International, Judging
The process of judicial selection varies dramatically across the globe. Even countries with similar legal structures and systems might select judges in different ways. And while most scholars agree that […]
Civil Law
by Marin K. Levy, Zachary Clopton, Mila Sohoni and Kevin Clermont
Fall/Winter 2021-22 | Volume 105 Number 3When can a plaintiff sue in their home state? The answer to that question was once answered fairly simply in a single first-year law class. But over the past decade, […]
Judging, Law & Culture
by Robert J. Conrad Jr. and Justine Parry Welch
Fall/Winter 2021-22 | Volume 105 Number 3Courthouses serve as monuments to our legal tradition, so a willingness to reconsider design assumptions is essential to the continuing vitality of jury trials.
Law & Culture, State Courts
Click here to download this article’s accompanying appendix. The increase in partisan polarization in the United States over the last several decades is evident in a variety of ways: in roll-call […]
Federal Courts
The Different and Sometimes Convoluted Ways that Congress Granted Circuit Court Trial Jurisdiction to the 19th-Century Federal District Courts Doing research for a book on the history of the federal […]
International, Global, Criminal Law
Justice Jackson’s post-Nuremberg legacy — his “dispassionate approach” to criminal procedure — continues to shape modern Fourth Amendment jurisprudence.
International, Criminal Law
by Michael P. Scharf and Benjamin Ferencz
Fall/Winter 2021-22 | Volume 105 Number 3During the Nuremberg Trials, Ferencz served as a principal trial lawyer for the U.S., working under chief prosecutors Justice Robert Jackson and Telford Taylor.
International, Rule of Law
The current rule of law crisis has roots in Afghanistan’s 2004 constitution, which created a flawed separation of powers system.
International
by David F. Levi, Allyson K. Duncan, Tayeba Parsa, Zohal Noori Rahiq, Susan Glazebrook, Helena Kennedy, Patricia Whalen, David Rivkin and Mark Ellis
Judicature International, Fall/Winter 2021-22 | Volume 105 Number 3International organizations are working to evacuate Afghan women judges, who face particular peril under Taliban rule.
Criminal Law
by Richard Seltzer, Russell F. Canan, Molly Cannon and Heidi L. Hansberry
Spring 2016 | Volume 100 Number 1Just after midnight on a warm summer night, a Caucasian woman was walking alone on the streets of Washington, D.C. All of a sudden, three young men she had never […]
