| Empirical Research and the Politics of Judicial Administration: Creating the Federal Judicial Center |
| Russell R. Wheeler |
| 1988, 23 pages |
| (In Print: Available for Distribution) |
Analyzes the creation of the Federal Judicial Center with respect to the twentieth-century evolution of court administration and research and describes how the statute creating the Center was affected by the interests of judges and legislators. Reprinted from 51 Law and Contemporary Problems 31-53 (Summer 1988).
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Table of contents
I. Introduction 31
II. Quantitative Procedure Research in the Twentieth Century 31
III. Development of Court Administrative Agencies--The Federal Experience 33
A. Creating the Basic Instruments of Federal Judicial Administration 34
B. From Administration to Research and Education 36
C. Strained Administrative Support 37
D. Chronology of the Center's Creation 38
E. Research and Education Within the Federal Judicial System: A Product of the Times 41
IV. Research and Education Within the Federal Judiciary: Contest Over Direction and Form 43
A. Assertion of Judicial Responsibility 44
B. Assertions of Judicial Autonomy 45
1. The Governing Board 46
2. The Director 49
3. Centralized or Decentralized Judicial Control 49
4. Judicial Versus Bureaucratic Control 50
V. Conclusion 51
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| International Judicial Relations--Briefing Materials |
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| More on the Subject(s): |
Federal Judicial Center
Federal Judicial System
Judicial Independence
Research in the Courts |