Briefs
Law & Culture
As I See It: Summer 2016
Vol. 100 No. 2 (2016) | A Judge in Public LifeYou get the call from the Chief Justice of the United States asking you to serve on the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules. You’re honored. Moments after accepting, you ask […]
Law & Culture
The Clerkship Academia Continuum
by Merritt McAlister and Katherine Mims Crocker
Vol. 105 No. 2 (2021) | Judicial IndependenceIn the spring 2021 edition of Judicature (Vol. 105 No. 1), Florida International University Law Professor Howard Wasserman published data analyzing the number of current law professors who have served in clerkships […]
Law & Culture
The NCSC marks 50 years of service to state courts
by Jesse Rutledge and Charles F. Campbell
Vol. 105 No. 2 (2021) | Judicial IndependenceWhen Chief Justice Warren Burger called for the creation of “A National Center for State Courts” at the first National Conference of the Judiciary in 1971, it is safe to assume […]
Judging, Technology
The Troubles of the Social Judge
by Cynthia Gray
Vol. 100 No. 2 (2016) | A Judge in Public LifeAt the end of 2015, two states became the first jurisdictions to add explicit references to social media to their codes of judicial conduct. In a new code effective Dec. […]
Federal Courts
Fixing Discovery: The Judge’s Job
Vol. 100 No. 3 (2016) | Who appointed me god?Editors Note: The following is an excerpt of an article that first appeared in ABA Litigation, Vol. 38 No. 4 (2012). In it, Judge James G. Carr responded to major pleading […]
Judging, State Courts
Crossing the line? Recent ethics cases show that the line between personal and judicial conduct can be blurred
by Cynthia Gray
Vol. 100 No. 3 (2016) | Who appointed me god?Not 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. […]
State Courts
Up, Down, All Around
Vol. 100 No. 3 (2016) | Who appointed me god?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 […]
Judging
When to Disqualify?
by Cynthia Gray
Vol. 100 No. 4 (2016) | Steady As She GoesSupreme Court pushes states to develop – and use – clearer recusal procedures THE U.S. SUPREME COURT’S 2009 DECISION IN CAPERTON V. A.T. MASSEY COAL CO., 556 U.S. 868 (2009) WAS […]
Court Administration, State Courts
How the States Avoid Supreme Stalemates
Vol. 100 No. 4 (2016) | Steady As She GoesState 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. […]
State Courts
Disorder in the Courts: The varied ways states establish and oversee courts presents challenges for reform
Vol. 100 No. 4 (2016) | Steady As She GoesLimited 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 […]