Professor Schlanger: I discussed the "conservative" and "liberal" courts issue, with citations to additional scholarship and a defense of the method, in an American Political Science Review article a few years back.
The citation to the article is: Scott D. Gerber and Keeok Park, "The Quixotic Search for Consensus on the U.S. Supreme Court: A Cross-Judicial Empirical Analysis of the Rehnquist Court Justices," 91 American Political Science Review 390 (1997). Your project sounds fascinating. Best wishes, Scott Gerber Law College Ohio Northern University Margo Schlanger wrote: >Hi all -- > >I'm hoping someone has a citation (with defensible method) handy for >something you hear often; which circuits are conservative and which are >liberal. Treatments of the courts of appeals are fine; anything dealing >with the district courts organized into circuits would be even better. Any >thoughts? (Off-list is fine; and I know this isn't, strictly speaking, a >constitutional law question, but I'm hoping our moderator will indulge me.) > >Thanks. > >Margo Schlanger >______________________ >Assistant Professor of Law >Harvard Law School >Cambridge, MA 02138 >(617) 495-4626 >(253) 295-6089 (fax) -------------------------------------- Scott Gerber Law College Ohio Northern University Ada, OH 45810 419-772-2219 http://www.law.onu.edu/faculty/gerber/
