2020 Year-end Report on the Judiciary

Abstract

Professor Baker reports on his startling “glimpse into the future” of the federal judiciary. Writing as the retiring Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in the year 2020, Professor Baker uses current trends to hypothesize about the impacts of changing demographics, colossal docket growth, federalization of both criminal and civil law, badly-needed appellate court reform and expansion, and, of course, technology.