Incluye índice CONTENIDO:A strategic account of judicial decisions -- Overview of the strategic account -- Major components, of the strategic account -- Justices as policy seekers -- Reasonableness of policy assumption -- Exclusive focus on policy goals -- Attainment of goals -- Strategic interaction -- Bargaining -- Forward thinking -- Manipulating the agenda -- Strategic opinion writing -- The institutional context -- Institutions and the formation of expectations -- The internal institutions of the court -- The institutional context II -- Separation of powers -- The court and the american people -- Implications of the strategic account -- Implications for the emergence of law -- Implications for the future study of courts and law.