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Introduction: The Hundred-Year Run Of Roscoe Pound, Randall T. Shepard
Introduction: The Hundred-Year Run Of Roscoe Pound, Randall T. Shepard
Indiana Law Journal
Conference of Chief Justices and Conference of State Court Administrators Annual Meeting July 29-August 2, 2006 Indianapolis, Indiana.
Rescuing Judicial Accountability From The Realm Of Political Rhetoric, Charles G. Geyh
Rescuing Judicial Accountability From The Realm Of Political Rhetoric, Charles G. Geyh
Articles by Maurer Faculty
The article examines the threat to judicial independence from political calls for more judicial accountability. The author begins by defining judicial accountability and discussing its purposes before breaking the concept down into three categories: institutional accountability, behavioral accountability, and decisional accountability. This process reveals that in the judicial accountability family, there is but one discrete sub-species, situated in the decisional accountability genus, that does not further accountability's proper purpose and is therefore conceptually problematic: direct political accountability for competent and honest judicial decision-making error that the politicians desire and a serious threat to judicial independence. The critical question becomes one …