Journal of Appellate Practice and Process

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Latest documents

• WITHER ORAL ARGUMENT? THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF APPELLATE LAWYERS SAYS LET'S RESURRECT IT!
• THE SUPREME COURT - THEN AND NOW.
• SLUMPING: THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT'S SUPREME COURT BATTING AVERAGE IN FEDERAL-SENTENCING CASES.
• NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBAL APPELLATE COURTS: UNDERESTIMATED AND OVERLOOKED.
• MY FIRST SUPREME COURT ARGUMENT ... AND THEN WHAT HAPPENED.
• U.S. SUPREME COURT BRIEF WRITING STYLE GUIDE.
• A WORD OF INTRODUCTION: U.S. SUPREME COURT BRIEF WRITING STYLE GUIDE.
• CLEANING UP QUOTATIONS.
• WHEN AN APPEAL GOES WRONG: A 'CRIMINAL JUSTICE NIGHTMARE'.
• WHEN THE UNITED STATES LOSES IN A CRIMINAL CASE: THE GOVERNMENT APPEAL PROCESS.

Featured documents

• To lobby or not to lobby: that is an important question.
• DISRESPECTFUL DISSENT: JUSTICE SCALIA'S REGRETTABLE LEGACY OF INCIVILITY.
• Public defenders and appointed counsel in criminal appeals: the Iowa experience.
• A new public-interest appellate model: public counsel's court-based self-help clinic and pro bono 'triage' for indigent pro se civil litigants on appeal.
• A past and future of judicial elections: the case of Montana.
• Nearing thirty years: the Burger court, Strickland v. Washington, and the parameters of the right to counsel.
• The importance of building fires: lessons learned as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.
• All copying is not created equal: borrowed language in Supreme Court opinions.
• Extended vacancies, crushing caseloads, and emergency panels in the federal courts of appeals.
• Infrequently asked questions.