Application Design for Registration of Civil Appeals with Intuitive District Courts

Divisional Arrangement for the Federal Appeals Courts

The Federal Appeals Courts at Century's End

I wish to thank Peggy Sanner for valuable suggestions, Eleanor Davison for processing this piece, and Jim Rogers for generous continuing support. Errors that remain are mine.

Confirmation Delay for Vacancies on the Circuit Courts of Appeals

Supreme Court confirmation is an exhaustively studied phenomenon, but lower court confirmation is less well understood, in part because lower court nominees are very rarely rejected, and the Senate fails even to hold a recorded vote for most appointees. However, the length of time it takes to fill a judicial vacancy serves as alternate evidence of conflict between the president and the Senate. ...

Time for civil registration with verbal autopsy.

Time for civil registration with verbal autopsy. Access to the published version may require subscription.

Protean Statutory Interpretation in the Courts of Appeals

This Article is the first in-depth empirical and doctrinal analysis of differences in statutory interpretation between the courts of appeals and the Supreme Court. It is also among the first to anticipate how the Supreme Court’s interpretive approach may shift with the passing of Justice Scalia. We begin by identifying factors that may contribute to interpretive divergence between the two judic...