A Finer Point

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Typography for Judges

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Vol. 104 No. 2 (2020) | Coping with COVID

Not so long ago, the prevailing standard for typography in opinions and briefs was atrocious. The entire profession seemed to believe that the way to make a document look lawyerly […]

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Courts Must Lead in the Crisis of Addiction

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Vol. 104 No. 1 (2020) | A Clearer View

Last year, more Americans died of opioid overdoses than of many cancers, gunshot wounds, or even car crashes. In fact, by at least one metric, the epidemic is more dire […]

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Shattering Glass Ceilings from the Bench

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Vol. 103 No. 3 (2019) | Fees, Fines, and Bail

Federal Judge Sylvia Rambo first thought of a legal career in the 1940s when her school bus drove by a local law school in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. “It was like a […]

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The Public Domain: A Grand Reopening

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Vol. 103 No. 1 (2019) | Navigating Rough Seas

In 2019, for the first time in 20 years, a trove of creative works published in 1923 entered the U.S. public domain. Why the hiatus? These works were set to […]

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