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Judicial Role in a Nonjuducial Setting: Some Survey Evidence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

John Sprague ,
Elmer E. Cornwell Jr.  and
Jay S. Goodman
John Sprague
Affiliation:
Washington University, St. Louis
Elmer E. Cornwell Jr.
Affiliation:
Brown University
Jay S. Goodman
Affiliation:
Wheaton College, Massachusetts
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A question of interest to political and legal scholars is: Does experience in a judicial role produce political perceptions and attitudes which systematically differ from those produced by the lawyer-advocate (nonjudicial) role? To date, the efforts of the judicial behaviorists have centered on an elicitation of attitudes from either judges or advocates, but few studies have been structured to examine both roles in respect to a common stimuli set. A rare opportunity to make such a comparative survey presented itself to the investigators in conjunction with their participation in a more extensive study of state constitutional conventions. In conjunction with a study of the New York Constitutional Convention of 1966-67, interviews were conducted with 175 of the 186 delegates to that convention. Of these 175 delegates, 22 were judges and 101 were lawyers. This situation was unique, for it allowed a direct comparison

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Research Article
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Law & Society Review , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , February 1970 , pp. 371 - 384
Copyright
Copyright © 1970 by the Law and Society Association.

Footnotes

AUTHORS' NOTE: The authors are grateful to the Carnegie Corporation of New York, which is sponsoring a comparative behavioral study of state constitutional conventions. Research is completed in Rhode Island, New York, Maryland, and Kentucky; it is under way or in design for Hawaii, Connecticut, Illinois, and New Mexico. All data are processed at the Brown University Computing Lab; those presented here were analyzed with original crosstab program “Interview” written by Richard Croteau for the IBM 360/50.

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