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C. Neal Tate
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Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. Coeditor of The Global Expansion of Judicial Power.

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Wood-paneled courtroom with judge's bench, American and Nevada flags, wooden chairs and tables, and a mounted animal head above the bench in the Esmeralda County courthouse, Goldfield, Nevada.
Judiciary, branch of government whose task is the authoritative adjudication of controversies over the application of laws in specific situations. Conflicts brought before the judiciary are embodied in cases involving litigants, who may be individuals, groups, legal entities (e.g., corporations),…
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