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 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 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 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 »
