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by Amanda Ross Edwards and Elisha Carol Savchak
Summer 2016 | Volume 100 Number 2A considerable number of judges are stepping away from the bench and their chambers in order to interact with the public through judicial outreach activities. Why? We execute a nationwide survey […]
by Huey Cotton
Summer 2016 | Volume 100 Number 2If you could see a dialogue bubble above the judge’s head showing what the judge is thinking while certain events unfold in the courtroom, you would be surprised at how […]
by David F. Levi
Summer 2016 | Volume 100 Number 2Like many others, I have unusually vivid recollections of Justice Antonin Scalia. How could it not be? His force field was that powerful. I had the benefit of a strong family […]
by Joseph Garrison
Summer 2016 | Volume 100 Number 2In April 2015, the American Law Institute published the Restatement of Employment Law, its first publication focusing on this area of law. The single volume consists of 550 pages and […]
by Cynthia Gray
Summer 2016 | Volume 100 Number 2At the end of 2015, two states became the first jurisdictions to add explicit references to social media to their codes of judicial conduct. In a new code effective Dec. […]
by Diane P. Wood, Chilton Varner and Douglas Young
Summer 2016 | Volume 100 Number 2INTRODUCTION1 This paper was originally presented at the United Kingdom-United States Legal Exchange in London, England, in September 2015. The Exchange, sponsored by the American College of Trial Lawyers, originated […]
by Michael J. Mazzone
Summer 2016 | Volume 100 Number 2Tara Smith asks: “How should courts interpret the law? By fidelity to the text? To the will of the people? To certain moral ideals?” In Judicial Review in an Objective […]
by John G. Koeltl
Summer 2016 | Volume 100 Number 2Judge Edward Weinfeld was a judge of the Southern District of New York from 1950 until his death in January 1988 at the age of 86. He remained an active […]
by Joseph Kimble
Summer 2016 | Volume 100 Number 2In my view, this canon of interpretation is so fraught with uncertainty of various kinds that courts should give it little weight. Better yet, drafters should not unwittingly bring it […]
by Michael Lynn and Andrew Hurwitz
Summer 2016 | Volume 100 Number 2In 1991, the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules published for public comment proposed amendments to FRCP 26(a)(1) that would mandate disclosure of documents and tangible things that “significantly bear on […]
by John K. Rabiej
Summer 2016 | Volume 100 Number 2You get the call from the Chief Justice of the United States asking you to serve on the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules. You’re honored. Moments after accepting, you ask […]
by John C. Anderson
Summer 2016 | Volume 100 Number 2Welcome to the latest edition of Judicature! This issue includes a wonderful article on judicial oversight of covert action, written by Judge Diane Wood, Chilton Varner, and Douglas Young, with […]
by Geoffrey C. Hazard
Summer 2016 | Volume 100 Number 2ELI is the European Law Institute. Its Secretariat is based in Vienna, Austria; its members include judges, lawyers, law professors, ministry of justice officials, and law firms from the European […]
by Simon H. Rifkind
Summer 2016 | Volume 100 Number 2There has been much talk lately of what is called Trial by Newspaper.In recent months there have been a number of cases in the courts which have aroused widespread public […]
by Lauren Sanders
Summer 2016 | Volume 100 Number 2In 2014, General Motors (GM) recalled at least 30 million cars worldwide for problems related to faulty ignition switches that could unexpectedly shut the engine off and prevent the airbags […]
