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Judicial System
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Legal History Blog
Allison on the Hong Kong Admiralty Court
By Dan Ernst
Sasha Allison, an independent researcher who is also Barrister at Law in Hong Kong, has published The Lumbering Machinery of the Hong Kong Admiralty Court of 1847–1849, which is based…
Turtle Talk
Building Tribal Justice: The Physical Infrastructure of Tribal Sovereignty
For decades, the Supreme Court has treated Tribal jurisdiction as a problem requiring limitation rather than governmental authority requiring respect. The Tribal Justice construction projects below make visible something federal…
Gibson Dunn
Collin Cox and Trey Cox Describe the Impact of Texas Business Court in Guest Commentary for Houston Business Journal
Partners Collin Cox and Trey Cox write in the Houston Business Journal [PDF] that “Houston offers the clearest evidence” that the Texas Business Court is working as it nears its…
Business and Commercial
Two years of the Texas Business Court
Join Texas Business Court Insider for a special live webinar marking the 2nd anniversary of the Texas Business Court.
Simple Justice
Leave Jurors Out Of It
First, the assumption was that the Clancy deadlock was between the men and women on the jury, because it had to be women who would side with the defendant who…
De Rebus - SA Attorneys' Journal
A tribute on the passing of a colleague, Justice Taswell Papier, 1961–2026
By De Rebus
Western Cape Division of the High Court Judge Taswell Papier speaking at the Cape Law Society annual general meeting in Cape Town in 2018. By Judge Vincent Saldanha While some…
Legal History Blog
Bremer on the Judges Bill and Administering the Courts
By Dan Ernst
Emily S. Bremer, Notre Dame Law School, has posted Making Our Ministry of Justice, which is to appear in Notre Dame Law Review Reflection:William Howard Taft (LC)This Essay evaluates the…
Conflict of Laws .net
European Group on the Digitalisation of Justice: Call for Expression of Interest
<a Susanne Gössl (Bonn), <a Frederick Rieländer (Bremen), and <a Benedikt Schmitz (Groningen) are happy to announce the creation of the <a European Group on the Digitalisation of Justice (EGDJ),…
Original Jurisdiction
Ranking The Circuit Courts By Importance
By David Lat
The John Minor Wisdom Courthouse in New Orleans, home to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (photo by David Lat).Welcome to Original Jurisdiction, the latest legal publication…
Southern California Appellate News
RIP Justice Slough (1958-2026)
The DJ has Justice Marsha Slough, 1958 -- 2026: Retired 4th District Court of Appeal justice was "blue-collar" jurist, led court through pandemicRetired Justice Marsha G. Slough, whose two decades on the…