Using Judicial Performance Evaluation to Promote Judicial Accountability

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This article summarizes the results of a recent comprehensive study of an existing but underutilized approach to process-oriented judicial accountability: judicial performance evaluation (JPE). The IAALS study concluded that, if properly designed… MORE

Electronic Discovery: A View from the Front Lines

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IAALS reached out to those in the trenches—businesses, courts, and the legal community—to provide a snapshot of today’s electronic discovery landscape. This report explores the real world implications of e-discovery and the impact of the 2006… MORE

Transparent Courthouse®: A Blueprint for Judicial Performance Evaluation

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A companion to Shared Expectations, this publication provides useful tools to aid jurisdictions interested in establishing or improving a judicial performance evaluation program.

Shared Expectations: Judicial Accountability in Context

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IAALS' first publication in 2006 offers an overview of JPE standards and programs nationwide. It was one of our most requested and accessed publications.

Leveling the Playing Field

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This study assesses whether, as some claim, there is empirical evidence that women and minority judges are evaluated less favorably than their Caucasian male colleagues. We find that judges in four states with longstanding judicial performance… MORE

An Opinion on Opinions

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In August of 2011, IAALS convened a national conference on appellate judicial performance evaluation (JPE)—Evaluating Appellate Judges: Preserving Integrity, Maintaining Accountability. Throughout the course of the conference, participants… MORE

Goals and Principles for Judicial Nominating Commissions

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A subcommittee of the O’Connor Advisory Committee developed a set of goals to pursue and principles to follow in the selection, composition, and operation of judicial nominating commissions. Rather than constituting a “one size fits all”… MORE

FAQs: Judges in the United States

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This publication answers many common questions about the court systems and judges in the United States: Why do we have both state and federal courts? How are they different? Are more cases filed in state or federal courts? Are… MORE

Daniel Girard

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Daniel Girard is the founder and managing partner of Girard Gibbs LLP, a San Francisco and New York-based litigation firm with a nationwide practice, specializing in representing plaintiffs in class actions and complex litigation. His experience… MORE

Rebuilding Justice

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Authors Rebecca Love Kourlis and Dirk Olin tell the story of a civil justice system that has become alarmingly expensive, politicized, and time-consuming, degrading it to the point that it no longer meets the legitimate needs of the people it was… MORE