News Brief, News Roundup
PICTURED ABOVE: BRIGHT SUNFLOWERS IN UKRAINE (GETTY IMAGES SIGNATURE) Ukraine As Russia continues its violent assault on Ukraine, judiciaries around the world are issuing statements in solidarity and to demand […]
Lastly
Correcting the record on America’s first patent holder — 225 years later The framers of the U.S. Constitution vested congress with the power “[t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful […]
Briefs
Interest in increasing or repealing mandatory judicial retirement ages is growing in the legislatures — but not among voters. Mandatory judicial retirement ages have existed in the states since the […]
Book Review
As society evolves, should state courts likewise evolve? Should courts replace or, at a minimum, augment their traditional roles in the adversarial system that defines our nation’s judicial process? Should […]
A Finer Point
Chief Judge D. Brooks Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reflects on the lessons of unity and tolerance embedded in Judge Learned Hand’s famous “Spirit of Liberty” speech.
Point/Counterpoint
by Orin Kerr and Michael C. Dorf
Vol. 105 No. 3 (2021) | Leaving AfghanistanThe Supreme Court is, naturally, supreme. And in the vast majority of cases, lower courts dutifully enforce the law handed down by the Court without criticism or conversation. Sometimes, however, […]
Feature
by Justine Parry Welch and Robert J. Conrad Jr.
Vol. 105 No. 3 (2021) | Leaving AfghanistanCourthouses serve as monuments to our legal tradition, so a willingness to reconsider design assumptions is essential to the continuing vitality of jury trials.
Feature
Click here to download this article’s accompanying appendix. The increase in partisan polarization in the United States over the last several decades is evident in a variety of ways: in roll-call […]
Redlines
Signposting is easy to illustrate. Not this: “The defendant claims . . . . The defendant also claims . . . . Finally, the defendant claims . . . .” […]
Judicial Honors
Steven Leifman, 11th Judicial Circuit of Florida judge, received the William H. Rehnquist Award for Judicial Excellence at a dinner at the U.S. Supreme Court. The award is given by […]
