Proceed to judgment: Aspects of judicial management of growth, change, and conflict in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, 1960--2000

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dc.contributor.advisorHyman, Harold M.en_US
dc.creatorWilson, Steven Harmonen_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-06-04T07:01:13Zen_US
dc.date.available2009-06-04T07:01:13Zen_US
dc.date.issued2000en_US
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation is an historical study of efforts, primarily by federal district judges, to manage growth, change, and conflict in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas during the second half of the twentieth century. Examples of judicial management as I use the phrase encompass a wide variety of activities the federal district judges in the Southern District have undertaken since the 1950s. The judges were required to cope with institutional growth, they felt obliged to foster social change, and they were called on to resolve political conflict. This dissertation examines ways in which various modes of judicial management were manifested in federal trials concerned broadly with civil rights, economic issues, and criminal justice. These three legal, topics exist within specific statutory and doctrinal frameworks that have evolved over the past half century. I will discuss relevant developments in the law pertaining. to the major topics as necessary. However, this dissertation is neither a study of the statutory changes within these three legal categories, nor primarily a study of changes in the theory and practice of judicial management of dockets, cases, or institutions. Rather, I employ these fundamental elements in combination in an attempt to portray a sense of the legal, social, and organizational changes which have transpired over several critical decades in the history of the Southern District of Texas.en_US
dc.format.extent799 p.en_US
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dc.identifier.callnoTHESIS HIST. 2000 WILSONen_US
dc.identifier.citationWilson, Steven Harmon. "Proceed to judgment: Aspects of judicial management of growth, change, and conflict in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, 1960--2000." (2000) Diss., Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/19570">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/19570</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/19570en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
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dc.subjectAmerican historyen_US
dc.subjectLawen_US
dc.titleProceed to judgment: Aspects of judicial management of growth, change, and conflict in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, 1960--2000en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.materialTexten_US
thesis.degree.departmentHistoryen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineHumanitiesen_US
thesis.degree.grantorRice Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelDoctoralen_US
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophyen_US
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