by Robert Bell
Summer 2015 | Volume 99 Number 1From Polish freedom fighter to Chief Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court, Marian Opala’s long life was filled with danger, adventure, and a thirst for knowledge. A profound devotion to […]
by Richard Marcus
Summer 2015 | Volume 99 Number 1Even Henry V probably could not exhort the rule makers to action,1 but reported needs of the procedural system may do so. Surely the class-action rule is one of the […]
by Kem Thompson Frost
Summer 2015 | Volume 99 Number 1
by J. Leon Holmes and Craig B. Shaffer
Summer 2015 | Volume 99 Number 1Judge Leon Holmes and Magistrate Judge Craig Shaffer compare the merits of proactive versus passive pretrial judicial discovery management. Significant proposed discovery amendments will take effect on Dec. 1, 2015, […]
by George C. Hanks, Jr.
Summer 2015 | Volume 99 Number 1While federal magistrate judges are widely viewed as a highly qualified, experienced, and flexible corps of judicial officers who assist Article III district judges in docket management within the United States […]
by Steven Gensler
Summer 2015 | Volume 99 Number 1In Jackson v. Federal Express, 766 F.3d 189 (2d Cir. 2014), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit addressed a twist on the rule — now codified in Civil […]
by David F. Levi
Summer 2015 | Volume 99 Number 1Ideas for surmounting the biggest challenges facing the judiciary and the legal profession today. In delivering the Lloyd D. George Lecture on the Judicial Process at UNLV William S. Boyd […]
by David F. Levi, Nathan Hecht, Robert Katzmann and Tani Cantil-Sakauye
Summer 2015 | Volume 99 Number 1Dean Levi turns to leaders in the judiciary — Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye (Supreme Court of California), Chief Justice Nathan L. Hecht (Supreme Court of Texas), and Chief Judge Robert […]
by Jennifer L. Behrens
Summer 2015 | Volume 99 Number 1Today, about a third of active federal judges are women, according to the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, 1789- present. But our country was more than 150 years old before […]
by Erwin Chemerinsky
Summer 2015 | Volume 99 Number 1Lee Epstein, William M. Landes, and Richard Posner have written a book that is monumental in its scope and yet falls frustratingly short in achieving its aspirations. Actually, it is best […]
by Judicature Staff
Summer 2015 | Volume 99 Number 1Book: Federal Civil Procedure Manual Authors: Lee H. Rosenthal, David F. Levi, John K. Rabiej Publisher: Juris Publishing Publication Date: 11/2014 ISBN: 978-57823-378-6 Buy: http://www.jurispub.com/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=17102 About the authors: Lee H. Rosenthal is a U.S. District Court Judge […]
by Alex Kozinski and John Major
Summer 2015 | Volume 99 Number 1Public interest in the American jury system is at an all-time high. Late last year, NPR’s hit podcast “Serial” pulled in over 1 million listeners per week as it recounted […]
by Michael Daly Hawkins
Summer 2015 | Volume 99 Number 1There may be, as f. Scott Fitzgerald observed in the last tycoon, no second acts in American lives, but through the leadership and imagination of Dean David Levi and the […]
by Judicature Staff
Summer 2015 | Volume 99 Number 1On The Hill: Reducing Recidivism and its Costs On Feb. 11, Sen. John Cornyn reintroduced the Corrections Oversight, Recidivism Reduction, and Eliminating Costs for Taxpayers in Our National System Act […]
by Judicature Staff
Summer 2015 | Volume 99 Number 1Features JURORS ON FILM: WHY PUTTING CAMERAS IN THE JURY ROOM IS NOT AS CRAZY AS YOU THINK Alex Kozinski and John Major GRAND CHALLENGES, GRAND IDEAS: SURMOUNTING THE BIGGEST […]
