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by Neil M. Gorsuch
Autumn 2016 | Volume 100 Number 3Most everyone agrees that in the American civil justice system many important legal rights go unvindicated, serious losses remain uncompensated, and those called on to defend their conduct are often […]
by Timothy J. Corrigan
Autumn 2016 | Volume 100 Number 3In my 14 years as a federal district judge, I estimate that I have sentenced well over 2,000 individuals.1 Sentencing is the most multifaceted, emotional, and challenging task a judge […]
by Peter C.H. Chan
Autumn 2016 | Volume 100 Number 3During the past three years, China has proclaimed a judicial reform campaign that aims to follow the “rule by law” (yifa zhiguo) in civil dispute resolutions. In delivering the 2014 […]
by Daniel Mandell
Autumn 2016 | Volume 100 Number 3It is now well established that a United States federal court may compel a foreign party challenging the court’s exercise of personal jurisdiction to engage in jurisdictional discovery pursuant to […]
by James C. Francis IV
Autumn 2016 | Volume 100 Number 3As an NAACP Lawyer, Robert L. Carter litigated countless milestone cases, including Brown v. Board of Education. He was such a passionate voice for civil rights that it might appear incongruous […]
by William Raftery
Autumn 2016 | Volume 100 Number 3Legislative proposals to change state supreme court compositions gaining popularity The last decade has seen a dramatic uptick in legislative efforts to change the composition of state courts of last […]
by Frank Sullivan Jr., Nicholas L. Georgakopoulos and Dimitris Georgakopoulos
Autumn 2016 | Volume 100 Number 3A surprising look at coalitions within the supreme courts of the United States and Indiana In June 2001, the United States Supreme Court decided three closely watched deportation cases by […]
by Lauren Sanders
Autumn 2016 | Volume 100 Number 3In December 2015, the amendments to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b) took effect. These amendments, highlighted in Judicature’s Winter 2015 issue, moved the proportionality provisions from Rule 26(b)(2)(C)(iii), as a limit on discovery, […]
by D. Brock Hornby
Autumn 2016 | Volume 100 Number 3{THE CAST OF CHARACTERS} Federal courts law professor LANG FELL Federal circuit judge COAR DAPPEL Federal district judge NIELSEN PRIUS Federal bankruptcy judge CHIP TERLEVEN Federal magistrate judge MADGE STRAIT Federal trial lawyer TALAGUD STOREY Federal […]
by Daniel Bean and Roy Altman
Autumn 2016 | Volume 100 Number 3It has been more than five years since the Supreme Court set a new pleading standard with landmark decisions in Bell Atlantic v. Twombly in 2007 and Ashcroft v. Iqbal in 2009. Since Twiqbal, as […]
by Melissa Hart
Autumn 2016 | Volume 100 Number 3In Madison’s Music: On Reading the First Amendment, Burt Neuborne, the Inez Milholland Professor of Civil Liberties and the founding legal director of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School, […]
by George Williams
Autumn 2016 | Volume 100 Number 3On May 21, 1984, a 36-member delegation from the American Judicature Society left for a two-week visit to the People’s Republic of China. The trip was sponsored by People to People, […]
by Cynthia Gray
Autumn 2016 | Volume 100 Number 3Not all extrajudicial conduct on which the public may frown has been considered sanctionable in judicial discipline proceedings; after all, as Robert Louis Stevenson wrote in The Strange Case of Dr. […]
by Virginia Baker Norton
Autumn 2016 | Volume 100 Number 3Judge Norton is pictured above and at right with fellow 2016 graduates of Duke’s judicial studies LL.M. program. Left to right: Judges Donald Molloy, Robert Morris, Norton, and Julia Prahl. In […]
by Judicature Staff
Autumn 2016 | Volume 100 Number 3JAMES F. REITZ, a judge on the Putnam County Court in New York, was celebrated at the Patterson Rotary Club’s “Men Who Cook” fundraiser for his efforts to make Putnam […]
by James G. Carr
Autumn 2016 | Volume 100 Number 3Editors Note: The following is an excerpt of an article that first appeared in ABA Litigation, Vol. 38 No. 4 (2012). In it, Judge James G. Carr responded to major pleading […]
by Judicature Staff
Autumn 2016 | Volume 100 Number 3Features AN UPHILL BATTLE: HOW CHINA’S OBSESSION WITH SOCIAL STABILITY IS BLOCKING JUDICIAL REFORM Peter C.H. Chan WHO APPOINTED ME GOD? REFLECTIONS OF A JUDGE ON CRIMINAL SENTENCING Timothy J. […]
