Law & Culture
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Six Books for Understanding the Fourteenth Amendment
Vol. 102 No. 2 (2018) | Rights That Made The World RightDuring the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, the judicial scholar with an inquiring mind will find much to read, and much historical and constitutional wisdom to […]
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Proposed Standards and Best Practices for Large and Mass-Tort MDLs
Vol. 102 No. 2 (2018) | Rights That Made The World RightThe Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation issued an order on Dec. 12, 2017, centralizing 46 pending actions alleging improper marketing of and inappropriate distribution of various prescription opiate medications into […]
Perspective
Reflections on a Reentry Court
by Jeffrey Alker Meyer and Carly Levenson
Vol. 102 No. 2 (2018) | Rights That Made The World RightKevin hesitates in the doorway before entering Courtroom 3. When Kevin was 26, he was tried and sentenced in this courtroom. The judge who presided over his trial and sentencing […]
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Remembering Dr. King’s Last Legal Battle
by Sarah Smith
Vol. 102 No. 2 (2018) | Rights That Made The World RightDuring the first week of April this year, the city of Memphis, Tenn., commemorated the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., on the 50th anniversary of the […]
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, […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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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.
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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 […]