Leanne Elliott Appointed General Manager of CMFN

Are Appointed Judges Strategic Too?

The conventional wisdom among many legal scholars is that judicial independence can best be achieved with an appointive judiciary; judicial elections turn judges into politicians, threatening judicial autonomy. Yet the original supporters of judicial elections successfully eliminated the appointive systems of many states by arguing that judges who owed their jobs to politicians could never be t...

Christopher Elliott

Elliott Ross

Elliott Ross grew up in Stockton, California. He earned a B.Sc. degree at the University of California at Davis and a Ph.D. with Jeff Schatz at Cornell. He did postdoctoral research with Al Gilman at the University of Virginia and remained on the faculty there for three years. He then moved to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, where he is a member of the Graduate Pr...

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Recasting the Elliott Conjecture

Let A be a simple, unital, finite, and exact C-algebra which absorbs the Jiang-Su algebra Z tensorially. We prove that the Cuntz semigroup of A admits a complete order embedding into an ordered semigroup which is obtained from the Elliott invariant in a functorial manner. We conjecture that this embedding is an isomorphism, and prove the conjecture in several cases. In these same cases — Z-stab...