Journal of Appellate Practice and Process articles

Recent articles from Journal of Appellate Practice and Process

Twelve prose poems by Roger J. Traynor (with a nod to Charles Baudelaire).
September 22, 2007... The year 1869 brought something new to the world of literature: the prose poems of the French poet Charles Baudelaire, consisting of fifty pieces of very short prose he wrote during his last dozen years of life. They were published under the title Petits Poemes en Prose, two years after...

Scholarly discourse and the cementing of norms: the case of the Indian Supreme Court - and a plea for research.
September 22, 2007... I. INTRODUCTION For Americans, India has been a country of intense interest in recent years. Less than ten years ago India alarmed many around the world, including then-President Clinton, after it (and neighboring Pakistan) conducted a series of nuclear tests. (1) But even before this...

Horse-and-buggy dockets in the Internet age, and the travails of a courthouse reporter.
September 22, 2007... If one dates the Internet Age from 1989, with English computer scientist Timothy Berners-Lee's invention of the World Wide Web, it is perhaps fair to suggest that news reporting from America's courthouses should have been digitally possible for most of two decades. With rare--too...

Five ways appellate courts can help the news media.
September 22, 2007... The title of this article probably has some readers fuming already--especially those of you who wear robes to work. I can hear you thinking, "No part of my job as a judge includes the odious task of assisting the media." Point taken, and you are not alone. At a social gathering, the...

Some reflections on cameras in the appellate courtroom.
September 22, 2007... I. INTRODUCTION In the last issue of the Journal of Appellate Practice and Process, Justice Robert Brown of the Supreme Court of Arkansas discussed the various ways in which state high courts around the country are beginning to embrace technology to record and to broadcast their oral...