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Civics Education
The Withering of Public Confidence in the Courts
by Shawn Patterson Jr., Matthew Levendusky, Ken Winneg and Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Vol. 108 No. 1 (2024) | Harnessing AI for JusticeNew research delves into potential causes and solutions for a worrisome decline in public faith in the courts.
Rule of Law
The 2024 Bolch Prize
by Paul W. Grimm, Scott O’Connor, John G. Roberts, Jr. and Lisa Kern Griffin
Vol. 108 No. 1 (2024) | Harnessing AI for JusticeAssociate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was celebrated as the 2024 recipient of the Bolch Prize for the Rule of Law during a private ceremony at Duke University in April. John […]
Global, Judging, Law & Culture
On Responsive Judging
Judicature International (2024) | An online-only publicationJudges are not constitutional theorists. Their role is a practical one: to provide impartial justice to parties in a particular case. […]
Court Administration, Global, Law & Culture, Rule of Law
In Conversation with Stephen Gageler, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia
by Stephen Gageler and David Collins
Judicature International (2024) | An online-only publicationChief Justice Gageler speaks about his role and potential solutions to a few complex — and often global — problems that face the Australian judiciary.
Federal Courts, Criminal Law
Can Judges Help Ease Mass Incarceration?
Vol. 107 No. 3 (2024) | JustitiaA scholar considers how judges have contributed to historically high incarceration rates — and how they can help reverse the trend. While the American criminal justice system was once known […]
Law & Culture
Free Speech on Campus: Examining the Campus Speech Debate Through a First Amendment Lens
by David F. Levi and Geoffrey R. Stone
Vol. 107 No. 3 (2024) | JustitiaPICTURED ABOVE: College students protest the Vietnam War at the University of Pennsylvania in the 1970s. (Classic Stock/Alamy stock Photo) Examining the campus speech debate through a First Amendment lens […]
Civil Law, Judging, Criminal Law
Invaluable Knowledge: How Trial Judge Experience Shapes Intermediate Appellate Review
Vol. 107 No. 3 (2024) | JustitiaImagine that you (a former civil trial judge) and your colleague (a former tax court judge) are on an appellate panel assigned to adjudicate two appeals. One is an appeal […]
Law & Culture
Redrafting All the Federal Court Rules: A 30-Year Odyssey
Vol. 107 No. 3 (2024) | JustitiaThe Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure of the Judicial Conference of the United States oversees the work of the five advisory committees that draft proposed new and […]
Rule of Law
An “Almost Sacred Responsibility”: The Rule of Law in Times of Peril
Vol. 107 No. 3 (2024) | JustitiaRetired Court of Appeals Judge Michael Luttig recently called his fellow members of the bar to action. “We lawyers,” he charged, “are weighted by an almost sacred responsibility” to defend […]
Global
Ukraine’s Supreme Court: Upholding Justice Amid War
by Olena Kibenko and Cristobal Diaz
Judicature International (2024) | An online-only publicationFebruary 24 marks two years since Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine, the largest attack on a European country since World War II. Despite frequent air alerts and missile attacks, Ukraine’s […]