This article examines John Hart Ely's theory of judicial review set forth forty-one years ago in: Ely, Democracy and Distrust: A Theory Judicial Review (1980). In particular, it claim that is normatively desirable for courts to police the political processes change keep them open outsiders this in fact one thing Supreme Courts, or Constitutional do. I show U.S. Court has continued play umpiring...

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Daubert modernized the long-standing Frye precedent and requires courts to make scientific judgments. Courts, however, are not well-equipped to parse scientific arguments and the Daubert criteria offer only a rudimentary framework for decision-making. To illustrate the problems, as well as possible ways for courts to deal with scientific evidence, the paper ...

We report on various results, conjectures, and open problems related to KazhdanLusztig polynomials of matroids. We focus on conjectures about the roots of these polynomials, all of which appear here for the first time.

There is a typographical error in a sentence following (20) in [1, p.1681], in which an extra parenthesis appears. The corrected sentence is as follows. Therefore, p(v) is a Gibbs distribution p(v) = 1=Vintexp E . Also, the authors’ photographs and biographies did not appear in [1], and they now appear below. In addition, some of the information in references [9], [24], and [28] has changed. Th...

The creation of the first drug treatment courts were in response to the revolving door of drug use and recidivism. There was no theoretical basis for these courts and no universal support for them. Twelve years have brought incredible changes. Therapeutic jurisprudence says, in essence, whether intended or not, that legal rules and procedures have therapeutic effects. Drug treatment courts have...