Dædalus was founded in 1955 as the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. It draws on the enormous intellectual capacity of the American Academy, whose members are among the nation's most prominent thinkers in the arts, sciences, and humanities. The theme for the Summer 2014 issue is "The Invention of Courts."
Contents:
Introduction: The Invention of Courts
Linda Greenhouse
Reinventing Courts as Democratic Institutions
Judith Resnik
State Courts: Enabling Access
Jonathan Lippman
When Legal Representation is Deficient: The Challenge of Immigration Cases for the Courts
Robert A. Katzmann
Gideon’s Problematic Promises
Carol S. Steiker
Uncommon Law: America’s Excessive Criminal Law & Our Common-Law Origins
Jonathan Simon
Justice for the Masses? Aggregate Litigation & Its Alternatives
Deborah R. Hensler
Innovating to Improve Access: Changing the Way Courts Regulate Legal Markets
Gillian K. Hadfield
Trusting the Courts: Redressing the State Court Funding Crisis
Michael J. Graetz
Our Informationally Disabled Courts
Frederick Schauer
A Grin without a Cat: The Continuing Decline & Displacement of Trials in American Courts
Marc Galanter & Angela M. Frozena
Courting Ignorance: Why We Know So Little About Our Most Important Courts
Stephen C. Yeazell
The Courts in American Public Culture
Susan S. Silbey
(Anti)Canonizing Courts
Jamal Greene
Justice & Memory: South Africa’s Constitutional Court
Kate O’Regan
Contents:
Introduction: The Invention of Courts
Linda Greenhouse
Reinventing Courts as Democratic Institutions
Judith Resnik
State Courts: Enabling Access
Jonathan Lippman
When Legal Representation is Deficient: The Challenge of Immigration Cases for the Courts
Robert A. Katzmann
Gideon’s Problematic Promises
Carol S. Steiker
Uncommon Law: America’s Excessive Criminal Law & Our Common-Law Origins
Jonathan Simon
Justice for the Masses? Aggregate Litigation & Its Alternatives
Deborah R. Hensler
Innovating to Improve Access: Changing the Way Courts Regulate Legal Markets
Gillian K. Hadfield
Trusting the Courts: Redressing the State Court Funding Crisis
Michael J. Graetz
Our Informationally Disabled Courts
Frederick Schauer
A Grin without a Cat: The Continuing Decline & Displacement of Trials in American Courts
Marc Galanter & Angela M. Frozena
Courting Ignorance: Why We Know So Little About Our Most Important Courts
Stephen C. Yeazell
The Courts in American Public Culture
Susan S. Silbey
(Anti)Canonizing Courts
Jamal Greene
Justice & Memory: South Africa’s Constitutional Court
Kate O’Regan