Briefs
Judging, Rule of Law
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy Named Inaugural Recipient of the Bolch Prize for the Rule of Law
Vol. 103 No. 1 (2019) | Navigating Rough SeasThe Bolch Judicial Institute of Duke Law School will award the first annual Bolch Prize for the Rule of Law to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy (Retired) during a […]
Judging, Law & Culture
Law Review Examines the Judiciary with “A View from the Inside”
by Heather Cron
Vol. 103 No. 1 (2019) | Navigating Rough SeasThrough the Master of Judicial Studies degree program at Duke Law School, judges not only participate in rigorous courses taught by top legal scholars and professionals, but they also develop […]
State Courts
States Continue to Experiment with Partisan Judicial Elections
Vol. 103 No. 1 (2019) | Navigating Rough Seas2019 marks the fourth consecutive year of unusually high interest among the states in shifting from partisan to nonpartisan, or from nonpartisan to partisan, judicial elections. It began in 2015, […]
Court Administration, State Courts
The Disappearing Probate Court
Vol. 103 No. 2 (2019) | Pay NCAA athletes?In 1967, Maine voters amended the state constitution to authorize the elimination of the state’s county-controlled, county-operated, county-funded Probate Courts.[1] In 2019, the Maine legislature debated a “concept draft” enabling […]
Technology, State Courts, Federal Courts
Cell Phones in Court: Court cell phone policies attempt to balance risks with litigants’ needs
by William Raftery and Deborah W. Smith
Vol. 102 No. 3 (2018) | Crowdsourcing and Data AnalyticsA resolution adopted by the Conference of Chief Justices and Conference of State Court Administrators in August 2018 (Resolution 7) encourages courts to carefully review and assess their policies for […]
Technology
Direction for TAR: Guidance for cross-border data transfer under GDPR
by Rhys Dipshan
Vol. 101 No. 4 (2017) | Equal opportunity?EDRM, the organization that devised the widely used Electronic Discovery Reference Model, has strived to keep e-discovery practitioners up to date on the ever-evolving digital landscape. Its guidance and standards, […]
Technology
Direction for TAR: EDRM Duke Law sets sights on technology assisted review guidance
Vol. 101 No. 4 (2017) | Equal opportunity?An organization that develops models and standards for electronic discovery has set its sights on developing guidance on technology assisted review (TAR) – a process that involves using machine learning […]
Judging, State Courts
How State Courts are Preparing for Continuity in Disaster
Vol. 101 No. 4 (2017) | Equal opportunity?As hurricanes threatened the southern parts of the United States this summer and fall, state courts were confronted with the challenge of not just maintaining operations but also determining when […]
Technology
GDPR: The Next Y2K?
Vol. 101 No. 4 (2017) | Equal opportunity?On July 20, 1999, Congress enacted the “Y2K Act” (Pub. L. No. 106-37) to limit potential litigation caused by computer date-change problems brought on by the year 2000. Many feared […]