Add to ORKGThis paper examines the conditions under which Congress passes jurisdiction-granting legislation, legislation that expands the discretion of the federal district courts by designating them as venues in which policy questions are to be heard. This project extends existing research that has demonstrated that Congress manipulates the parameters of jurisdiction by examining the manner in which Congress routinely engages in this activity. I construct and evaluate a comprehensive dataset of laws in which Congress grants jurisdiction to the district courts for the period between 1949 and 2000 with the goal of explaining conditions under which Congress grants jurisdiction Two explanations are considered: higher levels of legislative capacity of Con...
Over the past half-century, federal courts scholarship concerning congressional control over the aut...
Separation of powers in the federal government inevitably generates conflicts among the branches. In...
The ability of a federal court hearing a federal cause of action to assert jurisdiction over a nonre...
Abstract: Positive political theory models predict that Congress removes jurisdiction strategically ...
The literature on congressional committees has largely overlooked the impact of jurisdictional fight...
This Article examines growing congressional interest in a specific legislative check on judicial pow...
Recent legislation has reinvigorated the scholarly debate over the proper relationship between Congr...
Congress regularly, and with increasing frequency, removes jurisdiction from the federal courts. Thi...
This article seeks to clear up the confusion over substantial federal questions. Part I provides a...
The very substantial literature on the scope of congressional power to strip courts of jurisdiction ...
Scholars have long debated Congress’s power to curb federal jurisdiction and have consistently assum...
The Constitution grants Congress the power to regulate the jurisdiction of the federal courts. Congr...
This study finds that Congress removes court jurisdiction, and does so with increasing frequency ove...
Nothing is more important to committee systems than jurisdictions--the ways that public problems are...
Federal laws that regulate state institutions give rise to what the Supreme Court has described as t...
Over the past half-century, federal courts scholarship concerning congressional control over the aut...
Separation of powers in the federal government inevitably generates conflicts among the branches. In...
The ability of a federal court hearing a federal cause of action to assert jurisdiction over a nonre...
Abstract: Positive political theory models predict that Congress removes jurisdiction strategically ...
The literature on congressional committees has largely overlooked the impact of jurisdictional fight...
This Article examines growing congressional interest in a specific legislative check on judicial pow...
Recent legislation has reinvigorated the scholarly debate over the proper relationship between Congr...
Congress regularly, and with increasing frequency, removes jurisdiction from the federal courts. Thi...
This article seeks to clear up the confusion over substantial federal questions. Part I provides a...
The very substantial literature on the scope of congressional power to strip courts of jurisdiction ...
Scholars have long debated Congress’s power to curb federal jurisdiction and have consistently assum...
The Constitution grants Congress the power to regulate the jurisdiction of the federal courts. Congr...
This study finds that Congress removes court jurisdiction, and does so with increasing frequency ove...
Nothing is more important to committee systems than jurisdictions--the ways that public problems are...
Federal laws that regulate state institutions give rise to what the Supreme Court has described as t...
Over the past half-century, federal courts scholarship concerning congressional control over the aut...
Separation of powers in the federal government inevitably generates conflicts among the branches. In...
The ability of a federal court hearing a federal cause of action to assert jurisdiction over a nonre...