The Supreme Court of Japan, one step forward (but only discreetly)

One step forward

One step back but 2 steps forward.

There have been major advances reported over the past decade in previously untreated chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) with chemo-immunotherapy approaches now the treatment of choice.2 A decade ago, chlorambucil was the treatment of choice. However, CLL is a disease of the elderly with a median age at diagnosis of 72 years, and almost 70% of CLL patients are older than 65 years at the time of ...

Supreme Court

Th ere is no doubt that the U.S. Supreme Court has in-fl uenced the politics of the country. As a public body, the Court is a highly visible part of the federal government. Th is has always been so, even when the justices met briefl y twice a year in the drafty basement of the Capitol. Yet the idea that the Court itself is a political institution is controversial. Th e justices themselves have ...

Schooling the Supreme Court

Supreme Court Justices' uniform professional backgrounds have drawn increasing criticism. Yet it is unclear how diverse professional training would affect the Court's decisions. This Article offers the first empirical analysis of how Justices with diverse professional training vote: It examines a unique period when Justices with formal legal education sat with Justices who entered the professio...

The Supreme Court, Roe

It is no exaggeration to say that no U.S. Supreme Court opinion has been more misunderstood and has had its arguments more misrepresented in the public square than Roe v. Wade (1973). 1 There seems to be a widespread perception that Roe was a moderate opinion that does not support abortion on demand, i.e., unrestricted abortion for all nine months for virtually any reason. Even a philosopher of...