MR Cravens, Sarah --- "Regulating judges in the United States: concerns for public confidence" [2016] ELECD 1569; in Devlin, Richard; Dodek, Adam (eds), "Regulating Judges" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016) 390

Book Title: Regulating Judges

Editor(s): Devlin, Richard; Dodek, Adam

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781786430786

Section: Chapter 20

Section Title: Regulating judges in the United States: concerns for public confidence

Author(s): MR Cravens, Sarah

Number of pages: 19

Abstract/Description:

Regulation of judges in the United States is notable for its variety of structures and practices, and consistency of major themes and problems. This chapter tackles two current issues: (1) the lack of official external regulation of conduct and ethics of the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, and some of the persistent related regulatory problems unique to that court; and (2) the speech and money at stake in the election of judges to seats on various state courts and the ramifications for regulating the ethics of subsequent decision making by the judges who ultimately take those seats.