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On May 21, 1984, a 36-member delegation from the American Judicature Society left for a two-week visit to the People’s Republic of China. The trip was sponsored by People to People, […]
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It is now well established that a United States federal court may compel a foreign party challenging the court’s exercise of personal jurisdiction to engage in jurisdictional discovery pursuant to […]
A Finer Point
by Nancy Joseph
Spring 2021 | Volume 105 Number 1Above: Judge Joseph in 2019 with her 92-year-old “adoptive” mother, Uctorieuse Destin, on the day Judge Joseph presided over Destin’s naturalization ceremony. COVID-19 has impacted all aspects of life, including […]
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by Joe Webster
Spring 2017 | Volume 101 Number 1A number of years ago, a man told me he had been charged with a crime. I asked him how his case was going. With all sincerity and with an […]
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by Jeremy Fogel
Spring 2017 | Volume 101 Number 1Judges, as our title implies, make judgments. Sometimes the process of making a judgment is straightforward, as when clearly written statute plainly applies to undisputed facts. But more often, the […]
Point/Counterpoint
by Keith Swisher and Eugene Volokh
Spring 2017 | Volume 101 Number 1In August 2016, the American Bar Association amended its model rules of professional conduct by banning professional conduct that constitutes harassment or discrimination. Some cheer the new rule as a […]
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 […]
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by Bernice B. Donald, Jeffrey Rachlinski and Andrew J. Wistrich
Fall/Winter 2020–21 | Volume 104 Number 3To better understand the effect of implicit bias in the courtroom, Judge Bernice Donald of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit talked with Professors Jeffrey Rachlinski and Andrew Wistrich of Cornell Law School.
by SpearIt
Summer 2020 | Volume 104 Number 2With the Fourth Amendment gone, eyes are on the First // That’s why I’m spittin cyanide each and every verse These lyrics from American rap artist Paris’ 2003 album, Sonic […]
In Conversation
by Lori Lightfoot, Art Acevedo, Barry Friedman, Ashley Allison and David F. Levi
Summer 2020 | Volume 104 Number 2In July, the “Coping with Covid” series shifted attention from one pandemic to another: the plague of excessive force by police officers. It is an old and long-standing problem receiving […]
