C. Herman Pritchett was for generations a Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, and was former president of the American Political Science Association. He also taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
A brilliant analysis of Supreme Court decisions during a crucial decade in the Supreme Court’s history, by a political scientist “interested in the social and psychological origins of judicial attitudes and the influence of individual predilections on the development of law.” A much-cited classic of the Court's judicial decisionmaking from the point of view of social science and not just doctrine.