Feature
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 […]
Judging
Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and the “Freshman Effect”
by John M. Scheb, II and Lee W. Ailshie
Select Articles (Pre-2015) | Volumes 1-98Contrary to expectations, the newest justice quickly adapted to her environment and almost immediately began participating fully in the work of the Court.