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Judicial Externships: Sharing Current Practices, Dinah Lennon Archambeault
Judicial Externships: Sharing Current Practices, Dinah Lennon Archambeault
Duke Law Master of Judicial Studies Theses
The need for externships has risen over the years as the importance of providing experiential education to supplement traditional doctrinal law school education has become generally acknowledged. Despite the many articles on externships, few, if any, have addressed how judicial externs are selected and how judicial externships are structured in the courts.
It was necessary to conduct qualitative research to determine how various courts address their extern programs, if at all. Based on the research I have undertaken, practices vary among courts and judges. Not only is there no uniform practice with respect to which courts and even judges place …
Innovative Justice: Federal Reentry Drug Courts – How Should We Measure Success?, Timothy D. Degiusti
Innovative Justice: Federal Reentry Drug Courts – How Should We Measure Success?, Timothy D. Degiusti
Duke Law Master of Judicial Studies Theses
In response to the drug abuse and addiction epidemic in the United States, innovative ways of dealing with non-violent drug offenders within the criminal justice system began to emerge in the late 1980s. Special court dockets – commonly referred to as drug courts – were developed featuring an interdisciplinary team of criminal justice and mental health professionals, led by a presiding judge. Drug courts and other problem-solving courts have proliferated within the state court system, numbering 3,057 by the end of 2014. The use of such courts is expanding among the states, but the federal courts have been slow to …
A Comparison Of The American Model And French (-Inspired) Appellate Model, Frederic Blockx
A Comparison Of The American Model And French (-Inspired) Appellate Model, Frederic Blockx
Duke Law Master of Judicial Studies Theses
Both the American and the French legal system have a three-tiered structure. However, the respective roles and functions of the courts on each step of the ladder is vastly different in both. Whereas the general system in the U.S. is to have one trial court and two ‘higher’ courts (a court of appeals and a supreme court), the French / European continental system consists of two ‘factual’ courts (the basic level and the court of appeals), and one ‘legal’ (the supreme court) with limited or even inexistent possibilities to look at the facts.
The purpose of this thesis is to …
Certification Of Legal Questions To The Utah Supreme Court, David Nuffer
Certification Of Legal Questions To The Utah Supreme Court, David Nuffer
Duke Law Master of Judicial Studies Theses
For 30 years, federal courts have certified questions of state law to the Utah Supreme Court. This thesis examines the history and utility of the process and recommends changes to the process in the federal district court and in the Utah Supreme Court.
The current focus of federal judges in certifying questions is on utility for the case before the court. But certification of questions from a federal court to a state court is an expression of federalism—a humble acknowledgment by a federal authority which is often regarded as supreme that the state is the proper and best authority to …
Savings—The Missing Element In Chapter 13 Bankruptcy Cases?, David R. Jones
Savings—The Missing Element In Chapter 13 Bankruptcy Cases?, David R. Jones
Duke Law Master of Judicial Studies Theses
This paper examines the effects of debtor savings on the viability of chapter 13 bankruptcy plans. The paper further examines the impact of lawyer culture, debtor participation in the bankruptcy process and judicial activism on the use of the savings program by chapter 13 debtors. Using a data set of randomly selected chapter 13 bankruptcy cases filed in the Southern District of Texas, the analysis demonstrates that while savings has a direct positive impact on the success of chapter 13 plans, the degree of that success is significantly influenced by the views held by debtors’ lawyers, chapter 13 trustees and …