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Judges Forum Reports

2021 – Juries, Voir Dire, Batson, and Beyond: Achieving Fairness in Civil Jury Trials

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2020 – Dangerous Secrets: Confronting Confidentiality in Our Public Courts

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Research Compendium on Confidentiality in Litigation: scholarship, court decisions, federal and state anti-secrecy measures


2019 – Aggregate Litigation in State Courts: Preserving Vital Mechanisms

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2018 – State Court Protection of Individual Constitutional Rights

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Additional Resources:

  • State Constitutional Provisions, Statutes and Decisions on Right to Jury Trial and Right to Remedy by NCJI

2017 – Jurisdiction: Defining State Courts’ Authority

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2016 – Who Will Write Your Rules? Your State Court or the Federal Judiciary?

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2015 – Judicial Transparency and the Rule of Law

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Supplemental materials:

  • The Sedona Guidelines: Best Practices Addressing Protective Orders, Confidentiality & Public Access in Civil Cases
  • Representative Federal and State Judicial Decisions and Other Materials Involving Protective Orders, Confidentiality and Public Access in Civil and Criminal Matters
  • Supplement to Representative Federal and State Judicial Decisions
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2014 – Forced Arbitration and the Fate of the 7th Amendment: The Core of America’s Legal System at Stake?

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2013 – The War on the Judiciary: Can Independent Judging Survive?

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2012 – Justice Isn’t Free: The Court Funding Crisis and Its Remedies

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  • 2012 Forum Agenda
  • 2012 Forum Faculty
  • John T. Broderick and Lawrence Friedman – State Courts and Public Justice: New Challenges, New Choices
  • J. Clark Kelso – Strategies for Responding to the Budget Crisis: From Leverage to Leadership
  • 2012 Forum Contributors

2011 – The Jury Trial Implosion: The Decline of Trial by Jury and Its Significance for Appellate Courts

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  • 2011 Forum Agenda
  • 2011 Forum Faculty
  • Marc Galanter & Angela Frozena – The Continuing Decline of Civil Trials in American Courts
  • Stephan Landsman – The Impact of the Vanishing Jury Trial on Participatory Democracy
  • Hon. William G. Young – Federal Courts Nurturing Democracy
  • Hon. William G. Young – Open Letter to US District Judges
  • State Jury Trial Provisions
  • 2011 Forum Contributors

2010 – Back to the Future: Pleading Again in the Age of Dickens?

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  • 2010 Forum Agenda
  • 2010 Forum Faculty
  • Benjamin Spencer – Pleading in State Courts After Twombly and Iqbal
  • Stephen B. Burbank – Pleading, Access to Justice, and the Distribution of Power
  • 2010 Forum Contributors

2009 – Preemption: Will Traditional State Authority Survive?

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  • 2009 Forum Agenda
  • 2009 Forum Faculty
  • Mary J. Davis – Is the “Presumption Against Preemption“ Still Valid?
  • Thomas O. McGarity – When Does State Law Trigger Preemption Issues?

2008 – Summary Judgement on the Rise: Is Justice Falling?

Supplemental materials:

  • 2008 Forum Agenda
  • 2008 Forum Faculty
  • Arthur R. Miller – The Ascent of Summary Judgement and its Consequences for State Courts and State Law
  • Georgene M. Vairo – Defending Against Summary Justice: The Role of the Appellate Courts
















 

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