Judging

From The Publisher
Vol. 102 No. 1 (2018) | Forensic FailWhat an honor it is for me to greet you as the inaugural director of the Bolch Judicial Institute of Duke Law School. As you will read in this journal, […]

From the Editor: Thank you
Vol. 102 No. 1 (2018) | Forensic FailWelcome to the spring edition of Judicature. This edition includes an announcement of a very significant gift to benefit Duke’s judicial studies programs and Judicature: a $10 million gift from […]

JHEALTH: How the Tenth Circuit is Improving the Health and Performance of Federal Judges
by Timothy D. DeGiusti, Marcia S. Krieger and Michael H. Gendel
Vol. 102 No. 1 (2018) | Forensic FailBeing a judge offers many benefits — prestige, intellectual stimulation, autonomy, and the opportunity to provide a community service. But the simple fact is that being a judge does not […]

She Lifted Her Voice: Constance Baker Motley (1921–2005) U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
Vol. 103 No. 3 (2019) | Fees, Fines, and BailAlthough she loved music, she could not sing. She was such a bad singer that, as a little girl growing up in New Haven, she was asked to leave the […]

Judicial Honors Fall 2019
Vol. 103 No. 3 (2019) | Fees, Fines, and BailKem Thompson Frost, chief justice of Texas’s Court of Appeals-14th District, has been named a 2019 Outstanding Texas Leader and inducted into the Texas Leadership Hall of Fame by JBS […]

A Hero’s Life: Michael D. Ryan, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of Arizona
Vol. 101 No. 4 (2017) | Equal opportunity?A war hero. A respected jurist. A humble servant. A mentor. A friend. A beloved husband, father, and grandfather. All these tags fit Michael D. Ryan, a former associate justice […]

Icon of the Bench and Gridiron: Kim Hammond, Judge, Seventh Judicial Court, Florida
Vol. 102 No. 1 (2018) | Forensic FailThe names of courthouses are not something that the average person would notice. They include the directional and mundane and, occasionally, the name of an important person in the eyes […]

Judicial Honors
Vol. 103 No. 2 (2019) | Pay NCAA athletes?Nina Ashenafi-Richardson, a judge with the Leon County Court system in Florida and the first Ethiopian-born judge in the United States, received the Florida Bar’s 2019 Distinguished Judicial Service Award […]

From the Editor: Toward a More Perfect Union
Vol. 102 No. 2 (2018) | Rights That Made The World RightIn 2018, as the nation commemorates the 150th Anniversary of the 14th Amendment, stakeholders in the justice system should reflect on our successes and failures along the continuum for equal […]

Reentry philosophies, approaches, and challenges
Vol. 102 No. 2 (2018) | Rights That Made The World RightCompeting notions of crime and punishment have shaped the administration of criminal justice in the United States ever since the Quakers established the Walnut Street Prison in 1773 in Philadelphia, […]