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by Amanda Ross Edwards and Elisha Carol Savchak
Summer 2016 | Volume 100 Number 2A considerable number of judges are stepping away from the bench and their chambers in order to interact with the public through judicial outreach activities. Why? We execute a nationwide survey […]
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by Cynthia Gray
Autumn 2016 | Volume 100 Number 3Not all extrajudicial conduct on which the public may frown has been considered sanctionable in judicial discipline proceedings; after all, as Robert Louis Stevenson wrote in The Strange Case of Dr. […]
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by Frank Sullivan Jr., Nicholas L. Georgakopoulos and Dimitris Georgakopoulos
Autumn 2016 | Volume 100 Number 3A surprising look at coalitions within the supreme courts of the United States and Indiana In June 2001, the United States Supreme Court decided three closely watched deportation cases by […]
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Legislative proposals to change state supreme court compositions gaining popularity The last decade has seen a dramatic uptick in legislative efforts to change the composition of state courts of last […]
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State high courts avoid tie votes in a variety of ways, some more juris-prudent than others. Justice Antonin Scalia’s passing portends a seismic realtering of the Supreme Court’s ideological balance. […]
From the Editor in Chief
The ability to pay court fines, including jail and prison fees, has remained an issue since Michigan first authorized the imposition of correctional fees in 1846.1 Today, many courts order […]
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by David F. Levi, Patricia Breckenridge, Nathan Hecht, Martin Hoshino, Mary McQueen and Maureen O'Connor
Winter 2016 | Volume 100 Number 4Duke Law Dean David F. Levi recently convened a roundtable discussion among leaders of a national task force that aims to study and address the courts’ role in the problems […]
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by Ed Spillane
Winter 2016 | Volume 100 Number 4Melissa J. Showed up in my court last year with four kids in tow. Her children quietly watched from a nearby table while I spoke with her. The charges against […]
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Limited jurisdiction courts are coming under new scrutiny and criticism amid calls for criminal justice reform. The Department of Justice’s report on police and court practices in the city of […]
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As scholars regularly document,1 states have frequently changed their systems of judicial selection and retention. What remains unknown is whether these systems actually address the kinds of qualities citizens value […]
