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Judicial Selection
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Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Women in the Federal Judiciary: Still a Long Way to Go
By Tracy Thomas
NWLC, Women in the Federal Judiciary: Still a Long Way to GoOver the past three decades, an increasing number of women have joined the legal profession. Since 1992, women’s representation in…
International Law Prof Blog
New President and Vice President of ICJ Elected
On Friday, the members of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) elected Judge Ronny Abraham of France President of the Court and Judge Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf of Somalia Vice President. For more information,…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“Why Judges [and criminal case decisions] Tilt to the Right”
Main February 1, 2015"Why Judges [and criminal case decisions] Tilt to the Right"The title of this post is a slight modification of the headline of this interesting new piece by…
inversecondemnation.com
On Transparency In The Judicial Selection Process
Ian Lind has an interesting piece in Honolulu Civil Beat, Hawaii Monitor: Ballot Issue Grew Out of Abercrombie’s Retreat Into Secrecy, about the consititutional amendment, recently approved by Hawaii voters,…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Wasserman on Redish and Aronoff on Judicial Selection and Due Process
Over on the Courts Law section of JOTWELL is an essay by Howard Wasserman entitled Judicial Retention Meets Due Process.It reviews a recent article by Martin Redish and Jennifer Aronoff,…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
O’Connor Releases Judicial Selection Plan
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor recently released The O'Connor Judicial Selection Plan, a set of recommendations for selecting and retaining state judges, developed in conjunction with the Institute for the Advancement…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Book Ideas: The Rhetoric of Supreme Court Women
By Tracy Thomas
Nichola Gutgold, The Rhetoric of Supreme Court Women (2012). From the jacket:The Supreme Court is one of the most traditional institutions in America that has been an exclusively male domain for almost…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Gender Bias in the ABA Judicial Rating System
By Tracy Thomas
An article from the Sunday New York Times How Not to Pick Judges by Maya Sen (political science, Rochester) has been getting a lot of media play. The takeaway is that the…
Nashville Criminal Law Report
Should Voters Elect The Tennessee Supreme Court ?
By Rob McKinney
The Tennessean's, Frank Daniels, III, wrote a recent opinion piece on The Tennessee Plan for judicial selection. Mr. Daniels urges Tennesseans to push for the right to popularly elect judges. Currently,…
M & A Law Prof Blog
Next up … filling the Chancery vacancy
By CorporateAcquisitions MergerLawBlogger
The Delaware Law Weekly has surveyed the field of potential replacements for Chancellor Strine once he moves up to the Supreme Court and comes up with four names:Andre G. Bouchard,…