Origins of the Elements of Federal Court Governance.

摘要

This paper briefly describes the factors involved in the creation of the major elements of federal court governance. Elements refers broadly to agencies, offices, organizations, positions (such as chief judge), and entities (such as a circuit). Governance refers to the processes for regulating behavior (other than substantive judicial decision making), for allocating federal judicial system resources (including judges, staff, and funds and physical resources to support both), for monitoring performance, and for seeking adjustments. This paper treats these elements through -an index -a brief chronology of their evolution -descriptions, chronologically by element, of the major factors involved in their creation -a brief bibliography.