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The Curious Lawyer: Supreme Court Secrecy and Shadow Dockets

Understanding the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket and Transparency Issues.

Created byNew Media Legal Publishing, Inc.
BeginnerUpdated Mar 31, 2025

What You'll Learn

  • check_circleExplore the origins and purpose of the Supreme Court’s shadow docket.
  • check_circleUnderstand how the shadow docket impacts the Court’s rulings and public perception.
  • check_circleAnalyze recent developments in Court transparency, including opinion leaks and live audio feeds.
  • check_circleReview proposed reforms aimed at increasing transparency and accountability in the Court.

About This Course

You’ve probably heard of the Supreme Court’s “shadow docket,” but do you know how it can be used to affect the Court’s rulings?  In the next installment of this popular series, Peter Afrasiabi reviews the origins and current usage of the “shadow docket,” including some proposed reforms to the practice.  Peter also discusses the broader topic of transparency at the Court in light of the unprecedented leak of a draft opinion, the use of live audio feeds of oral arguments during COVID and other recent developments.

Course Content

1 activity • 1 videos • duration: 1h 3m

  • videocamThe Curious Lawyer: Supreme Court Secrecy and Shadow Dockets
    Duration 63:52

Your Instructors

New Media Legal Publishing, Inc.

Legal Technology & Education

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New Media Legal Publishing, Inc. is a legal publishing company based in Los Angeles, California, that develops, produces, markets, and distributes innovative legal education content for law firms and companies.For more information about NMLP and its products, please visit http://www.newmedialegal.com.

Peter Afrasiabi

Founding Partner at One, LLP

Peter Afrasiabi is a founding partner at One LLP and focuses his practice on copyright, patent, trademark, and entertainment litigation. In addition, Peter is a professor and the Director of the Appellate Clinic at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. Peter graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.

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