by Laura Edwards
Summer 2018 | Volume 102 Number 2In 1870, Maria Mitchell, an African American woman in Edgecombe County, North Carolina, did something that she could not have done when she was enslaved: She “talked for her rights.” Continue Reading »
by Jeffrey Sutton
Summer 2018 | Volume 102 Number 2The following is an excerpt from 51 Imperfect Solutions: States and the Making of American Constitutional Law (© 2018 by Jeffrey Sutton, published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.) Continue Reading »
by Robert Hunter, Jr.
Summer 2018 | Volume 102 Number 2During the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, the judicial scholar with an inquiring mind will find much to read, and much historical and constitutional wisdom to Continue Reading »
by Joseph Kimble
Summer 2018 | Volume 102 Number 2In the Spring 2018 edition of Judicature, Bryan Garner, an old friend, responded to my article in the previous issue,[1] an article that took the form of a mock opinion Continue Reading »
by Sarah Smith
Summer 2018 | Volume 102 Number 2During the first week of April this year, the city of Memphis, Tenn., commemorated the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., on the 50th anniversary of the Continue Reading »
by Diane Wood and Aaron Nielson
Summer 2018 | Volume 102 Number 2On February 28, 2018, an unofficial ad-hoc committee of federal judges announced a new version of a law clerk hiring plan, a revision of an earlier system that was tried Continue Reading »
by Joe Webster
Summer 2018 | Volume 102 Number 2This tribute is based on Judge Webster’s book, The Making and Measure of a Judge: Biography of the Honorable Sammie Chess, Jr. (Chapel Hill Press, 2017.) All page numbers reference Continue Reading »
by Jeffrey Alker Meyer and Carly Levenson
Summer 2018 | Volume 102 Number 2Kevin hesitates in the doorway before entering Courtroom 3. When Kevin was 26, he was tried and sentenced in this courtroom. The judge who presided over his trial and sentencing Continue Reading »
by Mikel Norris and Charlie Hollis Whittington
Summer 2018 | Volume 102 Number 2Although most research on court leadership still focuses on the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, researchers are increasingly interested in state supreme courts, and with good reason. Continue Reading »
by Joseph Kimble
Summer 2018 | Volume 102 Number 2Probably the worst small-scale fault in legal writing is unnecessary prepositional phrases, a fault that this column will keep going after. A noxious variant is the multiword preposition — a Continue Reading »
by Marvin L. Astrada
Summer 2018 | Volume 102 Number 2Competing notions of crime and punishment have shaped the administration of criminal justice in the United States ever since the Quakers established the Walnut Street Prison in 1773 in Philadelphia, Continue Reading »
by David F. Levi
Summer 2018 | Volume 102 Number 2We received news of Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy’s retirement as we prepared this edition of Judicature for printing. We look forward to paying tribute to him in a later Continue Reading »
by Judicature Staff
Summer 2018 | Volume 102 Number 2The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation issued an order on Dec. 12, 2017, centralizing 46 pending actions alleging improper marketing of and inappropriate distribution of various prescription opiate medications into Continue Reading »
by Judicature Staff
Summer 2018 | Volume 102 Number 2EDRM at Duke Law has published a proposed set of e-discovery guidelines that explain technology assisted review (TAR), also known as predictive coding and computer assisted review, and is now Continue Reading »
by Bernice B. Donald
Summer 2018 | Volume 102 Number 2In 2018, as the nation commemorates the 150th Anniversary of the 14th Amendment, stakeholders in the justice system should reflect on our successes and failures along the continuum for equal Continue Reading »
