SIU Faculty Senate passes resolution in support of Professor Ming Xiao
Xiao is indicted under the China Initiative started by the Trump administration.
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Xiao is indicted under the China Initiative started by the Trump administration.
Our short series of contextual reposts continues: Although the state Supreme Courts have not attracted anything near the level of study from academics engaged in empirical legal studies that the U.S. Supreme Courts and Federal Circuits have a number of different researchers have attempted to compare how influential the various state courts are for the development of American law. One of the first efforts was published in 1936 by Rodney L. Mott, "Judicial Influence" (30 Am. Pol. Sci. Rev. 295 (1936)). Using several different proxies for influence, including law professors' rankings, reprinting...