I. The administrative requirements of judicial independence. 1. The judicial branch : legal fiction or reality? -- II. The obstacles to judicial branch control of internal operations. 2. Politics and the state courts : balancing the popular will and adjudicative independence -- 3. Extracting the state judiciary from local government -- 4. Judges and lawyers : who's in charge? -- 5. Developing a management perspective in the judiciary -- III. Creating an independent judicial branch : the court reform movement. 6. Origins of court reform and the movement to upgrade the state judiciary -- 7. The unification movement and the advent of judicial administration -- 8. Creation of an administrative infrastructure : the state component -- 9. Creation of an administrative infrastructure : the trial court component -- IV. The next reform phrase. 10. The old and new agendas -- 11. A new look at the adversarial process -- 12. Broadening the role of judges and the concept of justice -- 13. The open service-oriented court -- 14. The assault on unification : specialty courts and special interest groups -- 15. Leadership challenges
