Court Administration, Technology
by Erwin Chemerinsky and Eric J. Segall
Summer 2017 | Volume 101 Number 2On 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
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi once described the judiciary as the “cancer of democracy.”1 This presumably had much to do with his personal situation of being accused several times […]
Law & Culture
In 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
by Jay Bilas
Fall 2019 | Volume 103 Number 3Attorney, 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
by Jeffrey Alker Meyer and Carly Levenson
Summer 2018 | Volume 102 Number 2Kevin 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
by Diane P. Wood and Aaron Nielson
Summer 2018 | Volume 102 Number 2On 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
In 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
by George Socha and Margaret Wolf
Spring 2018 | Volume 102 Number 1Email 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 […]
Court Administration, State Courts, Federal Courts
by Gregg Costa
Fall/Winter 2018 | Volume 102 Number 3There can be too much of a good thing. We know that’s true for food and drink, but we haven’t yet realized it’s also true for judicial clerkships. There has […]
Law & Culture, Technology, Federal Courts
The Supreme Court’s October Term 2016 was unusual because from the first Monday in October until the April argument calendar, there were only eight justices on the bench. This affected […]
