From some of the highly-publicized trials of the 1960's - namely the trials of the Chicago Eight, Panther Twenty-One, Weathermen - we can draw indispensable lessons about the role of the judges in upholding and promoting a fair justice system. The contract to Judge Julius Hoffman's notorious...

This paper presents a simple framework for analyzing a hierarchical system of judicial auditing. We concentrate on (what we perceive to be) the two principal reasons that courts and/or legislatures tend to scrutinize the decisions of lower-echelon actors: imprecision and ideological bias. In...

The burgeoning federal case load has focused public and professional attention upon the need to better allocate judicial resources. Recent Supreme Court decisions have greatly extended the reach of 42 U.S.C. section 1983, arguably at the expense of judicial economy and established notions of...

An Essay posted in late 2013 on I-COnect critiquing the case law of the Portuguese Constitutional Court on the austerity measures implemented by the Portuguese Government (especially the pay cuts in the public sector) under the so-called Adjustment Program.This essay articulates a critique of...