This book provides an introduction to the legal reasoning and the modes of persuasion and justification used by Supreme Court justices in the United States, as

First published in 1954, this indispensable reference quickly became the gold standard for concise summaries of important U.S. Supreme Court cases. The only ref

This book is the first study specifically to investigate the extent to which US Supreme Court justices alter the clarity of their opinions based on expected rea

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Written opinions are the primary means by which judges communicate with external actors. These sentiments include the parties to the case itself, but also more