Add to ORKGThis Article discusses the treatment of judges\u27 activities to improve the law in the 1990 Model Code of Judicial Conduct. The 1972 Code of Judicial Conduct separated the guidelines for engaging in acts to improve the law ( quasi-judicial activity ) from cautions against off-bench activity wholly unrelated to the law ( extra-judicial activity ). The 1990 Model Code of Judicial Conduct consolidates quasi-judicial activity and extra-judicial activity into a single canon - Canon 4. The authors argue that this consolidation provides judges with little encouragement to improve the law. They suggest that the failure to encourage judges to improve our justice system is contrary to the history of quasi-judicial activity and to other tenets of the...
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Having set forth the above premise and conclusion, the American Bar Association Subcommittee on Unju...
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States have made clear in recent years, through their constitutions and judicial decisions, that jud...
We sometimes think, loosely, that ethics is good and that therefore more is better than less. But mo...
The article takes up the question of how best to put the increasing amount of interdisciplinary scho...
This Article examines the constitutional and practical issues surrounding the prosecutions of judges...
Recent cases involving ethical scandals on the juvenile court bench have caught the interest of lega...
The Framers argued judicial independence was necessary to the success of the American democratic exp...
This Article begins by reviewing the government employee line of cases, starting with United Public ...
The ABA Model Code of Judicial Conduct fairly well defines ethical conduct while on the bench. This ...
Having set forth the above premise and conclusion, the American Bar Association Subcommittee on Unju...
Over the last 20 years, a rich body of literature has emerged to describe the increasingly complex s...
In February 2007, the American Bar Association ( ABA ) revised its Model Code of Judicial Conduct, i...
The focus of this article is the issue of integrating statutory and other law. A substantial number ...
This Article discusses judicial performance evaluations as a check on judicial independence. It cove...
Over the past several years, several high-profile complaints have been levied against Article III ju...
The author discusses the ethical quandries faced daily by trial court judges. Suggestions are made a...
States have made clear in recent years, through their constitutions and judicial decisions, that jud...
We sometimes think, loosely, that ethics is good and that therefore more is better than less. But mo...
The article takes up the question of how best to put the increasing amount of interdisciplinary scho...