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Justice Florence Kerins Murray: The Legacy Of A Pioneer In The Rhode Island Courts, Marian M. Desrosiers Ph.D. Jul 2013

Justice Florence Kerins Murray: The Legacy Of A Pioneer In The Rhode Island Courts, Marian M. Desrosiers Ph.D.

Journal of Interdisciplinary Feminist Thought

This essay discusses the professional and personal life of Florence Kerins Murray (1916-2004), a senator and judge, whose career had a profound effect onRhode Islandgovernment, public service, and the judiciary. The author uses twenty oral history interviews conducted by the author from 2007-12 with men and women working in the courts, in state and local governments, in public service organizations, and in the media. The research was funded by a scholar grant from the Rhode Island Council on the Humanities.


In Memory Of Professor Derrick Bell, Bell Symposium May 2013

In Memory Of Professor Derrick Bell, Bell Symposium

Seattle University Law Review

Derrick Bell—law teacher, mentor, scholar, activist, author, loving husband and father—larger than the sum of his many parts. The articles in this symposium are fitting tributes to his legacy and valuable contributions to Derrick’s memory.


Spotlight On Jewel Mcclanahan: Responsibilities Great, Board Chairman Says, John G. Morgan Apr 2013

Spotlight On Jewel Mcclanahan: Responsibilities Great, Board Chairman Says, John G. Morgan

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

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Judge Lawrence R. Lapolla, David J. Agatstein Apr 2013

Judge Lawrence R. Lapolla, David J. Agatstein

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

No abstract provided.


Dedication To Professor Franklin D. Cleckley, Amber M. Moore Apr 2013

Dedication To Professor Franklin D. Cleckley, Amber M. Moore

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Justice Brennan: Legacy Of A Champion, Dawn Johnsen Apr 2013

Justice Brennan: Legacy Of A Champion, Dawn Johnsen

Michigan Law Review

During the 1980s, when the Court's approval rating was relatively high, commentators from both ends of the ideological spectrum remarked on the importance of Justices' values and views, and bemoaned the public's utter lack of attention to the Court and judicial appointments. President Ronald Reagan's Department of Justice prefaced an extensive analysis of the momentous issues at stake for the Court and the Constitution with a call for attention to the "critical" yet "often overlooked" "values and philosophies" of federal judges. Professor Laurence Tribe similarly introduced a historical analysis of the Court's vital role by describing Justices' "powerful, if often …


Justice James D. Hopkins: Jurist, Dean, Scholar And Expert On New York Law, Jay C. Carlisle Ii, Anthony Dipietro Mar 2013

Justice James D. Hopkins: Jurist, Dean, Scholar And Expert On New York Law, Jay C. Carlisle Ii, Anthony Dipietro

Pace Law Review

It is an appropriate tribute to our late Dean James D. Hopkins that this edition of Pace Law Review be dedicated to a man who many leaders of the bench, bar, and academia believe is one of the twentieth century’s greatest common law appellate jurists. Dean Hopkins, better known as Judge Hopkins, was Pace Law School’s second Dean from 1982 to 1983, an associate justice of the Supreme Court of New York, and a justice of the Appellate Division for the Second Department from 1962 to 1981. He authored hundreds of significant majority, dissenting, and concurring judicial opinions on New …


Tribute To Larry Ribstein, Barry E. Adler Mar 2013

Tribute To Larry Ribstein, Barry E. Adler

Michigan Law Review

A law school job talk for an entry-level candidate is an opportunity for the presenter to put his or her ideas before a faculty in the best possible light. A bit of give-and-take is part of the drill, but the candidate can usually expect the talk to stay more or less on course. My own first job talk, though, given at George Mason University more years ago than I'd like to admit, was attended by the thoroughly exceptional Larry Ribstein and so did not unfold in the usual way.


Book Review, Daniel Morrissey Feb 2013

Book Review, Daniel Morrissey

Pepperdine Law Review

No abstract provided.


Justice O'Connor And The First Amendment 1981-84, Edward V. Heck, Paula C. Arledge Jan 2013

Justice O'Connor And The First Amendment 1981-84, Edward V. Heck, Paula C. Arledge

Pepperdine Law Review

No abstract provided.


Maryland's Family Division: Sensible Justice For Families And Children, Barbara A. Babb Jan 2013

Maryland's Family Division: Sensible Justice For Families And Children, Barbara A. Babb

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.


Thinking, Big And Small, Stephen B. Burbank Jan 2013

Thinking, Big And Small, Stephen B. Burbank

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Reading Kahneman's book and thinking about a tribute to Ed Cooper that has more substance than a bouquet have caused me to reflect on a phenomenon within the world of legal scholarship. I would call it a cognate phenomenon, but that would dishonor the empirical basis of Kahneman's work by suggesting a firmer basis for my reflections than the power of analogical reasoning. The phenomenon is the view that the goal of legal scholarship is or should be big ideas, particularly if they can claim the mantle of theory, rather than small ideas, particularly if they can be tarred with …


Iron Man Of The Rules, Patrick E. Higginbotham Jan 2013

Iron Man Of The Rules, Patrick E. Higginbotham

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

To grasp Professor Cooper's contribution to rulemaking, it is helpful to review issues that the Advisory Committee confronted during his tenure. I will focus on the first four of his twenty years of service.


Ed Cooper, Rule 56, And Charles E. Clark's Fountain Of Youth, Steven S. Gensler Jan 2013

Ed Cooper, Rule 56, And Charles E. Clark's Fountain Of Youth, Steven S. Gensler

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Nobody had a greater impact on the formulation of the original Civil Rules than Clark. His role as both the principal architect2 and the principal draftsman3 of the Civil Rules is well known. As Professor Wright once put it, although the Civil Rules were a joint effort, "the end product bears the unmistakable Clark stamp."4 But Clark started shaping the Civil Rules even before drafting began.5 Initially, Chief Justice Hughes thought the civil rules project should be limited to creating rules for actions at law (leaving in place-and separate-the existing equity rules).6 A passionate advocate for merging law and equity …


Professor Edward Cooper: The Quintessential Reporter, Mary Kay Kane Jan 2013

Professor Edward Cooper: The Quintessential Reporter, Mary Kay Kane

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Ed Cooper's twenty-year service as the Chief Reporter for the Civil Rules Advisory Committee deserves special recognition and tribute not only because of its longevity-which is remarkable in and of itself-but more particularly, because of the scope and depth of the rule changes he has helped to shepherd into law.


Professor Ed Cooper: Zen Minimalist, Linda S. Mullenix Jan 2013

Professor Ed Cooper: Zen Minimalist, Linda S. Mullenix

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

In celebration of his twentieth year as the Reporter for the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules, I write to contribute some modest reflections on Professor Cooper's tenure as Advisory Committee Reporter. My comments are those of an academic who had the opportunity to observe the Advisory Committee for nearly a decade, but they are largely the comments of an outsider. Readers might be disappointed to find that there is no dish or inside baseball here.


What Ed Cooper Has Taught Me About The Realities And Complexities Of Appellate Jurisdiction And Procedure, Catherine T. Struve Jan 2013

What Ed Cooper Has Taught Me About The Realities And Complexities Of Appellate Jurisdiction And Procedure, Catherine T. Struve

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

In this brief essay, I will describe some of what I have learned from Ed Cooper as a fellow participant in the rulemaking process and as a coauthor of two volumes of his Federal Practice and Procedure treatise. To describe everything that Ed has taught me would require much more than the length of this essay. So instead, I will try to offer some representative examples-or, as Ed might say, some "sketches." Because others will discuss Ed's expert guidance of the Rules Committees' consideration of key issues concerning the Civil Rules, my discussion of Ed's scholarship and reporting work will …


Shoes That Did Not Drop, Richard Marcus Jan 2013

Shoes That Did Not Drop, Richard Marcus

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

I take "Shoes That Did Not Drop"' as my topic because I appreciate, by now, that what the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules does not do is, in some ways, as important as what it does. Similarly, the decision not to do something is equally important as, and may be more difficult than, the decision to do something. It may sometimes seem that amending the Rules is too easy. Greg Joseph once said that they are amended as often as the telephone book. Some even think that it was a mistake to create a Rules Committee.3 These reactions are overstated, …


In Memoriam: Katherine Vaughns Jan 2013

In Memoriam: Katherine Vaughns

Maryland Carey Law

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The Making Of A Supreme Court Justice: Larry Gibson Jan 2013

The Making Of A Supreme Court Justice: Larry Gibson

Maryland Carey Law

No abstract provided.


Some Very Personal Reflections On The Rules, Rulemaking, And Reporters, Arthur R. Miller Jan 2013

Some Very Personal Reflections On The Rules, Rulemaking, And Reporters, Arthur R. Miller

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

My entry into the world of federal rulemaking was one of those unpredictable but welcome fortuities of life. In early 1961, more than a half century ago, I was a happy and progressing associate in a prominent medium-sized, Wall Street, New York City law firm. Columbia Law School approached me to be the Associate Director of its newly formed Project on International Procedure. They dangled several attractive incentives: I could try my hand at teaching some civil procedure; hobnob with the giants of the Columbia faculty, like Herb Wechsler, Walter Gellhorn, Maury Rosenberg, and Jack Weinstein; and take my first …


The Life And Times Of Chief Judge Robert Bell, William L. Reynolds Jan 2013

The Life And Times Of Chief Judge Robert Bell, William L. Reynolds

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.


Racial Equality In Jury Selection, F. Michael Higginbotham Jan 2013

Racial Equality In Jury Selection, F. Michael Higginbotham

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Maryland Legal Aid Bureau: Decades Of Service And Reform, José Felipé Anderson Jan 2013

The Maryland Legal Aid Bureau: Decades Of Service And Reform, José Felipé Anderson

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.


Robert Mack Bell: Leadership, Law, And Public Policy In Maryland, Lenneal J. Henderson Jan 2013

Robert Mack Bell: Leadership, Law, And Public Policy In Maryland, Lenneal J. Henderson

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.


Civil Rights And The 1960s: A Decade Of Unparalleled Progress, Leland Ware Jan 2013

Civil Rights And The 1960s: A Decade Of Unparalleled Progress, Leland Ware

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.


Courts And Communities: How Access To Justice Promotes A Healthy Community, Pamela Cardullo Ortiz Jan 2013

Courts And Communities: How Access To Justice Promotes A Healthy Community, Pamela Cardullo Ortiz

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.


Alternative Dispute Resolution And Confidence In The Judiciary: Chief Judge Bell's Culture Of Conflict Resolution, Deborah Thompson Eisenberg, Rachel Wohl, Toby Treem Guerin Jan 2013

Alternative Dispute Resolution And Confidence In The Judiciary: Chief Judge Bell's Culture Of Conflict Resolution, Deborah Thompson Eisenberg, Rachel Wohl, Toby Treem Guerin

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.


Reflections On A Great Dissenter, Tanya Washington Jan 2013

Reflections On A Great Dissenter, Tanya Washington

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.


They Were Meant For Each Other: Professor Edward Cooper And The Rules Enabling Act, Mark R. Kravitz, David F. Levi, Lee H. Rosenthal, Anthony J. Scirica Jan 2013

They Were Meant For Each Other: Professor Edward Cooper And The Rules Enabling Act, Mark R. Kravitz, David F. Levi, Lee H. Rosenthal, Anthony J. Scirica

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

This introduction to the essays in this Symposium illuminates Professor Ed Cooper's years as Reporter to the Civil Rules Committee by first briefly describing those who preceded him in the position and his own background. We then describe some of Ed Cooper's many contributions to the Civil Rules Committee, the Federal Rules, rulemaking, and civil procedure by examining the present state of the Rules Committees' work under the Rules Enabling Act. We conclude that after almost eighty years of experience under that Act, it is working well in large part because of the sound leadership provided by Ed Cooper over …