Beyond quality: first principles in judicial selection and their application to a commission-based selection system.(Rethinking Judicial Selection: A Critical Appraisal of Appointive Selection for State Court Judges)

From: Fordham Urban Law Journal | Date: January 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

INTRODUCTION

Scholars of judicial selection have written a large volume of work regarding the concept of judicial quality and how to achieve it through the selection process. (1) The idea seems to be that if we can find some way to measure judicial quality, we could then design a system that would select for it, thus assuring that the most qualified judges will be selected. The selection of qualified judges is the primary goal of the commission selection system; indeed, it is implicit in the name commonly applied to such systems: "merit" selection systems. (2) In a perfect ...

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