As Washington prepares for the opening of the 114th Congress, the capacity of our national legislature to address the nation’s problems is in doubt. Public approval of Congress hovers near historic ...

“The random case-assignment policy deters judge-shopping and the assignment of cases based on the perceived merits or abilities of a particular judge. It promotes the impartiality of proceedings and ...

Practically all citizens agree that the federal judiciary is critically important to our democracy. For citizens to have confidence in and respect for the judiciary, it must be above suspicion. To ...

I’ve worded the paper’s conclusion carefully, following the lead of Chilton and Levy. Their paper, posted at SSRN in November and entitled, “Challenging the Randomness of Panel Assignment in the ...

Proposed Changes to Pro Bono 'Madden' Assignments Open for Comment "The current 'Madden' system of random assignments to uncompensated counsel is not effective in matching willing and skilled ...