Vol. 5 No. 2, September 2003

Index

• Foreword.
• Assessing judgeship needs in the federal courts of appeals: policy choices and process concerns.
• Representing death-sentence appellants.
• Intelligence testing and Atkins: considerations for appellate courts and appellate lawyers.
• The revised ABA guidelines and the duties of lawyers and judges in capital postconviction proceedings.
• Effective performance guarantees for capital state post-conviction counsel: cutting the gordian knot.
• Appellate mediation in Pennsylvania: looking back at the history and forward to the future.
• The oral judgment practice in the Canadian appellate courts.
• The connotation/denotation distinction in constitutional interpretation.
• No-citation rules under siege: a battlefield report and analysis.
• Critique and consequences of the Supreme Court's decision in Holmes v. Vornado.
• Fundamentals of preparing a United States Supreme Court amicus brief.
• Words to the wise.