Issue 6 - November 2017
Symposiums
Symposium: The Least Understood Branch: The Demands and Challenges of the State Judiciary: Introduction
Alex Carver and Susanna Rychlak
Introduction: The Effects of Selection Method on Public Officials
Clayton J. Masterman
Adjudicating Death: Professionals or Politicians?
Stephen J. Choi and Mitu Gulati
The Ideological Consequences of Selection: A Nationwide Study of the Methods of Selecting Judges
Brian T. Fitzpatrick
Judging Law in Election Cases
Michael S. Kang and Joanna M. Shepherd
Judicial Reform as a Tug of War: How Ideological Differences Between Politicians and the Bar Explain Attempts at Judicial Reform
Adam Bonica and Maya Sen
The Effects of Trial Judge Gender and Public Opinion on Criminal Sentencing Decisions
Christina L. Boyd and Michael J. Nelson
Introduction: Perceived Legitimacy and the State Judiciary
G. Alexander Nunn
Public Perceptions of Gender Bias in the Decisions of Female State Court Judges
Michael P. Fix and Gbemende E. Johnson
Measuring Justice in State Courts: The Demographics of the State Judiciary
Tracey E. George and Albert H. Yoon
Judicial Laterals
Jonathan R. Nash
Introduction: The Power of New Data and Technology
Laura E. Dolbow
State Criminal Appeals Revealed
Michael Heise, Nancy J. King, and Nicole A. Heise
Contingent Fee Litigation in New York City
Eric Helland, Daniel Klerman, Brendan Dowling, and Alexander Kappner
Judicial Politics and Decisionmaking: A New Approach
Jeffrey J. Rachlinski, Andrew J. Wistrich, and Chris Guthrie