The Selection and Tenure of Judges

ISBN-13: 9781584774839; ISBN-10: 1584774835. Haynes, Evan. The Selection and Tenure of Judges. Originally published: [Newark]: The National Conference of Judicial Councils, 1944. xix, 308 pp. Reprinted 2005 by the Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584774839; ISBN-10: 1584774835. Attractive burgundy cloth bound smyth-sewn hardcover with gilt stamped spine and front cover. New. $49.95 * With an introduction by Roscoe Pound. Haynes offers a comprehensive overview of the factors that determine judicial selection in the United States. It is also a useful history of the subject from the colonial era to 1943. Written with input from Pound, Haynes offers a sociological analysis enriched with an impressive body of statistical data. He examines such factors as class and region affiliation, and whether elected judges are more liberal than their tenured colleagues. He also compares American practices to those in Great Britain, Canada, France, Italy, Germany, Scandinavia and Latin America. Warmly received when it was first published, it is recommended by Willard Hurst in The Growth of American Law: The Lawmakers (see p. 454).…