Browsing Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Works by Author "George, Tracey E."

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    • The Federal Court System 
      George, Tracey E.; Yoon, Albert H. (Saint Louis University Law Journal, 2003)
      We applaud Professor Merrill's bold and noteworthy effort to engage in a dialogue with political scientists who study the Supreme Court. He navigates a substantial body of social science scholarship largely ignored by legal ...
    • In Defense of Author Prominence: A Reply to Crespi and Korobkin 
      George, Tracey E.; Guthrie, Chris (Florida State University Law Review, 1999)
      We set out to provide our ranking of specialized reviews for three reasons. First, given the dearth of published information about the specialized law review phenomenon, we sought to provide some basic information about ...
    • Induced Litigation 
      Guthrie, Chris; George, Tracey E. (Northwestern University Law Review, 2004)
      If "justice delayed" is "justice denied,"justice is often denied in American courts. Delay in the courts is a "ceaseless and unremitting problem of modem civil justice" that "has an irreparable effect on both plaintiffs ...
    • Joining Forces 
      George, Tracey E.; Guthrie, Chris (Journal of Legal Education, 2002)
      In the absence of empirical evidence and in the face of conflicting intuitions, there is no way to assess the relevance of collaborative work to the development of law and legal scholarship. In this essay we seek to fill ...
    • Joining Forces: The Role of Collaboration in the Development of Legal Thought 
      George, Tracey E.; Guthrie, Chris (Journal of Legal Education, 2002)
      For every reason to believe that collaboration has been influential... there is a countervailing reason to believe that it has played a minor role in the evolution of legal thought. It may be easy to bring to mind a ...
    • The Judges of the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation 
      George, Tracey E.; Williams, Margaret S. (Judicature, 2014)
      The United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (or "MDL Panel") is one of a small number of special federal courts created pursuant to Article III by Congress and staffed by a Chief-Justice-appointed group ...
    • Judicial Entrepreneurs on the U.S. Courts of Appeals: A Citation Analysis of Judicial Influence 
      George, Tracey E.; Berger, Jeffrey A. (2006)
      Federal courts of appeals are constrained by the power and preferences of the Supreme Court. The principal-agent model reveals that circuit judges gain power largely by avoiding review. We consider, however, whether circuit ...
    • Remaking the United States Supreme Court in the Courts' of Appeals Image 
      George, Tracey E.; Guthrie, Chris (Duke Law Journal, 2009)
      We argue that Congress should remake the United States Supreme Court in the U.S. courts' of appeals image by increasing the size of the Court's membership, authorizing panel decision making, and retaining an en banc procedure ...
    • Remaking the United States Supreme Court in the Courts' of Appeals Image 
      Guthrie, Chris; George, Tracey E. (Duke Law Journal, 2009)
      We argue that Congress should remake the United States Supreme Court in the U.S. courts' of appeals image by increasing the size of the Court's membership, authorizing panel decision making, and retaining an en banc procedure ...
    • Sunstein 1s and 2s 
      Edelman, Paul H.; George, Tracey E. (The Green Bag Almanac & Reader, 2008)
      In Six Degrees of Cass Sunstein: Collaboration Networks in Legal Scholarship, we began the study of the legal academy's collaboration network. When mathematicians discuss the nature of collaboration in their field they ...
    • Sunstein 1s and 2s 
      Edelman, Paul H.; George, Tracey E. (Green Bag, 2008)
      In Six Degrees of Cass Sunstein: Collaboration Networks in Legal Scholarship, we began the study of the legal academy's collaboration network. When mathematicians discuss the nature of collaboration in their field they ...
    • "The Threes" 
      George, Tracey E.; Guthrie, Chris (Vanderbilt Law Review, 2008)
      Law school professors control the production of lawyers and influence the evolution of law. Understanding who is hired as a tenure-track law professor is of clear importance to debates about the state of legal education ...
    • "The Threes": Re-Imagining Supreme Court Decisionmaking 
      Guthrie, Chris; George, Tracey E. (Vanderbilt Law Review, 2008)
      In this Essay--the first in a series of essays designed to reimagine the Supreme Court--we argue that Congress should authorize the Court to adopt, in whole or part, panel decisionmaking. We recognize, of course, that this ...
    • "The Threes": Re-Imagining Supreme Court Decisionmaking 
      Guthrie, Chris; George, Tracey E. (Vanderbilt Law Review, 2008)
      In this Essay--the first in a series of essays designed to reimagine the Supreme Court--we argue that Congress should authorize the Court to adopt, in whole or part, panel decision making... With respect to the prospect ...