Collaboration for Justice
Updates and insights from the Collaboration for Justice initiative, highlighting partnerships, programs, and efforts to strengthen fairness, accountability, and public trust in the legal system.
Merit-Based Judicial Retention in Illinois: A Viable Way to Improve the Quality of the State’s Judiciary
In 2014, Representative Kelly Cassidy (D-Chicago) proposed to amend the Illinois constitution as a means to improve the way Illinois retains its judges. Her bill (HJRCA0010) suggested a judicial performance commission for the evaluation of [...]
ABA Resolution 100A: A Victory in the Fight for Procedural Justice, Fairness, and the Independence of Administrative Law Judges (ALJs)
A Victory in the Fight for Procedural Justice, Fairness, and the Independence of Administrative Law Judges (ALJs): ABA Resolution 100A, August 12, 2019 In February of 2019, we released a report entitled The Need for a [...]
CPD’s “Gun Offender Dashboard” contains Disturbing Inaccuracies that are Misleading the Public about the Causes of Violent Crime
The narrative is deceptively alluring, because it plays into assumptions we hold about who perpetrates crime. It plays into the public perception that there are sets of “bad guys” in our communities who cause the majority of the violence and that if we simply made sure they were locked up, gun violence in Chicago would be solved.
“Suum Cuique or why You, Lawyer, Should Not be Silent,” an Essay on Justice by David I. Schrodt
Our electronic world is frequently disorienting. Indeed, it can sometimes be worse than disorienting. We can be in our safest place and receive words written or spoken by those with power that express or strongly [...]
