Judicial Administration (LAW-838-001)
Rider
Meets: 04:00 PM - 05:50 PM (T) - Room 313
Enrolled: 10 / Limit: 22
Notices
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Description
This seminar examines the factors that shape the federal trial and
appellate courts, including: court organization and structure, and the personnel of the courts, the judicial selection process and the roles of executive officials,
legislators, political parties, the bar, judges and would-be judges,
the ethical rules that govern judges and mechanisms for dealing with
judicial disability and misbehavior; public and private sources of
education for (and influence of) judges about basic aspects of judging
as well as complex scientific and technical matters; the processes and
politics of adopting and amending rules of procedure; how judges and
legislators interact about legislation that affects the administration
of justice, including the funding of the judicial branch; the uneasy
relationship between courts and the news media that communicate
judicial decisions and court activities to the public, and special
topics, such as the debate over the proper role of trial judges in
managing litigation and encouraging settlement and whether those
activities are causing a deleterious decline in the proportion of cases
terminated by trial, and whether the nation's appellate system can
maintain small, collegial appellate courts in the face of increasing
appellate caseloads.
The seminar deals mainly with the federal judicial system.
Course
requirements are active class participation and preparation of three
relatively short essays (1,000; 2,250; 2,500 words, +/-) based
primarily on the readings assigned for class discussion.
Textbooks and Other Materials
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First Class Readings
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