Jordan M. Singer

New England Law | Boston

Professor of Law

154 Stuart St.

Boston, MA 02116

United States

http://www.nesl.edu

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

20

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Scholarly Papers (20)

1.

Civil Case Processing in the Federal District Courts: A Twenty-First Century Analysis

Number of pages: 114 Posted: 23 Jan 2009
Jordan M. Singer
New England Law | Boston
Downloads 288 (228,742)

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case processing, civil procedure, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, federal courts, caseflow management, delay

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Bigger Isn't Always Better: An Analysis of Court Efficiency Using Hierarchical Linear Modeling

Pace Law Review, Vol. 34, 2014, Forthcoming, New England Law | Boston Research Paper No. 13-14
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 16 May 2011 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2013
Terry Dalton and Jordan M. Singer
University of California, Irvine and New England Law | Boston
Downloads 275 (239,952)
Citation 2

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Case Length, Civil Case Processing, Civil Litigation, Court Resources, Court Size, Federal Courts, Empirical Studies, HLM, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Legal Culture

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A Performance Evaluation Program for the Federal Judiciary

Denver University Law Review, Vol. 86, No. 1, 2008
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 10 Aug 2008 Last Revised: 07 Nov 2012
Rebecca Love Kourlis and Jordan M. Singer
affiliation not provided to SSRN and New England Law | Boston
Downloads 185 (352,013)

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Judicial performance evaluation, JPE, federal courts, accountability, independence, judicial training

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The Mind of the Judicial Voter

Michigan State Law Review, Vol. 2011, No. 5, pp. 1443-1496 (2012)
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 03 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 07 Nov 2012
Jordan M. Singer
New England Law | Boston
Downloads 149 (424,549)

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judges, judicial elections, retention elections, Iowa, Wisconsin, voters, procedural fairness, sociological legitimacy, rationally ignorant voters, popular constitutionalism, same-sex marriage

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Bench Presence: Toward a More Complete Model of Federal District Court Productivity

118 (No. 1) Penn State Law Review 55 (2013), New England Law | Boston Research Paper No. 13-07
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 11 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 23 Mar 2014
William Young and Jordan M. Singer
United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts and New England Law | Boston
Downloads 142 (441,401)

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federal district courts, productivity, metrics, procedural fairness, efficiency, accuracy, courtroom, open court, public sector, judges, evaluation

6.

Gossiping About Judges

Florida State University Law Review, Vol. 42, Forthcoming, New England Law | Boston Research Paper No. 14-07
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 15 May 2014
Jordan M. Singer
New England Law | Boston
Downloads 133 (465,343)

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Gossip, Reputation, War Stories, Social Cognition, Impression Formation, Judges, Attorney-Judge Interaction, Signaling, Shared Reality, Experience Sampling, Forum Shopping, Pretrial Process, Federal District Courts

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Measuring Bench Presence: Federal District Judges in the Courtroom, 2008-2012

118 (No. 2) Penn State Law Review 243 (2013), New England Law | Boston Research Paper No. 13-08
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 11 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 23 Mar 2014
Jordan M. Singer and William Young
New England Law | Boston and United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
Downloads 127 (482,764)

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federal district courts, judges, metrics, courtroom, open court, empirical measurement, procedural fairness, Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, time to disposition, senior judges, vacancies

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Judges on Demand: The Cognitive Case for Cameras in the Courtroom

Columbia Law Review Sidebar, Vol. 115, p. 79 (2015), New England Law | Boston Research Paper No. 15-04
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 20 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 18 Feb 2017
Jordan M. Singer
New England Law | Boston
Downloads 122 (498,081)

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Federal courts, cameras in the courtroom, Judicial Conference of the United States, law and cognition, civil litigation

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Proportionality's Cultural Foundation

Santa Clara Law Review, Vol. 52, p. 145, 2012
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 17 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 07 Nov 2012
Jordan M. Singer
New England Law | Boston
Downloads 122 (498,081)

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discovery, proportionality, legal culture, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, discovery abuse, excessive discovery, discretion, disclosures, presumptive limits, 26(b)(2)(C), core values

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Sticking to Their Principals: Judicial Reputation: A Comparative Theory. By Nuno Garoupa and Tom Ginsburg

New England Law Review On Remand, Vol. 51, pp. 27-37, 2017, New England Law | Boston Research Paper No. 17-05
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 23 May 2017 Last Revised: 25 May 2017
Jordan M. Singer
New England Law | Boston
Downloads 117 (514,241)

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Judges, reputation, comparative law, agency, courts, book review

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Bench Presence 2014: An Updated Look at Federal District Court Productivity

48 New England Law Review 565 (2014), New England Law | Boston Research Paper No. 15-01
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 10 Dec 2014 Last Revised: 19 Mar 2015
Jordan M. Singer and William Young
New England Law | Boston and United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
Downloads 111 (535,090)
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Bench presence, productivity, federal courts, federal district courts, efficiency, procedural fairness, court resources, accuracy, court rankings

12.

Reinvigorating Pleadings

Denver University Law Review, Vol. 87, No. 2, 2010
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 08 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 07 Nov 2012
Rebecca Love Kourlis, Jordan M. Singer and Natalie Knowlton
affiliation not provided to SSRN, New England Law | Boston and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 110 (538,637)

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Fact pleading, fact-based pleading, Twombly, Iqbal, discovery, summary judgment, motion to dismiss, civil procedure, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, cost of litigation, issue-narrowing, Alberta, Woolf reforms, pre-suit discovery, Oregon, Pennsylvania, access to justice, pleading requirements

13.

Managing Toward the Goals of Rule 1

Federal Courts Law Review, 2009
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 07 Aug 2009
Rebecca Love Kourlis and Jordan M. Singer
affiliation not provided to SSRN and New England Law | Boston
Downloads 95 (597,240)

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civil procedure, judicial management, case management, pretrial procedure, summary judgment, discovery, empirical studies, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, legal culture, scheduling conferences

14.

Attorney Surveys of Judicial Performance: Impressionistic, Imperfect, Indispensable

Judicature, Vol. 98 No. 1, page 20 (Jul/Aug 2014), New England Law | Boston Research Paper No. 14-13
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 30 Oct 2014
Jordan M. Singer
New England Law | Boston
Downloads 81 (658,305)

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Judicial performance evaluation, JPE, surveys, impression formation, stereotypes, reputation, gossip, social cognition, professional assessment

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A Strategy for Judicial Performance Evaluation in New York

Albany Law Review, Vol. 72, p. 655, 2009
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 08 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 07 Nov 2012
Rebecca Love Kourlis and Jordan M. Singer
affiliation not provided to SSRN and New England Law | Boston
Downloads 81 (658,305)
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Judicial performance evaluation, JPE, judicial selection, judicial elections, New York, judicial screening

16.

Minds Intertwined: The Cognitive Teamwork of Federal Civil Rulemaking

100 Denv. L. Rev. 223 (2022), New England Law | Boston Research Paper No. 22-08
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 24 May 2022 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2023
Jordan M. Singer
New England Law | Boston
Downloads 74 (693,152)

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Advisory Committee on Civil Rules, law and cognition, team cognition, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, civil procedure, discovery, groupthink, mental models, case study, group decision making, federal courts, civil litigation, information processing

17.

The Federal Courts' Rulemaking Buffer

William & Mary Law Review, Vol. 60, 2018 (Forthcoming), New England Law | Boston Research Paper No. 18-06
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 08 May 2018
Jordan M. Singer
New England Law | Boston
Downloads 60 (775,285)

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Rulemaking, Federal Courts, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Judicial Conference of the United States, Organizational Studies, Buffering, Resource Dependence, Advisory Committee on Civil Rules, Legitimacy

18.

Judicial Recall and Retention in the #MeToo Era

Court Review, Vol. 55, No. 1, pp. 36 (Spring, 2019), New England Law | Boston Research Paper No. 19-04
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 06 May 2019
Jordan M. Singer
New England Law | Boston
Downloads 57 (795,474)

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#MeToo, judicial selection, retention elections, recall elections, judicial recall, Persky, sentencing

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Judicial Performance Evaluation in the States: The IAALS JPE 2.0 Pre-Convening White Paper

New England Law | Boston Research Paper No. 24-01
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 11 Jul 2023 Last Revised: 27 Aug 2024
Jordan M. Singer
New England Law | Boston
Downloads 53 (824,485)

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judicial performance evaluation, JPE, judicial performance review, JPR, judges, state judiciaries, merit selection, judicial selection and retention, professional development, public trust and confidence, survey bias

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Meaningful Information, Meaningful Retention

Buffalo Law Review The Docket, Forthcoming, New England Law | Boston Research Paper No. 12-03
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 22 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 09 Nov 2012
Jordan M. Singer
New England Law | Boston
Downloads 46 (880,427)

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Judicial elections, retention, retention elections, moral mandates, judicial accountability, judicial performance evaluation, JPE, Iowa, Varnum, same-sex marriage, gay marriage, voters, sociological accountability, procedural fairness, 2010 elections