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Protecting Fair and Impartial Courts: Reflections on Judicial Independence

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Vol. 104 No. 2 (2020) | Coping with COVID

I speak today about the importance of fair and impartial courts and the role of judicial independence in achieving that goal. I begin with two stories. Some years ago, my […]

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Experts in the Hot Tub at the Court of Arbitration for Sport

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Vol. 104 No. 2 (2020) | Coping with COVID

The Games of the XXXII Olympiad (Tokyo 2020) have been postponed to 2021 as a result of the novel coronavirus, but litigation at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) […]

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Better by the Dozen: Bringing Back the Twelve-Person Civil Jury

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Vol. 104 No. 2 (2020) | Coping with COVID

A jury of 12 resonates through the centuries. Twelve-person juries were a fixture from at least the 14th century until the 1970s. Over 600 years of history is a powerful […]

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Judicial Review & Parliamentary Supremacy

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Vol. 104 No. 1 (2020) | A Clearer View

The American version of judicial review stands alone — and almost never stood at all If Chief Justice John Marshall could have been transported on Dr. Who’s “Tardis” back to […]

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Communication Breakdown: How Courts Do — and Don’t — Respond to Statutory Overrides

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Vol. 104 No. 1 (2020) | A Clearer View

Courts and Congress are, at times, engaged in a kind of ongoing “conversation” about statutory law. Congress has exclusive power to enact statutes — but when statutory language is unclear, […]

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The Negotiation Class

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Vol. 104 No. 1 (2020) | A Clearer View

Growing dockets have long been the mother of judicial invention. In 1968, Congress created the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation and authorized it to create multidistrict litigations (or MDLs) to […]

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In Memoriam: Francis McGovern, Legal Innovator

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Vol. 104 No. 1 (2020) | A Clearer View

Duke Law Professor Francis E. McGovern, renowned for his expertise in alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and his innovative work as a special master and mediator overseeing or advising on the […]

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Sitting on the Bench: My Adventures in a Connecticut Court

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Vol. 104 No. 1 (2020) | A Clearer View

Fellow judges, I highly recommend keeping a diary of your daily adventures in the courthouse. It would be hard to make up stories that are better than the reality of […]

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Judging Eyewitness Evidence

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Vol. 104 No. 1 (2020) | A Clearer View

Eyewitness evidence, in which a witness visually identifies the culprit, is a staple of criminal investigations. But its fallibility is notorious. As the National Academy of Sciences explained in an […]

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Distinguishing Between Reliable and Unreliable Eyewitnesses

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Vol. 104 No. 1 (2020) | A Clearer View

Increasing research shows that eyewitness confidence at the time of the initial identification can be a strong predictor of accuracy under appropriate lineup identification conditions.1 In such conditions, police show […]

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