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Postcard from Nairobi, Kenya: Q&A with Judge Sean Wallace

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December, Judicature International (2023) | An online-only publication

In Judicature International’s Postcard Series, judges from around the world answer a series of questions about the structure of their court, challenges they face, unique experiences, and interactions on the bench. […]

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Not Just Umpires — Justices Are Fans, Too.

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Vol. 107 No. 2 (2023) | Generative AI in the Courts

The Supreme Court’s jurisprudence on baseball began in 1922 with a unanimous ruling in an anti-trust case, Federal Baseball Club v. National League, that holds to this day. But the Court’s relationship with baseball isn’t just through its cases. The men and women who have served on the Court include many committed baseball fans. […]

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Neutrality Can Be Maddening to the Public. And to Judges, Too.

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Vol. 107 No. 2 (2023) | Generative AI in the Courts

Those drawn to careers in law often want to save the world. When we decided on law school, we hoped to wield the armor and lance of the law to ensure civil rights, make people whole, and do justice. Some of us became judges, many accepting a reduction in salary to do public service. […]

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Originalism Is Dead. Long Live Originalism.

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Vol. 107 No. 2 (2023) | Generative AI in the Courts

Can common good constitutionalism replace originalism? Has originalism run its course? Yes, says Harvard Law Professor Adrian Vermeule in Common Good Constitutionalism (Polity Press, 2022), which advocates for the book’s titular theory […]

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En Banc or In Bank? Take a Seat . . .

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Vol. 107 No. 2 (2023) | Generative AI in the Courts

Why do judges and lawyers use the phrase “en banc”? Why not just say “the whole court” instead of getting all Continental? If the King’s English was good enough for […]

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Inheritance of Hope

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Vol. 107 No. 2 (2023) | Generative AI in the Courts

Thirty-three years after Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial, I visited Washington, D.C., for the first time. It was Tuesday, Nov. 5, 1996 — a presidential Election Day. […]

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In Daniel’s Name

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Vol. 107 No. 2 (2023) | Generative AI in the Courts

Daniel Mark Anderl gave his life to protect his parents. Now his parents are making sure his heroic act also protects other judges and their families. In July 2020, an […]

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Judicial Honors Vol. 107 No. 2

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Vol. 107 No. 2 (2023) | Generative AI in the Courts

Judge Nitza Quiñones Alejandro of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania received the 2023 La Justicia Award from the Hispanic Bar Association of Pennsylvania, an organization she helped […]

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Minimize prepositional phrases. Question every of. (Part 2, PDF)

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Vol. 107 No. 2 (2023) | Generative AI in the Courts

In the previous column, I said that unnecessary prepositional phrases are perhaps the single biggest cause of sentence-level verbosity in legal writing […]

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Judicial Honors: Vol. 107 No. 1

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Vol. 107 No. 1 (2023) | Toward Fairer, Quicker, Cheaper Litigation

The Forney Independent School District in Forney, Texas, opened a new elementary school named in honor of alumnus Judge DON WILLETT of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. The […]

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