How the pickers pick: finding a set of best practices for judicial nominating commissions.(Rethinking Judicial Selection: A Critical Appraisal of Appointive Selection for State Court Judges)

 
   States and municipalities still seek to build upon and improve 
   the judicial selection methods used by prior generations. Like 
   most institutional arrangements that are responsive to the needs 
   of society, judicial selection demands an on-going process that 
   borrows and profits from the past, meets the needs of the present 
   and remains flexible to permit future adaptation. (1) 

At the core of any system of justice is the judge, the arbiter of society's conflicts. While good judges cannot ensure a just society, arguing that the quality of the judiciary is…