Measuring Judicial Activism

Stefanie Lindqquist, Frank Cross

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Oxford University Press Inc
28 May 2009

Courts & procedure; Judicial powers; Constitutional & administrative law

"Measuring Judicial Activism supplies empirical analysis to the widely discussed concept of judicial activism at the United States Supreme Court. Complaints about activist Court decisions are common within contemporary political discourse, but these objections often have little substantive meaning beyond the speaker's disagreement with particular case outcomes.

Frequently debated by legal scholars, judicial activism is shaped by the participants' ideological perspectives as well as by their subjective views regarding ambiguous constitutional provisions. Although no study can be perfectly objective, Measuring Judicial Activism seeks to move beyond these more subjective debates by conceptualizing activism in non-ideological terms, identifying specific empirical dimensions to the concept, and measuring those dimensions using systematic social scientific techniques. In so doing, the book allows the authors to assess the relative ""activism"" of recent justices on the Court. Stefanie Lindquist and Frank B. Cross's work is guided theoretically by the notion that, at its core, the concept of activism involves concerns over the judiciary's institutional aggrandizement at the expense of the elected branches. An important corollary idea is that such efforts are particularly ""activist"" when they further the justices' own policy or ideological objectives. From these core theoretical ideas, the authors identify specific empirical manifestations that reflect the expansion of judicial power. In particular, the authors evaluate the Court's exercise of judicial review to invalidate legislative and executive action. Lindquist and Cross also analyze the justices' willingness to expand the Court's power by granting litigants increased access to the courts and overruling the Court's own precedents. In these contexts, Measuring Judicial Activism considers the extent to which these actions are consistent with the justices' ideological predilections."

By: Stefanie Lindqquist, Frank Cross
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 155mm, Width: 236mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 431g
ISBN: 9780195370850
ISBN 10: 0195370856
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 28 May 2009
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Frank Cross is the Herbert D. Kelleher Centennial Professor of Business Law at the University of Texas School of Law and the author of The Theory and Practice of Statutory Interpretation (Stanford University Press, forthcoming 2008); Decision Making in the U.S. Courts of Appeals (Stanford University Press, 2007); Frank B. Cross & Robert A. Prentice, Law and Corporate Finance (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007). Stefanie Lindquist is the Thomas W. Gregory Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law and the co-author of Judging on a Collegial Court: Influences on Appellate Court Decision Making (with Virginia Hettinger & Wendy Martinek (University of Virginia Press, 2006).

Reviews for Measuring Judicial Activism

Measuring Judicial Activism is a serious, scholarly work that nearly all academic law libraries will want to purchase. -- Law Library Review Lindquist and Cross seek to move beyond subjective debates about judicial activism on the US Supreme Court by conceptualizing activism in nonideological terms, identifying specific empirical dimensions to the concept, and measuring those dimensions using systematic techniques. Examining the Court's exercise of judicial review to invalidate legislative and executive action and the justices' willingness to expand the Court's power by granting litigants increased access to the courts, they assess the relative activism of recent justices on the Court. --Law & Social Inquiry, Fall 2009 Measuring Judicial Activism is a serious, scholarly work that nearly all academic law libraries will want to purchase. -- Law Library Review Lindquist and Cross seek to move beyond subjective debates about judicial activism on the US Supreme Court by conceptualizing activism in nonideological terms, identifying specific empirical dimensions to the concept, and measuring those dimensions using systematic techniques. Examining the Court's exercise of judicial review to invalidate legislative and executive action and the justices' willingness to expand the Court's power by granting litigants increased access to the courts, they assess the relative activism of recent justices on the Court. --Law & Social Inquiry, Fall 2009