Court Administration, Law & Culture
The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation issued an order on Dec. 12, 2017, centralizing 46 pending actions alleging improper marketing of and inappropriate distribution of various prescription opiate medications into […]
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 Charlie Hollis Whittington and Mikel Norris
Vol. 102 No. 2 (2018) | Rights That Made The World RightAlthough 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. […]
Rule of Law, Constitutional Law
by David F. Levi, Samuel A. Alito, Anthony M. Kennedy and Allyson K. Duncan
Vol. 103 No. 2 (2019) | Pay NCAA athletes?Excerpts from the 2019 Bolch Prize for the Rule of Law ceremony On April 11, 2019, the Bolch Judicial Institute presented its inaugural Bolch Prize for the Rule of Law […]
Technology
Carpenter v. United States, decided by the Supreme Court in June 2018, is one of the most important decisions applying the Fourth Amendment to the technology of the 21st century.[1] […]
Technology
by Jeff Ward
Vol. 103 No. 1 (2019) | Navigating Rough SeasWith 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 […]
Law & Culture, State Courts
Less than a generation ago, state supreme court elections were subdued affairs. Candidates — to the extent they actively campaigned at all — primarily discussed their qualifications and backgrounds. Political […]
Federal Courts
How will recent Supreme Court decisions on personal jurisdiction impact the legacy of International Shoe and the future of complex litigation? In just a few years, the Supreme Court has […]
Technology, Federal Courts
by Michael M. Baylson and Sandra Jeskie
Vol. 103 No. 1 (2019) | Navigating Rough SeasAn article published in the Winter 2016 edition of Judicature provided an overview of case law and approaches for handling cross-border discovery in litigation. Since then, there have been some […]
Court Administration, Federal Courts, Criminal Law
Criminal trials have virtually disappeared in many federal courtrooms. According to a recent U.S. Sentencing Commission report, “[i]n recent years, 97 percent of federal defendants convicted of a felony or […]
