Justice Stevens’ unfinished revival of the right to jury trial

June 14th, 2010 admin

The following essay, by Jeffrey L. Fisher , is the last in our series on John Paul Stevens.  Fisher, now an associate professor of law at Stanford Law School, clerked for Justice Stevens during the 1998-1999 Supreme Court Term.  This essay is adopted from remarks he made at UC Davis’ 2009 Symposium on The Honorable John Paul Stevens. In 1968, the Supreme Court…


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