On Appeal: Courts, Lawyering and Judging

Professional Responsibility When Lawyering

The aesthetic appeal of minimal structures: judging the attractiveness of solutions to traveling salesperson problems.

Ormerod and Chronicle (1999) reported that optimal solutions to traveling salesperson problems were judged to be aesthetically more pleasing than poorer solutions and that solutions with more convex hull nodes were rated as better figures. To test these conclusions, solution regularity and the number of potential intersections were held constant, whereas solution optimality, the number of inter...

Celebrating Great Lawyering

Welsh White was addicted to scholarship, and his last book, Litigating in the Shadow of Death, was published five days after he died. White held an advance copy a few days before his death, admired the dust jacket, and heard his wife Linda and a friend read a portion of the text. Litigating in the Shadow of Death examines the work of defense attorneys in capital cases. Like much of White’s earl...

The Verdict on Drug Courts and Other Problem-Solving Courts

Scientists, in contrast, rarely speak of verdicts. To the scientist, virtually all conclusions are provisional and subject to revision as new data become available. Much of what is believed to be true turns out, after the collection of more information, to be only partially true, conditionally true, or sometimes outright false.1 It is, therefore, most prudent to withhold final judgment until al...

Poverty Lawyering in a New Millennium