Most Americans think that judges should be, and are, generalists
who decide a wide array of cases. Nonetheless, we now have
specialized courts in many key policy areas. "Specializing the
Courts" provides the first comprehensive analysis of this growing
trend toward specialization in the federal and state court
systems.
Lawrence Baum incisively explores the scope, causes, and
consequences of judicial specialization in four areas that include
most specialized courts: foreign policy and national security,
criminal law, economic issues involving the government, and
economic issues in the private sector. Baum examines the process by
which court systems in the United States have become increasingly
specialized and the motives that have led to the growth of
specialization. He also considers the effects of judicial
specialization on the work of the courts by demonstrating that
under certain conditions, specialization can and does have
fundamental effects on the policies that courts make. For this
reason, the movement toward greater specialization constitutes a
major change in the judiciary.
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