Publications
Fair Courts
Fair Courts: Setting Recusal Standards
The Brennan Center’s recusal report addresses increasing threats to the impartiality of America’s state courts, and provides ten proposals to achieving meaningful reform of state recusal systems.
Authored by: James Sample, David Pozen and Michael Young
– 04/01/08
The New Politics of Judicial Elections 2006
This fourth edition of “The New Politics of Judicial Elections” shows how 2006 was the most threatening year yet to the fairness of America’s state courts. Special interest pressure is metastasizing into a permanent national campaign against impartial justice.
Authored by: James Sample, Lauren Jones and Rachel Weiss
– 05/17/07
The Right to Cite: Why Fair and Accountable Courts Should Abandon No-Citation Rules
Authored by: Jessie Allen
The New Politics of Judicial Elections 2002: How The Threat To Fair And Impartial Courts Spread
This report shows how the threat to fair and impartial courts is spreading to more statesand how a recent Supreme Court decision could usher in a new era of special interest influence over the courts that protect our rights.
Authored by: Deborah Goldberg
– 05/06/04
After White: Defending and Amending Canons of Judicial Ethics
Authored by: J.J. Gass
– 01/01/04
A New Birth of Freedom: The Forgotten History of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments
Authored by: J.J. Gass and Nathan Newman
– 01/01/04
Freeing Candidate Speech in Judicial Elections: Or How Safe Are Loose Canons?
Authored by: Mark Kozlowski and Praveen Krishna
– 01/01/02
