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by David F. Levi
Vol. 106 No. 3 (2023) | Forging New TrailsDear Friends: This is my last publisher’s note. As of Jan. 1, 2023, retired U.S. District Judge Paul Grimm is the new director of the Bolch Judicial Institute and the […]
by William Raftery
Vol. 106 No. 3 (2023) | Forging New TrailsFor centuries, courts have grappled with the question of speedy and timely justice. Until the 20th century, this was almost exclusively viewed as a legal question: At what point does […]
by Melinda Myers Vaughn
Vol. 106 No. 3 (2023) | Forging New TrailsPictured Above: Evacuees wait to board a plane in Kabul, August 2021. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Isaiah Campbell, Alamy Photo) The Bolch Judicial Institute has named the International […]
by Diane P. Wood, Renee Knake Jefferson and Hannah Brenner Johnson
Vol. 106 No. 3 (2023) | Forging New TrailsWhen Kentanji Brown Jackson was confirmed to the United States Supreme Court, she became the sixth woman to take the bench on the nation’s highest court. Her addition also put […]
by Marin K. Levy
Vol. 106 No. 3 (2023) | Forging New TrailsThe curious phenomenon of visiting judges and its serious benefits to the federal courts There is a curious phenomenon in the federal courts. An attorney recently arguing before the First Circuit […]
by Alyssa S. King and Pamela K. Bookman
Vol. 106 No. 3 (2023) | Forging New TrailsFederal judges within the United States travel to sit on other circuits, but are typically restricted from holding external office or visiting international courts. After they leave the bench, however, […]
by David F. Levi, Margaret H. Lemos, Barry Friedman and Andrew D. Martin
Vol. 106 No. 3 (2023) | Forging New TrailsPolitical scientists and legal scholars don’t necessarily have the same perspectives when it comes to the study of how judges make decisions. Legal scholars tend to take a more internal […]
by Richard L. Vining, Jr. and Teena Wilhelm
Vol. 106 No. 3 (2023) | Forging New TrailsThe diversity of the American bench is frequently scrutinized by politicians, journalists, academics, and jurists themselves. This has been particularly true in recent years as the U.S. Supreme Court has […]
by Kannon K. Shanmugam, Sarah Boyce and Erwin Chemerinsky
Vol. 106 No. 3 (2023) | Forging New TrailsJustice Stephen Breyer’s retirement from the Supreme Court closes the book on a nearly 30-year term filled with erudite opinions. But it also marks the end of a unique presence in oral arguments. […]
by Kimberly Carlton Bonner
Vol. 106 No. 3 (2023) | Forging New TrailsThe most diverse, tech-savvy, anxious, and socially conscious generation to date is entering the legal profession. Members of Generation Z, also called “Gen Z” or “Zoomers,” will soon fill the […]
by Joseph Kimble
Vol. 106 No. 3 (2023) | Forging New TrailsIn a very short browse on Westlaw, I found some sentences that, in my view, would be improved by contractions: […]
by David Hoffman, Jolynn Childers Dellinger and Connor Leydecker
Vol. 106 No. 3 (2023) | Forging New TrailsIt’s 1890. Responding in part to the invention of “instantaneous” photography, Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis write The Right to Privacy, urging legal recognition of “the right to be let alone,” which […]
by Jed S. Rakoff
Vol. 106 No. 3 (2023) | Forging New TrailsWith the exception of DNA analysis, a great deal of so-called “forensic science” — that is, the analysis of tool marks, bite marks, hair comparisons, fingerprints, blood spatters, arson patterns, and […]
by Andrew S. Oldham
Vol. 106 No. 3 (2023) | Forging New TrailsIn the summer of 1987, David B. Sentelle found himself surrounded by 17,000 mostly naked hippies. If anything could distract a man from a U.S. Senate confirmation proceeding, surely that’s […]
by Judicature Staff
Vol. 106 No. 3 (2023) | Forging New TrailsNatasha Ramras is an Oregon/Washington painter who uses acrylic and oil to capture the beauty of the Pacific Northwest in her landscapes and the salient issues of the day in her contemporary works. […]
by Matthew McKnight
Vol. 106 No. 3 (2023) | Forging New TrailsThe Georgetown Center for the Constitution held a memorial event honoring Judge LAURENCE H. SILBERMAN, a longtime judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, who died in […]
by Judicature Staff
Vol. 106 No. 3 (2023) | Forging New TrailsFeatures Shortlisted BY RENEE KNAKE JEFFERSON, HANNAH BRENNER JOHNSON & DIANE P. WOOD Visiting Judges Riding Circuit and Beyond BY MARIN K. LEVY Visiting Judges Going Global BY PAMELA K. BOOKMAN […]
