Journal of Appellate Practice and Process articles from September 2007

Journal of Appellate Practice and Process archives from September 2007

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Technological transparency: appellate court and media relations after Bush v. Gore.
September 22, 2007... I. INTRODUCTION: THE BIG CASE The start of the broadcast was only minutes away, and for the next hour it would become the most watched television news event since the bizarre night of Florida's botched presidential election a month...

The next generation of legal citations: a survey of internet citations in the opinions of the Washington Supreme Court and Washington Appellate Courts, 1999-2005.
September 22, 2007... I. INTRODUCTION During January 2007, a storm of controversy over Wikipedia use swept across the blogosphere. From a history department banning citations to Wikipedia in student papers, (1) to companies paying for updates to its...