Ines Chomnalez writes in the Yale News about today’s Yale Law School conference commemorating the 40th anniversary of publication of Professor Judith Resnik’s article, Managerial Judges (1982) 96 Harv. L. Rev. 374. Justice Goodwin Liu is participating on one of the panels. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Professor Resnik will close the conference this afternoon.
In her article, Resnik wrote that “no one – neither judges, court administrators, nor legal commentators – has assessed whether relying on trial judges for informal dispute resolution and for case management, either before or after trial, is good, bad, or neutral.” She concluded, “I want to take away trial judges’ roving commission and to bring back the blindfold. I want judges to balance the scales, not abandon them altogether in the press to dispose of cases quickly.”