Judicial Honors
by Emma Roberts
Fall/Winter 2020–21 | Volume 104 Number 3Justice Michelle Keller of the Supreme Court of Kentucky received the Kentucky Bar Association’s Distinguished Judge Award. The award honors a judge who has made outstanding contributions to the legal […]
A Finer Point
The sudden deaths of United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Associate Justice Antonin Scalia ignited political firestorms regarding the appropriate timeline for confirming a new justice […]
Point/Counterpoint
by Kyle Hawkins, Fred Smith Jr., Clark Neily and Jay Schweikert
Fall/Winter 2020–21 | Volume 104 Number 3Judicial doctrine is rarely the subject of public conversation. So it was once for qualified immunity, which rested for many centuries in a kind of lawyerly tomb — largely the […]
Feature
In recent years, governments from the state of Delaware to the Emirate of Dubai have created institutions specially designed to adjudicate transnational commercial disputes. These institutions are hybrids between courts […]
Feature
by Scott Dodson, Lee Rosenthal and Christopher L. Dodson
Fall/Winter 2020–21 | Volume 104 Number 3Two great forces are upon us. One is COVID-19, a highly infectious disease that has disrupted society around the globe.1 The other is the constant push of technological advancement, which […]
On the evening of July 19, 2020, United States District Judge Esther Salas was enjoying a playful moment with her son Daniel, who had just celebrated his 20th birthday. As […]
Feature
The foundation of our justice system is the jury trial. In criminal cases, the Sixth Amendment provides that “the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, […]
by Brian Fitzpatrick and John H. Beisner
Summer 2020 | Volume 104 Number 2POINT / COUNTERPOINT Should conservatives embrace class actions as the alternative to government regulation for policing corporate misconduct? Affection for the class-action lawsuit has typically split along political lines, with […]
At a time when the branches of government are making daily headlines, how do we educate the public about a fair and impartial judiciary and its vital role in our […]
by Charles Geyh
Summer 2020 | Volume 104 Number 2Over time, the public has simply ceased to believe judges when they say that they follow the law, and nothing but. If judges impose their ideological policy preferences, the argument […]
