Capital Law Review Quoted in Sunday New York Times

October 4, 2006

The Capital University Law Review was recently quoted in a front page story found in the Sun., Oct. 1, 2006, New York Times. By reviewing the judicial selection process in Ohio, the article discusses the relationship between campaign contributions and court decisions.

The Capital University Law Review article was produced as part of a symposium that Law School Professor Brad Smith organized in 2000. The Capital University Law Review article, The Independence and Democratic Accountability of the Supreme Court of Ohio, 30 Cap. U.L. Rev. 455 (2002), was co-authored by Paul D. Carrington and Adam R. Long. The following is a quote from the New York Times article which relied on Carrington and Long's Capital University Law Review article:

"'Although there may be no good method of selecting and retaining judges, there is a worst method, and Ohio is among the states to have found it,' Paul D. Carrington and Adam R. Long wrote in a 2002 study of the Ohio Supreme Court in the law review of Capital University here in Columbus. 'That worst method is one in which judges qualify for their jobs by raising very large sums of money from lawyers, litigants and special interest groups, and retain their offices only by continuing to raise such funds.' The problem, the authors found, is not a new one, but one that grows with the sums involved."

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