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Supreme Court

2009

Saint Louis University School of Law

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Not Dead Yet: The Enduring Miranda Rule 25 Years After The Supreme Court’S October Term 1984, William F. Jung Jan 2009

Not Dead Yet: The Enduring Miranda Rule 25 Years After The Supreme Court’S October Term 1984, William F. Jung

Saint Louis University Public Law Review

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Setting The Size Of The Supreme Court, F. Andrew Hessick, Samuel P. Jordan Jan 2009

Setting The Size Of The Supreme Court, F. Andrew Hessick, Samuel P. Jordan

All Faculty Scholarship

As with any institutional feature, the size of the Supreme Court should be informed by a definition of functional goals. This article describes how the current size of the Supreme Court is largely untethered from any such definition, and it begins the process of understanding how size and Court performance might interact. To do so, it identifies a list of institutional goals for the Supreme Court and explores how changing the size of the Court promotes or obstructs the attainment of those goals. Given that the Court's institutional goals are numerous and occasionally in tension, there is no definitive answer …