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Bolch Judicial Institute
Duke Law School

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Judges, Judging and Otherwise

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Vol. 106 No. 2 (2022) | Losing faith?

Ask the average person to imagine what a judge does, and the answer will most likely be something right out of a courtroom from Law & Order — or Legally Blonde, Just Mercy, My […]

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Involve, Inform, Inspire

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Vol. 106 No. 1 (2022) | Necessarily Engaged

My 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 […]

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Another plea to hold the acronyms (PDF)

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Vol. 105 No. 2 (2021) | Judicial Independence

First, a technical distinction: an acronym is pronounced as a word (“scuba” = self-contained underwater breathing apparatus); an initialism is pronounced letter by letter (“IBM”). Informally, “acronym” is often used for […]

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Labrier an example of new proportionality rules at work

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Vol. 100 No. 3 (2016) | Who appointed me god?

In December 2015, the amendments to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b) took effect. These amendments, highlighted in Judicature’s Winter 2015 issue, moved the proportionality provisions from Rule 26(b)(2)(C)(iii), as a limit on discovery, […]

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How the States Avoid Supreme Stalemates

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Vol. 100 No. 4 (2016) | Steady As She Goes

State high courts avoid tie votes in a variety of ways, some more juris-prudent than others. Justice Antonin Scalia’s passing portends a seismic realtering of the Supreme Court’s ideological balance. […]

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Cross Border Discovery at a Crossroads

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Vol. 100 No. 4 (2016) | Steady As She Goes

Along with explosive globalization, including the ease with which parties can conduct business abroad, there has been a concomitant need for international legal systems to consider exchange of information across […]

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At Least Do The Easy Stuff (PDF)

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Vol. 105 No. 1 (2021) | The Courts Held

In these two examples, I have done very little rewriting. I simply used plain words and cut unnecessary words (including the egregiously unnecessary parentheticals). And in the second one, I […]

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State Courts Brace for Budget Hit

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Vol. 105 No. 1 (2021) | The Courts Held

The COVID-19 pandemic forced drastic changes in the way courts operate and function. It also caused many courts to change their budgetary practices. An October 2020 survey of the Conference […]

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Cain questions court funding, highlights best practices for proportionality

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Vol. 101 No. 1 (2017) | Citizen-centered Courts

Cain v. City of New Orleans (15-cv-04479) brings into sharp relief issues threatening the judiciary’s legitimacy, while simultaneously providing a procedural roadmap applying the 2015 discovery-proportionality amendments — themes highlighted […]

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Rebuild our Courts: State Chief Justices Call for Action to Achieve Civil Justice for All

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Vol. 101 No. 1 (2017) | Citizen-centered Courts

Many remember the alarming call to mission control from the Apollo 13 spacecraft crew. “Houston, we’ve had a problem.” Well, dear Judicature readers, we denizens of the judicial system have […]

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