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Taking Center Stage: The Virginia Revival Model Courtroom

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Vol. 105 No. 3 (2021) | Leaving Afghanistan

Courthouses serve as monuments to our legal tradition, so a willingness to reconsider design assumptions is essential to the continuing vitality of jury trials.

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Polarization and Partisanship in State Supreme Court Elections

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Vol. 105 No. 3 (2021) | Leaving Afghanistan

Click here to download this article’s accompanying appendix. The increase in partisan polarization in the United States over the last several decades is evident in a variety of ways: in roll-call […]

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A Statutory Oddity

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Vol. 105 No. 3 (2021) | Leaving Afghanistan

The Different and Sometimes Convoluted Ways that Congress Granted Circuit Court Trial Jurisdiction to the 19th-Century Federal District Courts Doing research for a book on the history of the federal […]

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Justice Jackson’s Persistent Post-Nuremberg Legacy

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Vol. 105 No. 3 (2021) | Leaving Afghanistan

Justice Jackson’s post-Nuremberg legacy — his “dispassionate approach” to criminal procedure — continues to shape modern Fourth Amendment jurisprudence.

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Last living Nuremberg Trial prosecutor recalls his work on the Einsatzgruppen Trial

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Vol. 105 No. 3 (2021) | Leaving Afghanistan

During the Nuremberg Trials, Ferencz served as a principal trial lawyer for the U.S., working under chief prosecutors Justice Robert Jackson and Telford Taylor.

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The Judiciary and the Rule of Law in Afghanistan

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Judicature International (2021-22), Vol. 105 No. 3 (2021) | Leaving Afghanistan

The current rule of law crisis has roots in Afghanistan’s 2004 constitution, which created a flawed separation of powers system.

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Leaving Afghanistan

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Judicature International (2021-22), Vol. 105 No. 3 (2021) | Leaving Afghanistan

International organizations are working to evacuate Afghan women judges, who face particular peril under Taliban rule.

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Legal Standards By The Numbers

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Vol. 100 No. 1 (2016) | 100 Years of Judicature

Just after midnight on a warm summer night, a Caucasian woman was walking alone on the streets of Washington, D.C. All of a sudden, three young men she had never […]

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Independent Spending in State Supreme Court Elections After Citizens United

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Vol. 100 No. 1 (2016) | 100 Years of Judicature

In January 2010, the United States Supreme Court ruled that bans on independent expenditures by labor unions and corporations violated the First Amendment’s guarantee of free expression. Given the polarizing […]

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The Decline in Federal Civil Trials: An Imagined Conversation

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Vol. 100 No. 1 (2016) | 100 Years of Judicature

[The Scene] The first conversation takes place in the chambers of Federal District Judge Nielsen Prius. Prius enters chambers from the courtroom door behind his desk, doffs his black robe, […]

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