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by H. Jefferson Powell
Spring 2019 | Volume 103 Number 1My title is “The Emergence of the American Constitutional Law Tradition,” and what I want us to think about today is the process by which American constitutional law came to […]
by David F. Levi, Allison Eid, Joan Larsen, Goodwin Liu and Jeffrey Sutton
Spring 2019 | Volume 103 Number 1Judge Jeffrey Sutton is one of our most respected and admired federal appellate judges. He has served on the Sixth Circuit, with chambers in Columbus, Ohio, since his appointment to […]
by D. Brock Hornby
Spring 2019 | Volume 103 Number 1Criminal trials have virtually disappeared in many federal courtrooms. According to a recent U.S. Sentencing Commission report, “[i]n recent years, 97 percent of federal defendants convicted of a felony or […]
by Sandra Jeskie and Michael Baylson
Spring 2019 | Volume 103 Number 1An article published in the Winter 2016 edition of Judicature provided an overview of case law and approaches for handling cross-border discovery in litigation. Since then, there have been some […]
by David W. Ichel
Spring 2019 | Volume 103 Number 1How will recent Supreme Court decisions on personal jurisdiction impact the legacy of International Shoe and the future of complex litigation? In just a few years, the Supreme Court has […]
by William Raftery
Spring 2019 | Volume 103 Number 12019 marks the fourth consecutive year of unusually high interest among the states in shifting from partisan to nonpartisan, or from nonpartisan to partisan, judicial elections. It began in 2015, […]
by Alicia Bannon
Spring 2019 | Volume 103 Number 1Less than a generation ago, state supreme court elections were subdued affairs. Candidates — to the extent they actively campaigned at all — primarily discussed their qualifications and backgrounds. Political […]
by Jeff Ward
Spring 2019 | Volume 103 Number 1With recent and dramatic advances in the capacities of machine learning, we are now beginning to see artificial intelligence (AI) tools come into their own. This matters for our judiciary, not […]
by Erwin Chemerinsky
Spring 2019 | Volume 103 Number 1Carpenter v. United States, decided by the Supreme Court in June 2018, is one of the most important decisions applying the Fourth Amendment to the technology of the 21st century.[1] […]
by Jennifer Jenkins
Spring 2019 | Volume 103 Number 1In 2019, for the first time in 20 years, a trove of creative works published in 1923 entered the U.S. public domain. Why the hiatus? These works were set to […]
by Heather Cron
Spring 2019 | Volume 103 Number 1Through the Master of Judicial Studies degree program at Duke Law School, judges not only participate in rigorous courses taught by top legal scholars and professionals, but they also develop a […]
by Judicature Staff
Spring 2019 | Volume 103 Number 1The Bolch Judicial Institute of Duke Law School will award the first annual Bolch Prize for the Rule of Law to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy (Retired) during a […]
by Joseph Kimble
Spring 2019 | Volume 103 Number 1This isn’t the first time I’ve gone after unnecessary dates and procedural detail. (See the Autumn 2017 and Summer 2018 columns.) And it probably won’t be the last.
by Judicature Staff
Spring 2019 | Volume 103 Number 1Departments BRIEFS States Continue to Experiment with Partisan Judicial Elections A New Editorial Board for Judicature Justice Kennedy Named Inaugural Recipient of the Bolch Prize for the Rule of Law Law […]
