Justin Crowe, Building the Judiciary: Law, Courts, and the Politics of Institutional Development (Princeton University Press, 2012).

Kevin C. Walsh

Scholars working within the field of “Federal Courts” have, from the beginning, been concerned about the past and future of the federal courts as instruments of government. But the beginning of Federal Courts as a field was in the early 1950s, several decades after the Judiciary Act of 1891 created the intermediate circuit courts of appeals and almost three decades after […]