Court Review is published quarterly by the American Judges Association (AJA).

AJA members receive a subscription to Court Review. Non-member subscriptions are available for $35 per volume (four issues per volume).
Points of view or opinions expressed in Court Review are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the positions of the National Center for State Courts or the American Judges Association.

ISSN: 0011-0647

Editors: Professor Eve Brank, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Judge David D. Dreyer, Marion Superior Court, Indiana; Judge David Prince, Colorado State District Court

Managing Editor: Charles F. Campbell, National Center For State Courts Staff:

Editorial Assistant: Emma Marshall, University of Nebraska

Law Student Editors: Margaret Fouberg, University of Nebraska, Brooklyn Terrill, University of Nebraska, Sydney Pabelico, University of Nebraska, Tyler Lyon, University of Nebraska

Editorial Board: Kelly Lynn Anders, Kansas City, Missouri; Chief Judge Karen Arnold-Burger, Kansas Court of Appeals; Pamela Casey, PhD, National Center for State Courts; Judge B. Michael Dann, National Institute of Justice; Judge Julie Kunce Field, Fort Collins, Colorado; Judge John Irwin, Nebraska Court of Appeals; Judge Leslie G. Johnson, American Institute for Justice; Steven Lubet, Northwestern University; Judge Gregory E. Mize, Washington, DC; Elizabeth Neeley, PhD, University of Nebraska; David Rottman, PhD, National Center for State Courts

Editors Emeritus: Steven Leben, University of Missouri-Kansas City; Alan Tomkins, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Designer: Michael Fairchild, m-Design Studio

Copyright ©, American Judges Association.

Follow


2016

PDF

President’s Column (2016) 52 Page 95, John Conery

PDF

President’s Column (2016) 53 Page 3, John Conery

PDF

President’s Column: THANK YOU, SANTA FE! ON TO TORONTO!, John Conery

PDF

ANNEXATION, Victor Fleming

PDF

GONE A-COURTIN’, Victor Fleming

PDF

A Review of Decisions Rendered by the Supreme Court of Canada in Criminal Matters—January 1 to October 31, 2016, Wayne K. Gorman

PDF

How Much Independent Judicial Research Is Appropriate?, Wayne K. Gorman

PDF

The Death of Mandatory Minimum Periods of Imprisonment in Canada?, Wayne K. Gorman

PDF

When Can a Canadian Judge Change Her or His Decision?, Wayne K. Gorman

PDF

The Unsubstantiated Claims of Turkat’s Harmful Effects of Child-Custody Evaluations on Children, Jonathan W. Gould and Allan Posthuma

PDF

So You’re Going to Be a Judge: Ethical Issues for New Judges, Cynthia Gray

PDF

Giving Parents a Voice: A Case Study of a Family Treatment Drug Court Track in Lancaster County, Nebraska, Roger J. Heideman, Jennie Cole-Mossman, Lori Hoetger, and Katherine Hazen

PDF

Exporting Drug-Court Concepts to Traditional Courts: A Roadmap to an Effective Therapeutic Court, Jamey Hueston and Kevin Burke

PDF

THE JUDGE IS THE KEY COMPONENT: THE IMPORTANCE OF PROCEDURAL FAIRNESS IN DRUG-TREATMENT COURTS, Brian MacKenzie

PDF

President’s Column: A TRULY BROADER JUDICIAL HORIZON, Russell J. Otter

PDF

Eight in the Eye of a Political Storm: Civil Cases in the Supreme Court’s October 2015 Term, Todd E. Pettys

PDF

Meta-Analysis as an Aid for Judicial Decision Making, Nancy K. Steblay

PDF

Child Dead and Parent Charged with Murder After Psychologist Recommends Said Parent to Court: Turkat Responds to Gould and Posthuma’s Custody-Evaluation Fallacies, Ira Daniel Turkat

PDF

Harmful Effects of Child-Custody Evaluations on Children, Ira Daniel Turkat

PDF

One Term, Two Courts: Selected Criminal-Law Cases in the Supreme Court’s 2015-2016 Term, Charles D. Weisselberg and Juliana DeVries

2015

PDF

Court Review: The Journal of the American Judges Association 51:1 (2015)- Contents

PDF

Court Review: The Journal of the American Judges Association 51:1 (2015)- Contents

PDF

Court Review: The Journal of the American Judges Association 51:1 (2015)- Tittle Page

PDF

Court Review: The Journal of the American Judges Association 51:2 (2015)- Contents

PDF

Court Review: The Journal of the American Judges Association 51:2 (2015)- Whole Issue

PDF

Court Review: The Journal of the American Judges Association 51:3 (2015)- Contents

PDF

Court Review: The Journal of the American Judges Association 51:3 (2015)- Tittle Page

PDF

Court Review: The Journal of the American Judges Association 51:3 (2015)- Tittle Page

PDF

Court Review: The Journal of the American Judges Association 51:3 (2015)- Whole Issue

PDF

Court Review: The Journal of the American Judges Association 51:4 (2015)- Contents

PDF

Court Review: The Journal of the American Judges Association 51:4 (2015)- Tittle Page

PDF

Court Review: The Journal of the American Judges Association 51:4 (2015)- Whole Issue

PDF

Court Review: The Journal of the American Judges Association, Volume 51, Issue 1, (2015) Editor's Note

PDF

Court Review: The Journal of the American Judges Association, Volume 51, Issue 2, (2015) Editor's Note

PDF

Court Review: The Journal of the American Judges Association, Volume 51, Issue 3 (2015), Editor's Note

PDF

Court Review: The Journal of the American Judges Association, Volume 51, Issue 4 (2015), Editor's Note

PDF

The Resource Page (2015) 51 Page 128

PDF

The Resource Page (2015) 51 Page 172

PDF

The Resource Page (2015) 51 Page 48

PDF

The Resource Page: Focus on Self-Represented Litigants (2015) 51 Page 84

PDF

A Psycholegal Deskbook for Bench and Bar: Book Review of Forensic Assessments in Criminal and Civil Law, John W. Brown and Benjamin K. Hoover

PDF

President’s Column (2015) 51 Page 131, John Conery

PDF

Implicit Bias and the American Juror, Jennifer K. Elek and Paula Hannaford-Agor

PDF

An Evolution in Canadian Judging, Wayne K. Gorman

PDF

On Recusal Standards: The Yukon Francophone School Board Case, Wayne K. Gorman

PDF

Using Third-Party Information in Forensic Mental-Health Assessment: A Critical Review, Kirk Heilbrun, Amanda NeMoyer, Chris King, and Meghann Galloway

PDF

Self-Represented Litigants and Civil Case Dispositions in Missouri: An Impact Analysis, Anne Dannerbeck Janku and Joseph A. Vradenburg

PDF

The Gatekeeper’s Toolbox: A Survey on Judicial Handling of Expert-Reliability Motions, Andrew W. Jurs

PDF

Writing Like the Best Judges, Steve Leben

PDF

President’s Column (2015) 51 Page 87, Brian MacKenzie

PDF

President’s Column: CHANGING THE AMERICAN JUDGES ASSOCIATION, Brian MacKenzie

PDF

President’s Column: JUDICIAL STRESS (2015) 51 Page 3, Brian MacKenzie

PDF

Making Continuous Improvement a Reality: Achieving High Performance in the Ottawa County, Michigan, Circuit and Probate Courts, Brian J. Ostrom, Matthew Kleiman, Shannon Roth, and Alicia Davis

PDF

Weddings, Whiter Teeth, Judicial- Campaign Speech, and More: Civil Cases in the Supreme Court’s 2014-2015 Term, Todd E. Pettys

PDF

Miranda Rights and Wrongs: Matters of Justice, Richard Rogers and Eric Y. Drogin

PDF

What’s (Who You) Love Got to Do with It?* Should Sexual Orientation Be a Permissible Basis for Peremptory Challenges?, Colin P. Saltry

PDF

The Case for Counting Cases, Richard Schauffler and Shauna Strickland

PDF

The Impact of Forensic vs. Social-Science Evidence on Judicial Decisions to Grant a Writ of Habeas Corpus, Hayley J. Wechsler, Robert J. Cramer, Andre Kehn, Robin E. Wosje, Marcus T. Boccaccini, and Jorge G. Varela

PDF

Motorists, Motels, Mistakes, and More: Criminal Law Cases in the Supreme Court’s 2014-2015 Term, Charles D. Weisselberg, Daniel Chen, and Sameera Mangena

PDF

Practical Advice from the Trenches: Best Techniques for Handling Self-Represented Litigants, Dorothy J. Wilson and Miriam B. Hutchins

2014

PDF

Court Review: The Journal of the American Judges Association 50:1 (2014)- Contents

PDF

Court Review: The Journal of the American Judges Association 50:1 (2014)- Tittle Page

PDF

Court Review: The Journal of the American Judges Association 50:1 (2014)- Whole Issue

PDF

Court Review: The Journal of the American Judges Association 50:2 (2014)- Contents

PDF

Court Review: The Journal of the American Judges Association 50:2 (2014)- Tittle Page

PDF

Court Review: The Journal of the American Judges Association 50:2 (2014)- Whole Issue

PDF

Court Review: The Journal of the American Judges Association 50:3 (2014)- Contents

PDF

Court Review: The Journal of the American Judges Association 50:3 (2014)- Tittle Page

PDF

Court Review: The Journal of the American Judges Association 50:3 (2014)- Whole Issue

PDF

Court Review: The Journal of the American Judges Association 50:4 (2014)- Contents

PDF

Court Review: The Journal of the American Judges Association 50:4 (2014)- Tittle Page

PDF

Court Review: The Journal of the American Judges Association 50:4 (2014)- Whole Issue

PDF

Court Review: The Journal of the American Judges Association, Volume 50, Issue 2 (2014), Editor's Note

PDF

Court Review: The Journal of the American Judges Association, Volume 50, Issue 3, Editor's Note (2014)

PDF

Court Review: The Journal of the American Judges Association, Volume 50, Issue 4, Editor's Note (2014)

PDF

President’s Column: A RECIPE TO MOVE AJA FORWARD

PDF

The Resource Page (2014) 50 Page 108

PDF

The Resource Page (2014) 50 Page 160

PDF

The Resource Page (2014) 50 Page 40

PDF

The Resource Page: Focus on Self-Represented Litigants (2014) 50 Page 212

PDF

Evidentiary Incommensurability: A Preliminary Exploration of the Problem of Reasoning from General Scientific Data to Individualized Legal Decision-Making, David L. Faigman

PDF

Expert Testimony in Juvenile and Adult Alleged False- Confession Cases, I. Bruce Frumkin

PDF

Protections for Juveniles in Self- Incriminating Legal Contexts, Developmentally Considered, Thomas Grisso

PDF

Empathy, Acceptance of Responsibility, and Compelled Testimony in Juvenile Transfer Hearings: Legal Context and Empirical Evidence, Kirk Heilbrun, Sanjay Shah, Elizabeth Foster, Michael Keesler, and Stephanie Brooks Holliday

PDF

Brain Imaging for Judges: An Introduction to Law and Neuroscience, Owen D. Jones, Joshua W. Buckholtz, Jeffrey D. Schall, and René Marois

PDF

The Filing and Briefing of Cross-Motions in State and Federal Court, Michael G. Langan and Jason C. Halpin

PDF

President’s Column: A YEAR, A CHANGE, AND A CHALLENGE (2015) 20 Page 163, Brian MacKenzie

PDF

Interbranch Communication and Rule 3.2 of the 2007 ABA Model Code of Judicial Conduct, Raymond J. McKoski

PDF

The Status of NeuroLaw: A Plea for Current Modesty and Future, Cautious Optimism, Stephen J. Morse

PDF

Doubting Abood, Finding Religion at Hobby Lobby, and More: Civil Cases in the Supreme Court’s 2013-2014 Term, Todd E. Pettys

PDF

A New Model for Civil Case Management: Efficacy Through Intrinsic Engagement, David Prince

PDF

Pain as Fact and Heuristic: How Pain Neuroimaging Illuminates Moral Dimensions of Law, Amanda C. Pustilnik

PDF

Informing Criminal Defendants of the Immigration Consequences of Their Convictions: The Trial Judge’s Duty, Kate Ono Rahel and Justin Shilhanek

PDF

The Admissibility of Brain Scans in Criminal Trials: The Case of Positron Emission Tomography, Susan E. Rushing

PDF

Keeping Up with Neurolaw: What to Know and Where to Look, Francis X. Shen

PDF

Research Report: How Litigants Evaluate Legal Procedures at the Start of Their Cases, Dr. Donna Shestowsky

PDF

Should the Science of Adolescent Brain Development Inform Public Policy?, Laurence Steinberg

PDF

Scrutinizing Confessions in a New Era of Juvenile Jurisprudence, Joshua A. Tepfer, Laura H. Nirider, and Steven A. Drizin

PDF

Cell Phones and Everything Else: Criminal Law Cases in the Supreme Court’s 2013-2014 Term, Charles D. Weisselberg

PDF

President’s Column (2015) 50 Page 111, Elliott Zide