In Conversation
Court Administration, State Courts
Fixing Fees, Fines & Bail: Toward a Fairer System of Justice
by David F. Levi, Douglas Beach, Mark Martin, Scott Bales, Martin Hoshino, Mary McQueen, Judith Nakamura and Stuart Rabner
Vol. 103 No. 3 (2019) | Fees, Fines, and BailState Chief Justices and Court Administrators Discuss What’s Working — And What’s Not — As Courts Strive to Reform Fees, Fines, and Bail Practices Long ignored and highly localized, abusive […]
Rule of Law, State Courts, Federal Courts, Constitutional Law
51 Imperfect Solutions: State and Federal Judges Consider the Role of State Constitutions
by David F. Levi, Joan Larsen, Allison Eid, Goodwin Liu and Jeffrey S. Sutton
Vol. 103 No. 1 (2019) | Navigating Rough SeasJudge Jeffrey Sutton is one of our most respected and admired federal appellate judges. He has served on the Sixth Circuit, with chambers in Columbus, Ohio, since his appointment to […]
Rule of Law, Federal Courts, Constitutional Law
A Blinding, An Awakening, and a Journey Through Civil Rights History
Vol. 103 No. 2 (2019) | Pay NCAA athletes?Sergeant Isaac Woodard had just completed a three-year tour in a segregated unit of the United States Army. He boarded a Greyhound bus in Augusta, Ga., that would take him […]
Federal Courts
Precedent’s Unfulfilled Promise: Re-examining the Role of Stare Decisis
by Richard Re and Marin K. Levy
Vol. 103 No. 2 (2019) | Pay NCAA athletes?The importance of precedent seems obvious — after all, following precedent is itself precedential. But new cases and questions in front of the Supreme Court have fostered a deeper study […]
Civil Law, Law & Culture, Rule of Law
Roundtable: The State of the Judiciary
by David F. Levi, H. Jefferson Powell, Don R. Willett, Ernest A. Young, Margaret H. Lemos and Carolyn B. Kuhl
Vol. 101 No. 3 (2017) | Bold and Persistent ReformThese are interesting times for the judiciary. Tackling questions of judicial independence, the balance of powers, judicial selection methods, and more, a panel of Duke Law faculty and alumni judges […]