Judging
Interest in changing or altering the selection of judges in the states has waxed and waned from year to year for decades. What makes the last five years remarkable, however, […]
Civil Law, Federal Courts
by Emery G. Lee III and Jason A. Cantone
Vol. 100 No. 1 (2016) | 100 Years of JudicatureIn November 2015, the Federal Judicial Center (FJC) reported to the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Civil Rules on a pilot project designed to streamline litigation by using pattern discovery […]
Law & Culture
by Cynthia Gray
Vol. 100 No. 1 (2016) | 100 Years of JudicatureThe requirement that a judge be “patient, dignified, and courteous to litigants, jurors, witnesses, lawyers, court staff, court officials, and othersā means more than eschewing angry interruptions, sarcasm, or name […]
Civil Law, Federal Courts
Center for Judicial Studies events help pave way for first majority-female steering committee MDLs are where the action is, and the PSC is where the litigation decisions are made for […]
Law & Culture
You get the call from the Chief Justice of the United States asking you to serve on the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules. Youāre honored. Moments after accepting, you ask […]
Law & Culture
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”Ā at the first National Conference of the Judiciary in 1971, it is safe to assume […]
Law & Culture
by Merritt McAlister and Katherine Mims Crocker
Vol. 105 No. 2 (2021) | Judicial IndependenceIn the spring 2021 edition ofĀ JudicatureĀ (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 […]
Judging, Technology
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
Editors Note: The following is an excerpt of an article that first appeared inĀ ABA Litigation, Vol. 38 No. 4 (2012). In it, Judge James G. Carr responded to major pleading […]
Judging, State Courts
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 inĀ The Strange Case of Dr. […]
