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Essays on the Supreme
Court of Georgia
By R. Perry Sentell Jr.
$17.95
Carl Vinson Institute
of Government |
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Essays explore ‘supreme’ judicial
history
Written by Georgia government legal scholar and recently retired
UGA law professor Perry Sentell Jr., Essays on the Georgia Supreme
Court explores selected historic features of the state’s highest
appellate court.
The first essay, “Juristic Giants: A Georgia Study in Reputation,”
focuses on the extent to which three U.S. Supreme Court judges,
John Marshall, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and Benjamin Cardozo, have
been cited in Georgia Supreme Court decisions. Sentell examines
statistical research to shed light on the justices’ historic
role in Georgia case law tradition.
The second essay, “Peculiarity of Per Curium: In
the Georgia Supreme Court,” examines how the utilization of
this judicial tool does or does not hold constant over time and
its role in contemporary jurisdictional communication.
The third essay profiles the impetus, history, pattern and results
of the dissenting opinion.
in Georgia’s Supreme Court. In “Lightening the Load:
In the Georgia Supreme Court,” Sentell analyzes how two procedures,
Rule 59 and certiori, have impacted the court’s workload
over time to provide it with a measure of functional discretion.
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