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22 N.Y.U. L. Q. Rev. 445 (1947)
Making the Judicial Machinery Function Efficiently

handle is hein.journals/nylr22 and id is 447 raw text is: MAKING THE JUDICIAL MACHINERY FUNCTION EFFICIENTLY HENRY P. CHANDLER Tim work of the courts depends, essentially, on proper quali- fications on the part of those who perform it: judges, jurors, and other officers, who, together, make up the personnel of the courts. Yet even good judges, good jurors, and good clerks may fall short of the best results unless some attention is paid to system. Par- ticularly a judge, absorbed in the consideration of the cases that come before him, may tAke little note of what goes on under the authority of the court outside of his presence: what, for instance, is the procedure in the selection of jurors, or how the calendars and the order of cases are arranged. Even the best of judges will work better if he is given appropriate facilities in the way of quarters and law books, and is provided with the kind of legal and clerical assistance which the better practicing lawyers take for granted. Effective methods of arriving at the issues in legal controversies will help both him and the lawyers who appear before him. Plan- ning in the distribution of cases among judges and the assignment of judges from one judicial district to another to meet temporary strains and equalize the work load enable the courts as a whole to operate to the best advantage. Considerations of this nature war- rant planning in the work of the courts. A committee on judicial administration, of which Honorable Edward R. Finch, now retired, then a judge of the Court of Ap- peals for the State of New York, was chairman, reporting in 1938 to the Section of Judicial Administration of the American Bar As- sociation, proposed definite means of increasing what it termed the efficiency of the judicial machinery. I shall refer to three of these: namely, vesting the power to make rules of court in the courts themselves; creating judicial councils in the various states to give continuous attention to the improvement of the judicial procedure; and providing for adequate judicial statistics. A fourth method to be considered is the establishment of an administrative office in court systems. In, the trial of cases, as in all other activities, rules are neces- HENRY P. CHANDLER is Director of the Administrative office of the United States Courts. Imaged with the Permission of N.Y.U. Law Review

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