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A Global Judicial News Report: November 2021
Judicature International (2021-22) | An online-only publicationVenezuela Judicial independence threatened A report by the United Nation’s Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has raised concerns about judicial independence in the country. The […]
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A Personal Journey Through the Rule of Law in the South Pacific
by W K Hastings
Judicature International (2021-22) | An online-only publicationConceptually, the idea that the rule of law is maintained by an independent and impartial judiciary is not difficult to understand. In fact, we really only hear about “the rule […]
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Developing Civil Procedure Rules for European Courts
Vol. 100 No. 2 (2016) | A Judge in Public LifeELI is the European Law Institute. Its Secretariat is based in Vienna, Austria; its members include judges, lawyers, law professors, ministry of justice officials, and law firms from the European […]
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Honoring the 2020 & 2021 Recipients of the Bolch Prize
by David F. Levi, Dikgang Moseneke and Margaret H. Marshall
Vol. 105 No. 2 (2021) | Judicial IndependenceThe Bolch Judicial Institute at Duke Law School honored the 2020 and 2021 recipients of the Bolch Prize for the Rule of Law during a virtual program hosted by PBS […]
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Judicial Independence: Threats Foreign and Domestic
by David F. Levi, Nathan Hecht, Suzanne Spaulding, Rodney Acker and Allyson K. Duncan
Vol. 105 No. 2 (2021) | Judicial IndependenceJudicial Independence has so long been a pillar of American government that perhaps it was at one time taken for granted. The idea that politicians would intimidate judges, that judges […]
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A Report from the 2015 United States–United Kingdom Legal Exchange
by Chilton Varner, Diane P. Wood and Douglas Young
Vol. 100 No. 2 (2016) | A Judge in Public LifeINTRODUCTION1 This paper was originally presented at the United Kingdom-United States Legal Exchange in London, England, in September 2015. The Exchange, sponsored by the American College of Trial Lawyers, originated […]
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An Uphill Battle: How China’s obsession with social stability is blocking judicial reform
Vol. 100 No. 3 (2016) | Who appointed me god?During the past three years, China has proclaimed a judicial reform campaign that aims to follow the “rule by law” (yifa zhiguo) in civil dispute resolutions. In delivering the 2014 […]
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China’s E-Justice Revolution
Vol. 105 No. 1 (2021) | The Courts Held(Pictured Above: View of an online hearing at the Hangzhou Internet Court, in Hangzhou City, the first court in the world designed to hear cases nearly exclusively online. Disputes focus […]
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Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, and the Law
by Philip Sales
Vol. 105 No. 1 (2021) | The Courts HeldMuch attention is paid to our brave new world wrought by algorithms and artificial technology, one in which many societal functions are accelerated and made more efficient — and more […]
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From the Editor: A European Perspective
Vol. 101 No. 2 (2017) | Can science save justice?The President of the United States referred to a judge who ruled against the executive as a “so-called” judge. Both his most recent French colleagues called the judiciary “flavorless green […]