Rise of Judicial Management in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, 1955-2000 - Steven Harmon Wilson

The Rise of Judicial Management in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, 1955-2000

Buch | Hardcover
656 Seiten
2003
University of Georgia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8203-2363-3 (ISBN)
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This study of the US District Court, Southern District of Texas, analyses the changes in its mission, structure, policies and procedures from 1955 to 2000. These efforts are situated within the social, cultural and political expectations that prompted the increase in judical seats.
This is the first book-length study of a federal district court to analyze the revolutionary changes in its mission, structure, policies, and procedures over the past four decades. As Steven Harmon Wilson chronicles the court's attempts to keep pace with an expanding, diversifying caseload, he situates those efforts within the social, cultural, and political expectations that have prompted the increase in judicial seats from four in 1955 to the current nineteen. Federal judges have progressed from being simply referees of legal disputes to managers of expanding courts, dockets, and staffs, says Wilson. The Southern District of Texas offers an especially instructive model by which to study this transformation. Not only does it contain a varied population of Hispanics, African Americans, and whites, but its jurisdiction includes an international border and some of the busiest seaports in the United States. Wilson identifies three areas of judicial management in which the shift has most clearly manifested itself. Through docket and case management judges have attempted to rationalize the flow of work through the litigation process. Lastly, and most controversially, judges have sought to bring ""constitutionally flawed"" institutions into compliance through ""structural reform"" rulings in areas such as housing, education, employment, and voting. Wilson draws on sources ranging from judicial biography and oral-history interviews to case files, published opinions, and administrative memoranda. Blending legal history with social science, this important new study ponders the changing meaning of federal judgeship as it shows how judicial management has both helped and hindered the resolution of legal conflicts and the protection of civil rights.

STEVEN HARMON WILSON received his doctorate in history from Rice University.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 28.2.2003
Reihe/Serie Studies in the Legal History of the South
Zusatzinfo 3 tables, 2 figures
Verlagsort Georgia
Sprache englisch
Gewicht 333 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte
Recht / Steuern Allgemeines / Lexika
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
ISBN-10 0-8203-2363-2 / 0820323632
ISBN-13 978-0-8203-2363-3 / 9780820323633
Zustand Neuware
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