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Judicial Selection
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Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Gender Quotas for Judges on International Courts
By Tracy Thomas
Nienke Grossman, Shattering the Glass Ceiling in International Adjudication, 56 Va. J. Int'l L. 339 (2016)The Article shows that women are found in dramatically low numbers on the benches of the majority…
PrawfsBlawg
More on the Leib-Lee Solution for SCOTUS
Main Thursday, April 06, 2017More on the Leib-Lee Solution for SCOTUSA couple of reactions to Ethan's piece:1) The deal is better (and Garland a better nominee) for Republicans for the…
PrawfsBlawg
Naming in Judicial Nominations
Main Tuesday, March 28, 2017Naming in Judicial NominationsI participated in a fantastic symposium in October at the University of Wisconsin Law School on “Modern Federal Judicial Selection.” A nearly final…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Gender, Judging, and Judicial Crisis
By Tracy Thomas
This article in the Akron Legal News Is the Judicial Selection Process in Crisis? details political science professor Sally Kenney's keynote speech from the recent Feminist Judgments conference. These are dangerous…
IAALS Blog
National Groups Provide Insight and Remedies to Promote a More Diverse Bench
By Anonymous
National organizations that work to ensure fair, trusted, and accountable courts are increasingly recognizing the potential for implicit bias to obstruct this goal, particularly when such bias is brought to…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Rounding up commentary highlighting why I am just not that into SCOTUS nomination of Chief Judge Merrick Garland
Main March 21, 2016Rounding up commentary highlighting why I am just not that into SCOTUS nomination of Chief Judge Merrick GarlandIn this initial post about Prez Obama's selection of Chief…
The Right Coast
Glenn Reynolds: Supreme Court picks need diversity, compromise
My other proposal is less process-oriented: Maybe it s time to name a non-lawyer to the Supreme Court. There s nothing in the Constitution that requires Supreme Court justices to be lawyers,…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Great Supreme Court Fellows opportunity for all current and future sentencing researchers/advocates
Main October 22, 2015Great Supreme Court Fellows opportunity for all current and future sentencing researchers/advocatesI was pleased and honored to receive a call yesterday from Office of the Counselor to…
The Right Coast
Randy Barnett on Instapundit
So, if conservative Republicans want a different performance from the judiciary in the future, they must vet their presidential candidates to see whether they understand this point. Jeb Bush clearly…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“Ditch the Geezer Judges” … and consider RoboJudges?
Main June 6, 2015"Ditch the Geezer Judges" ... and consider RoboJudges?The title of this post is the headline of this provocative new OZY commentary authored by Shannon Sims. Here are…