UC Law SF Presents: Scholarship for Judges
The first edition, published in 2017, was dubbed 鈥渋mportant and welcome鈥 by Judge MARSHA S. BERZON of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. 鈥淚t has become commonplace for judges to complain that the articles published in law reviews are abstract, abstruse, and self-absorbed,鈥 she wrote. 鈥淭he articles in The Judges鈥 Book do not have this pitch problem鈥攖hey are pitched just right.鈥 Now, the second edition will build on this earlier success.
Articles in the 2018 Judges鈥 Book () include, among others, SCOTT DODSON on issues of jurisdiction; LOIS A. WEITHORN on the vulnerability of children in the law; MORRIS RATNER on class-action conflict management; ZACH PRICE on the reliance on nonenforcement in constitutional law; JOHN CRAWFORD on regulating banks; HADAR AVIRAM on applying the Constitution to criminal law; DAVE OWEN on transformations in environmental law; GREGORY COCHRAN on Canadian medical tourism; DORIT RUBINSTEIN REISS on parents鈥 resistance to vaccinating their children; CLARK FRESHMAN on judging mindfully; and HEATHER M. FIELD on the ethics of tax lawyering. Chancellor & Dean DAVID FAIGMAN provided the book鈥檚 introduction.
LAWRENCE J. O鈥橬EILL 鈥79, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, spoke about the value of The Judges鈥 Book in the foreword to the 2018 edition: 鈥淭he articles presented avoid pure theory in favor of bringing theory to bear on practical topics. But, these works do much more,鈥 he wrote. 鈥淭hey push us to think, to question, and to be better, more consistent, and more conscientious decision makers.鈥
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