Law & Culture
Feature
Perceptions of Bias: Do Campaign Contributions Create Public Perceptions of Judicial Bias?
Vol. 102 No. 3 (2018) | Crowdsourcing and Data AnalyticsIn a number of cases, the Illinois Supreme Court suspended the licenses of lawyers who had loaned money directly to the trial judge who was hearing their clients’ cases. They […]
From the Editor in Chief
What the Law Commands
Vol. 102 No. 3 (2018) | Crowdsourcing and Data Analytics“If you’re going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that you’re not always going to like the conclusions you reach. If […]
Redlines
A little less stiff, and no tangents, please. (PDF)
Vol. 101 No. 4 (2017) | Equal opportunity?Our writing guru, Joseph Kimble, goes after some common blemishes. In the original opinion, he notes, the second half of the first sentence seems pointless. So does the third sentence, […]
Case Note
Seven Supreme Court Cases to Watch
Vol. 101 No. 4 (2017) | Equal opportunity?Justice Neil Gorsuch began his first full term on the Supreme Court this past October, with court-watchers anticipating which cases the Supreme Court will take and how Justice Gorsuch will […]
Book Review
Why Do We Do the Things We Do?
Vol. 101 No. 4 (2017) | Equal opportunity?Within the next decade, Behave will be a book that most educated people have read (or will feel obligated to give the impression they have read), joining likes of The […]
Feature
Speaking, Listening, and the Rule of Law: Free Speech on Campus
Vol. 101 No. 4 (2017) | Equal opportunity?A university is a very noisy place and by design. […] We revel in and celebrate the cacophony of many voices, and the collision of ideas and beliefs.
Feature
A Brief Moment in the Sun: The Reconstruction-Era Courts of the Freedman’s Bureau
Vol. 101 No. 4 (2017) | Equal opportunity?When he was 16 years old during the summer of 1866, a recently freed slave named Alfred Jefferson rode his employer’s horse without permission. A local criminal judge in Bradford […]
Perspective
Continuing to Close the Courthouse Doors?
Vol. 101 No. 4 (2017) | Equal opportunity?The Supreme Court’s October Term 2016 was unusual because from the first Monday in October until the April argument calendar, there were only eight justices on the bench. This affected […]
From the Editor in Chief
The Times They Are A’Changin’
Vol. 101 No. 4 (2017) | Equal opportunity?I’ve been thinking a lot about change recently. Some changes are subtle and slow-coming. Others are immediate with significant ramifications. An example of the former is the change in the […]
Feature
Equal Opportunity? Increasing Diversity in Complex Litigation Leadership
by Michael M. Baylson and Cecily Harris
Vol. 101 No. 4 (2017) | Equal opportunity?Does jurisprudence prohibit judges from considering diversity when appointing lawyers to lead roles in complex litigation? Here’s a legal strategy judges can use to help give women and minority lawyers […]