Browsing by Subject "Judges -- Selection and appointment -- Tennessee"

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    • Election as Appointment: The Tennessee Plan Reconsidered 
      Fitzpatrick, Brian T. (Tennessee Law Review, 2008)
      Tennessee's merit system for selecting judges - referred to as the Tennessee Plan - has been controversial ever since it was enacted in 1971 to replace contested elections. The greatest controversy has been whether the ...
    • Errors, Omissions, and the Tennessee Plan 
      Fitzpatrick, Brian T. (The University of Memphis Law Review, 2008)
      In the Spring 2008 issue of the Tennessee Law Review, I wrote an essay questioning whether Tennessee's merit system for selecting appellate judges - the Tennessee Plan - satisfies the requirements of the Tennessee Constitution. ...
    • The Politics of Merit Selection 
      Fitzpatrick, Brian T. (Missouri Law Review, 2009)
      In this Article, I undertake an evaluation of a method of judicial selection known as "merit selection." The merit system is distinctive from the other systems of judicial selection in the powerful role it accords lawyers. ...