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Judicial Process in the United States

A Selective Bibliography


I. Understanding the Judicial Process   II. Journal & Newspaper Articles  
III. Court Cases   IV. Statistics & Reports  

I. Understanding the Judicial Process
Unless otherwise indicated, all titles are available at the UW Law Library.

  • Many Law Library materials can be to transferred other campus libraries for you using the Book Retrieval feature of the MadCat Library Catalog (See http://madcat.library.wisc.edu/help/hldrtr.htm for more information.)

    • American Bar Association. Facts About the American Judicial System. 1999
    Location: http://www.abanet.org/media/factbooks/judifact.pdf

    American Bar Association. How Courts Work, Courts and Legal Procedure.
    Location: http://www.abanet.org/publiced/courts/courtslegal.html

    American Bar Association. How Courts Work, Steps in a Trial (Diagram of How a Case Moves Through the Courts).
    Location: http://www.abanet.org/publiced/courts/casediagram.html

    Baum, Lawrence. American Courts: Process and Policy. 5th ed. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2001.
    Location: College Library Reserve Book Collection KF8700 B38 2001

    Brooks, Roy L., Structures of Judicial Decision Making from Legal Formalism to Critical Theory. 2nd ed. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2005.
    Location: KF380 B76 2005
    Table of Contents: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip056/2005001765.html

    Cappalli, Richard B. The American Common Law Method. Irvington-on Hudson, N.Y.: Transnational Publishers, 1997.
    Location: KF394 C37 1997

    Carp, Robert A. The Federal Courts. 4th ed. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2001.
    Location: KF8719 C33 2001

    Carp, Robert A. Judicial Process in America. 6th ed. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2004.
    Location: KF8700 C37 2004

    Contemplating Courts. Edited by Lee Epstein. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 1995.
    Location: KF8700 C66 1995 & College Library Reserve Collection KF8700 C66 1995

    Courts, Judges, & Politics: An Introduction to the Judicial Process. Edited by Walter F. Murphy, etal. 5th ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2002.
    Location: KF8700 A7 C67 2002

    InfoUSA. Government and Politics, Judicial Branch
    Location: http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/politics/judbranc.htm

    Keeton, Robert E. Keeton on Judging in the American Legal System. Charlottesville, VA: Lexis Law Pub., 1999.
    Location: KF8700 K45 1999

    Reynolds, William L. Judicial Process in a Nutshell. 3rd ed. St. Paul, MN: Thomson/West, 2003.
    Location: Reserve Collection KF8700.Z9 R49 2003

    Segal, Jeffrey Allan, The Supreme Court in the American Legal System. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
    Location: KF8742 S433 2005
    Table of Contents: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0421/2004019022.html

    Smith, Christopher E. Courts, Politics, and the Judicial Process. 2nd ed. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1997.
    Location: KF8700 S656 1997

    Tarr, G. Alan, Judicial Process and Judicial Policymaking. 3rd ed. Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2003.
    Location: KF8700 T37 2003

    U.S. Courts. Understanding the Federal Courts
    Location: http://www.uscourts.gov/understand02/index.html

    Walsh, Anthony. From Law to Order: The Theory and Practice of Law and Justice. Lanham, MD: American Correctional Association, 2000.
    Location: KF380 W35 2000

    Wisconsin State Law Library. Law: An Introduction
    Location: http://wsll.state.wi.us/lawintro.html


    II. Journal & Newspaper Articles
    To find journal or newspaper articles on judicial process, search one or more of the resources listed below. Some contain the full-text of articles while others simply offer an index or abstracts. Links are available at http://library.law.wisc.edu/elecresources/databases/articles.php.

    Title   Location   Dates of Coverage  
    Criminal Justice Abstracts   Campus and Law Library Web Sites*   1968 to present (abstracts)  
    Criminal Justice Periodical Index   Stack 34, Grand Reading Room

    Campus and Law Library Web Sites*  

    		1975 to 1998 (index)

    1980's to present (index)
    1991 to present (full-txt)  

    Index to Legal Periodicals (Full-text and Retrospective)   Periodicals Index Tables, Grand Reading Room

    Campus and Law Library Web Sites*  

    		1880's to present (index)

    1918 to present (index)  

    International Institute for Sociology of Law Bibliographic Databases   Freely Available on the Internet**   1800's to present (abstracts)  
    LexisNexis Academic - Legal Research   Campus and Law Library Web Sites*   1980's to present (full-txt)  
    National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts   Freely Available on the Internet***

          

    		1970's to present (abstracts, some full-txt)  
    Social Sciences Full Text   Campus Library Web Site* ***   1983 to present (index)
    1995 to present (full-txt)  
    * http://library.law.wisc.edu/elecresources/databases/articles.php
    **     http://iisj.es/bdiisj/
    *** http://abstractsdb.ncjrs.org/
    **** http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.web/socialsciencesfulltext


    To obtain copies of articles do one of the following:

  • Use FindIt (http://www.library.wisc.edu/journals/ejlandfindit.html) to locate an electronic journal (includes journals cataloged in MadCat, plus many more) and/or an article if you have the citation.

  • Search MadCat (http://madcat.library.wisc.edu/) to see if the journal is available in print at the Law Library or another campus library. Then go to the library to copy the article.

  • Request the article be delivered to your email using Library Express (http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.web/libraryexpress)
    •         - If the article is not available at a campus library, it will be sent to you at no cost.
            - If the article is available on campus, a $2 per-article convenience fee is charged.

    III. Court Cases

    Title   Location   Dates of Coverage  
    LexisNexis Academic - Legal Research   Campus and Law Library Web Sites*   1800's to present  
    WisBar Legal Resources (Wisconsin cases only)   Freely Available on the Internet**
          		1995 to present  
    * http://library.law.wisc.edu/elecresources/databases/cases.php
    ** http://www.wisbar.org/legalres/


    IV. Statistics & Reports

    U.S. Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Courts and Sentencing Statistics.
    Location: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/stssent.htm

    National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS). Courts.
    Location: http://virlib.ncjrs.org/Courts.asp

    Bureau of Justice Statistics. Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
     Location: http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/


    Compiled by Bonnie Shucha
    University of Wisconsin-Madison Law Library
    Revised: January 2006 (judprocess.wpd)

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