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Thinking Fundamentally About Judicial Review

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Vol. 100 No. 2 (2016) | A Judge in Public Life

Tara Smith asks: ā€œHow should courts interpret the law? By fidelity to the text? To the will of the people? To certain moral ideals?ā€ In Judicial Review in an Objective […]

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The NCSC marks 50 years of service to state courts

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Vol. 105 No. 2 (2021) | Judicial Independence

When Chief Justice Warren Burger called for the creation of “A National Center for State Courts”Ā at the first National Conference of the Judiciary in 1971, it is safe to assume […]

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Clerkship Continuum

The Clerkship Academia Continuum

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Vol. 105 No. 2 (2021) | Judicial Independence

In the spring 2021 edition ofĀ JudicatureĀ (Vol. 105 No. 1), Florida International University Law Professor Howard Wasserman published data analyzing the number of current law professors who have served in clerkships […]

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Judicial Temperament

Judicial Temperament, Explained

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Vol. 105 No. 2 (2021) | Judicial Independence

[I]t seems to me that temperament is the key to everything else that one does on the bench.1 Elusive as it is important,Ā judicial temperament is notoriously hard to define.2 Judicial […]

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The Privacy-Protection Hook in the Federal Rules

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Vol. 105 No. 2 (2021) | Judicial Independence

With the proliferation of social media platforms and other new technologies has come a renewed legal focus on privacy. Most of that focus has centered on data collection, storage, sharing, […]

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Perry Mason Landscape

The Moral Order of Perry Mason’s Universe

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Vol. 105 No. 2 (2021) | Judicial Independence

When it premiered on CBS in 1957,Ā Perry MasonĀ represented the birth of the television courtroom procedural. For decades, Mason, a criminal defense attorney who almost always emerged from the court victorious, […]

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DOS and DON’TS for Lawyers in a Changing World

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Vol. 100 No. 2 (2016) | A Judge in Public Life

If you could see a dialogue bubble above the judge’s head showing what the judge is thinking while certain events unfold in the courtroom, you would be surprised at how […]

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A China Diary: Judicature 1984

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Vol. 100 No. 3 (2016) | Who appointed me god?

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.Ā The trip was sponsored by People to People, […]

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Picking Up Where Aerospatiale Left Off:Ā Merits-Based Discovery, Foreign Parties, And Uncertain Personal Jurisdiction

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Vol. 100 No. 3 (2016) | Who appointed me god?

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 […]

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An Immigrant Judge’s Ode to Naturalization Ceremonies

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Vol. 105 No. 1 (2021) | The Courts Held

Above: Judge Joseph in 2019 with her 92-year-old ā€œadoptiveā€ 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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