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53 Advocate (Texas) 1 (2010)

handle is hein.barjournals/adsbate0053 and id is 1 raw text is: STATE BAR LITIGATION SECTION REPORT MADVOCATE TABLE OF CONTENTS WINTER 2010, VOLUME 53 EDITOR'S COMMENTS BY LONNY S. HOFFMAN ................3....................3 CHAIR'S REPORT BY WALKER C. FRIEDMAN ............................................... 4 SUSTAINING MEMBERS OF THE LITIGATION SECTION OF THE STATE BAR OF TEXAS ........... 6 SYMPOSIUM: JUDICIAL SELECTION PART 1. REFORM AN ANALYSIS OF ACCOUNTABILITY IN TUDICIAL SELECTION: RECOUNTING THE PERIL OF STRAIGHT PARTY VOTING by Chief Justice Wallace B. Jefferson & Rebecca Love Kourlis. ................... 8 TUDICIAL SELECTION IN TEXAS by B ill B oy ce.............................................................................................. . . 12 ARE CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS COMPROMISING THE INDEPENDENT TUDICIARY? by Adam Skaggs .............................................. ..... 39 REFORMING TUDICIAL ELECTIONS BY PERSUASION AND PEER PRESSURE: THE POWER OF NORMS by D avid B . R ottm an ................................................................................... 44 ACCEPTING REALITY: TUDICIAL ELECTIONS ARE HERE TO STAY by Hugh Rice Kelly .................................................. 47 PART II. QUESTIONING REFORM POLITICAL SCIENCE AND TUDICIAL SELECTION by Anthony Champagne .............................................. 51 THE ROLE OF SECTION 5 OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT IN THE DEBATE OVER ELECTED TUDGES IN TEXAS by Gregory S. Coleman (Deceased) & Renea Hicks... ....................... 58 IUDICIAL SELECTION REFORM AND CONSIDERATION OF MINORITY VOTERS by Nina Perales................................................... 63 ON THE MERITS OF MERIT SELECTION by Brian T. Fitzpatrick .............................................. 66 THE LIGHT OF ACCOUNTABILITY: WHY PARTISAN ELECTIONS ARE THE BEST METHOD OF TUDICIAL SELECTION by Kelly Shackelford &Justin Butterfield .................... ............. 72

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