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Judicial Selection
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Sentencing Law and Policy
Should there be an age at which judges are no longer allowed to sentence defendants?
Main January 18, 2011Should there be an age at which judges are no longer allowed to sentence defendants?The provocative question in this title of this post is inspired by this…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
A Look at Judges’ Activities Off the Bench
Slate Magazine: Lay Off Sandra Day O'Connor, by Bert Brandenburg:We need judges to speak up, not shut up. Working the ref is a time-honored tradition. This election season, America's referees—judges—are coming…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Samahon on Impeachment as Judicial Selection
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Tuan Samahon (Villanova) has posted Impeachment as Judicial Selection? to SSRN.Abstract: Ideological judicial selection encompasses more than the affirmativenominating, confirming, and appointing of judges who pre-commit toparticular legal interpretations and…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Names are Added to List of Potential Supreme Court Nominees
CNN.com: Names added to Supreme Court short list, by Bill Mears: Washington (CNN)-- A federal judge from Montana and the dean of Harvard's law schoolare among several names being added…
Sentencing Law and Policy
SCOTUS short-list speculation as Justice Stevens talks of retirement
Main April 5, 2010SCOTUS short-list speculation as Justice Stevens talks of retirementAs highlighted in all the links here at How Appealing, it is time once again to crank up the…
Sentencing Law and Policy
SCOTUS back in action, with lots of new Stevens speculations
Main March 22, 2010SCOTUS back in action, with lots of new Stevens speculationsThe Supreme Court is back to work this morning, though this SCOTUSblog post spotlights that we are not…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Time to dust off (and double the size of?) the usual SCOTUS short lists
Main February 4, 2010Time to dust off (and double the size of?) the usual SCOTUS short listsThis new ABC News piece, which is titled "White House Prepares for Possibility of…
The Faculty Lounge
Denver Seeks Director of Research
This announcement is posted at the request of Jordan M. Singer, who is with the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System at the University of Denver: The…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Would elimination ofelectedjudges be beneficial for criminal law and sentencing jurisprudence?
Main December 11, 2009Would elimination of elected judges be beneficial for criminal law and sentencing jurisprudence? The question in the title of this post is prompted by this new piece…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Fitzpatrick on The Politics of Merit Selection
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Professor Brian T. Fitzpatrick (Vanderbilt Law School) has posted "The Politics of Merit Selection" on SSRN. It will be published in the Missouri Law Review. Abstract:In this Article, I undertake…