Postcards, Q&A
by Sean Wallace
December, Judicature International (2023) | An online-only publicationIn 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. […]
A Finer Point
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. […]
Perspective
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. […]
Point/Counterpoint
by William H. Pryor and Conor Casey
Vol. 107 No. 2 (2023) | Generative AI in the CourtsCan 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 […]
Feature
by Matt Liles* and Anthony B. Sanders†
Vol. 107 No. 2 (2023) | Generative AI in the CourtsWhy 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 […]
Feature
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. […]
Feature
by Esther Salas and Robin L. Rosenberg
Vol. 107 No. 2 (2023) | Generative AI in the CourtsDaniel 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 […]
Judicial Honors
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 […]
Redlines
In the previous column, I said that unnecessary prepositional phrases are perhaps the single biggest cause of sentence-level verbosity in legal writing […]
Judicial Honors
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 […]
