Courting multiple audiences: The strategic selection of legal groundings by judges on the U.S. courts of appeals

Justice System Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 14-33

  Hume, Robert J ^a  

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EID: 67650514256     PISSN: 0098261X     EISSN: 23277556     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0098261X.2009.10767912     Document Type: Article

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