Judicature, the Journal of AJS
July-August 2010, Volume 94, Number 1

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Contents:

Articles

Reminiscences of Justice Stevens by his law clerks
by Carol Lee, General Counsel of Taconic Capital Adviors L.P. (cfldjs@earthlink.net); Nancy S. Marder, professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law (nmarder@kentlaw.edu); and Jamal Greene, an associate professor at Columbia Law School (jgreen5@law.columbia.edu).

Judicature invited three former Stevens law clerks from three different time periods to share reminiscences of the Justice--Carol Lee, who clerked in 1982-1983, Nancy Marder, who clerked in 1990-1992, and Jamal Greene, who clerked in 2006-2007..

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A Supreme Court without Protestants: Does it matter?
by John M. Scheb II, Professor of Political Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (scheb@utk.edu); Hemant Kumar Sharma, a Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (hsharma@utk.edu); and Colin Glennon, a doctoral candidate in political science at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (cglennon@utk.edu).

An examination of data from 1946-2008 indicates that for individual justices, ideology, far more than religious affiliation, determines voting behavior.

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Rethinking reliance on eyewitness confidence
by Neil Vidmar, Ph.D., Russell M. Robinson II Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law and Professor of Psychology, Duke University. He is also research director of Duke Law School’s Center for Criminal Justice and Professional Responsibility (vidmar@law.duke.edu); James E. Coleman, Jr., John S. Bradway Clinical Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law. He is Director of Duke Law School’s Center for Criminal Justice and Professional Responsibility and co-director of the Law School’s Wrongful Convictions Clinic; and Theresa A. Newman, a clinical professor of law, executive director of the Center for Criminal Justice and Professional Responsibility, and co-director of the Law School’s Wrongful Convictions Clinic at Duke University School of Law, and board member of the Innocence Network.

It is time for the Supreme Court to yield to solid science and overturn Biggers' reliance on the "common sense" confidence criterion?

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Is childhood obesity a form of child abuse? Factors to consider in judicial rulings
by Jenna Hayes, a graduate student in the Human Development & Family Studies Masters Program at the University of Nevada, Reno (jennahayes16@gmail.com) and Lorie L. Sicafuse, a doctoral student in the Interdisplinary Ph.D. Program in Social Psychology at the University of Nevado, Reno.

Though the courts must address the problem of childhood obesity, it should only be classified as abuse in the most extreme cases in which all other options have been exhausted.

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Viewpoint

The impact of mandatory minimum penalties in federal sentencing
by Marc Mauer, Executive Director of The Sentencing Project (mauer@sentencingproject.org).

Mandatory minimum penalties have not improved public safety but have exacerbated exisiting racial disparities within the criminal justice system.

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Focus

Judicial reform in Serbia
by Eugene J. Murret, Court Administration Advisor, Separation of Powers Programs. He has served as Judicial Administrator of the Louisiana Supreme Court, Circuit Executive of the U.S. Tenth Circuit, and Administrative Director of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Palau in the Western Pacific (gmurret@ewmispp.org).

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Briefs

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Books

Meeting Justice Stevens
John Paul Stevens: An Independent Life, by Bill Barnhart and Gene Schlickman, reviewed by Nancy S. Marder, a professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law who clerked for Justice Stevens at the Supreme Court in 1990-1992 (nmarder@kentlaw.edu).

The full pagent
The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law, edited by Roger K. Newman, reviewed by William Domnarski, an attorney in Roverside, California (Domnarski@sbcglobal.net).

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Editorial

John Paul Stevens: A judicial role model

What Justice Stevens' carerr can teach us about the attributes of a good judge.

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President's Report

Deeply honored to serve  

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