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Parliamentary Scrutiny Of Supreme Court Nominees: A View From The United Kingdom, Kate Malleson Jul 2006

Parliamentary Scrutiny Of Supreme Court Nominees: A View From The United Kingdom, Kate Malleson

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Taxation, Compensation, And Judicial Independence, Jonathan L. Entin, Erik M. Jensen Feb 2006

Taxation, Compensation, And Judicial Independence, Jonathan L. Entin, Erik M. Jensen

Faculty Publications

Article III of the Constitution seeks to protect judicial independence, partly through a guarantee of life tenure and partly through a clause that prohibits the diminution of judges' "compensation". The Compensation Clause does not address the subject of taxation, but it has always been understood to affect the federal government's taxing power. This article examines the framing of the Compensation Clause, some nineteenth-century detours that are inconsistent with the original understanding of the Clause, and the Supreme Court's jurisprudence on taxation of judges under the Clause. The article critically analyzes the Court's most recent case on the subject, United States …


Taxation, Compensation, And Judicial Independence: Hatter V. United States, Jonathan L. Entin, Erik M. Jensen Feb 2006

Taxation, Compensation, And Judicial Independence: Hatter V. United States, Jonathan L. Entin, Erik M. Jensen

Faculty Publications

Article III of the Constitution seeks to protect judicial independence, partly through a guarantee of life tenure and partly through a clause that prohibits the diminution of judges' "compensation". The Compensation Clause does not address the subject of taxation, but it has always been understood to affect the federal government's taxing power. This article examines the framing of the Compensation Clause, some nineteenth-century detours that are inconsistent with the original understanding of the Clause, and the Supreme Court's jurisprudence on taxation of judges under the Clause. The article critically analyzes the Court's most recent case on the subject, United States …


Introduction: The Hundred-Year Run Of Roscoe Pound, Randall T. Shepard Jan 2006

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.


The End Of Nonpartisan Judicial Elections And The Rise Of The Politiciary: The Eighth Circuit Strikes Down Judicial Campaign Regulations In Republican Party Of Minnesota V. White, Ross G. Currie Jan 2006

The End Of Nonpartisan Judicial Elections And The Rise Of The Politiciary: The Eighth Circuit Strikes Down Judicial Campaign Regulations In Republican Party Of Minnesota V. White, Ross G. Currie

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Rescuing Judicial Accountability From The Realm Of Political Rhetoric, Charles G. Geyh Jan 2006

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 …


Prosecuting Judges For Ethical Violations: Are Criminal Sanctions Constitutional And Prudent, Or Do They Constitute A Threat To Judicial Independence?, Abraham Abramovsky, Jonathan I. Edelstein Jan 2006

Prosecuting Judges For Ethical Violations: Are Criminal Sanctions Constitutional And Prudent, Or Do They Constitute A Threat To Judicial Independence?, Abraham Abramovsky, Jonathan I. Edelstein

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This Article examines the constitutional and practical issues surrounding the prosecutions of judges for ethical violations. The first part of this Article will focus on the Garson prosecution as an example of unwarranted prosecution of judges for violation of ethical codes. The second part examines cases elsewhere in the United States in which judges and other public officials have been prosecuted for violations of ethical codes. Finally, the third part discusses the threats to judicial independence that exist even under the current American legal Framework, as well as the growing tendency to blur the line between civil and criminal liability. …