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The Justice System Journal


Table of Contents

Volume 30, Number 1   ~~~  2009


Articles

The Law and the Courts

The Presence of Lower-Court Amici as as Aspect of Supreme Court Agenda Setting

timothy m. hagle and harold j. spaeth

Courting Multiple Audiences:  The Strategic Selection of Legal Groundings by Judges on the U.S. Courts of Appeals

robert j. hume

The Impact of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines and Reform:  A Comparative Analysis

lydia brashear tiede

Problem Solving and the American Bench:  A National Survey of Trial Court Judges

donald j. farole, jr.

 

From the Benches and Trenches

Case Management Innovation in a Large, Urban Trial Court:  The Critical Importance of Legal Stakeholder Attitudes

james peter coolsen

 

Court Reform:  The North Dakota Experience

sally holewa

 

Legal Notes

When Judges Sue Their Brethren:  Opala v. Watt

Update:  Judge Lopez Torres and New York's Trial Judge Nominating Process

mark s. hurwitz

 

Review Section

Review of Gould, The Innocence Commission:  Preventing Wrongful Convictions and Restoring the Criminal Justice System

jack r. acker

Of Note

jolly a. emrey and stephen l. wasby

 

 

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