Christopher P. Banks & David M. O′Brien 
The Judicial Process [EPUB ebook] 
Law, Courts, and Judicial Politics

Part 1: Law and Political Jurisprudence in a Globalized Society
Chapter 1: The Politics of Law and Courts in Society
Legal Systems
In Comparative Perspective: Major Global Legal Systems
Legal Systems and Globalization
The Nature and Sources of Law
The Role of Courts in Contemporary Society
Contemporary Controversies Over Courts: The Dispute Pyramid
Chapter 2: The Politics of Law and Jurisprudence
Classical Theories of Jurisprudence
In Comparative Perspective: Law, Morality, and Same-Sex Marriages
Contemporary Theories of Jurisprudence
Contemporary Controversies over Courts: Is Cannibalism Ever Legally Justified?
Part 2: Judicial Organization and Administrative Processes
Chapter 3: Judicial Organization and Administration
The Origins of U.S. Courts
Contemporary Judicial Federalism: State and Federal Courts
The Politics of Judicial Administration and Reform
In Comparative Perspective: Constitutional Courts in Europe
Contemporary Controversies Over Courts: Should the Public Finance State Judicial Elections?
Chapter 4: Judicial Selection and Removal
Staffing State Courts
Staffing Federal Courts
Contemporary Controversies Over Courts: The Hardball Politics of Filibusters, ‘Nuclear Options, ‘ and Recess Appointments in Federal Judicial Selection
Toward a Representative Bench and a Career Judiciary?
In Comparative Perspective: The Career Judiciary in Japan
Part 3: Access to Courts and Judicial Decision Making
Chapter 5: The Practice of Law
The Rise of the American Legal Profession
Contemporary Legal Education and Bar Admission
In Comparative Perspective: Legal Education and Lawyers in Western Democracy
The Business of Legal Practice
Access to Lawyers and Equal Justice
Contemporary Controversies Over Courts: The Right to Counsel and ‘Pay As You Go’ Justice
Chapter 6: Access to Courts and Justice
Formal Barriers
Discretionary Barriers
Contemporary Controversies Over Courts: Tactics for Constitutional Avoidance: ‘Passive Virtues’ or ‘Subtle Vices’?
Organized Interests and Strategic Litigarion
In Comparative Perspective: Comparative Constitutional Law, Interest Group Litigation, and Capital Punishment
Chapter 7: Trial Courts: The Adversarial Process and Criminal Cases
The Adversarial Process
The Criminal Law and the Justice System
Prosecutorial Discretion: From Arrest to Formal Arraignment
Plea Bargaining
Contemporary Controversies Over Courts: Plea Bargaining, the Right to Counsel, and Global Trends
Trials and the Jury′s Role
In Comparative Perspective: Jury Systems Around the World
The Politics of the Post-Trial Sentencing Process
Chapter 8: Trial Courts: Civil Cases and Litigation
Adversarial Civil Justice
Civil Lawsuits: The Trial and Appeal Process
The Politics of Tort and Civil Litigation Reform
Contemporary Controversies Over Courts: The Roberts Court and Class Action Lawsuits
Alternative Dispute Resolution
In Comparative Perspective: The Global Expansion of ADR
Part 4: Judicial Policymaking
Chapter 9: Appellate Courts and Decision Making
The Appellate Decision Making Process
Studying Judicial Decision Making
In Comparative Perspective: Are Judges ‘Politicians in Robes’ or Not?
Statutory Interpretation
Constitutional Interpretation
Contemporary Controversies Over Courts: How Should Judges Interpret the U.S. Constitution?
Chapter 10: The Scope and Limits of Judicial Power
Judicial Policymaking
In Comparative Perspective: The European Court of Justice and The Globalization of Judicial Power
The Impact of Judicial Decisions
The Limitations of Judicial Power
Contemporary Controversies Over Courts: Do Courts Forge Major Social Change?

David M. O’Brien is the Leone Reaves and George W. Spicer Professor at the University of Virginia. Prior to teaching at the University of Virginia, he taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the University of Puget Sound, where he was chairman of the Department of Politics. He served as a research associate in the Office of the Administrative Assistant to the Chief Justice and, in 1982–1983, as a judicial fellow at the Supreme Court. He also has been a visiting fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York (1981–1982); has been a Fulbright lecturer in constitutional studies at Oxford University, England (1987–1988); has been a Fulbright researcher in Japan (1993–1994); has held the Fulbright Chair for Senior Scholars at the University of Bologna in Italy (1999); and was a visiting professor at Florida International University (2002) and at the Institut d’Etudes Politique, Université Lumière-Lyon II in Lyon, France (2006).Among his many books are Storm Center: The Supreme Court in American Politics, eleventh edition (2017), which won the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award; Constitutional Law and Politics: Struggles for Power and Governmental Accountability and Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, tenth edition, two volumes (2017); Animal Sacrifice and Religious Freedom: Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah (2004); To Dream of Dreams: Religious Freedom and Constitutional Politics in Postwar Japan (1996); Supreme Court Watch, published annually since 1991; Congress Shall Make No Law: The First Amendment, Unprotected Expression, and the U.S. Supreme Court (2010); Judicial Roulette (1988); What Process Is Due? Courts and Science Policy Disputes (1987); The Public’s Right to Know: The First Amendment and the Supreme Court (1981); and Privacy, Law, and Public Policy (1979). He has coauthored The Judicial Process: Law, Court and Judicial Politics (2015), Courts and Judicial Policymaking (2008) Government by the People (22nd ed. 2008), and Abortion and American Politics (1993); edited or coedited several books, including The Lanahan Readings on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, third edition (2010) and Judicial Independence in the Age of Democracy: Critical Perspectives from Around the World (2001); and contributed more than 100 articles and chapters in professional journals and books.