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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Empirical Research and the Politics of Judicial Administration: Creating the Federal Judicial Center
January 1, 1988
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