Tara Smith asks: āHow 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 […]
by Jesse Rutledge and Charles F. Campbell
Vol. 105 No. 2 (2021) | Judicial IndependenceWhen 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 […]
by Merritt McAlister and Katherine Mims Crocker
Vol. 105 No. 2 (2021) | Judicial IndependenceIn 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 […]
[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 […]
by Steven S. Gensler and Lee Rosenthal
Vol. 105 No. 2 (2021) | Judicial IndependenceWith 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, […]
by Jacqui Shine
Vol. 105 No. 2 (2021) | Judicial IndependenceWhen 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, […]
by Huey Cotton
Vol. 100 No. 2 (2016) | A Judge in Public LifeIf you could see a dialogue bubble above the judgeās head showing what the judge is thinking while certain events unfold in the courtroom, you would be surprised at how […]
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, […]
It is now well established that a United States federal court may compel a foreign party challenging the courtās exercise of personal jurisdiction to engage in jurisdictional discovery pursuant to […]
by Nancy Joseph
Vol. 105 No. 1 (2021) | The Courts HeldAbove: Judge Joseph in 2019 with her 92-year-old āadoptiveā mother, Uctorieuse Destin, on the day Judge Joseph presided over Destin’s naturalization ceremony. COVID-19 has impacted all aspects of life, including […]