The Chief Justice: Appointment and Influence (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780472119912)

The Chief Justice brings together leading scholars of the courts who employ social science theory and research to explain the role of the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. They consider the chief justice's appointment, office, powers, and influence both within the Court and in the American system of government more generally. The chief justice presides over oral arguments and the justices' private conferences. The chief justice speaks first in those conferences, presents cases and other matters to the other justices, and assigns the Court's opinions in all cases in which the chief justice votes with the majority. In addition, the chief justice presides over the Judicial Conference of the United States, a policy-making body composed of lower-court federal judges. As Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes wrote, the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court is "the most important judicial officer in the world."


Author: Artemus Ward, David J. Danelski
ISBN-10: 0472119915
ISBN-13: 9780472119912
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Language: English
Published: 08/05/2016
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.60d