Judging
From the Editor in Chief
What the Law Commands
Vol. 102 No. 3 (2018) | Crowdsourcing and Data Analytics“If you’re going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that you’re not always going to like the conclusions you reach. If […]
Judicial Honors
Judicial Honors Winter 2017
Vol. 101 No. 4 (2017) | Equal opportunity?Judge Richard Mills celebrated his 50th year on the bench. He served as circuit judge of the 8th Judicial Circuit of Illinois for ten years and judge of the Appellate […]
Case Note
Seven Supreme Court Cases to Watch
Vol. 101 No. 4 (2017) | Equal opportunity?Justice Neil Gorsuch began his first full term on the Supreme Court this past October, with court-watchers anticipating which cases the Supreme Court will take and how Justice Gorsuch will […]
Book Review
Why Do We Do the Things We Do?
Vol. 101 No. 4 (2017) | Equal opportunity?Within the next decade, Behave will be a book that most educated people have read (or will feel obligated to give the impression they have read), joining likes of The […]
Lastly
Five Ways Judges Can Improve Well-being
Vol. 101 No. 4 (2017) | Equal opportunity?While judicial stressors are legion, resources to help judges combat stress are slim. Fortunately, social science research now touts a host of evidence-based practices that can help judges learn to […]
Feature
The Changing Science on Memory and Demeanor – and What It Means for Trial Judges
by Mark Bennett
Vol. 101 No. 4 (2017) | Equal opportunity?Unless my experience of trying hundreds of federal civil and criminal jury trials in five federal districts is idiosyncratic, in virtually every case, a verdict turns on the perceived accuracy […]
Briefs
How State Courts are Preparing for Continuity in Disaster
Vol. 101 No. 4 (2017) | Equal opportunity?As hurricanes threatened the southern parts of the United States this summer and fall, state courts were confronted with the challenge of not just maintaining operations but also determining when […]
From the Editor in Chief
From the Editor: Restraint
Vol. 101 No. 3 (2017) | Bold and Persistent ReformIn a recent article concerning the supreme court confirmation process, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — my former law school professor — was recently quoted as saying she hoped that in […]
The Storied Third Branch
Lion of Justice: Judge Damon Keith, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
Vol. 101 No. 2 (2017) | Can science save justice?Judge Damon J. Keith is a Senior Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Nominated by President Jimmy Carter in 1977, Judge Keith has served […]
