Friday, August 30, 2024

ABAJ articles of appellate note

The ABA journal has:

Chemerinsky: Saving American democracy will require constitutional reforms and Supreme Court term limits, about the Dean's latest book No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States.

Legal thriller author David Ellis' day job? Appellate court justice -- Justice David W. Ellis has served on the Illinois Appellate Court for the 1st District for nearly 10 years. But readers may know him better as author David Ellis, bestselling writer of more than a dozen legal thrillers. He was the youngest-serving justice in 2014 when he joined the Illinois Appellate Court for the 1st District, which serves Chicago and Cook County. And along the way, he published 11 novels, including the four-book Jason Kolarich series. He was a finalist for the ABA Journal-sponsored Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction in 2012 and 2013. He has also co-written nine books with James Patterson, the latest of which (Lies He Told Me) will be released in September.