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Court Administration, Law & Culture
Proposed Standards and Best Practices for Large and Mass-Tort MDLs
Vol. 102 No. 2 (2018) | Rights That Made The World RightThe 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 […]
State Courts
A Matter of Style: Perceptions of Chief Justice Leadership on State Supreme Courts With an Eye Toward Gendered Differences
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. […]
Judging, Criminal Law
Reentry philosophies, approaches, and challenges
Vol. 102 No. 2 (2018) | Rights That Made The World RightCompeting 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, […]
Rule of Law, State Courts
Change Agents: Looking to State Constitutions for Rights Innovations
Vol. 102 No. 2 (2018) | Rights That Made The World RightThe following is an excerpt from 51 Imperfect Solutions: States and the Making of American Constitutional Law (© 2018 by Jeffrey Sutton, published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.) […]
Rule of Law, Federal Courts, Constitutional Law
How Freed Slaves Extended the Reach of Federal Courts and Expanded our Understanding of the Fourteenth Amendment
Vol. 102 No. 2 (2018) | Rights That Made The World RightIn 1870, Maria Mitchell, an African American woman in Edgecombe County, North Carolina, did something that she could not have done when she was enslaved: She “talked for her rights.” […]
Law & Culture
Remembering Dr. King’s Last Legal Battle
by Sarah Smith
Vol. 102 No. 2 (2018) | Rights That Made The World RightDuring the first week of April this year, the city of Memphis, Tenn., commemorated the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., on the 50th anniversary of the […]
Civil Law, Law & Culture, Federal Courts
Equal Opportunity? Increasing Diversity in Complex Litigation Leadership
by Michael M. Baylson and Cecily Harris
Vol. 101 No. 4 (2017) | Equal opportunity?Does jurisprudence prohibit judges from considering diversity when appointing lawyers to lead roles in complex litigation? Here’s a legal strategy judges can use to help give women and minority lawyers […]
Judging
The Changing Science on Memory and Demeanor – and What It Means for Trial Judges
by Mark Bennett
Vol. 101 No. 4 (2017) | Equal opportunity?Unless my experience of trying hundreds of federal civil and criminal jury trials in five federal districts is idiosyncratic, in virtually every case, a verdict turns on the perceived accuracy […]
Law & Culture, Rule of Law
Speaking, Listening, and the Rule of Law: Free Speech on Campus
Vol. 101 No. 4 (2017) | Equal opportunity?A university is a very noisy place and by design. […] We revel in and celebrate the cacophony of many voices, and the collision of ideas and beliefs.
Law & Culture, Rule of Law, Federal Courts
A Brief Moment in the Sun: The Reconstruction-Era Courts of the Freedman’s Bureau
Vol. 101 No. 4 (2017) | Equal opportunity?When he was 16 years old during the summer of 1866, a recently freed slave named Alfred Jefferson rode his employer’s horse without permission. A local criminal judge in Bradford […]