Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
1970
Publication Information
15 Am. J. Juris. 178 (1970)
Abstract
This book consists of several cross-cultural and exploratory studies of judicial decision-making, and is one of the first to appear in the developing field of comparative judicial politics. A product of many months of collaboration between American and Asian scholars at the East-West Center, University of Hawaii, it deals chiefly with decision-making processes in the high courts of Japan, Hawaii, India, Canada, Australia, and the Philippines. The Asian contributors are mainly law teachers with a strong interest in the sociology of law; the American scholars are mainly teachers of political science whose special interest is the study of judicial behavior.
If this book has a common denominator besides that of decision-making by courts it is the attempt by each author to employ or to fashion empirical tools for the study of the judicial process.
Recommended Citation
Donald P. Kommers,
Comparative Judicial Behavior (Book Review),
15 Am. J. Juris. 178 (1970).
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