Briefs

A Milestone for Diversity in MDL
Vol. 100 No. 1 (2016) | 100 Years of JudicatureCenter 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 […]

The 2022 Bolch Prize: J. Clifford Wallace
Vol. 105 No. 3 (2021) | Leaving AfghanistanChief Judge Emeritus J. Clifford Wallace of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has been selected to receive the 2022 Bolch Prize for the Rule of Law. […]

Judicature goes global
Vol. 105 No. 3 (2021) | Leaving AfghanistanJudicature has launched an international edition online for judges around the world. Judicature International, at judicature.duke.edu/intl, will publish commentary, scholarship, empirical research, opinion, and other content exploring issues of common concern to […]

Pandemic Spurs Technology Revolution in State Civil Courts
by Qudsiya Naqui and Erika Rickard
Vol. 105 No. 3 (2021) | Leaving AfghanistanWith courthouses shuttered by COVID-19, civil legal systems in nearly every state moved quickly to adopt new tools to support online operation — a decisive response that enabled millions of […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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. […]