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by H. Jefferson Powell
Vol. 103 No. 1 (2019) | Navigating Rough SeasMy 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 Joan Larsen, David F. Levi, Allison Eid, Goodwin Liu and Jeffrey S. Sutton
Vol. 103 No. 1 (2019) | Navigating Rough SeasJudge 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
Vol. 103 No. 1 (2019) | Navigating Rough SeasCriminal 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 Michael M. Baylson and Sandra Jeskie
Vol. 103 No. 1 (2019) | Navigating Rough SeasAn 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
Vol. 103 No. 1 (2019) | Navigating Rough SeasHow 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
Vol. 103 No. 1 (2019) | Navigating Rough Seas2019 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
Vol. 103 No. 1 (2019) | Navigating Rough SeasLess 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
Vol. 103 No. 1 (2019) | Navigating Rough SeasWith 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
Vol. 103 No. 1 (2019) | Navigating Rough SeasCarpenter 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
Vol. 103 No. 1 (2019) | Navigating Rough SeasIn 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
Vol. 103 No. 1 (2019) | Navigating Rough SeasThrough 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 […]
by Melinda Myers Vaughn
Vol. 103 No. 1 (2019) | Navigating Rough SeasThe 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 Melinda Myers Vaughn
Vol. 103 No. 1 (2019) | Navigating Rough Seasby Joseph Kimble
Vol. 103 No. 1 (2019) | Navigating Rough SeasThis 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
Vol. 103 No. 1 (2019) | Navigating Rough SeasDepartments 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 […]