Judging, Law & Culture
[I]t seems to me that temperament is the key to everything else that one does on the bench.1 Elusive as it is important, judicial temperament is notoriously hard to define.2 Judicial […]
Criminal Law
by Brandon Garrett and Sandra Guerra Thompson
Summer 2021 | Volume 105 Number 2Maranda ODonnell was driving to her mother’s house to pick up her four-year-old daughter when she was stopped by police and arrested for driving with a suspended license. As was […]
Criminal Law
by Brandon Garrett and Sandra Guerra Thompson
Summer 2021 | Volume 105 Number 2Maranda ODonnell was driving to her mother’s house to pick up her four-year-old daughter when she was stopped by police and arrested for driving with a suspended license. As was […]
International, Rule of Law
by David F. Levi, Dikgang Moseneke and Margaret H. Marshall
Summer 2021 | Volume 105 Number 2The Bolch Judicial Institute at Duke Law School honored the 2020 and 2021 recipients of the Bolch Prize for the Rule of Law during a virtual program hosted by PBS […]
Judging, Law & Technology
by Christopher Copp and Markus Kemmelmeier
Summer 2021 | Volume 105 Number 2Autonomous vehicles have long ignited the American imagination. Increasingly, they have caught the attention of lawyers and judges as well. The integration of autonomous vehicles (AVs) represents a startling shift […]
Judging
by Jeremy Fogel, D. Brooks Smith, Thelton Henderson and Dahlia Lithwick
Summer 2021 | Volume 105 Number 2In May, the Federal Judge Association hosted a panel that examined judicial independence on a micro level, discussing the individual process of judging, the values judges strive to embody, and […]
International, Rule of Law, Federal Courts
by David F. Levi, Suzanne Spaulding, Nathan Hecht, Allyson K. Duncan and Rodney Acker
Summer 2021 | Volume 105 Number 2Judicial Independence has so long been a pillar of American government that perhaps it was at one time taken for granted. The idea that politicians would intimidate judges, that judges […]
International
by Diane Wood, Chilton Varner and Douglas Young
Summer 2016 | Volume 100 Number 2INTRODUCTION1 This paper was originally presented at the United Kingdom-United States Legal Exchange in London, England, in September 2015. The Exchange, sponsored by the American College of Trial Lawyers, originated […]
Civil Law, Federal Courts
In April 2015, the American Law Institute published the Restatement of Employment Law, its first publication focusing on this area of law. The single volume consists of 550 pages and […]
Law & Culture, State Courts
by Huey Cotton
Summer 2016 | Volume 100 Number 2If you could see a dialogue bubble above the judge’s head showing what the judge is thinking while certain events unfold in the courtroom, you would be surprised at how […]
