Court Review: Volume 41, Issue 3-4 - Friends of the Court? The Bar, the Media, and the Public

Authors

Steve Leben, Johnson County, Texas
John Russonello, Belden, Russonello & Stewart in Washington, D.C.
Malcom Feeley, University of California-Berkeley

Date of this Version

December 2005

Comments

Published in Court Review: The Journal of the American Judges Association, 41:3-4 (2005), pp. 36-43. Copyright © 2005 National Center for State Courts. Used by permission. Online at http://aja.ncsc.dni.us/htdocs/publications.htm.

Abstract

The fourth panel discussion at the National Forum on Judicial Independence explores the way the public thinks about judicial independence and ways in which the media and members of the bar may affect judicial independence. The discussion was led by then-AJA secretary Steve Leben, a state general-jurisdiction trial judge from Kansas. Panelists were John Russonello, a pollster and consultant to nonprofit organizations, political campaigns, and other clients, and Malcolm Feeley, professor at the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California-Berkeley. The National Forum on Judicial Independence was supported by a generous grant from the Joyce Foundation of Chicago, Illinois.