Recently added articles from Judicature:
An honor to follow in their footsteps
Sep 01, 2008; ... As I looked at the list of the elected leaders of AJS I reflected on the great talent and experience they have brought to this organization, and what a great responsibility and honor it is to try to follow in their footsteps. Most recently, Jack Tunheim gave us his steady thoughtful leadership ...
An impending crisis in state court funding
Sep 01, 2008; ... We need to begin a national discussion on how best to assure adequate and stable financing of courts, particularly in times of economic recession. Our state courts have made enormous strides in recent times to improve the delivery of prompt, affordable, fair, and effective results to a ...
How to enhance federal judicial compensation
Sep 01, 2008; ... A nationwide occupational tax on attorneys could be used to increase the pathetically low current compensation of federal judges Junior attorneys in many law firms today make more money than justices of the United States Supreme Court. The salary of a Supreme Court justice in 2007 was ...
How EMOTION affects the trial process
Sep 01, 2008; ... Our big eyed, beautiful Tracy is no longer with us. ... Oh God we miss her. I keep on reliving the last minutes of her beautiful life. We could not help her ... How much did our Tracy suffer? Our lives are destroyed by the loss ... our hearts went with her. . - Ligia Fein, Mother of Tracy ...
Peering behind the velvet curtain: Lessons from a year inside the federal courts
Sep 01, 2008; ... As Chief Justice John Roberts convened the September 2006 meeting of the Judicial Conference of the United States, I took a seat against the wall. The Chief Justice began his remarks by welcoming the distinguished body for its day of deliberations and thanking those who had arranged the meeting ....
What are we doing here? An analysis of juror orientation programs
Sep 01, 2008; ... Although the role of the jury has diminished over time in common law countries, it remains a central feature of the criminal justice system, particularly in serious cases. But the role of the jury is not limited to countries with a common law heritage. The use of lay decision makers is a feature ...
Are Court decisions consistent with public preferences?
Sep 01, 2008; ... Are Court decisions consistent with public preferences? by Herbert M. Kritzer Public Opinion and the Rehnquist Court, by Thomas R. Marshall. State University of New York Press. 2008. xii+269 pages. $85.00. In 1989 Thomas Marshall published Public Opinion and the Supreme Court. In ...
Survey of experienced litigators finds serious cracks in U.S. civil justice system
Sep 01, 2008; ... If the large number of anecdotes shared in law offices and court-house hallways are any indication, many in the U.S. legal community now fear that the nation's civil justice system has become increasingly disabled by disproportionate cost and delay, and that this dysfunction is impacting ...
Conference considers judicial reform
Sep 01, 2008; ... On April 8, 2008, judges, lawyers, business leaders, academics, and representatives of court reform organizations assembled at Fordham Law School to consider the most serious threats to judicial independence and discuss reforms to counter them. U.S. Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O'Connor ...
A pioneer's memoir
Sep 01, 2008; ... A pioneer's memoir by David H. Kaye Justice and Science: Trials and Triumphs of DNA Evidence, by George "Woody" Clarke. Rutgers University Press. 2008. 256 pages. $24.95. When judges and lawyers first heard about the "almost magical technique" of DNA profiling, they were stunned ....
Memo provides guidelines for judicial candidates in Midwest
Sep 01, 2008; ... The Midwest Democracy Network, an alliance of political reform networks in five Midwestern states, and the Justice at Stake Campaign, a nonpartisan national partnership that works to keep politics out of the courts, has issued a nine-page memo, mailed to judicial candidates in Illinois, ...
Reforming our broken system of justice
Sep 01, 2008; ... Reforming our broken system of justice by Walter B. Mead Adversarial justice: America's Court System on Trial, by Theodore L. Kubicek. Algora Publishing. 2006. 210 pages. $29.95 ($23.95 paper). Adversarial Justice: America's Court System on Trial, by Theodore (Ted) Kubicek, is a ...
Drug court expansion could save billions
Sep 01, 2008; ... Nearly three-fourths of arrestees in the criminal justice system could be helped, prisons could be unclogged, and recidivism could be reduced by one-third with drug treatment of criminal offenders through drug courts, says an Urban Institute study. The study found that nearly 1.5 million ...
"Best practices" for federal judicial selection
Jul 01, 2008; ... Good faith implementation of the ABA's Judicial Nomination Task Force recommendations would mitigate some of the worst excesses of the ideological battleground that has defined our federal judicial selection process for far too long. The upcoming presidential election has been ...
An extraordinary honor
Jul 01, 2008; ... It has been an extraordinary honor for me to serve this past year as President of the American Judicature Society. AJS is a truly exceptional organization of individuals who are passionate not only about making the American legal system more fair and just, but also about securing the judicial ...
Internet theft is avoidable
Jul 01, 2008; ... If the private sector cannot protect their sensitive information, citizens will turn to the courts. But internet theft easily can be avoided. The number of recent, major breaches of computer security is alarming. Despite all the publicity, the situation appears to be getting worse, not ...
INTRODUCTION: TAKING DISQUALIFICATION SERIOUSLY
Jul 01, 2008; ... Numerous news stories in the last several years have brought the importance of an impartial judiciary to the public's attention in a very vivid way. Most recently, for example, in the case against the Jena Six, one state judge found that the statements of another disqualified him from presiding ...
American Bar Association 2007 Model Code of Judicial Conduct
Jul 01, 2008; ... RULE 2.11 Disqualification (A) A judge shall disqualify himself or herself in any proceeding in which the judge's impartiality might reasonably be questioned, including but not limited to the following circumstances: (1) The judge has a personal bias or prejudice concerning a ...
TAKING DISQUALIFICATION SERIOUSLY
Jul 01, 2008; ... by the ABA JUDICIAL DISQUALIFICATION PROJECT In 2007, the American Bar Association's (ABA) Standing Committee on Judicial Independence(SCJI) received an Enterprise Fund Grant from the ABA to undertake a project on judicial disqualification. The resulting Judicial Disqualification Project ...
CURRENT DISQUALIFICATION ISSUES
Jul 01, 2008; ... An edited transcript of the American Judicature Society annual meeting program on August 10, 2007 Participants Sherri R. Carter, District Court Executive and Court Clerk, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Honorable Julie Conger, Superior Court of ...