Judicial Efficiency: Is There a Vacancy Crisis Threatening the Nation\u27s Judicial System?

A panel composed of Honorable John F. Keenan, Michael Armstrong, Otto Obermaier, Honorable Michael Schattman, and Stephan Kline discuss whether the vacancy rate in the judiciary threatens erosion of the quality of justice. The panelists discuss whether the problem involves the White House\u27s inability to work with the Senate Judiciary Committee, people of different persuasions, to move judicial candidates along. They also discuss how our system is dependent upon people who are older (senior judges), who are retired, who are entitled to move on, having to fill the vacancies. The panel discussion was followed by a short ceremony to unveil the portrait of Judge Murphy and to have a few reflections about his life

The Philip D. Reed Lecture Series: Judicial Records Forum

This Panel Discussion of the Judicial Records Forum was held on June 4, 2014, at Fordham University School of Law. The Judicial Records Forum focuses on issues involving the creation and management of judicial records and access to judicial records in the digital age. The transcript of the Panel Discussion has been lightly edited and represents the panelists’ individual views only, and in no way reflects those of their affiliated firms, organizations, law schools, or the judiciary

The Economic Effects of the Protestant Reformation: Testing the Weber Hypothesis in the German Lands

Following Max Weber, many theories have hypothesized that Protestantism should have favored economic development. With its religious heterogeneity, the Holy Roman Empire presents an ideal testing ground for this hypothesis. Using population figures of 272 cities in the years 1300–1900, I find no effects of Protestantism on economic growth. The finding is precisely estimated, robust to the inclusion of various controls, and does not depend on data selection or small sample size. Protestantism has no effect when interacted with other likely determinants of economic development. Instrumental variables estimates, considering the potential endogeneity of religious choice, are similar to the OLS results

DISCUSSION

This article appeared in the Discussion Section. Gilly Salmon's reply to the criticisms of the five-stage model for e-learning

Discussion

This is a transcript of remarks given by James L. Magavern in response to Donald H. Elliot\u27s paper Proposed Fiscal Monitoring Legislation in New York: A Comparative Analysis. This discussion emphasizes the political nature of budgetary decisions and the speaker\u27s concern that there is a more general need for financial integrity and accountability in government

Discussion

This is an edited transcript of comments made after Mr. Sigal\u27s paper, The Proposed Constitutional Amendments to the Local Finance Article: A Critical Analysis, was presented. They respond to the points made in the paper and also describe the speaker, Edward M. Kresky\u27s, first hand experience with finance and city government

Discussion

In this contribution aspects of inter-sample input signal behavior are examined. The starting point is that parametric identication always is performed on basis of discrete-time data. This is valid for identication of discrete-time models as well as continuous-time models. The usual assumptions on the input signal are; i) it is band-limited, ii) it is piecewise constant or iii) it is piecewise linear. One point made in this paper is that if a discrete-time model is used, the best possible (in the model structure) adjustment to data is made. This is independent of the assumption on the input signal. However, a transformation of the obtained discrete model to a continuous one is not possible without additional assumptions on the input signal. The other point made is that the frequency functions of the discrete models very well coincides with the frequency functions of the discretized continuous time models and the continuous time transfer function fitted in the frequency domain