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I would like to thank Professors Aziz Huq and William Baude for helping me turn my life interests and experiences into a legal question, as well as Parker Eudy, Parag Dharmavarapu, Peter Trombly, Jordan Golds, Kathy Bruce, and Will Admussen for their insights and persistent help. Special thanks to my grandma, Brenda Joyce Dayton, who edited my first childhood ramblings and inspired me to write more.

Many thanks to Will Baude, Pamela Bookman, Dan Epps, Barry Friedman, Mark Greenberg, Josia Klein, Anita Krishnakumar, Maggie Lemos, Marin Levy, Leah Litman, Michael Morley, Anne Joseph O’Connell, Larry Rosenthal, Steve Sachs, Joanna Schwartz, Dan Schweitzer, Mila Sohoni, and participants in the St. John’s Faculty Workshop and the Duke Law School Judicial Administration/Judicial Process Roundtable. I am also grateful to Caleb Peiffer and Taylor Pitz for excellent research assistance, and to the superb editors of The University of Chicago Law Review.

The author wishes to thank Professor Jennifer Nou, Professor John Rappaport,Derek Carr, Braden Lang, and the Board and Staff of The University of Chicago Law Review for their insightful comments and guidance throughout this Comment’s life cycle.