Browsing Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Works by Author "George, Tracey E., 1967-"

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    • Book Review: U.S. Energy and Environmental Interest Groups by Lettie Wenner 
      George, Tracey E., 1967- (Stanford Environmental Law Journal, 1992)
      Interest groups have played a dominant if not determinative role in the "greening of America." Thus, that Lettie Wenner, a political scientist who has devoted much of her career to studying environmental issues (The ...
    • Chief Judges: The Limits of Attitudinal Theory and Possible Paradox of Managerial Judging 
      George, Tracey E., 1967-; Yoon, Albert (Vanderbilt Law Review, 2008)
      "Grutter v. Bollinger" is familiar to American lawyers, academics, and law students as the Supreme Court decision allowing the consideration of race in law school admissions.... Accusations like those made in "Grutter" are ...
    • Court Fixing 
      George, Tracey E., 1967- (Arizona Law Review, 2001)
      This Article critically examines the existing social science evidence on the relative importance of various individual factors on judicial behavior and adds to that evidence by considering the influence of prior academic ...
    • Deciphering Courts of Appeals Decisions Using the U.S. Courts of Appeals Data Base 
      George, Tracey E., 1967-; Sheehan, Reginald S., 1959- (Judicature, 2000)
      Is one circuit significantly more conservative or liberal than the others? Do circuit courts consistently avoid deciding the substance of certain appeals by concluding that the plaintiffs lack standing? Have state ...
    • Developing a Positive Theory of Decisionmaking on U.S. Courts of Appeals 
      George, Tracey E., 1967- (Ohio State Law Journal, 1998)
      As the decisions of the United States Courts of Appeals become an increasingly important part of American legal discourse, the debate concerning adjudication theories of the circuit courts gain particular relevance. Whereas, ...
    • The Dynamics and Determinants of the Decision to Grant En Banc Review 
      George, Tracey E., 1967- (Washington Law Review, 1999)
      The ability of U.S. Courts of Appeals to control the development of law within their respective circuits has been strained by the practice of divisional sittings, the growing caseload at the circuit court level, the ...
    • An Empirical Evaluation of Specialized Law Reviews 
      Guthrie, Chris; George, Tracey E., 1967- (Florida State University Law Review, 1999)
      The sudden, rapid, and widespread increase in the number of specialized law reviews has attracted relatively little scholarly attention even though it is the most significant development in legal academic publishing in ...
    • An Empirical Study of Empirical Legal Scholarship: The Top Law Schools 
      George, Tracey E., 1967- (Indiana Law Journal, 2006)
      Empirical legal scholarship is arguably the most significant emerging intellectual movement. Empirical legal scholarship (ELS), as the term is generally used in law schools, refers to a specific type of empirical research: ...
    • From Judge to Justice: Social Background Theory and the Supreme Court 
      George, Tracey E., 1967- (North Carolina Law Review, 2008)
      The Roberts Court Justices already have revealed many differences from one another, but they also share a (possibly) significant commonality: Presidents promoted all of them to the U.S. Supreme Court from the U.S. Courts ...
    • The Futility of Appeal: Disciplinary Insights into the "Affirmance Effect" on the United States Courts of Appeals 
      Guthrie, Chris; George, Tracey E., 1967- (Florida State University Law Review, 2005)
      In contrast to the Supreme Court, which typically reverses the cases it hears, the United States Courts of Appeals almost always affirm the cases that they hear. We set out to explore this affirmance effect on the U.S. ...
    • How is Constitutional Law Made? 
      George, Tracey E., 1967-; Pushaw, Robert J., Jr. (Michigan Law Review, 2002)
      Professors George and Pushaw review Maxwell L. Stearns’ book, "Constitutional Process: A Social Choice Analysis of Supreme Court decision making." In his book, Stearns demonstrates that the U.S. Supreme Court fashions ...
    • Judicial Independence and the Ambiguity of Article III Protections 
      George, Tracey E., 1967- (Ohio State Law Journal, 2003)
      Is the federal judiciary truly an independent body? A quick glance at the Constitution would suggest the answer is yes. The Constitution provides for life tenure and a difficult removal process for federal judges that ...
    • Mr. Sunstein's Neighborhood: Won't You Be Our Co-Author? 
      Edelman, Paul H.; George, Tracey E., 1967- (The Green Bag Almanac & Reader, 2009)
      In Six Degrees of Cass Sunstein: Collaboration Networks in Legal Scholarship (11 Green Bag 2d 19 (2007)) we began the study of the collaboration network in legal academia. We concluded that the central figure in the network ...
    • The New Old Legal Realism 
      George, Tracey E., 1967-; Gulati, Mitu; McGinley, Ann C. (Northwestern University Law Review, 2011)
      Judges produce opinions for numerous purposes. A judicial opinion decides a case and informs the parties whether they won or lost. But in a common law system, the most important purpose of the opinion, particularly the ...
    • Other Disciplines, Methodologies, and Countries: Studying Courts and Crisis 
      George, Tracey E., 1967- (Missouri Law Review, 2004)
      How do governments and their citizens respond to fear and risk in times of crisis? Dr. Lee Epstein and Professor Christina Wells, in papers presented on the final symposium panel focus in particular on the Supreme Court's ...
    • Six Degrees of Cass Sunstein 
      Edelman, Paul H.; George, Tracey E., 1967- (Green Bag 2d, 2007)
      Degrees of separation is a concept that is intuitive and appealing in popular culture as well as academic discourse: It tells us something about the connectedness of a particular field. It also reveals paths of influence ...
    • Supreme Court Monitoring of the United States Courts of Appeals En Banc 
      George, Tracey E., 1967-; Solimine, Michael E, 1956- (Supreme Court Economic Review, 2001)
      This article considers systematically whether the Supreme Court is more likely to review an en banc court of appeals decision than a panel decision. First, we consider Supreme Court review of en banc cases during the ...
    • U.S. Energy and Environmental Interest Groups: Institutional Profiles 
      George, Tracey E., 1967- (Stanford Environmental Law Journal, 1992)
      Interest groups have played a dominant if not determinative role in the "greening of America." Thus, that Lettie Wenner, a political scientist who has devoted much of her career to studying environmental issues (The ...
    • Venue Shopping: The Judges of the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation 
      George, Tracey E., 1967-; Williams, Margaret S. (Margaret Susan) (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 ...
    • Women's Rights Litigation in the 1980s: More of the Same? 
      George, Tracey E., 1967-; Epstein, Lee, 1958- (Judicature, 1991)
      In the September 1983 issue of Judicature,Karen O'Connor and Lee Epstein published the results of their examination of the fate of gender-based cases in the U.S. Supreme Court during the 1970s. Overall, they found that the ...