Bench & Bar

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to Offer Remote Viewing of En Banc Hearings

Amy Totenberg nominated to be federal judge

9th Circuit: Former AG Ashcroft can be held personally liable, 8 judges dissent

Judge Frowns on Request for California Bar Data

Supreme Court to manage and launch new website

Judiciary Approves PACER Innovations To Enhance Public Access

Obama nominates “unabashed liberal” to 9th Circuit

Law Review: The Radicalism of Legal Positivism

Law Review: On the Significance of Constitutional Spirit

Federal Courts Move Toward More Public Access

How Many Rounds of Edits Are Best, and What Kinds, for Law Review Publications?

IN: Butler rejects U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts as commencement speaker

Attorney General failed to give legal briefs to Senate

Nationwide, State Court Systems Continue to Feel the Pinch

2nd Circuit rules on standards for obtaining a preliminary injunction

President nominates Raymond Lohier to 2nd Circuit and Kate O’Malley to Federal Circuit

Revised Supreme Court Rules

Law Review: Evaluating Judges and Judicial Institutions: Reorienting the Perspective

Law Review: The Last Word

Law Review: Why the Supreme Court Issues Plurality Opinions

Prop. 8 suit closing arguments will not be televised

New Faces at the D.C. Judicial Nomination Commission

Law school faculties 40% larger than 10 years ago

Hearing Delayed for Obama Judicial Nominee Who Supported Serial Killer

Chief justice unsettled by Obama’s criticism of Supreme Court

Panel: Senate Filibuster Not Going Away Soon

Justice Scalia Suggests that the Legal Academy is Out of Touch: Is He Right?

Poll Shows Public Support for Cameras at the High Court

9th Circuit candidate’s career marked by rapid ascent, wide-ranging roles

Law Review: Clarence Thomas’s jurisprudence unexplained

ACLU Likens Obama to Bush in Ad Slamming Possible Reversal on KSM Trial

Debate Heats Up Over 9th Circuit Nominee

California justice weighs in on judicial races

Law Review: Judicial Diversity on State Supreme Courts

Law Review: Biblical Literalism and Constitutional Originalism

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts Not Stepping Down, Report False

Maryland: Ex-Justice O’Connor favors end to electing judges

SCOTUS Petitions to Watch includes abortion clinic bubble zone case

Senate Confirms Nominee for 4th Circuit – Barbara Keenan

Public Comments Sought About Missouri Judges

ACLU’s appeal to UN undermines our laws

In Chicago Gun Case, Supreme Court Sounds Note of Caution

President Obama Nominates Lesbian Woman for U.S. Attorney Post

Five Ways to Write Like John Roberts

Prop. 8 suit closing arguments may be televised

NALP Backs Down From Offer Prohibition Plan

Pro-Abortion Group Endorses Obama Nominee Timothy Black for Federal Judge

SCOTUS Petitions to Watch includes Ten Commandments case

Obama zeros in on law professor for 9th Circuit post

Supreme Court settles corporate jurisdiction debate

In-Justice! Furor over O’s ‘Gitmo’ appointees

Law Review: The Functions of Ethical Originalism

Law Review: The Misunderstood Relationship between Originalism and Popular Sovereignty

Law Review: The Constitutional Status of Customary International Law

ABA Effort to Add Outcomes to Accreditation Standards Roils Law Deans

Law schools with the highest percentages of graduates hired by NLJ 250 firms

States, Congress wrestle with judicial bias rules

Just Like Everyone: Inclusiveness efforts seek to make GLBT lawyers—and all others—feel at home

Study finds sharp decline in law review circulation

Roberts versus Roberts: Just how radical is the chief justice?

Filibusters slow U.S. Senate in approving jurists, including Vanaskie of Clarks Green.

U.S. Supreme Court sets argument dates in key cases

Justice Breyer analyzes rule of law in Yale talk

AZ: Panel OKs end to ‘merit selection’ for judges

Kenneth Starr Named President of Baylor University

Talk Grows of 2 Openings at High Court

Law Review: Heller High Water? The Future of Originalism

Senate Confirms U.S. Attorney for D.C.

Reid nixes filibuster reform effort

AZ Lawmakers Consider New System for Judge Picks

Senate Majority Leader Takes Swipe at ABA

Conservative Judicial Group Moves into Crisis Mode

Dawn Johnsen May Receive Recess Appointment, Perhaps Supreme Court Seat

Why Reducing Fees and Putting on A Pretty Pink Dress Won’t Bring Solos Back to the ABA

District Court Nominees to Wait Another Day