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by Don R. Willett
Spring 2017 | Volume 101 Number 1From the Editor-in-Chief Chief Justice John Roberts created a stir in 2011 for suggesting that much legal scholarship offers scant practical insight. “Pick up a copy of any law review,” […]
by William Raftery
Spring 2017 | Volume 101 Number 1As the Great Recession ends, judicial salaries — stagnant for most of that period — appear to be on the rise. But a long-running debate over the role of judicial […]
by John K. Rabiej
Spring 2017 | Volume 101 Number 1Duke Law School Dean David F. Levi established the Center for Judicial Studies five years ago to bring together the strengths of the bench, bar, and academy to improve the […]
by Virginia Baker Norton
Spring 2017 | Volume 101 Number 1Pictured Above, Left to Right: Chief Tammy Morris, Sheriff Mike Williams, Judge Virginia Baker Norton, Richard McKissick, and Mayor Lenny Curry visiting the D.A.W.N. program in 2015. I met Richard […]
by Nathan Sales
Spring 2017 | Volume 101 Number 1In the wake of a catastrophic terrorist attack like 9/11, what balance should the government strike between its weighty national-security responsibilities and its equally solemn duty to preserve Americans’ privacy […]
by Diane M. Johnsen
Spring 2017 | Volume 101 Number 1In the beginning, judges in the 13 original states either were appointed by the governor or selected by the legislature. Over the next 80 years, however, a majority of states […]
by Joseph Kimble
Spring 2017 | Volume 101 Number 1Our writing guru Joseph Kimble offers tips for enlisting the dash and for avoiding legalese and silly, distracting parentheticals. Original According to the Plaintiff, Defendants Exxon Mobil Corporation (“Exxon”), Badger […]
by Keith Swisher and Eugene Volokh
Spring 2017 | Volume 101 Number 1In August 2016, the American Bar Association amended its model rules of professional conduct by banning professional conduct that constitutes harassment or discrimination. Some cheer the new rule as a […]
by Stephen Louis A. Dillard
Spring 2017 | Volume 101 Number 1The judiciary is, in many respects, the least understood branch of government. The law can be mysterious and a bit frightening to those who do not work in the legal […]
by Jeremy Fogel
Spring 2017 | Volume 101 Number 1Judges, as our title implies, make judgments. Sometimes the process of making a judgment is straightforward, as when clearly written statute plainly applies to undisputed facts. But more often, the […]
by Gregory Mize and Thomas A. Balmer
Spring 2017 | Volume 101 Number 1Many remember the alarming call to mission control from the Apollo 13 spacecraft crew. “Houston, we’ve had a problem.” Well, dear Judicature readers, we denizens of the judicial system have […]
by Lee Rosenthal and Gregory P. Joseph
Spring 2017 | Volume 101 Number 1What precisely is American federalism? In their seminal work on federal jurisdiction, Felix Frankfurter and Wilber Katz allude to a “dynamic struggle” between federal and state power, the ebb and […]
by Paul D. Clement
Spring 2017 | Volume 101 Number 1Writing about Justice Antonin Scalia’s writing is a daunting project indeed. The Justice plainly had a gift that is perhaps better savored than analyzed. As one privileged to be his […]
by Daniel Frost
Spring 2017 | Volume 101 Number 1Judging the performance of Supreme Court Justices is a tricky business. Nearly everyone would agree that the justices should sustain the ideal of “Equal Justice Under Law,” the motto inscribed […]
by Joe Webster
Spring 2017 | Volume 101 Number 1A number of years ago, a man told me he had been charged with a crime. I asked him how his case was going. With all sincerity and with an […]
by John K. Rabiej
Spring 2017 | Volume 101 Number 1Cain v. City of New Orleans (15-cv-04479) brings into sharp relief issues threatening the judiciary’s legitimacy, while simultaneously providing a procedural roadmap applying the 2015 discovery-proportionality amendments — themes highlighted […]
by Jennifer Walker Elrod
Spring 2017 | Volume 101 Number 1(Judge Jennifer Elrod is is pictured above with Judge Lake on the day he swore her into the Texas bar in 1992; photo courtesy Jennifer Elrod.) Born on the last Independence […]
by Judicature Staff
Spring 2017 | Volume 101 Number 1Senior Judge MICHAEL M. BAYLSON of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania received the James Wilson Award from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in honor […]
by Judicature Staff
Spring 2017 | Volume 101 Number 1Features #ENGAGE: IT’S TIME FOR JUDGES TO TWEET, LIKE, AND SHARE Stephen Louis A. Dillard MINDFULNESS AND JUDGING Jeremy D. Fogel REBUILD OUR COURTS: STATE CHIEF JUSTICES CALL FOR ACTION […]
