Winner of the 2007 C. Herman Pritchett Award, Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2006 "Judges and Their Audiences constitutes an impressive scholarly achievement in its expansive analysis of the existing literature... Lawrence Baum argues that judges, like most human beings, are often sensitive to and seek the approbation ... Read moreof others within their social and professional milieu... One theme runs throughout the empirical chapters: the vitality of a given precedent has an important effect on the manner in which later courts use that precedent to justify legal outcomes."
Stefanie A. Lindquist, Law and Politics Book Review "Lawrence Baum employs a range of empirical evidence on courts, combining the literatures on judicial decision making and social psychology to examine the influence of the legal profession, the media, and close colleagues on the self-presentation of judges."
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