Federal Courts
by David W. Ichel, Amy St. Eve, John H. Beisner, Ernest J. Getto, Samuel Issacharoff and Christopher A. Seeger
Fall 2019 | Volume 103 Number 3Third-party litigation finance has captured the attention of litigants, the courts, and the academy across the globe. It has the potential to substantially impact civil litigation as we know it […]
Rule of Law, State Courts
When Justice Ann A. Scott Timmer was given the opportunity to write on a topic of her choosing as part of Duke Law’s Master of Judicial Studies program, she gravitated […]
Court Administration, Federal Courts
Recently an esteemed member of the bar died. In closing out the lawyer’s laptop, a legal assistant discovered a trove of emails the lawyer had composed and addressed to a […]
Court Administration, State Courts
by Nathan Hecht
Fall 2019 | Volume 103 Number 3The television drama The Twilight Zone portrayed characters in disturbing situations set in the murky area between reality and the dark unknown. Most episodes had a moral. Here’s my thought for […]
Court Administration, State Courts
In no profession is the gulf greater between ideals and practices than it is for lawyers. Ideally, justice is a universal good: the law protects equally the rights of the […]
Federal Courts, Constitutional Law
by Joseph Blocher and Darrell A.H. Miller
Fall 2019 | Volume 103 Number 3Second Amendment scholars discuss the late Justice John Paul Stevens’s contributions to one of the nation’s thorniest debates During his 34 years on the Supreme Court, Justice John Paul Stevens […]
State Courts, Federal Courts
Most everyone agrees that in the American civil justice system many important legal rights go unvindicated, serious losses remain uncompensated, and those called on to defend their conduct are often […]
Judging, Criminal Law
Competing notions of crime and punishment have shaped the administration of criminal justice in the United States ever since the Quakers established the Walnut Street Prison in 1773 in Philadelphia, […]
State Courts
by Mikel Norris and Charlie Hollis Whittington
Summer 2018 | Volume 102 Number 2Although most research on court leadership still focuses on the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, researchers are increasingly interested in state supreme courts, and with good reason. […]
Law & Technology
by Jeff Ward
Spring 2019 | Volume 103 Number 1With recent and dramatic advances in the capacities of machine learning, we are now beginning to see artificial intelligence (AI) tools come into their own. This matters for our judiciary, not […]
