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Dream Makers: Black Judges On Justice, Julian Abele Cook Jr.
Dream Makers: Black Judges On Justice, Julian Abele Cook Jr.
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Linn Washington, Black Judges on Justice
Clerks In The Maze, Pierre Schlag
Clerks In The Maze, Pierre Schlag
Michigan Law Review
It must be very difficult to be a judge - particularly an appellate judge. Not only must appellate judges reconcile often incommensurable visions of what law is, what it commands, or what it strives to achieve, but judges must do this largely alone. What little help they have in terms of actual human contact, apart from their clerks, typically takes the form of two or more advocates whose entire raison d'être is to persuade, coax, and manipulate the judge into reaching a predetermined outcome - one which often instantiates or exemplifies only the most tenuous positive connection to the rhetoric …
Safeguarding The Litigant's Constitutional Right To A Fair And Impartial Forum: A Due Process Approach To Improprieties Arising From Judicial Campaign Contributions From Lawyers, Mark Andrew Grannis
Safeguarding The Litigant's Constitutional Right To A Fair And Impartial Forum: A Due Process Approach To Improprieties Arising From Judicial Campaign Contributions From Lawyers, Mark Andrew Grannis
Michigan Law Review
This Note will argue that the improprieties arising from some campaign contributions are so egregious that they offend the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment. Consequently, states must either reform judicial campaigns to eliminate such improprieties, or, through mandatory judicial recusal or disqualification, respect the absolute constitutional right to an impartial forum. Part I of this Note will examine the history of disqualification at common law and in American practice, focusing on the extent to which it has been held to be a requirement of due process. Part II will argue that under the applicable due process standards, a …
The Iconoclast As Reformer: Jerome Frank's Impact On American Law, Matthew W. Frank
The Iconoclast As Reformer: Jerome Frank's Impact On American Law, Matthew W. Frank
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Iconoclast as Reformer: Jerome Frank's Impact on American Law by Robert Jerome Glennon
Brandeis, Michigan Law Review
Brandeis, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Brandeis by Lewis J. Paper