Book Review
Law & Culture, Criminal Law
Felon: A Poetic Travelogue of Post-Incarceration
Vol. 108 No. 3 (2025) | Problem-Solving CourtsReading Felon feels like witnessing a fountain pen bleed — its ink spreading indiscriminately, leaving indelible marks wherever it touches, yet there’s a haunting beauty in its uncontrolled flow. Reginald Dwayne Betts pens […]
Federal Courts
Thirteen Fiefdoms: Inside the United States Courts of Appeals
Vol. 108 No. 2 (2024) | Judges Under Siege?If asked, most people — even most lawyers — would probably say that the Supreme Court is the primary arbiter of legal questions in the United States. And in a […]
Global, Judging
Biblical Judgments: An Interview with Justice Daphne Barak-Erez of the Supreme Court of Israel
by David F. Levi and Daphne Barak-Erez
Vol. 108 No. 1 (2024) | Harnessing AI for JusticeWhat can Sodom and Gomorrah tell us about the tyranny of the majority? What can we learn about due process from King Solomon’s attempts to “split the baby”? And why does it matter that the only practicing judge in the Bible was a woman? […]
Judging
Judge Dorothy Wright Nelson’s Prescient, Bold Vision of Justice
Vol. 107 No. 2 (2023) | Generative AI in the CourtsI began reading this book because of the great respect, affection, and admiration I have for my esteemed colleague, the Honorable Dorothy Nelson, senior circuit judge, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. […]
Law & Culture, Federal Courts
The First Fifteen
by W K Hastings
Vol. 107 No. 1 (2023) | Toward Fairer, Quicker, Cheaper LitigationThis is a book written with generosity and bravery. It is generous in the sense that 15 Asian American women have decided to share their stories about how they became […]
Technology, Criminal Law
Is ‘Forensic Science’ A Misnomer?
Vol. 106 No. 3 (2023) | Forging New TrailsWith the exception of DNA analysis, a great deal of so-called “forensic science” — that is, the analysis of tool marks, bite marks, hair comparisons, fingerprints, blood spatters, arson patterns, and […]
Law & Culture, State Courts, Federal Courts
‘The People’ Have Decided
Vol. 106 No. 2 (2022) | Losing faith?There are many great judges. Only some have a major impact on our law — or even more rarely on our larger culture and society — and most of those […]
Global, Judging, Law & Culture
A Global Comparison of Judicial Discipline Mechanisms
Judicature International (2021-22) | An online-only publicationJudicial accountability is a sensitive topic because a disciplinary system may be subject to political pressure and can negatively impact judicial independence. Furthermore, because judiciaries in developed democracies tend to […]
Law & Culture, Criminal Law
Stopping the Presses: National Security Meets Freedom of Speech
Vol. 106 No. 1 (2022) | Necessarily EngagedThere are at least two points of consensus among those who study national security secrecy: First, the government must keep some secrets in order to protect national security. Second, a […]
Judging
A Judge’s Life
Vol. 99 No. 2 (2015) | The Mass-Tort MDL Vortex“Can one ever have his or her fill of Richard Posner?”1 The answer to this question, for many, is “No.” For those afflicted with “Posner-mania” — the incessant need to […]