Archive: May 2025

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Alternative Approaches: Beyond Problem-Solving Courts

Problem-solving courts were born out of a well-meaning experimentalist spirit, a spirit that is very much in line with the vision of a recent symposium on the multidoor criminal courthouse. […]

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Trauma-Informed Courts? How Judges May Influence Kids’ Experiences of Court

Research tells us that there are inextricable links between trauma and the juvenile justice system. Not only is trauma prevalent among system-involved youth (up to 90 percent report exposure to […]

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Bringing Home the Bill of Rights

I am honored to be the 30th chief justice of the state of North Carolina and to have served on my state’s highest court since 2004. I’ve also practiced law, […]

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The Battle for Your Brain: A Legal Scholar’s Argument for Protecting Brain Data and Cognitive Liberty

Mindreading may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but these days, as they say, truth is stranger than fiction. Employers track employee attention and even moods. Technology users can […]

Judge Dorothy Wright Nelson’s Prescient, Bold Vision of Justice

I began reading this book because of the great respect, affection, and admiration I have for my esteemed colleague, the Honorable Dorothy Nelson, senior circuit judge, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. […]

Minimize prepositional phrases. Question every of. (Part 1; PDF)

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If Pseudonyms, Then What Kind?

Writers may have their noms de plume; revolutionaries may have noms de guerre. Here, though, we will speak of (to coin a phrase) the noms de litige, and ask: When […]

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Faith in Law

David F. Levi interviews Dallin H. Oaks, a leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and former justice of the Utah Supreme Court, on faith, democracy, and how believers and nonbelievers can work together toward a more free and fair society for all. […]

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Case Management Reform: The Promise of Big Data (Sidebar)

In November 2021, some 30 judges and scholars gathered in Santa Monica, Calif., to discuss the prospects for an emerging era of civil case management reform. The participants included proponents of […]

Managerial Judges: The Long View (Sidebar)

In a landmark law review article published four decades ago, Professor Judith Resnik expressed skepticism about the rise of “managerial judging.” Professor Resnik contrasted the emerging model of active judicial […]