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Comments On Professor Rotunda's Essay, Richard H. Underwood

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

In this comment, Professor Richard H. Underwood provides a response to An Essay on the Constitutional Parameters of Federal Impeachment, by Professor Ronald D. Rotunda. Rotunda’s essay was published in the Kentucky Law Journal, Vol. 76, No. 3, pp. 707-732.

The Dialogue Of The Heart And Head, Lynne Henderson

Scholarly Works

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Communication In The Ninth Circuit: A Concern For Collegiality, Stephen L. Wasby

Seattle University Law Review

After a discussion of the court's basic organization, the general stages of consideration of a case will be briefly described. Then attention will be focused on communication between the judges about cases. Cases before screening panels will be discussed first. Then cases set for argument before three-judge panels will be examined beginning with pre-argument communication, extending through exchanges at argument, the postargument conference, and the post-conference period. This will be followed by discussion of communication leading to the call for an en banc court. Communication among judges chosen for an en banc court will be considered next along with intracircuit …

Law Dean Nominated For Judge, Brian Mccoy

Morris Arnold (1985)

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Markets Overt, Voidable Titles, And Feckless Agents: Judges And Efficiency In The Antebellum Doctrine Of Good Faith Purchase, Harold R. Weinberg

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

In considering American common law doctrines shaped during the nineteenth century, commentators have advanced differing theories on the primary judicial criteria employed by judges. Recent studies have argued that these doctrines reflect a criterion of economic efficiency. This work has been criticized for its failure to explain why there seems to be a correlation between efficiency and these decision rules or why judges might have preferred efficiency over other decisional criteria. Other studies have proposed that many judicial doctrines announced before the Civil War were intended to facilitate or ratify major shifts in the distribution of social wealth. This article …

Prefatory Remark, Dorothy W. Nelson

Cleveland State Law Review

There are three prime roles the trial judge should play in clinical legal education: (1) to become involved with the education of the students, (2) to engage with students in a vigorous examination of the judicial process, and (3) to examine critically the educational process in the law schools and its relationship to the courts.

The Judicial Process, Lee E. Skeel

Cleveland State Law Review

The judicial process is that technique by which coherent direction of thought on the basic principles of social rights and duties is made available for judicial officers. It is the duty of such officers diligently to seek out the rules which must be used as the bases of judgment. The sources from which they must seek help are as wide and varied as the sum total of past and present human experience.

Vanderbilt: Judges And Jurors: Their Functions, Qualifications And Selection, Maynard E. Pirsig

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Judges and Jurors: Their Functions, Qualifications and Selection. By Arthur T. Vanderbilt.

Walter E. Treanor Memorial Addresses, Patrick J. Smith, Charles P. Megan, Evan A. Evans, Carl Wilde

Indiana Law Journal

The Walter E. Treanor Memorial Issue

At the regular term of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit the following Memorial Resolutions were presented on April 14th, 1942.

The Opinions Of Walter E. Treanor

Indiana Law Journal

Walter E. Treanor Memorial Issue

The significance attached to Judge Treanor's opinions has been so universally recognized, the Journal feels that it will make a contribution to the future growth of the law if it collects and classifies his opinions. A bibliography of his opinions both on the Indiana Supreme Court and on the Circuit Court of Appeals is set forth below.