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Courts of Appeals in the Federal Judicial System: A Study of the Second, Fifth, and District of Columbia Circuits
By (Author) J. Woodford Howard
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
347.7324
Paperback
446
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
595g
Courts 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