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Judges As Altruistic Hierarchs, Lynn A. Stout Mar 2002

Judges As Altruistic Hierarchs, Lynn A. Stout

William & Mary Law Review

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Clarence Thomas After Ten Years: Some Reflections, Stephen Wermiel Jan 2002

Clarence Thomas After Ten Years: Some Reflections, Stephen Wermiel

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

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Clarence Thomas: The First Ten Years Looking For Consistency, Mark Niles Jan 2002

Clarence Thomas: The First Ten Years Looking For Consistency, Mark Niles

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

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Carter's Groundbreaking Appointment Of Women To The Federal Branch: His Other Human Rights Record, Mary Clark Jan 2002

Carter's Groundbreaking Appointment Of Women To The Federal Branch: His Other Human Rights Record, Mary Clark

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

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Note On The Neutral Assignment Of Federal Appellate Judges, Carl Tobias Jan 2002

Note On The Neutral Assignment Of Federal Appellate Judges, Carl Tobias

San Diego Law Review

Neutral Assignment of Judges at the Court of Appeals (Neutral Assignment) substantially increases comprehension of the federal intermediate appellate courts. The most striking aspect of the recent article by Professor J. Robert Brown, Jr. and Ms. Allison Herren Lee is the revelation of new information which strongly suggests that the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit did not randomly assign members of the federal bench to three-judge panels which heard cases involving desegregation and that this practice facilitated substantive results which favored integration. The material's release may well provoke controversy; however, Neutral Assignment is much more than …


Changing The Face Of The Law: How Women's Advocacy Groups Put Women On The Federal Judicial Appointments Agenda, Mary Clark Jan 2002

Changing The Face Of The Law: How Women's Advocacy Groups Put Women On The Federal Judicial Appointments Agenda, Mary Clark

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

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Beyond Interpretation, Pierre Schlag Jan 2002

Beyond Interpretation, Pierre Schlag

Publications

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Giants In A World Of Pygmies? Testing The Superstar Hypothesis With Judicial Opinions In Casebooks, Mitu Gulati, Veronica Sanchez Jan 2002

Giants In A World Of Pygmies? Testing The Superstar Hypothesis With Judicial Opinions In Casebooks, Mitu Gulati, Veronica Sanchez

Faculty Scholarship

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Dissecting Axes Of Subordination: The Need For A Structural Analysis, Darren Lenard Hutchinson Jan 2002

Dissecting Axes Of Subordination: The Need For A Structural Analysis, Darren Lenard Hutchinson

UF Law Faculty Publications

Proceedings of a criminal trial in Dallas, Texas, demonstrate the vulnerability of LGBT individuals to judicial bias. Although the jury convicted the defendant of murdering two gay males, the judge explained his light sentence: "I put prostitutes and gays at about the same level, and I'd be hard put to give somebody life for killing a prostitute . . . had [the victims] not been out there trying to spread AIDS, they'd still be alive today . . . These two guys that got killed wouldn't have been killed if they hadn't been cruising the streets picking up teen-age boys …


The Inside Scoop: What Federal Judges Really Think About The Way Lawyers Write, Kristen Konrad Robbins-Tiscione Jan 2002

The Inside Scoop: What Federal Judges Really Think About The Way Lawyers Write, Kristen Konrad Robbins-Tiscione

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

A recent survey indicates that what troubles federal judges most is not what lawyers say but what they fail to say when writing briefs. Although lawyers do a good job articulating legal issues and citing controlling, relevant legal authority, they are not doing enough with the law itself. Only fifty-six percent of the judges surveyed said that lawyers “always” or “usually” make their client’s best arguments. Fifty-eight percent of the judges rated the quality of the legal analysis as just “good,” as opposed to “excellent” or “very good.” The problem seems to be that briefs lack rigorous analysis, and the …