Court Administration
Perspective
Clerking to Excess? The Case Against Second (and Third and Fourth) Clerkships
by Gregg Costa
Vol. 102 No. 3 (2018) | Crowdsourcing and Data AnalyticsThere can be too much of a good thing. We know that’s true for food and drink, but we haven’t yet realized it’s also true for judicial clerkships. There has […]
Feature
Proposed Standards and Best Practices for Large and Mass-Tort MDLs
Vol. 102 No. 2 (2018) | Rights That Made The World RightThe Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation issued an order on Dec. 12, 2017, centralizing 46 pending actions alleging improper marketing of and inappropriate distribution of various prescription opiate medications into […]
Perspective
Reflections on a Reentry Court
by Jeffrey Alker Meyer and Carly Levenson
Vol. 102 No. 2 (2018) | Rights That Made The World RightKevin hesitates in the doorway before entering Courtroom 3. When Kevin was 26, he was tried and sentenced in this courtroom. The judge who presided over his trial and sentencing […]
Briefs
Far More Than Mere Mistakes: Judicial Commissions Sanction Judges Who Impose Fines Without Due Process
by Cynthia Gray
Vol. 101 No. 2 (2017) | Can science save justice?In the roundtable discussion “Money or Justice? How Fees and Fines Have Contributed to Deep Distrust of the Courts — And What Chief Judges Are Doing About It” (from the […]
Briefs
On the Hill: PATENT Act Aims To Curb Patent Trolls
by Arti K. Rai
Vol. 99 No. 2 (2015) | The Mass-Tort MDL VortexOn Apr. 29, a bipartisan coalition of Senate Judiciary Committee members led by Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) introduced the Protecting American Talent and Entrepreneurship Act of […]