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by David F. Levi
Spring 2022 | Volume 106 Number 1This edition of Judicature highlights some of the excellent work that courts and judges are doing to advance civic education in our country. Their efforts respond to Chief Justice John G. Roberts […]
by Cynthia Gray
Spring 2022 | Volume 106 Number 1Whether in the courtroom or on social media, judges should be careful about joking around. Judges are often warned against the careless use of humor. Humor is very subjective, but […]
by Judicature Staff
Spring 2022 | Volume 106 Number 1Read how judges are taking up the call to improve and expand civics education — in schools, in civic organizations, and in courtrooms.
by Don R. Willett
Spring 2022 | Volume 106 Number 1The past few years have been a wild ride, and I say that as a former rodeo cowboy. America has endured a confluence of overlapping crises: pandemic, recession, impeachment, social […]
by Rebecca Fanning
Spring 2022 | Volume 106 Number 1My first civics teacher was my father. He was a World War II veteran and a POW for 16 months, three of which were spent in extreme winter conditions on […]
by Rebecca Fanning
Spring 2022 | Volume 106 Number 1If adults lack knowledge or interest in civics, how can they model what it means to be a good citizen? For decades, federal and state courts have engaged in educational […]
by Richard L. Gabriel
Spring 2022 | Volume 106 Number 1Americans are more likely to interact with their state and local governments than their federal counterparts — and that includes the courts. State courts hear more than 90 percent of […]
by Michael J. Newman
Spring 2022 | Volume 106 Number 1While working as a United States magistrate judge, I had the great (and rather humbling) honor to serve as national president of the Federal Bar Association (FBA) from 2016 to […]
by Beth Bloom, Hayley Lawrence and Robin L. Rosenberg
Spring 2022 | Volume 106 Number 1Often, problems come as problems. We know them when we see them; when we feel that unmistakable pit in our stomachs. But sometimes, the problems that arrive on our doorstep […]
by Marjorie O. Rendell
Spring 2022 | Volume 106 Number 1“It may be an easy thing to make a Republic; but it is a very laborious thing to make Republicans; and woe to the republic that rests upon no better […]
by Judicature Staff
Spring 2022 | Volume 106 Number 1Here are just a few of the many civics education resources mentioned in this edition of Judicature.
by Debra A. Livingston and Jon O. Newman
Spring 2022 | Volume 106 Number 1A scholar, a citizen, a colleague by DEBRA A. LIVINGSTON, Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit The following remarks were delivered at Judge Katzmann’s memorial service in […]
by Stephen R. Bough and Elizabeth Burch
Spring 2022 | Volume 106 Number 1In 2020, nearly one out of every two new suits filed in federal civil court was part of a multidistrict litigation (MDL). Initially designed to organize antitrust cases against electrical equipment manufacturers, […]
by Neal Katyal, Erica L. Ross, Walter Dellinger and Jeff Fisher
Spring 2022 | Volume 106 Number 1The pandemic has upended things big and small, from our daily routines to the very institutions we hold dear. Perhaps nowhere else in government have these changes been so peculiar […]
by Travis N. Taylor
Spring 2022 | Volume 106 Number 1The Dynamic Effect of Contribution Limits and Direct Solicitation Rules on Individual Donations to State Supreme Court Campaigns Campaign finance is regulated up and down the ballot under the government’s […]
by Erik Voeten and Laurence R. Helfer
Spring 2022, Judicature International | 2021-2022In Walking Back Human Rights in Europe? (published in the European Journal of International Law, Vol. 31 No. 3, 2020), scholars LAURENCE R. HELFER and ERIK VOETEN examined minority opinions of the European Court of Human Rights […]
by Laurence R. Helfer and David Collins
Spring 2022, Judicature International | 2021-2022In their article, Human Rights in Europe? (European Journal of international law, Vol. 31 No. 3 (2020)), LAURENCE R. HELFER, the Harry R. Chadwick, Sr. Professor of Law at Duke University, and ERIK VOETEN, the […]
by Heidi Kitrosser
Spring 2022 | Volume 106 Number 1There are at least two points of consensus among those who study national security secrecy: First, the government must keep some secrets in order to protect national security. Second, a […]
by Joseph Kimble
Spring 2022 | Volume 106 Number 1We all know that legal writing could benefit from more periods. A strong contender for the second most neglected punctuation mark in legal writing is the em-dash, the long dash.
by Kristina Bryant and Tara Kunkel
Spring 2022 | Volume 106 Number 1Beginning in March 2020, courts transformed how they conduct business by rapidly transitioning to online platforms. Moving business entirely online required courts to train judges, court staff, prosecutors, lawyers, and […]
by Eric Surber
Spring 2022 | Volume 106 Number 1The Ohio State Bar Association (OSBA) honored Judge MARY JANE TRAPP of Florida’s 11th District Court of Appeals with the Ohio Bar Medal. The medal is the OSBA’s highest honor and is […]
by Jane Mead
Spring 2022 | Volume 106 Number 1Substance Abuse Trial He mispronounces you, the judge, rhyming your first with your second name, making you into something ridiculous: Gillis Willis Mead. But you stand as still as they […]
by Judicature Staff
Spring 2022 | Volume 106 Number 1Features Civic Illiteracy and the Rule of Law BY DON R. WILLETT Involve, Inform, Inspire BY REBECCA FANNING A Model for Adult Civics Education BY RICHARD L. GABRIEL One of […]
