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Television courtroom broadcasting : distraction effects and eye-tracking
\"Are witnesses, jurors, or others in courtrooms distracted by in-court television cameras and their operators? Citing a lack of evidence one way or the other, the U.S. Supreme Court has recommended additional research on the matter. Answering the court's recommendation, this proof-of-concept study demonstrates for the first time that eye-tracking technology can now accurately determine whether courtroom actors look at the television cameras in the courtroom and for how long. In doing so, television courtroom broadcasting opens the door to a new era of research on the effects of in-court distraction\"--Provided by publisher.
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The psychology of the Supreme Court
With the media spotlight on the recent developments concerning the Supreme Court, more and more people have become increasingly interested in the highest court in the land. Who are the justices that run it and how do they make their decisions? The Psychology of the Supreme Court examines the psychology of Supreme Court decision-making. The book seeks to help us understand all aspects of the Supreme Court's functioning from a psychological perspective. It addresses factors of influence, including the background of the justices, how they are nominated and appointed, the role of their law clerks, the power of the Chief Justice, and day-to-day life in the Court. The author uses psychological concepts and research findings from the social sciences to examine the steps of the decision-making process, as well as the ways in which the justices seek to remain collegial in the face of conflict, and the degree of predictability in their votes.
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Common law in an uncommon courtroom : judicial interpreting in Hong Kong
This book takes you into a common-law courtroom which is in no way similar to any other courtroom where common law is practised. This uniqueness is characterised, in particular, by the use of English as the trial language in a predominantly Cantonese-speaking society.
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From the colonial to the contemporary : images, iconography, memories, and performances of law in India's high courts
\"From the Colonial to the Contemporary explores the representation of law, images and justice in the first three colonial high courts of India at Calcutta, Bombay and Madras. It is based upon ethnographic research work and data collected from interviews with judges, lawyers, court staff, press reporters and other persons associated with the courts. Observing the courts through the in vivo, in trial and practice, the book asks questions at different registers, including the impact of the architecture of the courts, the contestation around the renaming of the high courts, the debate over the use of English versus regional languages, forms of addressing the court, the dress worn by different court actors, rules on photography, video recording, live telecasting of court proceedings, use of CCTV cameras and the alternatives to courtroom sketching, and the ceremony and ritual that exists in daily court proceedings. The three colonial high courts studied in this book share a recurring historical tension between the Indian and British notions of justice. This tension is apparent in the semiotics of the legal spaces of these courts and is transmitted through oral history as narrated by the judges, lawyers and court staff who are interviewed. The contemporary understandings of these court personnel are therefore seen to have deep historical roots. In this context, the architecture and judicial iconography of the high courts helps to constitute, preserve and reinforce the ambivalent relationship that the court shares with its own contested image\"-- Provided by publisher.
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THE SOLICITOR GENERAL AND THE SHADOW DOCKET
There is a veritable mountain of scholarship and popular commentary on the Solicitor General's role and relationship with the Supreme Court. But virtually none of it has addressed this last phenomenon, even as more attention is being paid to the Court's \"shadow docket,\" that is, the significant volume of orders and summary decisions that the Court issues without full briefing and oral argument. This Essay aims to fill that gap.
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Justice in Plain Sight
Justice in Plain Sightis the story of a hometown newspaper in Riverside, California, that set out to do its job: tell readers about shocking crimes in their own backyard. But when judges slammed the courtroom door on the public, including the press, it became impossible to tell the whole story. Pinning its hopes on business lawyer Jim Ward, whomPress-Enterpriseeditor Tim Hays had come to know and trust, the newspaper took two cases to the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1980s. Hays was convinced that the public-including the press-needed to have these rights and needed to bear witness to justice because healing in the aftermath of a horrible crime could not occur without community catharsis. The newspaper won both cases and established First Amendment rights that significantly broadened public access to the judicial system, including the right for the public to witness jury selection and preliminary hearings.Justice in Plain Sightis a unique story that, for the first time, details two improbable journeys to the Supreme Court in which the stakes were as high as they could possibly be (and still are): the public's trust in its own government.
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Courtroom Theatrics in the Letter of James
Since the eighteenth century, interpreters of the Letter of James have pointed to a judicial assembly as the envisaged background for Jas 2:1–7. In particular, commentators have identified rabbinic examples as parallels for the type of setting that the letter describes. However, one can also consider Jas 2:1–7 in light of the theatricality of the Roman courtroom. Theatrics figured centrally in Roman social and political life. In Roman juridical contexts visual effects such as gestures and dress functioned importantly for the outcome of a trial. In this study I consider Jas 2:1–7 in comparison with court proceedings and legal issues, but with a focus on the dress of the man in “shining clothes” (ἐσθῆτι λαμπρᾷ) and the poor man in “dirty clothes” (ῥυπαρᾷ ἐσθῆτι). I explore the peculiar Roman practice of donning “filthy” (sordes) dress as a means of procuring support from jurors and judges, who themselves were susceptible to participating in partiality. I argue that a court setting makes the most sense for Jas 2:1–7: Why else would the letter writer include these details of dress?
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Praxis and Paradox: Inside the Black Box of Eviction Court
In the American legal system, we typically conceive of legal disputes as governed by specific rules and procedures, resolved in a formalized court setting, with lawyers shepherding both parties through an adversarial process involving the introduction of evidence and burdens of proof. The often-highlighted exception to this understanding is the mass, assembly-line processing of cases, whether civil or criminal, in large, urban, lower-level courts. The gap left unfilled by either of these two narratives is how \"court\" functions for the average unrepresented litigant in smaller and nonurban jurisdictions across the United States.
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