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Constitutional Law

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Chapter 9 Online Repository: Postconfirmation

October 24, 2017

This page includes orders related to the court’s continuing jurisdiction after the entry of the confirmation order for purposes of implementing the plan and closing the case.

Off Paper – Episode 4: Trends in Federal and State Pretrial Justice (Part 1 of 2)

Mark A. Sherman, Christine Dozier, Cherise Fanno Burdeen

October 19, 2017

The Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits the government from requiring a criminal defendant to pay "excessive bail" in order to get out of jail before trial. Nevertheless, nearly half a million people across the country are in pretrial detention.

Off Paper - Episode 5: Trends in Federal and State Pretrial Justice (Part 2 of 2)

Mark A. Sherman, Christine Dozier, Cherise Fanno Burdeen

October 19, 2017

Supreme Court: The Term in Review (2016-2017)

July 19, 2017

Some of the nation's top legal scholars discuss the U.S. Supreme Court's 2016–2017 term and analyze the decisions that are most likely to affect the work of federal judges.

Questions and Answers (from after the live program)

July 18, 2009

The Court Historian, No. 9 (March 1998)

March 1, 1998

In this issue:

The Amistad Case and the Federal Courts
Documenting the Careers of Federal Judges

The Court Historian was an occasional newsletter (discontinued) from the Federal Judicial History Office.

International Judicial Observer, No. 4

Stephen Neff, Sandra Day O'Connor, Alexander Galkin

June 1, 1997

In this issue of the International Judicial Observer:

State-Federal Judicial Observer, No. 7

Susan P. Graber, William W Schwarzer

October 1, 1994

In this issue of the State-Federal Judicial Observer:

Report of the National Commission on Judicial Discipline and Removal: Executive Summary

Robert W. Kastenmeier

August 2, 1993

In 1990, Congress created the National Commission on Judicial Discipline and Removal, who's charge included investigation of problems related to the discipline and removal of life-tenured federal judges, and evaluation of alternatives to current arrangements for judicial discipline and removal, i

State-Federal Judicial Observer, No. 3

William W Schwarzer, Marilyn Roberts

July 1, 1993