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Full-Text Articles in Judges
Defining Dicta, Michael Abramowicz, Maxwell Stearns
Defining Dicta, Michael Abramowicz, Maxwell Stearns
George Mason University School of Law Working Papers Series
In recent decades, legal scholars have devoted substantially greater attention to studying the origin and nature of stare decisis than to defining the distinction between holding and dicta. This appears counter-intuitive when one considers, first, that stare decisis applies only to holdings of announced precedents, and second, that beyond problematic and rudimentary intuitions, the legal system has failed to develop meaningful definitions of these terms. While lawyers, legal scholars, and jurists likely assume that they can identify dicta when they see it, a careful analysis that categorizes the range of judicial assertions in need of proper characterization reveals that defining …
Foreseeing Greatness? Measurable Performance Criteria And The Selection Of Supreme Court Justices, James J. Brudney
Foreseeing Greatness? Measurable Performance Criteria And The Selection Of Supreme Court Justices, James J. Brudney
The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law Working Paper Series
This article contributes to an ongoing debate about the feasibility and desireability of measuring the "merit" of appellate judges--and their consequent Supreme Court potential--by using objective performance variables. Relying on the provocative and controversial "tournament criteria" proposed by Professors Stephen Choi and Mitu Gulati in two recent articles, Brudney assesses the "Supreme Court potential" of Warren Burger and Harry Blackmun based on their appellate court records. He finds that Burger's appellate performance appears more promising under the Choi and Gulati criteria, but then demonstrates how little guidance these quantitative assessments actually provide when reviewing the two men's careers on the …
The Function Of The Supreme People’S Court Of Regulating Economy——Re-Evaluation Of The Zhongfu Industry Guarantee Case(最高法院规制经济的功能──再评“中福实业公司担保案”), Meng Hou
Hou Meng
No abstract provided.
How The Supreme Court Regulates Economy: Review On Exterior Coordination Cost(最高人民法院如何规制经济──外部协调成本的考察), Meng Hou
Hou Meng
No abstract provided.
Advanced Judicial Opinion Writing, Gerald Lebovits
Advanced Judicial Opinion Writing, Gerald Lebovits
Hon. Gerald Lebovits
No abstract provided.
Reconsider Old Taboo, Scott Dodson
Reconsider Old Taboo, Scott Dodson
Popular Media
The recent cries of judicial activism need to be scrutinized. Are decisions like Lawrence and Goodrich really activist and, if so, is that even something to be discouraged? In this op-ed, I look closely at the "activism" of these decisions and conclude that there is nothing inherently activist about them. I also conclude that, even if there is, activism is defensible in certain cases when it returns to the people the power to exercise their own individual liberties.
Family And Juvenile Law, Robert E. Shepherd Jr.
Family And Juvenile Law, Robert E. Shepherd Jr.
University of Richmond Law Review
No abstract provided.
My First Appellate Argument: It Can Only Get Better, Jon O. Newman
My First Appellate Argument: It Can Only Get Better, Jon O. Newman
The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process
No abstract provided.
Getting To Know Us: Judicial Outreach In Oregon, Mary J. Deits, Lora E. Keenan
Getting To Know Us: Judicial Outreach In Oregon, Mary J. Deits, Lora E. Keenan
The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process
No abstract provided.
The Illusion Of Devil's Advocacy: How The Justices Of The Supreme Court Foreshadow Their Decisions During Oral Argument, Sarah Levien Shullman
The Illusion Of Devil's Advocacy: How The Justices Of The Supreme Court Foreshadow Their Decisions During Oral Argument, Sarah Levien Shullman
The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process
No abstract provided.
Historical Links: The Remarkable Legacy And Legal Journey Of The Honorable Julia Cooper Mack, Inez Smith Reid
Historical Links: The Remarkable Legacy And Legal Journey Of The Honorable Julia Cooper Mack, Inez Smith Reid
University of the District of Columbia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Judges As Rulemakers, Larry A. Alexander, Emily Sherwin
Judges As Rulemakers, Larry A. Alexander, Emily Sherwin
University of San Diego Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper Series
This essay analyzes and compares different approaches to the problem of legal precedent. If judges reasoned flawlessly, the ideal approach to precedent would give prior judicial opinions only the weight they naturally carry in moral reasoning. Given that judges are not perfect reasoners, the best approach to precedent is one that treats rules established in prior decisions as authoritative for later judges. In comparison to the natural model of precedent, a rule-based model minimizes error. A rule-based model is also superior to several popular attempts at compromise, which call on judges to reason from the results of prior cases or …
Strategic Judicial Lawmaking: An Empirical Investigation Of Ideology And Publication On The U.S. Court Of Appeals For The Ninth Circuit, David S. Law
University of San Diego Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper Series
Previous studies have demonstrated that, in a number of contexts, federal appeals court judges divide along ideological lines when deciding cases upon the merits. To date, however, researchers have failed to find evidence that circuit judges take advantage of selective publication rules to further their ideological preferences - for example, by voting more ideologically in published cases that have precedential effect than in unpublished cases that lack binding effect upon future panels. This article evaluates the possibility that judges engage in strategic judicial lawmaking by voting more ideologically in published cases than in unpublished cases. To test this hypothesis, all …
Supermajority Rules And The Judicial Confirmation Process, Michael B. Rappaport, John O. Mcginnis
Supermajority Rules And The Judicial Confirmation Process, Michael B. Rappaport, John O. Mcginnis
University of San Diego Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper Series
In this paper we assess the effect of possible supermajority rules on the now contentious Senate confirmation process for judges. We deploy a formula for evaluating supermajority rules that we have developed in other papers. First, we consider a sixty-vote rule in the Senate for the confirmation of federal judges–an explicit version of the supermajority norm that may be emerging from the filibuster. While we briefly discuss how such a rule would affect the project of maximizing the number of originalist judges, for the most part we evaluate the rule on the realist assumption that judges will pursue their own …
Appointing Federal Judges: The President, The Senate, And The Prisoner's Dilemma, David S. Law
Appointing Federal Judges: The President, The Senate, And The Prisoner's Dilemma, David S. Law
University of San Diego Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper Series
This paper argues that the expansion of the White House's role in judicial appointments since the late 1970s, at the expense of the Senate, has contributed to heightened levels of ideological conflict and gridlock over the appointment of federal appeals court judges, by making a cooperative equilibrium difficult to sustain. Presidents have greater electoral incentive to behave ideologically, and less incentive to cooperate with other players in the appointments process, than do senators, who are disciplined to a greater extent in their dealings with each other by the prospect of retaliation over repeat play. The possibility of divided government exacerbates …
A Tournament Of Virtue, Lawrence B. Solum
A Tournament Of Virtue, Lawrence B. Solum
University of San Diego Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper Series
How ought we to select judges? One possibility is that each of us should campaign for the selection of judges who will transform our own values and interests into law. An alternative is to select judges for their possession of the judicial virtues - intelligence, wisdom, courage, and justice. Stephen Choi and Mitu Gulati reject both these options and argue instead for a tournament of judges - the selection of judges on the basis of measurable, objective criteria, which they claim point toward merit and away from patronage and politics. Choi and Gulati have gotten something exactly right: judges should …
Judicial Elections In West Virginia: By The People, For The People Or By The Powerful, For The Powerful - A Choice Must Be Made, Brian P. Anderson
Judicial Elections In West Virginia: By The People, For The People Or By The Powerful, For The Powerful - A Choice Must Be Made, Brian P. Anderson
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
'You'd Better Be Good': Congressional Threats Of Removal Against Federal Judges, Marc O. Degirolami
'You'd Better Be Good': Congressional Threats Of Removal Against Federal Judges, Marc O. Degirolami
ExpressO
In the attached article, I argue that congressional threats of removal against federal judges are increasing in prevalence and forcefulness and that as a result the strained relationship between the judiciary and Congress – a topic of recent attention and debate – will continue to deteriorate in the coming years. I examine two bills, the Feeney Amendment to the PROTECT Act and House of Representatives Resolution 568 (in which Congress would disavow citation in judicial decisions to foreign law), to demonstrate this thesis.
I next ask what explains the phenomenon of congressional threats of removal, deploying first Thomas Hobbes’ state-of-nature …
The Rise Of Managerial Judging In International Criminal Law, Maximo Langer
The Rise Of Managerial Judging In International Criminal Law, Maximo Langer
ExpressO
Abstract This article puts the procedure of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in a completely new and previously unexplored light. Rejecting the predominant view of ICTY procedure as a hybrid between the adversarial system of the U.S. and the inquisitorial system of civil law jurisdictions, this article shows that ICTY procedure is best described through a third procedural model that does not fit in either of the two traditional systems. This third procedural model is close to the managerial judging system that has been adopted in U.S. civil procedure. The article then explores some of the …
Good Faith In The Cisg: Interpretation Problems In Article 7, Benedict C. Sheehy
Good Faith In The Cisg: Interpretation Problems In Article 7, Benedict C. Sheehy
ExpressO
ABSTRACT: This article examines the dispute concerning the meaning of Good Faith in the CISG. Although there are good reasons for arguing a more limited interpretation or more limited application of Good Faith, there are also good reasons for a broader approach. Regardless of the correct interpretation, however, practitioners and academics need to have a sense of where the actual jurisprudence is going. This article reviews every published case on Article 7 since its inception and concludes that while there is little to suggest a strong pattern is developing, a guided pattern while incorrect doctrinally is preferable to the current …
Knowledge Constnlction And Academic Transformation On Sociology Of Law Studies In China(中国法律社会学的知识建构和学术转型), Meng Hou
Hou Meng
No abstract provided.
Of Gift Horses And Great Expectations: Remands Without Vacatur In Administrative Law, Daniel B. Rodriguez
Of Gift Horses And Great Expectations: Remands Without Vacatur In Administrative Law, Daniel B. Rodriguez
University of San Diego Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper Series
Administrative law has been shaped over the years by fundamentally practical considerations. Displacement of agency decisions by courts was rare; yet, the omnipresent threat of substantial judicial intrusion surely affected agency decisions. While the Administrative Procedure Act, adopted nearly 60 years ago, provides a comprehensive template for federal agency decisionmaking, what is striking about the APA is how much is left out and how much is left to the discretion of both agencies in implementing regulatory decisions and to the courts in superintending agency action. Given this history, it is hardly surprising that many doctrinal techniques represent the pragmatic effort …
Constitutional Law—Separation Of Powers—Restoring The Constitutional Formula To The Federal Judicial Appointment Process: Taking The Vice Out Of "Advice And Consent", Jason Eric Sharp
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Majoritarian Rehnquist Court?, Neal Devins
The Majoritarian Rehnquist Court?, Neal Devins
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Judicial Dialogue For Legal Multiculturalism, Charles H. Koch Jr.
Judicial Dialogue For Legal Multiculturalism, Charles H. Koch Jr.
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
The Personality Of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Aubrey Immelman, Jamie Thielman
The Personality Of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Aubrey Immelman, Jamie Thielman
Psychology Faculty Publications
This paper presents the results of an indirect assessment of the personality of U.S. Supreme Court associate justice Clarence Thomas, from the conceptual perspective of Theodore Millon.
Information concerning Justice Thomas was collected from biographical sources, speeches, and published reports and synthesized into a personality profile using the second edition of the Millon Inventory of Diagnostic Criteria (MIDC), which yields 34 normal and maladaptive personality classifications congruent with Axis II of DSM-IV.
The personality profile yielded by the MIDC was analyzed on the basis of interpretive guidelines provided in the MIDC and Millon Index of Personality Styles manuals. Justice …
Supreme Court Statistical Overview, October Term 2003, Georgetown University Law Center, Supreme Court Institute, Liz Hollander
Supreme Court Statistical Overview, October Term 2003, Georgetown University Law Center, Supreme Court Institute, Liz Hollander
Supreme Court Overviews
No abstract provided.
Reingeniería De La Corte Suprema De La Nación 2: Información Sobre La Tarea Del Alto Tribunal, Horacio M. Lynch, María Clara Pujol
Reingeniería De La Corte Suprema De La Nación 2: Información Sobre La Tarea Del Alto Tribunal, Horacio M. Lynch, María Clara Pujol
Horacio M. LYNCH
La información es clave para tomar decisiones. En el trabajo REINGENIERÍA (1) hicimos amplia referencia a la información en general (para el tribunal, las partes, el público, el extranjero). En este caso nos limitamos a uno sólo de estos aspectos: la información sobre la tarea de la Corte con el exclusivo propósito de dar fundamentos a las propuestas de cambio que se sugieran.
Mesa Del Diálogo Argentino - Sector Justicia - Comisión Para El Tratamiento De La Jurisdicción De La Corte Suprema - Síntesis Propositiva - Acuerdo Unánime: Formulación De Una Agenda, Horacio M. Lynch
Horacio M. LYNCH
Recopilación de las propuestas y opiniones de los integrantes de la Comisión.
Contaminating The Verdict: The Problem Of Juror Misconduct, Bennett L. Gershman
Contaminating The Verdict: The Problem Of Juror Misconduct, Bennett L. Gershman
ExpressO
No abstract provided.