Round-Up: Scholarly Article Edition

Andrew Cohen, who writes the Washington Post’s Bench Conference blog, has this entry called “The Myth of Judicial Activism.” In it, he cites this forthcoming paper by University of Kentucky Professor Lori Ringhand entitled, “Judicial Activism: An Empirical Examination of Voting Behavior on the Rehnquist Natural Court.”

Doug Berman, in a post here at the blog Sentencing Law and Policy, highlights a forthcoming article called “Making Sentencing Sensible,” which he co-authored with Stephanos Bibas. The article (available in RTF format here or converted to PDF here) offers advice for the Court in the upcoming sentencing case, Cunningham v. California.

Professor Berman has another post highlighting a different article of his; this time, he looks back at the recently decided case of Hill v. McDonough. The paper, “Finding Bickel Gold in a Hill of Beans,” can be downloaded here.

UPDATE: One more forthcoming article that may be of interest as the Term approaches: “The U.S. Supreme Court’s New Dukedom, The Hour and Year, or a Proposal Quite Near,” by Brian Potts of UC-Berkeley. His article addresses the upcoming case US v. Duke Energy Corp.; that case was also discussed here last month by Paul Gutermann of Akin Gump.