Multi-state
State Court Report: “Multiple High Courts Uphold Voters’ Right to Use Ballot Measures to Change Law” by Derek Clinger
State Court Report: “Scholarship Roundup: September 2024 Back to School Edition” by Miriam Seifter
Direct Democracy in State Court: Judicial Approaches to Ballot Initiative Conflicts
Allie Boldt, Legal Research Director Published: August 9, 2024 Link to PDF Introduction In roughly half of U.S. states, state constitutions confer rights of direct democracy, allowing the people to make law directly through statutes …
White Paper: State Judicial Conduct Commissions—The Challenge of Judging Judges
Bryna Godar, Staff Attorney Published: July 10, 2024 Updated: July 30, 2024 Link to PDF Introduction This report analyzes an often-overlooked set of state entities that hold substantial power: judicial conduct commissions.[1] These entities, which …
Miriam Seifter in The New Yorker: Faculty Co-Director Seifter’s Democracy Principle theory is featured in a piece on the promise of state constitutions.
State Court Report: “Scholarship Roundup: End of Semester Edition” by Miriam Seifter
White Paper: Shadow Shadow Dockets
Adam Sopko, Staff Attorney Published: April 12, 2024 Link to PDF Introduction In recent years, legal commentators have analyzed—and often criticized—the U.S. Supreme Court’s “shadow docket.”[1] Rulings on this docket proceed without the usual, public-facing …