Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Spring 2001
ISSN
0742-7115
Publisher
University of Minnesota
Language
en-US
Abstract
Modern federal courts scholars have been fascinated by the question of Congress' power to control the jurisdiction of the federal courts.' This fascination is not difficult to explain: the question is theoretically profound and raises fundamental issues about the roles of Congress and the federal courts in the constitutional order.2 As a practical matter, however, the question has proven to be of limited significance. Despite a recent spate of legislation restricting access to courts by prisoners and immigrants,3 people talk about wholesale jurisdiction-stripping far more than they actually do it.
Recommended Citation
Gary S. Lawson,
Controlling Precedent: Congressional Regulation of Judicial Decision-Making
,
in
Constitutional Commentary
191
(2001).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/2552
