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Regulating Eloquence - Boharic

Justifying Real Property Tax Exemptions in Kansas - Buchele

The Politics of Change in Implementing a New Court System - Carle

Piercing the Socratic Veil:  Adding an Active Learning Alternative in Legal Education - Ciciero

The "Community Standard" in the Trial of Obscenity Cases -- A Mandate for Empirical Evidence in Search of the Truth
- Clark

Impact of Nineteenth Century Missouri Courts Upon Emerging Industry:  Chambers of Commerce or Chambers of Justice? - Clark

Reception and Use of Social Science Evidence in the Trial Court - Colquitt

Seating the Blind Juror:  "is it a Judicial Dilemma?" - Crehan

Ingredient Defense Comparison of Ad Hok and Contract Defense in Five Semi-Rural Jurisdictions - Cullen

The Missouri Non-Partisan Court Plan - Daugherty

Courtroom Use of Scientific Evidence and Expert Witnesses, with Recommendations - Deese

Jury Source Lists and the Community's Need to Perceive Racial Balance on the Jury - Domitrovich

On the Threshold:  Rape Trauma Syndrome - Donohue

Mistaken Proportionality:  a Look at This Country's Most Severe Narcotics Penalty for First Offenders
- Drain

Inevitable Discovery, the Exclusionary Rule, and Military Due Process - Fennelly

Rights of Passage: An Empirical Study of Judges' and Defendants' Abilities to Communicate with Each Other During Guilty Plea Proceedings - Fink

Closed Circuit Television, the Adult Rape Victim and the Confrontation Clause:  I See You, You See Me, They See Us, but You Aren't Here - Fleet

DNA "Fingerprinting" -- Admissible Under Frye? - Furhman

Felony Plea Bargaining in Six Colorado Judicial Districts: A Limited Inquiry into the Nature of the Process - Goldsmith

Electronic Plea Taking at Florida's Weekend First Appearance Hearings:  Weekend Justice or Weakened Justice? - Grube

Instructing the Jury?Watch Your Language! - Hagerty

Experts On Eyewitness Testimony in Court -- A Short Historical Perspective - Hallisey

Ex Parte Communication Initiated By A Presiding Judge - Harhut

Capital Jury Selection In Florida and Texas -- A Quantitative Distinction Without a Legally Qualitative Difference?
- Hayes

Tobacco Road a/k/a The Golden Alley, I-95, The Drug Trafficker' Freeway, and Its Impact on the State Constitutional Law - Hobgood

Peremptory Challenges:  Thunder in the Jury Box - Honts

Homosexuals as a New Class of  Domestic Violence Subjects Under the New Jersey Prevention of Domestic Violence Act of 1991 - Hunter

Addressing Juror Stress: A Trial Judge's Perspective - Kelley

 

Florida Judicial Sentencing Guidelines - Kirkwood

Determining the Status of the External Human Embryo - Kumorowski

Custody Disputes in the Provincial Court of Alberta: A New Judicial Dispute Resolution Model - Landerkin

The Influence of Selection Process and Urbanization on the Texas District Court - Lanford

Who, What, Where and Why Not
- Lanzinger

Civil Dispute Resolution in Rural Courts: A Comparative Study of the Michigan Mediation Rule and the Rural Wisconsin Civil Trial - Madden

Measured Steps Toward Clarity and Balance in The Juvenile Justice System - McGee

The Craziness of Our World in Relation to Color - McGroarty

On Moving Toward A Family Court in Georgia - Messinger

Analysis of Ohio's Living Will Statute And Beyond - Mitrovich

Scientific Expert Testimony - A Trial Judge's Approach - Morrison

Judicial Bias - Nugent

Pre-Trial Publicity - Change of Venue - Public Opinion Polls...A Theory of Procedural Justice - O'Connell

A Moral Dilemma: The Role of Judicial Intervention in Withholding... - Peccarelli

A Jurisprudential Analysis of Guided Discretion: Disciplining Racism and Subjectivity in Capital Sentencing - Robinson

The Florida Response to Domestic Violence: An Analysis of Recent Florida Statutes - Rosman

Ethnic Cleansing and Land Ownership - Russell

Reel Justice - Smith

A World of Difference or the African Male: Communication Gap Converts Justice Into "Just Us" System - Thomas

Protecting Abused Children:  A Judge's Perspective Public-Law Deprived Child Proceedings and the impact of the Indian Child Welfare Act - Thompson

Children in Need of Mental Health Treatment:  A Judge's View of Revised Public Law and New Private Law Proceeding - Thompson

Economic Implications of Drunken Driving Sentences
- Turney

The Efficacy of the Properly Instructed Juror
- Van Tiem

AIDS in the Workplace: Mandatory Testing and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act - Waltzer

Grasping a Thorny Baton...A Trial Judge Looks at Judicial Notice and Courts' Acquisition of Social Science - Williams

     
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