Judging, Law & Culture
Start with an innocuous example: men and women who are tall. Are you talking about all men or only those who are tall? That is, does the who-clause modify both nouns? There’s no […]
Technology, Criminal Law
Not long ago, “friend” was a noun, “yelp” meant a shrill bark, “twitter” referred to a chirp, a “tumbler” was a gymnast or a glass, and “facebook,” “youtube,” and “instagram” […]
Civil Law
by Scott Dodson
Vol. 99 No. 2 (2015) | The Mass-Tort MDL VortexCourts and parties undoubtedly are affected by the new pleading regime of twombly and Iqbal. But, as rational actors, they also are responsive to it. Their responsive behaviors both mitigate […]
Civil Law, Federal Courts
Over the past three decades three forces gained prominence in the narrative of the 1938 rules: the decline of trials with a companion embrace by bench and bar of arbitration and […]
Civil Law, Federal Courts
One of the more interesting cases I worked on as a young associate in the early 1980s involved george steinbrenner, the well-known owner of the New York Yankees. He had […]
Technology
by Zhiyu Li, Benjamin Chen and Shitong Qiao
Judicature International (2021-22) | An online-only publicationIn their article How Will Technology Change the Face of Chinese Justice? (Columbia Journal of Asian Law, 2020), Professor Zhiyu Li of Durham Law School and Professor Benjamin Chen of […]
International, Rule of Law
by Erik Voeten and Laurence R. Helfer
Vol. 106 No. 1 (2022), Judicature International (2021-22) | An online-only publicationIn Walking Back Human Rights in Europe? (published in the European Journal of International Law, Vol. 31 No. 3, 2020), scholars LAURENCE R. HELFER and ERIK VOETEN examined minority opinions of the European Court of Human Rights […]
State Courts
The Dynamic Effect of Contribution Limits and Direct Solicitation Rules on Individual Donations to State Supreme Court Campaigns Campaign finance is regulated up and down the ballot under the government’s […]
Civil Law, Federal Courts
by Elizabeth Burch and Stephen R. Bough
Vol. 106 No. 1 (2022) | Necessarily EngagedIn 2020, nearly one out of every two new suits filed in federal civil court was part of a multidistrict litigation (MDL). Initially designed to organize antitrust cases against electrical equipment manufacturers, […]
Civics Education, Law & Culture
Here are just a few of the many civics education resources mentioned in this edition of Judicature.
