Reseña:As a purely semantic matter, the question of how to categorize binding arbitration or other processes has little interest for this author and l...
In the lead-up to the 2008 presidential election, the American BarAssociation (ABA), among others, called upon the next president toreform the federal...
Although it has been suggested that“[o]nly mothers are divinely capable of judiciously using theappearance of impropriety to judge someone” and that “...
Reseña:This Article argues against the conventional wisdom aboutnonpartisan judicial elections. In contrast to the claims of policy advocatesand the s...
Reseña:Do legal institutions that limit governmental power promote order in democracies? Although the worldwide rule of law project predicates its ref...
Reseña:This teaching module was developed by the Federal Judicial Center to supportjudges and court staff who want to speak to various groups about th...
The rule of law provides two basic protections against arbitrary ordiscriminatory government action. It provides that the rule applied toa particular ...
Reseña:Because civil-law systems hire unproven jurists into career judiciaries, many maintainelaborate incentive structures to motivate their judges. ...
Reseña:The general objective of this dissertation can be stated in four steps: (1) To provide a precise definition of judicial independence; (2) to cr...
Reseña:Judicial independence has been a core politicalvalue in the United States since the founding ofthe republic. Alexander Hamilton, in urgingratif...
Efforts to reform judicial systems around the world have continued with unabated vigor for at least four decades. In the United States and in Europe s...
How ought a democracy select its judges? Critics in Canada, England, andWales invoke the democratic values of accountability and transparency to call ...
Reseña: In the following chapters, we examine successful judicial selection reform efforts in six states.The changes accomplished in these states repr...
We are pleased to present Justice in Focus: The Strategic Plan for California’s Judicial Branch,2006–2012. The strategic plan describes the long-range...
Reseña:Justice O'Connor could not have chosen a better theme for her public appearances as a retired Justice. There is no need to belabor the importan...
Reseña:... I explore the related question... of what alternative dispute resolution theorists need from a theory of justice. For the practice of alter...
Mediation is an art form, incorporating intuition, subtlety, and vision.Yet it is also a craft with transferable tools, definable tasks, andmanagement...
We study how campaign contributions aect the voting strategies and eectivenessof justices in the Supreme Court of eight US states. A judge's voting st...
Reseña:In the era of the 24-hour news cycle, reporters face unprecedented challenges. Particularlyfor journalists who cover government and political b...
The last twenty years in the UK have witnessed a radical transformation in relations between the public and the state with regard to criminal justice ...