Court Review

AJA’s well-respected quarterly publication, Court Review, features current articles on trends, innovations, and topics of practical interest to judges.  The current issue featured articles are  excerpted below.

65th Anniversary issue

Volume 60, Issue 4

What Do the Findings from Six NCSC’s Public Opinion Surveys
Mean for Judges

By David B. Rottman

The survey findings reported here consistently tell us the only significant factors explaining the amount of trust people have in the judiciary are the degree to which they believe the judicial process meets the criteria that matter to them: the quality of treatment and the quality of decision-making judges deliver — the elements defining procedural fairness.  More.
Observations from NCSC’s State of the State Courts Public Opinion Surveys

Fiction with Potential Repercussions: An Update on the CSI Effect

By Melissa Corbett & Veronica Stinson

This article examines the current state of the scientific literature on the CSI Effect and updates readers on how the CSI Effect has emerged in legal proceedings. More.
Reprint: Fact or Fiction? The Myth and Reality of the CSI Effect

A Fractured Supreme Court: Select Criminal Law and Procedure Cases from the Supreme Court’s 2023-24 Term

By Eve Brensike Primus & Jordan Schuler

Perhaps more striking than the Court’s decisions in the cases reviewed here was the Justices’ lack of consensus. More.

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