Judges: Selection, Competence, Collegiality

The Selection and Tenure of Judges

Runaway Judges? Selection Effects and the Jury

Reports about runaway jury awards have become so common that it is widely accepted that the US jury system needs to be ‘fixed.’ Proposals to limit the right to a jury trial and increase judicial discretion over awards implicitly assume that judges decide cases differently than juries. We show that there are large differences in mean awards and win rates across juries and judges. But if the type...

The fellowship match selection process: where has collegiality gone?

I am writing this editor’s page during the first week in May. This is about three weeks before match lists must be sent to the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) for computer matching of applicants to cardiology fellowship training programs that begin July 1, 2001. I have been the cardiology training program director here at UCSF for almost 27 years, and I have seen all the combinations ...

The Debate over the Selection and Retention of Judges: How Judges Can Ride the Wave

Collegiality and intellectual love

It is difficult to be taken seriously when writing in the academic press about ‘love’ in relation to academic work. In response to a chapter entitled Intellectual love and the link between teaching and research (Rowland 2005), a reviewer commented ‘Rowland... highlights the role of ‘intellectual love’ (I kid you not) as the motivator for academic inquiry’ (Tight 2006 italics added). Why might a...