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First Amendment And Media Law Diversity Moot Court Competition, Roger Williams University School Of Law, Michelle Choate
First Amendment And Media Law Diversity Moot Court Competition, Roger Williams University School Of Law, Michelle Choate
School of Law Conferences, Lectures & Events
No abstract provided.
20th Annual Diversity Symposium Dinner 3-26-2024, Roger Williams University School Of Law
20th Annual Diversity Symposium Dinner 3-26-2024, Roger Williams University School Of Law
School of Law Conferences, Lectures & Events
No abstract provided.
2024 Hines Jurist In Residence Lecture:, Carla Wong Mcmillian
2024 Hines Jurist In Residence Lecture:, Carla Wong Mcmillian
Edenfield & Hines Jurists in Residence
The Hines Jurist in Residence Lecture was delivered by Georgia Supreme Court Justice Carla Wong McMillian (J.D. 98) who discussed her path to the bench. Her talk was titled "From China to Augusta to the Supreme Court".
Filling The Red State Federal Judicial Vacancies, Carl Tobias
Filling The Red State Federal Judicial Vacancies, Carl Tobias
Law Faculty Publications
District vacancies without nominees that plague red jurisdictions deserve emphasis in this Essay for several reasons. First, there are myriad district court jurists who trigger greater numbers of empty posts when they assume senior status, retire, or die, which triggers more issues. Legislators have created 677 active trial court positions, which dwarf the 179 active court of appeals judicial posts. The trial courts are tribunals of last resort for most cases; their numerous jurists are the only court members that many litigants encounter, and significantly more district court openings lack nominees. In contrast, appellate courts explicitly articulate considerable policy, include …
Can Judges Help Ease Mass Incarceration?, Jeffrey Bellin
Can Judges Help Ease Mass Incarceration?, Jeffrey Bellin
Faculty Publications
A scholar considers how judges have contributed to historically high incarceration rates -- and how they can help reverse the trend.
Justice William J. Brennan Jr.'S Teleological Jurisprudence And What It Means For Constitutional Interpretation Today, Susan D. Carle
Justice William J. Brennan Jr.'S Teleological Jurisprudence And What It Means For Constitutional Interpretation Today, Susan D. Carle
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
Observers commonly think of the Warren and Roberts Courts as polar opposites in their modes of constitutional interpretation. But how different are their approaches really? To be sure, the values that underlie the jurisprudence of the Warren and Roberts Courts are dramatically different, but their methodologies for constitutional adjudication are similar in a crucial respect: both Courts frequently employ a teleological approach. They look, in other words, to ends outside of the law to determine the direction in which constitutional law should be heading.
To prove this point, this Article examines the methods and values Justice William J. Brennan Jr. …
Sentencing In An Era Of Plea Bargains, Jeffrey Bellin, Jenia I. Turner
Sentencing In An Era Of Plea Bargains, Jeffrey Bellin, Jenia I. Turner
Faculty Publications
The literature offers inconsistent answers to a question that is foundational to criminal law: Who imposes sentences? Traditional narratives place sentencing responsibility in the hands of the judge. Yet, in a country where 95% of criminal convictions come from guilty pleas (not trials), modern American scholars center prosecutors—who control plea terms—as the deciders of punishment. This Article highlights and seeks to resolve the tension between these conflicting narratives by charting the pathways by which sentences are determined in a system dominated by plea bargains.
After reviewing the empirical literature on sentence variation, examining state and federal plea-bargaining rules and doctrines, …
2023 Women In Robes, Roger Williams University School Of Law
2023 Women In Robes, Roger Williams University School Of Law
School of Law Conferences, Lectures & Events
No abstract provided.
19th Annual Diversity Symposium Dinner 2023, Roger Williams University School Of Law
19th Annual Diversity Symposium Dinner 2023, Roger Williams University School Of Law
School of Law Conferences, Lectures & Events
No abstract provided.
2023 Hines Jurist In Residence Lecture: "Leadership In The 21st Century And Beyond: Where Are The Lawyers?", Verda Colvin
2023 Hines Jurist In Residence Lecture: "Leadership In The 21st Century And Beyond: Where Are The Lawyers?", Verda Colvin
Edenfield & Hines Jurists in Residence
The Hines Jurist in Residence Lecture was delivered by Georgia Supreme Court Justice Verda Colvin (J.D.'90). Her talk was titled "Leadership in the 21st Century and Beyond: Where are the lawyers?" As a School of Law graduate herself, Justice Colvin challenged our community to think nationally and globally about our place in our world as lawyers and our obligation to the greater good.
Jazz Improvisation And The Law: Constrained Choice, Sequence, And Strategic Movement Within Rules, William W. Buzbee
Jazz Improvisation And The Law: Constrained Choice, Sequence, And Strategic Movement Within Rules, William W. Buzbee
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
This Article argues that a richer understanding of the nature of law is possible through comparative, analogical examination of legal work and the art of jazz improvisation. This exploration illuminates a middle ground between rule of law aspirations emphasizing stability and determinate meanings and contrasting claims that the untenable alternative is pervasive discretionary or politicized law. In both the law and jazz improvisation settings, the work involves constraining rules, others’ unpredictable actions, and strategic choosing with attention to where a collective creation is going. One expects change and creativity in improvisation, but the many analogous characteristics of law illuminate why …
Confirm Julie Rikelman For The First Circuit, Carl Tobias
Confirm Julie Rikelman For The First Circuit, Carl Tobias
Law Faculty Publications
Now that the United States Senate has reconvened after pauses for holidays, the upper chamber must expeditiously appoint designee Julie Rikelman to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, which is the smallest, albeit critical, appellate court. The nominee, whom President Joe Biden tapped during late July 2022, would supply remarkable experiential, gender, and ideological diversity gleaned from pursuing much cutting-edge reproductive freedom litigation, which included arguing Dobbs before the Supreme Court that overturned Roe v. Wade. The nominee has definitely excelled in law’s highest echelon over twenty-plus years, most recently as the U.S. Litigation Director in the …
Confirm Judge Irma Carrillo Ramirez To The Fifth Circuit, Carl Tobias
Confirm Judge Irma Carrillo Ramirez To The Fifth Circuit, Carl Tobias
Law Faculty Publications
The United States Senate must expeditiously confirm United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas Magistrate Judge Irma Carrillo Ramirez, who has definitely earned appointment to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and will become the appellate court’s initial Latina member. This regional circuit effectively resolves substantial appeals, enjoys a large judicial complement, and certainly possesses a reputation as the nation’s most conservative appellate court. Ramirez, whom President Joe Biden nominated in mid-April, decidedly provides remarkable gender, experiential, ideological, and ethnic judicial diversity and has rigorously served as a Magistrate Judge and Assistant United …
Confirm Rachel Bloomekatz To The Sixth Circuit, Carl Tobias
Confirm Rachel Bloomekatz To The Sixth Circuit, Carl Tobias
Law Faculty Publications
Now that the United States Senate is convening after the July Fourth holiday, the upper chamber must promptly appoint Rachel Bloomekatz to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. The nominee, whom President Joe Biden selected in May 2022, provides remarkable experiential, gender, and ideological expertise that she deftly realized in litigating high-profile gun control, environmental, and other significant cases in federal appellate courts and district courts. Over fifteen years, the nominee has reached law’s pantheon across a broad spectrum from extremely prestigious clerkships with Justice Stephen Breyer and particularly distinguished federal court and state court jurists to …
Appoint Judge Ana De Alba To The Ninth Circuit, Carl Tobias
Appoint Judge Ana De Alba To The Ninth Circuit, Carl Tobias
Law Faculty Publications
The United States Senate must rapidly appoint Eastern District of California Judge Ana de Alba to the Ninth Circuit. This appellate tribunal is a preeminent regional circuit, which faces substantial appeals, has the largest complement of jurists, and clearly includes a massive geographic expanse. The nominee, whom President Joe Biden designated in spring 2023, would offer remarkable gender, experiential, ideological, and ethnic diversity realized primarily from serving productively with the California federal district, and state trial, courts after rigorously litigating for one decade in a highly regarded private law firm. For over fifteen years, she deftly excelled in law’s upper …
The New Laboratories Of Democracy, Gerald S. Dickinson
The New Laboratories Of Democracy, Gerald S. Dickinson
Articles
Nearly a century ago, Justice Louis D. Brandeis’s dissent in New State Ice Co. v. Liebman coined one of the most profound statements in American law: “It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” Justice Brandeis reminded us of our strong tradition of federalism, where the states, exercising their sovereign power, may choose to experiment with new legislation within their separate jurisdictions without the concern that such …
Judicial Ethics And Identity, Charles Gardner Geyh
Judicial Ethics And Identity, Charles Gardner Geyh
Articles by Maurer Faculty
This Article seeks to untangle a cluster of controversies and conundrums at the epicenter of the judiciary’s role in American government, where a judge’s identity as a person and role as a judge intersect. Part I synthesizes the traditional ethics schema, which proceeds from the premise that good judges decide cases on the basis of facts and law, unsullied by the extralegal influences of identity that make judges who they are as human beings. Part II discusses the empirical evidence, and the extent to which identity influences judicial decision- making in ways that contradict tenets of the traditional schema. Part …
Judicial Management Inside The Courts, Marin K. Levy
Judicial Management Inside The Courts, Marin K. Levy
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
The Failed Idea Of Judicial Restraint: A Brief Intellectual History, Susan D. Carle
The Failed Idea Of Judicial Restraint: A Brief Intellectual History, Susan D. Carle
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
This essay examines the intellectual history of the idea of judicial restraint, starting with the early debates among the US Constitution’s founding generation. In the late nineteenth century, law professor James Bradley Thayer championed the concept and passed it on to his students and others, including Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Learned Hand, Louis Brandeis, and Felix Frankfurter, who modified and applied it based on the jurisprudential preoccupations of a different era. In a masterful account, Brad Snyder examines Justice Frankfurter’s attempt to put the idea into practice. Although Frankfurter arguably made a mess of it, he passed the idea of …
Lawyerless Law Development, Colleen F. Shanahan, Jessica K. Steinberg, Alyx Mark, Anna E. Carpenter
Lawyerless Law Development, Colleen F. Shanahan, Jessica K. Steinberg, Alyx Mark, Anna E. Carpenter
Utah Law Faculty Scholarship
The typical American civil trial court is lawyerless. In response, access to justice reformers have embraced a key intervention: changing the judge’s traditional role. The prevailing vision for judicial role reform calls on trial judges to offer accommodation, information, and process simplification to people without legal representation.
Until now, scholars have known little about judicial behavior in lawyerless courts, including whether and how judges are implementing role reform recommendations. Our lack of knowledge stands in stark contrast to the responsibility civil trial judges bear—and the discretionary power they wield—in dispensing justice for millions of unrepresented people each year. While today’s …
Court Review: Journal Of The American Judges Association, Vol. 59, No. 3, Eve M. Brank, David Dreyer, David Prince
Court Review: Journal Of The American Judges Association, Vol. 59, No. 3, Eve M. Brank, David Dreyer, David Prince
Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association
Articles
Judicial Discipline, Examining Ethics Oversight for the Highest Levels of Our Least Accountable Branch; David Prince
Civil Cases in the Supreme Court’s October Term 2022; Thomas M. Fisher
Departments
Editor’s Note; David Dreyer
President’s Column: A Legacy of Leadership and Service; Yvette Mansfield Alexander
Thoughts from Canada: Uttering Threats in Canada and the United States, a Comparative Analysis; Wayne K. Gorman
Crossword: Name That Games; Tracy Bennett and Vic Fleming
The Resource Page: Junk Science and the Judicial System; The Elevator Effect; Mindfulness and Judging: Resources for Judges; New Online Database: Judges and the Judiciary: Exploring America's Court System; …
Court Review: Journal Of The American Judges Association, Vol. 59, No. 1, Eve M. Brank, David Dreyer, David Prince
Court Review: Journal Of The American Judges Association, Vol. 59, No. 1, Eve M. Brank, David Dreyer, David Prince
Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association
Articles
Being “Human” in the Age of Artificial Intelligence; Katherine B. Forrest
Ten Tips for Getting the Most Out of an Evaluation of Your ODR Program; Donna Shestowsky and Jennifer Shack
The Dilemma of Black Coding: Assessing Algorithmic Discrimination Legislation in the United States; Clarence Okoh
Securing the Integrity of Our Judicial System: Protecting Judges Beyond the Courthouse; Ron Zayas
Want to Know More About AI? Editors’ Selections: Judge ChatBot Answers All Your Questions; David J. Dreyer
Departments
Editor’s Note; David Dreyer
President’s Column: 2023--The Year of Excellence! Yvette Mansfield Alexander
Crossword: Anonymous Oft-Quoted Remark; Vic Fleming
Thoughts from Canada: …
Court Review: Journal Of The American Judges Association, Vol. 59, No. 2, Eve M. Brank, David Dreyer, David Prince
Court Review: Journal Of The American Judges Association, Vol. 59, No. 2, Eve M. Brank, David Dreyer, David Prince
Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association
Articles
Judicial Strategies for Evaluating the Validity of Guilty Pleas; Kelsey S. Henderson, Erika N. Fountain, Allison D. Redlich, and Jason A. Cantone
Courtroom Technology from the Judge’s Perspective: A 2022-23 Update; Fredric I. Lederer
The Science of Children’s Lies (and their Detection): A Primer for Justice Practitioners; Vincent Denault and Victoria Talwar
Jury Trial Innovation Round #2; Judge Gregory E. Mize
Departments
Editor’s Note; David Prince
President’s Column:2023, the Year of Excellence! Yvette Mansfield Alexander
Thoughts from Canada: The Supreme Court of Canada Considers How the “Plain View” Doctrine Applies to Searches of Electronic Devices; Wayne K. Gorman
Crossword:Employment …
2022 Esther Clark Moot Court Competition Finals, Roger Williams University School Of Law
2022 Esther Clark Moot Court Competition Finals, Roger Williams University School Of Law
School of Law Conferences, Lectures & Events
No abstract provided.
Circuit Personalities, Allison Orr Larsen, Neal Devins
Circuit Personalities, Allison Orr Larsen, Neal Devins
Faculty Publications
The U.S. Courts of Appeals do not behave as one; they have developed circuit-specific practices that are passed down from one generation of judges to the next. These different norms and traditions (some written down, others not) exist on a variety of levels: rules governing oral argument and the publishing of opinions, en banc practices, social customs, case discussion norms, law clerk dynamics, and even selfimposed circuit nicknames. In this Article, we describe these varying “circuit personalities” and then argue that they are necessary to the very survival of the federal courts of appeals. Circuit-specific norms and traditions foster collegiality …
Judges, Judging And Otherwise: Do We Ask Too Much Of State Court Judges - Or Not Enough?, Michael C. Pollack
Judges, Judging And Otherwise: Do We Ask Too Much Of State Court Judges - Or Not Enough?, Michael C. Pollack
Faculty Articles
Ask the average person to imagine what a judge does, and the answer will most likely be something right out of a courtroom from Law & Order — or Legally Blonde, Just Mercy, My Cousin Vinny, Kramer vs. Kramer, or any of the myriad law-themed movies and television shows. A judge is faced with a dispute brought by some parties and their lawyers and is charged with resolving it, whether it be a breach of contract, a tort action, a competing claim over property, a disagreement about the meaning of a statute, some accusation that someone …
Massachusetts Needs More Ex-Public Defenders As Judges, Sadiq Reza
Massachusetts Needs More Ex-Public Defenders As Judges, Sadiq Reza
Shorter Faculty Works
Four to one.
That is the ratio of former prosecutors to public defenders who sit on the seven-person Supreme Judicial Court, our highest state court.
On our 25-member Appeals Court, which sits one level below the SJC and is the final word in the vast majority of criminal cases, the count is worse: 16 to three. But two of those former public defenders also worked as prosecutors before reaching the bench; and two other appellate judges, while never formal prosecutors, worked in the Attorney General's Office (i.e., in other law enforcement roles).
This staggering imbalance of experience and outlook is …
Foreword, Stephen Wermiel
Foreword, Stephen Wermiel
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
It is an honor and a pleasure to help the American UniversityLegislationandPolicy Brief carry on its fine tradition of scholarly inquiry into important issues facing the nation, the legislatures and the public policy arena. AULPB is an important forum within WCL for student authors to examine cutting edge, timely issues. It is also a focal point, beyond the bounds of the WCL campus, for authors to consider a broad range of pressing issues that combine law and policy questions.
Law School News: Meet The Rbg Essay Contest Winners! 03-22-2022, Michael M. Bowden
Law School News: Meet The Rbg Essay Contest Winners! 03-22-2022, Michael M. Bowden
Life of the Law School (1993- )
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2022 Hines Jurist In Residence Lecture: Professionalism, Sarah Hawkins Warren
2022 Hines Jurist In Residence Lecture: Professionalism, Sarah Hawkins Warren
Edenfield & Hines Jurists in Residence
Justice Sarah Hawkins Warren served as the Hines Jurists in Residence in 2022, delivering a public lecture on professionalism in January. Extended biographical information on Justice Warren was provided prior to her public lecture thanks to the Georgia Supreme Court:
"Justice Sarah Hawkins Warren was appointed to the Supreme Court of Georgia by Governor Nathan Deal and was sworn in on September 17, 2018. She was re-elected statewide for a six-year term in 2020. Justice Warren previously served as Solicitor General for the State of Georgia under Attorney General Chris Carr.
Justice Warren earned a B.A. in Public Policy and …