Judicial Ethics

Keith Swisher is Associate Dean/Professor of Law at Arizona Summit Law School, USA, and a legal ethics consultant at Swisher P.C.

• Judicial EthicsEdited by Keith SwisherAcknowledgementsSeries PrefaceIntroductionPart I: Judicial Ethics TheoryChapter 1: Lawrence B. Solum, Virtue Jurisprudence: A Virtue-Centred Theory of Judging, Metaphilosophy, 34, 1/2, 2003, 178-213. Chapter 2: Charles Gardner Geyh, The Dimensions of Judicial Impartiality, Florida Law Review 65, 2013, 493-551.Chapter 3: Stephen B. Burbank, What Do We Mean by "Judicial Independence"?, Ohio State Law Journal, 64, 2003, 323-339.Chapter 4: Steven Lubet, Judicial Discipline and Judicial Independence, 61 Law and Contemporary Problems, 59, 1998, 59-74.Part II: Judicial Ethics RegulationChapter 5: Chief Judge Howard T. Markey, The Delicate Dichotomies of Judicial Ethics, Federal Rules Decisions, 101, 1984, 373-99.Chapter 6: Jeffrey M. Shaman, Judicial Ethics, Georgetown. Journal of Legal Ethics, 2, 1988, 1-20.Part III: Judicial Recusal and DisqualificationChapter 7: R. Grant Hammond, Judicial Recusal: Principles, Process, and Problems (Hart, 2009), pp. 1-14.Chapter 8: Leslie W. Abramson, Appearance of Impropriety: Deciding When a Judge’s Impartiality "Might Reasonably Be Questioned", Georgetown. Journal of Legal Ethics 14, 2000, 55-102.Chapter 9: Sarah M. R. Cravens, In Pursuit of Actual Justice, Alabama Law Review, 59, 1, 2007, 1-49.Chapter 10: James Sample, Supreme Court Recusal from Marbury to the Modern Day, Georgetown. Journal of Legal Ethics 26, 2013, 95-151.Chapter 11: Monroe H. Freedman, Judicial Impartiality in the Supreme Court – The Troubling Case of Justice Stephen Breyer, Oklahoma City University Law Review, 30, 2005, 513-535.Part IV: Problems in Judicial Ethics: Old and NewChapter 12: Michele Benedetto Neitz, Socioeconomic Bias in the Judiciary, Cleveland State Law Review 61, 2013, 137-65.Chapter 13: Andrew L. Kaufman, Judicial Ethics: The Less-Often Asked Questions, Washington Law Review, 64, 1989, 851-870.Chapter 14: Steven Lubet, Judicial Ethics and Private Lives, Northwestern University Law Review79, 5/6, 1984, 983-1007.Chapter 15: Douglas R. Richmond, Unoriginal Sin: The Problem of Judicial Plagiarism, Arizona State Law Journal, 45, 2013, 1077-1105.Chapter 16: Alex Kozinski, The Real Issues of Judicial Ethics, Hofstra Law Review, 32, 4, 1095-1106, 2004.Chapter 17: Stephen A. Saltzburg, A Grandslam of Professional Irresponsibility and Judicial Disregard, Hofstra Law Review 34, 3, 2006, 783-819.