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:) thank you!

Thanks! If the issue doesn’t get resolved let me know and I’m happy to send you one 🙂

I’m looking forward to my author-meets-readers event at @mpsa.bsky.social with @wmartinek.bsky.social @shanegleasonphd.bsky.social @theclboyd.bsky.social @bonneausays.bsky.social and Hayley Munir. If you’ll be in Chicago, I hope to see you there! end/🧵

If you’re interested in getting your hands on one, @univpressofkansas.bsky.social is currently running a 30% off (and free shipping!) sale on their website with code 24UNMASKED: kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700638260/ 8/🧵

And I argue that this has important consequences for how we think about civil legal system reform efforts that seek to improve access to courts and access to justice. In some states, reformers might have more success targeting individual jurisdictions than in others. 7/🧵

For the average court user, this means that the experience of navigating court processes in one jurisdiction may look very different from another. 6/🧵

The consequence of this is that, especially in more administratively decentralized states, directives from high courts and state court administrators take on features of encouragement and suggestion as opposed to of mandate. 5/🧵

It looks different because the tools of court administration may not be controlled from the top down — control over things like court personnel, facilities, data processing, and records management — may be concentrated in individual jurisdictions. 4/🧵

Even though state supreme courts tend to have administrative authority assigned to them by their states’ constitutions (and sometimes via statute), the ability to exercise this power looks really different across the states. 3/🧵

In the book, I examine state courts’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, but do so with an eye to bigger questions about the distribution of the power to make decisions about court operations. 2/🧵