Federal Courts
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Can Judges Help Ease Mass Incarceration?
Vol. 107 No. 3 (2024) | JustitiaA scholar considers how judges have contributed to historically high incarceration rates — and how they can help reverse the trend. While the American criminal justice system was once known […]
Briefs
Justice O’Connor Named 2024 Bolch Prize Recipient
Vol. 107 No. 3 (2024) | JustitiaThe late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has been named the 2024 recipient of the Bolch Prize for the Rule of Law by the Bolch Judicial Institute of Duke Law School (which publishes Judicature). She will be honored at a ceremony on Duke’s campus in April. […]
From the Publisher
“Our Response Must Be Faster and Louder”
Vol. 107 No. 2 (2023) | Generative AI in the CourtsThose who become judges don the robe expecting to work hard. They accept that the job comes with heavy caseloads, endless filings to read, and difficult decisions that must be made […]
Book Review
The First Fifteen
by W K Hastings
Vol. 107 No. 1 (2023) | Toward Fairer, Quicker, Cheaper LitigationThis is a book written with generosity and bravery. It is generous in the sense that 15 Asian American women have decided to share their stories about how they became […]
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Justice Breyer Retires From the Court
by Kannon K. Shanmugam, Sarah Boyce and Erwin Chemerinsky
Vol. 106 No. 3 (2023) | Forging New TrailsJustice Stephen Breyer’s retirement from the Supreme Court closes the book on a nearly 30-year term filled with erudite opinions. But it also marks the end of a unique presence in oral arguments. […]
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Visiting Judges: Riding Circuit and Beyond
Vol. 106 No. 3 (2023) | Forging New TrailsThe curious phenomenon of visiting judges and its serious benefits to the federal courts There is a curious phenomenon in the federal courts. An attorney recently arguing before the First Circuit […]
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Shortlisted
by Diane P. Wood, Renee Knake Jefferson and Hannah Brenner Johnson
Vol. 106 No. 3 (2023) | Forging New TrailsWhen Kentanji Brown Jackson was confirmed to the United States Supreme Court, she became the sixth woman to take the bench on the nation’s highest court. Her addition also put […]
Book Review
‘The People’ Have Decided
Vol. 106 No. 2 (2022) | Losing faith?There are many great judges. Only some have a major impact on our law — or even more rarely on our larger culture and society — and most of those […]
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Collected Wisdom on Selecting Leaders and Managing MDLs
by Stephen R. Bough and Elizabeth Burch
Vol. 106 No. 1 (2022) | Necessarily EngagedIn 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, […]
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Rule 37(e): The New Law of Electronic Spoliation
Vol. 99 No. 3 (2015) | Fixing DiscoveryEffective dec. 1, 2015, federal rule of civil procedure 37(e) will change dramatically the law of spoliation. Prior to the adoption of this rule, the Circuits had split on the […]