Perspective
State Courts
Bringing Home the Bill of Rights
Vol. 108 No. 1 (2024) | Harnessing AI for JusticeI am honored to be the 30th chief justice of the state of North Carolina and to have served on my state’s highest court since 2004. I’ve also practiced law, […]
Judging, Law & Culture
Neutrality Can Be Maddening to the Public. And to Judges, Too.
Vol. 107 No. 2 (2023) | Generative AI in the CourtsThose drawn to careers in law often want to save the world. When we decided on law school, we hoped to wield the armor and lance of the law to ensure civil rights, make people whole, and do justice. Some of us became judges, many accepting a reduction in salary to do public service. […]
Court Administration, Technology
Cameras Belong in the Supreme Court
by Eric J. Segall and Erwin Chemerinsky
Vol. 101 No. 2 (2017) | Can science save justice?On Jan. 24, 2017, the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court issued its monumental decision concerning the fate of Brexit, a legal ruling with major implications for the people of England, Europe, […]
International
Criticism of the Judiciary: The Virtue of Moderation
Vol. 101 No. 2 (2017) | Can science save justice?Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi once described the judiciary as the “cancer of democracy.” This presumably had much to do with his personal situation of being accused several times […]
Law & Culture
How Lockhart Really Should Have Been Decided: Canons of Construction Are Key
Vol. 102 No. 1 (2018) | Forensic FailIn the winter 2017 issue of this journal, my friend and colleague Professor Joseph Kimble undertook an interesting exercise: rewriting the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Lockhart v. United States1 […]
State Courts, Federal Courts
To Pay or Not To Pay?
by Jay Bilas
Vol. 103 No. 3 (2019) | Fees, Fines, and BailAttorney, ESPN analyst, and former NCAA basketball player Jay Bilas weighs in on the debate over paying collegiate athletes The cover story of the summer 2019 edition of Judicature was, […]
Court Administration, Judging, Law & Culture
Reflections on a Reentry Court
by Jeffrey Alker Meyer and Carly Levenson
Vol. 102 No. 2 (2018) | Rights That Made The World RightKevin hesitates in the doorway before entering Courtroom 3. When Kevin was 26, he was tried and sentenced in this courtroom. The judge who presided over his trial and sentencing […]
Judging, Federal Courts
A(nother) New Plan for Clerkship Hiring
by Diane P. Wood and Aaron Nielson
Vol. 102 No. 2 (2018) | Rights That Made The World RightOn February 28, 2018, an unofficial ad-hoc committee of federal judges announced a new version of a law clerk hiring plan, a revision of an earlier system that was tried […]
Judging
Not So Fast: A Response to the Garner Response to My Article on Lockhart
Vol. 102 No. 2 (2018) | Rights That Made The World RightIn the Spring 2018 edition of Judicature, Bryan Garner, an old friend, responded to my article in the previous issue,[1] an article that took the form of a mock opinion […]
Technology
Why Can’t I Just Review it in Outlook?
by Margaret Wolf and George Socha
Vol. 102 No. 1 (2018) | Forensic FailEmail is pervasive in discovery. But using familiar tools for document review is a bad idea. Here’s why. Even in the smallest cases these days, electronic data — especially email […]