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Dean's Desk: Students Find Clerkships In Smaller Counties Rewarding, Austen L. Parrish
Dean's Desk: Students Find Clerkships In Smaller Counties Rewarding, Austen L. Parrish
Austen Parrish (2014-2022)
The students at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law come to Bloomington from all over the nation. During their summers, the temptation is for them to work in the country’s largest cities, often with the majority working in Indianapolis, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and New York. Many others work in our innovative Stewart Fellows global internship program, where students are placed in countries throughout the world.
Fewer students, however, choose to work in Indiana’s smaller towns, and the hundreds of trial court judges working there often need help. Many trial courts have crowded dockets and limited staffing, particularly those in …
Sticks, Stones, And So-Called Judges: Why The Era Of Trump Necessitates Revisiting Presidential Influence On The Courts, Quinn W. Crowley
Sticks, Stones, And So-Called Judges: Why The Era Of Trump Necessitates Revisiting Presidential Influence On The Courts, Quinn W. Crowley
Indiana Law Journal
This Note will be primarily divided into three main sections. Part I of this Note will begin by discussing the importance of judicial independence in modern society and the role of elected officials in shaping the public perception of the courts. Additionally, as problems of judicial legitimacy are age-old and date back to America’s founding, Part I will include a brief discussion of an early clash between President Thomas Jefferson and the courts.
Parts II and III of this Note will seek to place President Trump’s conduct towards the judicial branch within the proper historical context. Part II examines the …
How Conservative Justices Are Undertermining Our Democracy (Or What's At Stake In Choosing Justice Scalia, Alan E. Garfield
How Conservative Justices Are Undertermining Our Democracy (Or What's At Stake In Choosing Justice Scalia, Alan E. Garfield
Indiana Law Journal
In this essay, Professor Garfield contends that the conservative justices on the Supreme Court have allowed elected officials to manipulate laws to entrench themselves in office and to disenfranchise voters who threaten their power. The justices’ unwillingness to curb these abuses has largely redounded to the benefit of the Republican Party because Republicans control the majority of state legislatures and have used this power to gerrymander legislative districts and to enact voter‑suppressive laws such as voter ID laws. With Justice Antonin Scalia’s unexpected passing during the administration of a Democratic president, the conservatives’ control of the Court has been put …
Unequal Opportunities: Education Pathways To The U.S. Judiciary, Alfred C. Aman
Unequal Opportunities: Education Pathways To The U.S. Judiciary, Alfred C. Aman
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This paper is about diversity in federal and state courts in the United States. My main argument is that we should promote a judiciary that is reflective of the society of which it is a part for three reasons: first, because in doing so, we gain critical awareness of barriers to judicial service; second, because in doing so, we are also promoting access to resources, education and opportunities in the legal profession; and third, because it is possible (although not automatic) that a reflective judiciary will broaden the range of experience and perspective on the matters involved in the cases …
The Dimensions Of Judicial Impartiality, Charles G. Geyh
The Dimensions Of Judicial Impartiality, Charles G. Geyh
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Scholars have traditionally analyzed judicial impartiality piecemeal, in disconnected debates on discrete topics. As a consequence, current understandings of judicial impartiality are balkanized and muddled. This Article seeks to reconceptualize judicial impartiality comprehensively, across contexts. In an era when "we are all legal realists now," perfect impartiality-the complete absence of bias or prejudice-is at most an ideal; "impartial enough" has, of necessity, become the realistic goal. Understanding when imperfectly impartial is nonetheless impartial enough is aided by conceptualizing judicial impartiality in three distinct dimensions: a procedural dimension, in which impartiality affords parties a fair hearing; a political dimension, in which …
The American Judicature Society And Judicial Independence: Reflections At The Century Mark, Charles G. Geyh
The American Judicature Society And Judicial Independence: Reflections At The Century Mark, Charles G. Geyh
Articles by Maurer Faculty
A logical starting point in a symposium commemorating AJS at the century mark is with judicial independence – a sweeping topic with a complex architecture that gives structure to the AJS mission. The many and varied contributions that AJS has made to the administration of justice over the past one hundred years can best be understood and appreciated as means to further the overarching objective of promoting an independent and accountable judiciary.
Building The Federal Judiciary (Literally And Legally): The Monuments Of Chief Justices Taft, Warren And Rehnquist, Judith Resnik
Building The Federal Judiciary (Literally And Legally): The Monuments Of Chief Justices Taft, Warren And Rehnquist, Judith Resnik
Indiana Law Journal
The “federal courts” took on their now familiar contours over the course of the twentieth century. Three chief justices—William Howard Taft, Earl Warren, and William Rehnquist—played pivotal roles in shaping the institutional, jurisprudential, and physical premises. Taft is well known for promoting a building to house the U.S. Supreme Court and for launching the administrative infrastructure that came to govern the federal courts. Earl Warren’s name has become the shorthand for a jurisprudential shift from state toward federal authority; the Warren Court offered an expansive understanding of the role federal courts could play in enabling access for a host of …
Judicial Elections In The Aftermath Of White, Caperton, And Citizens United, Charles G. Geyh
Judicial Elections In The Aftermath Of White, Caperton, And Citizens United, Charles G. Geyh
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
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 …
The Judgment Of The Boss On Bossing The Judges: Bruce Springsteen, Judicial Independence, And The Rule Of Law, Charles G. Geyh
The Judgment Of The Boss On Bossing The Judges: Bruce Springsteen, Judicial Independence, And The Rule Of Law, Charles G. Geyh
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
A Principled Approach To The Quest For Racial Diversity On The Judiciary, Luis Fuentes-Rohwer, Kevin R. Johnson
A Principled Approach To The Quest For Racial Diversity On The Judiciary, Luis Fuentes-Rohwer, Kevin R. Johnson
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As has been the case with respect to many political and social institutions in American society, diversity has been demanded, and at times pursued, in the nomination and appointment of state and federal judges. Nonetheless, commentators have long lamented the lack of diversity among judges in the United States.
U.S. Supreme Court appointments epitomize the glaring lack of diversity on the federal judiciary. Not until 1967 did President Lyndon Baines Johnson appoint the first African American Justice, Thurgood Marshall, to the Court. Since then, a more diverse group of judges has served on the state and federal courts than throughout …
Rethinking Judicial Elections, Charles G. Geyh
Rethinking Judicial Elections, Charles G. Geyh
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
The Politics Of Crime And The Threat To Judicial Independence, Jeannine Bell
The Politics Of Crime And The Threat To Judicial Independence, Jeannine Bell
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Why Judicial Elections Stink, Charles G. Geyh
Why Judicial Elections Stink, Charles G. Geyh
Articles by Maurer Faculty
Those who are concerned about judicial independence and accountability in the United States quite rightly focus their attention on state judicial election campaigns. It is there that the most sustained and successful efforts to threaten judicial tenure in response to isolated, unpopular judicial decisions have occurred; and it is there that escalating campaign spending has created a public perception that judges are influenced by the contributions they receive. Attempts to address these problems have been undermined by four political realities that the author refers to as "the Axiom of 80 ": Eighty percent of the public favors electing their judges; …
Publicly Financed Judicial Elections: An Overview, Charles G. Geyh
Publicly Financed Judicial Elections: An Overview, Charles G. Geyh
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Judge-Jury Communications: Improving Communications And Understanding Bias, Ladoris Hazzard Cordell, Robert Rosenthal, Charles F.C. Ruff, Steven J. Adler
Judge-Jury Communications: Improving Communications And Understanding Bias, Ladoris Hazzard Cordell, Robert Rosenthal, Charles F.C. Ruff, Steven J. Adler
Indiana Law Journal
Symposium: Improving Communications in the Courtroom
The Meaning Of Judicial Self-Restraint, Richard A. Posner
The Meaning Of Judicial Self-Restraint, Richard A. Posner
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
The Threat To Judicial Independence, Robert A. Sprecher
The Threat To Judicial Independence, Robert A. Sprecher
Indiana Law Journal
Symposium: Problems of the Federal Judiciary: A View from the Bench
Patent Cases In The District Courts-Who Should Hear Them, Abraham Lincoln Marovitz
Patent Cases In The District Courts-Who Should Hear Them, Abraham Lincoln Marovitz
Indiana Law Journal
Symposium: Problems of the Federal Judiciary: A View from the Bench
Must We Have The Nunn Bill? The Alternative Of Judicial Councils Of The Circuits, J. Clifford Wallace
Must We Have The Nunn Bill? The Alternative Of Judicial Councils Of The Circuits, J. Clifford Wallace
Indiana Law Journal
Symposium: Problems of the Federal Judiciary: A View from the Bench
Jurors On Trial, Joseph Brodley, Harold M. Hoffman
Jurors On Trial, Joseph Brodley, Harold M. Hoffman
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
The United States Supreme Court: 1947-48, John P. Frank
The United States Supreme Court: 1947-48, John P. Frank
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Book Review. Lions Under The Throne By C. P. Curtis, Jr. And The Nine Young Men By W. Mccune, John P. Frank
Book Review. Lions Under The Throne By C. P. Curtis, Jr. And The Nine Young Men By W. Mccune, John P. Frank
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
The United States Supreme Court: 1946-47, John P. Frank
The United States Supreme Court: 1946-47, John P. Frank
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Disqualification Of Judges, John P. Frank
Disqualification Of Judges, John P. Frank
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
The Appointment Of Supreme Court Justices: Prestige, Principles And Politics, John P. Frank
The Appointment Of Supreme Court Justices: Prestige, Principles And Politics, John P. Frank
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
The Appointment Of Supreme Court Justices: Iii, John P. Frank
The Appointment Of Supreme Court Justices: Iii, John P. Frank
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Supreme Court Justice Appointments: Ii, John P. Frank
Supreme Court Justice Appointments: Ii, John P. Frank
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Judges And Other Court Officers In Indiana
Politics And Judicial Administration, Maurice E. Crites
Politics And Judicial Administration, Maurice E. Crites
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.