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The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends The Oxford Handbook of Law and Politics edited by
Keith E. Whittington, R. Daniel Kelemen, Gregory A. Caldeira.  Here is a description:

The study of law and politics is one of the foundation stones of the
discipline of political science, and it has been one of the productive
areas of cross-fertilization between the various subfields of political
science and between political science and other cognate disciplines.
This Handbook provides a comprehensive survey of the field of law and
politics in all its diversity, ranging from such traditional subjects
as theories of jurisprudence, constitutionalism, judicial politics and
law and society to such re-emerging subjects as comparative judicial
politics, international law, and democratization. The Oxford Handbook
of Law and Politics gathers together leading scholars in the field to
assess key literatures shaping the discipline today and to help set the
direction of research in the decade ahead.

And from the blurbs:

‘The editors have assembled an extremely impressive list of scholars
from law and political science — a veritable who’s who in the field —
and have produced a volume that defines an ambitious agenda for the
study of law and politics for the next generation. John Ferejohn,
Carolyn S. G. Munro Professor of Political Science, Stanford University

I just got my copy of this truly excellent reference volume–really a must for anyone who wants to know what political scientists are saying about law and courts.  A full list of chapters and authors follows in the continuation of this post.

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