State Courts
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Reclaiming the Role of Lawyers as Community Connectors
by David F. Levi, Abigail Frisch and Dana Remus
Vol. 103 No. 3 (2019) | Fees, Fines, and BailFor many years, there has been a serious debate about the legal profession’s exclusive role in the market for legal representation. The debate has focused on how that role factors […]
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The Process Due: The American Academy of Arts and Sciences offers a multidisciplinary examination of the devastating and persistent crisis in legal services
Vol. 103 No. 3 (2019) | Fees, Fines, and BailEarlier this year, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences dedicated an issue of Dædelus, its quarterly scholarly journal, entirely to the topic of “Access to Justice.” Fittingly, it was […]
In Conversation
Fixing Fees, Fines & Bail: Toward a Fairer System of Justice
by David F. Levi, Douglas Beach, Mark Martin, Scott Bales, Martin Hoshino, Mary McQueen, Judith Nakamura and Stuart Rabner
Vol. 103 No. 3 (2019) | Fees, Fines, and BailState Chief Justices and Court Administrators Discuss What’s Working — And What’s Not — As Courts Strive to Reform Fees, Fines, and Bail Practices Long ignored and highly localized, abusive […]
Perspective
To Pay or Not To Pay?
by Jay Bilas
Vol. 103 No. 3 (2019) | Fees, Fines, and BailAttorney, ESPN analyst, and former NCAA basketball player Jay Bilas weighs in on the debate over paying collegiate athletes The cover story of the summer 2019 edition of Judicature was, […]
The Storied Third Branch
Icon of the Bench and Gridiron: Kim Hammond, Judge, Seventh Judicial Court, Florida
Vol. 102 No. 1 (2018) | Forensic FailThe names of courthouses are not something that the average person would notice. They include the directional and mundane and, occasionally, the name of an important person in the eyes […]
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Access to Affordable Justice: A Challenge to the Bench, Bar, and Academy
Vol. 100 No. 3 (2016) | Who appointed me god?Most everyone agrees that in the American civil justice system many important legal rights go unvindicated, serious losses remain uncompensated, and those called on to defend their conduct are often […]
Judicial Honors
Judicial Honors
Vol. 103 No. 2 (2019) | Pay NCAA athletes?Nina Ashenafi-Richardson, a judge with the Leon County Court system in Florida and the first Ethiopian-born judge in the United States, received the Florida Bar’s 2019 Distinguished Judicial Service Award […]
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A Matter of Style: Perceptions of Chief Justice Leadership on State Supreme Courts With an Eye Toward Gendered Differences
by Charlie Hollis Whittington and Mikel Norris
Vol. 102 No. 2 (2018) | Rights That Made The World RightAlthough most research on court leadership still focuses on the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, researchers are increasingly interested in state supreme courts, and with good reason. […]
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State Judicial Selection: Reforms to Promote a Fair and Independent Judiciary
Vol. 103 No. 1 (2019) | Navigating Rough SeasLess than a generation ago, state supreme court elections were subdued affairs. Candidates — to the extent they actively campaigned at all — primarily discussed their qualifications and backgrounds. Political […]
Briefs
States Continue to Experiment with Partisan Judicial Elections
Vol. 103 No. 1 (2019) | Navigating Rough Seas2019 marks the fourth consecutive year of unusually high interest among the states in shifting from partisan to nonpartisan, or from nonpartisan to partisan, judicial elections. It began in 2015, […]