Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Journal of Law and Politics
Abstract
This Article explores the history of judicial selection methods in Virginia and West Virginia - two states, once joined, with distinct cultures and very different judicial selection methods. In an attempt to explain how the two states ended up with such different systems, the Article focuses on the constitutional conventions in those states between 1829 and 1902 and the debates that took place on the subject of popular election of judges versus an appointive system.
First Page
691
Last Page
772
Publication Date
Summer 2002
Recommended Citation
Long, Alex B., "An Historical Perspective on Judicial Selection Methods in Virginia and West Virginia" (2002). Scholarly Works. 327.
https://ir.law.utk.edu/utklaw_facpubs/327