Judicature, the Journal of AJS
January-February 2010, Volume 93, Number 4

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Contents:

Articles

Changing backgrounds of U.S. district judges: Likely causes and possible implications
by Russell Wheeler, president of the Goverance Institute and a visiting fellow in the Brookings Institution's Governance Studies Program (rwheeler@brookings.com).

Since the Eisenhower administration there has been a fairly steady decline in the proportion of judges appointed to the U.S. district courts from private practice.

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Has the "New Style" of judicial campaigning reached lower court elections?
by Brian K. Arbour, an assistant professor in the Department of Government at John Jay College, City University of New York (barbour@jjay.cuny.edu) and Mark J. McKenzie, an assistant professor of political science at Texas Tech University (mark.mckenzie@ttu.edu).

A survey of judicial candidates in six states indicates lower court races are still low salience, sleepy affairs, with a focus on traditional court themes.

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Risk assessment and intimate partner sexual abuse: The hidden dimension of domestic violence
by Lynn Hecht Schafran, Director of the National Education Program, a project of Legal Momentum in cooperation with the National Association of Women Judges (lschafran@legalmomentum.org).

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Focus

Campaign contributors and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court
by Malia Reddick, Director of Research and Programs at the American Judicature Society (mreddick@ajs.org) and James R. DeBuse, a research assistant at the American Judicature Society during the Fall of 2009.

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Colorado's Our Courts: A model for adult public education
by Russell Carparelli, a Colorado Court of Appeals judge (russell.carparelli@judicial.state.co.us).

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Viewpoint

The Internet infects the courtroom
by Steven Wallace, a retired Orange County, Florida, judge (swall264@gmail.com).

The simple jury instruction to not consider anything other than the evidence and the law may no longer be sufficient in a technologically advanced society.

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Books

Grappling with the challenges
Understanding Bioethics and the Law: The Promises and Perils of the Brave New World of Biotechnology, by Barry R. Schaller, reviewed by Rudolph Kass, an Associate Justice (Ret.) Massachusetts Appeals Court (rkass@socialaw.com).

A relaxed standard
Rethinking Juvenile Justice, by Elizabeth S. Scott and Laurence Steinberg, reviewed by Lucy S. McGough, a professor at the Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University Law School (Lucy.McGough@law.lsu.edu).

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Editorial

Cameras in our federal courts--the time has come

In today's world, where television and the internet occupy such central places in people's lives, the most effective means of affording public access is by permitting cameras in our courtrooms.

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President's Report

The impact of Citizens United--and an alternative to politicized judicial elections  

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