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Volume 59 Symposium on Evaluating Judging, Judges, and Judicial Institutions

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Volume 59

Symposium on Evaluating Judging, Judges, and Judicial Institutions

In late September, a distinguished group of federal and state-court judges, legal scholars, and political scientists gathered at Duke Law School to discuss how best to study and rate judicial performance. The goal of the invitation-only, two-day workshop was to strengthen and broaden the theoretical foundation of empirical research to better evaluate the quality and legitimacy of judicial decisionmaking. Participants included an equal number of jurists, theoretical scholars, and empiricists who identified unanswered or inadequately addressed questions that can serve as the basis for discussion on how to advance empirical study of the judiciary.

Dean David F. Levi, former chief U.S. district judge for the Eastern District of California, organized the workshop, titled “Evaluating Judging, Judges and Judicial Institutions,” along with Professor G. Mitu Gulati of Duke Law School and Professor David E. Klein of the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics at the University of Virginia, both of whom have undertaken scholarly research on the subject. The workshop was funded with a grant from the National Science Foundation.

The workshop produced nine short scholarly articles on topics ranging from how empiricists can improve their measurements of judges to why empiricists can never successfully measure judges. These articles are exclusively available on the Legal Workshop.

Currently available articles include:

Mitu Gulati, David E. Klein & David F. Levi, Evaluating Judges and Judicial Institutions: Reorienting the Perspective

Marin K. Levy, Kate Stith & José A. Cabranes, The Costs Of Judging Judges By The Numbers

Forthcoming articles include:

Joanna Shepherd, Diversity, Tenure, and Dissent (Available March 2, 2010)

Emily Sherwin, Investigating Judicial Responses to Rules (Available March 4, 2010)

Patrick S. Shin, Distinguishing Causal and Normative Questions in Empirical Studies of Judging (Available March 9, 2010)

Judge Harris Hartz, Evaluating Judges (Available March 11, 2010).

Jack Knight & Mitu Gulati, Talking Judges (Available March 16, 2010)

Alfred L. Brophy, Quantitative Legal History: Empirics and the Rule of Law in the Antebellum Judiciary (Available March 18, 2010)

Brian Z. Tamanaha, Devising Rule of Law Baselines: The Next Step in Quantitative Studies of Judging (Available March 25, 2010)

Please visit the Legal Workshop to access these articles and other short scholarly essays.

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Volume 59 February 2010 Number 5

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Volume 59      February 2010      Number 5

Article

Searching for Terrorists: Why Public Safety Is Not a Special Need

Ric Simmons

Lecture

Congressional Power over the Jurisdiction of Federal Courts: The Meaning of the Word “All” in Article III

William A. Fletcher

Notes

Wielding the Wand Without Facing the Music: Allowing Utilization Review Physicians to Trump Doctors’ Orders, but Protecting Them from the Legal Risk Ordinarily Attached to the Medical Degree

Katherine L. Record

Losing the Loss Calculation: Toward a More Just Sentencing Regime in White-Collar Criminal Cases

Derick R. Vollrath

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Duke Law Journal, Volume 59, January 2010

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Volume 59      January 2010      Number 4

Articles

International Idealism Meets Domestic-Criminal-Procedure Realism

Stephanos Bibas & William W. Burke-White

Of Christmas Trees and Corpus Christi: Ceremonial Deism and Change in Meaning over Time

B. Jessie Hill

Essay

Struck by Stereotype: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Pregnancy Discrimination as Sex Discrimination

Neil S. Siegel & Reva B. Siegel

Postscript

A Postscript to Struck by Stereotype

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Note

Narrowing the Bankruptcy Safe Harbor for Derivatives to Combat Systemic Risk

Bryan G. Faubus

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Duke Law Journal, Volume 59, December 2009

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Volume 59      December 2009      Number 3

Articles

Cybersieves

Derek E. Bambauer

The Limits of Advocacy

Amanda Frost

Notes

Constitutional Limits on Private Policing and the State’s Allocation of Force

M. Rhead Enion

The NCAA’s Lost Cause and the Legal Ease of Redefining Amateurism

Virginia A. Fitt

Not Peace, but a Sword: Navy v. Egan and the Case Against Judicial Abdication in Foreign Affairs

Jason Rathod

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Duke Law Journal Volume 59 November 2009

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Volume 59 November 2009 Number 2

Articles

How the Dissent Becomes the Majority: Using Federalism to Transform Coalitions in the U.S. Supreme Court

Vanessa Baird & Tonja Jacobi

Living Originalism

Thomas B. Colby & Peter J. Smith

Notes

Reasonableness Meets Requirements: Regulating Security and Privacy in Software

Paul N. Otto

Making Amends: Amending the ICSID Convention to Reconcile Competing Interests in International Investment Law

Kate M. Supnik

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Duke Law Journal Volume 59 October 2009

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Volume 59 October 2009 Number 1

Articles

Constraining Public Employee Speech: Government’s Control of Its Workers’ Speech to Protect Its Own Expression

Helen Norton

Notes

Rescuing the Hero: The Ramifications of Expanding the Duty to Rescue on Society and the Law

Amelia H. Ashton

When Insiders Become Outsiders: Parental Objections to Public School Sex Education Programs

Emily J. Brown

The Fiduciary Duty in Mutual Fund Excessive Fee Cases: Ripe for Reexamination

Emily D. Johnson

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Duke Law Journal Volume 58 May 2009

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Volume 58 May 2009 Number 8

Articles

Pitfalls of Empirical Studies that Attempt to Understand the Factors Affecting Appellate Decisionmaking

Hon. Harry T. Edwards & Michael A. Livermore

A More Perfect System: The 2002 Reforms of the Board of Immigration Appeals

John D. Ashcroft & Kris W. Kobach

The NLRB in Administrative Law Exile: Problems with Its Structure and Function and Suggestions for Reform

Catherine L. Fisk & Deborah C. Malamud

Political Control of Federal Prosecutions: Looking Back and Looking Forward

Daniel Richman

Federalism Accountability: “Agency-Forcing” Measures

Catherine M. Sharkey

Depoliticizing Administrative Law

Cass R. Sunstein & Thomas J. Miles

The Parliament of the Experts

Adrian Vermeule

Administration of War

John Yoo

Comment

Comment on Professor Yoo, Administration of War

Richard H. Kohn

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Duke Law Journal Volume 58 April 2009

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Volume 58 April 2009 Number 7

Foreword

Measuring Judges and Justice

Jeffrey M. Chemerinsky & Jonathan L. Williams

Introduction

“Only Connect”: Toward a Unified Measurement Project

David F. Levi & Mitu Gulati

Articles

Economic Trends and Judicial Outcomes: A Macrotheory of the Court

Thomas Brennan, Lee Epstein & Nancy Staudt

The Warp and Woof of Statutory Interpretation: Comparing Supreme Court Approaches in Tax Law and Workplace Law

James J. Brudney & Corey Ditslear

Judicial Evaluations and Information Forcing: Ranking State High Courts and Their Judges

Stephen J. Choi, Mitu Gulati & Eric A. Posner

Judging the Judges

Frank B. Cross & Stefanie Lindquist

Remaking the United States Supreme Court in the Courts’ of Appeals Image

Tracey E. George & Chris Guthrie

The “Hidden Judiciary”: An Empirical Examination of Executive Branch Justice

Chris Guthrie, Jeffrey J. Rachlinski & Andrew J. Wistrich

Are Empiricists Asking the Right Questions about Judicial Decisionmaking?

Jack Knight

Predicting Court Outcomes through Political Preferences: The Japanese Supreme Court and the Chaos of 1993

J. Mark Ramseyer

Are Appointed Judges Strategic Too?

Joanna M. Shepherd

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Duke Law Journal Volume 58 March 2009

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Volume 58 March 2009 Number 6

Articles

Litigation Discovery Cannot Be Optimal but Could Be Better: The Economics of Improving Discovery Timing in a Digital Age

Scott A. Moss

The Lost History of Governance and Equal Protection

V.F. Nourse, Sarah A. Maguire

Essay

Are American CEOs Overpaid, and, if So, What if Anything Should Be Done about It?

Richard A. Posner

Lecture

What Can Brown Do for You?: Neutral Principles and the Struggle over the Equal Protection Clause

Pamela S. Karlan

Notes

Restoring RLUIPAs Equal Terms Provision

Sarah Keeton Campbell

Abandonment and Reconciliation: Addressing Political and Common Law Objections to Fetal Homicide Laws

Douglas S. Curran

Fraud on the Market Gets a Minitrial: Eisen through In re IPO

Patricia Groot

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Duke Law Journal Volume 58 February 2009

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Volume 58 February 2009 Number 5

Articles

Judgment-Sharing Agreements

Christopher R. Leslie

Notes

Remembering Democracy in the Debate over Election Reform

Matthew Michael Calabria

A Question of Costs: Considering Pressure on White-Collar Criminal Defendants

Sarah Ribstein

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Duke Law Journal Vol. 58 January 2009

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Volume 58 January 2009 Number 4

Articles

Chevron’s Mistake

Lisa Schultz Bressman

Money, Politics, and Impartial Justice

Joanna M. Shepherd

Notes

Avoiding Mere Incantations: Evaluating Success on Nonfee Claims When Determing Prevailing-Party Status under 42 U.S.C. § 1998

Jessica L. Brumley

Counting Offenses

Jeffrey M. Chemerinsky

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Duke Law Journal Volume 58 December Issue

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Volume 58 December 2008 Number 3

Articles

Spending Clause Litigation in the Roberts Court

Samuel R. Bagenstos

Regulation with Placebo Effects

Anup Malani

Notes

Constitutional Secrecy: Aligning National Security Letter Nondisclosure Provisions with First Amendment Rights

Brian D. Eyink

Milberg’s Monopoly: Restoring Honesty and Competition to the Plaintiffs’ Bar

James P. McDonald

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Duke Law Journal November 2008 Issue

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Volume 58 November 2008 Number 2

Articles

Articles

Leaving the House: The Constitutional Status of Resignation from the House of Representatives

Josh Chafetz

Notes

Victims’ Rights in an Adversary System

Erin C. Blondel

The Newest Spectator Sport: Why Extending Victims’ Rights to the Spectators’ Gallery Erodes the Presumption of Innocence

Sierra Elizabeth

The Development and Failure of Social Norms in Second Life

Phillip Stoup

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Duke Law Journal October 2008 Issue

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Volume 58 October 2008 Number 1

Articles

Habeas Corpus and State Sentencing Reform: A Story of Unintended Consequences

Nancy J. King, Suzanna Sherry

Notes

A Divine Comity: Certification (at Last) in North Carolina

Eric Eisenberg

Buyer Beware: Why the Class Arbitration Waiver Presents a Gloomy Future for Consumers

Daniel R. Higginbotham

The Next “Great Dissenter”? How Clarence Thomas Is Using the Words and Principles of John Marshall Harlan to Craft a New Era of Civil Rights

Hannah L. Weiner

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Duke Law Journal May 2008 Issue

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Volume 57 May 2008 Number 7

Articles

Administrative Law’s Federalism: Preemption, Delegation, and Agencies at the Edge of Federal Power

Brian Galle, Mark Seidenfeld

Administrative Law as the New Federalism

Gillian E. Metzger

Essays

Tennis with the Net Down: Administrative Federalism Without Congress

Stuart Minor Benjamin, Ernest A. Young

The California Greenhouse Gas Waiver Decision and Agency Interpretation: A Response to Professors Galle and Seidenfeld

Nina A. Mendelson

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Duke Law Journal April 2008 Issue

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Volume 57 April 2008 Number 6

Articles

Is It Wrong to Sue for Rape?

Tom Lininger

The Right’s Reasons: Constitutional Conflict and the Spread of Woman-Protective Anti-Abortion Argument

Reva B. Siegel

Economic Foundations of Intellectual Property Rights

Joseph E. Stiglitz

In Defense of Prometheus: Some Ethical, Economic, and Regulatory Issues of Sports Doping

Richard A. Posner

The Problem of Doping

Doriane Lambelet Coleman and James E. Coleman, Jr.

Notes

The Costs of Perceived Hypocrisy: The Impact of U.S. Treatment of Foreign Acquisitions of Domestic Enterprises

Destiny Duron Deas

Assessing the Constitutionality of the Alien Terrorist Removal Court

John Dorsett Niles

Cell Phone Ringtones: A Case Study Exemplifying the Complexities of the Section 115 Mechanical License of the Copyright Act of 1976

Daniel M. Simon

The Shadows of Future Generations

Matthew W. Wolfe

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Duke Law Journal, March 2008 Issue

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Volume 57 March 2008 Number 5

Articles

Repairing Family Law

Clare Huntington

Paradigms of Restraint

Erin Murphy

Notes

Hindsight Is 20/20: Revisiting the Reapportionment Cases to Gain Perspective on Partisan Gerrymanders

Douglass Calidas

From New London to Norwood: A Year in the Life of Eminent Domain

Andrew S. Han

The Siren Song of Interrogational Torture: Evaluating the U.S. Implementation of the U.N. Convention Against Torture

Isaac A. Linnartz

How Reasonable Is “Reasonable”? The Search for Satisfactory Approach to Employment Handbooks

Bryce Yoder

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Duke Law Journal Vol. 57 Issue 4 (February 2008)

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Volume 57 February 2008 Number 4

Articles

Institutions in the Marketplace of Ideas

Joseph Blocher

The Internationalization of Public Interest Law

Scott L. Cummings

Is Secured Debt Used to Redistribute Value from Tort Claimants in Bankruptcy? An Empirical Analysis

Yair Listokin

Notes

Regulating Corporations the American Way: Why Exhaustive Rules and Just Deserts Are the Mainstay of U.S. Corporate Governance

Jonas V. Anderson

Court-Ordered Restrictions on Trial Participant Speech

Jonathan Eric Pahl

The Continued Relevance of the Irrelevance-of-Motive Maxim

Michael T. Rosenberg

Freedom to Defraud: Stoneridge, Primary Liability, and the Need to Properly Define Section 10(b)

Travis S. Souza

Rendering Turner Toothless: The Supreme Court’s Decision in Beard v. Banks

Jennifer N. Wimsatt

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Duke Law Journal, Volume 57, Issue 3 (December 2007)

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Volume 57 December 2007 Number 3

Articles

The Legal Ethics of Pediatric Research

Doriane Lambelet Coleman

The Competing Paradigms of Securities Regulation

James J. Park

Notes

The Grand Bargain: Revitalizing Labor through NLRA Reform and Radical Workplace Relations

Michael M. Oswalt

Unionizing NCAA Division I Athletics: A Viable Solution?

Rohith A. Parasuraman

Standing Up to Legislative Bullies: Separation of Powers, State Courts and Educational Rights

Sonja Ralston Elder

Judicial Discretion and the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention Act

Lauren E. Tribble

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