aap20-2_cv_aap20-2_cv 8/18/2020 4:54 PM Page 2 Vol. 20, No. 2 Fall 2019Vol. AND PROCESS PRACTICE APPELLATE OF JOURNAL THE JOURNAL OF APPELLATE PRACTICE AND PROCESS VOLUME 20/NUMBER 2 FALL 2019 ARTICLES Margaret D. McGaughey May It Please the Court—or Not: Appellate Judges’ Preferences and Pet Peeves about Oral Argument Stephen Louis A. Dillard The Robed Tweeter: Two Judges’ Views Bridget Mary McCormack on Public Engagement Jessie Wallace Burchfield The End of an Era? Abolishing the Abstract Requirement for Arkansas Appellate Briefs Linda L. Berger “Remarkable Influence”: The Eric C. Nystrom Unexpected Importance of Justice Scalia’s Deceptively Unanimous and Contested Majority Opinions UA Little Rock School of Law UA BOOK REVIEW Jamal Greene One of the Good Guys: The Making of a Justice —Reflections on My First 94 Years WILLIAM H. BOWEN SCHOOL OF LAW University of Arkansas at Little Rock 1201 McMath Avenue WILLIAM H. 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Silverstein, B.A., J.D., Professor of Law Glenys P. Spence, B.A., J.D., LL.M., Visiting Assistant Professor of Law Robert Steinbuch, B.A., M.A., J.D., Professor of Law J. Thomas Sullivan, B.A., J.D., LL.M., Distinguished Professor of Law Kelly S. Terry, B.A., J.D., Ben J. Altheimer Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Experiential Learning and Clinical Programs, and Director of Public Service Externship Programs and Pro Bono Opportunities Christopher Trudeau, B.A., J.D., Associate Professor of Law Kim Vu-Dinh, B.A., J.D., Assistant Professor of Clinical Education and Business Innovations Clinic Director LAW LIBRARY FACULTY Jada A. Aitchison, B.A., M.L.S., Acquisitions and Serials Librarian and Professor of Law Librarianship Sherrie C. Norwood, B.A., M.Ed., J.D., M.L.S., Systems and Metadata Librarian and Assistant Professor of Law Librarianship Melissa M. Serfass, B.A., M.A., J.D., Electronic Resources and Reference Librarian and Professor of Law Librarianship Jeff B. Woodmansee, B.S.E., M.L.S., J.D., Research Support and Reference Librarian and Associate Professor of Law Librarianship EMERITUS FACULTY Lawrence H. Averill, Jr., B.A., J.D., LL.M., Charles C. Baum Distinguished Professor of Law Coleen Miller Barger, B.A., J.D., Ben J. Altheimer Distinguished Professor of Law A. Michael Beaird, B.A., M.L.L., J.D., Director of Law Library and Associate Professor of Law Frances S. Fendler, B.A., J.D., Professor of Law Kathryn C. Fitzhugh, B.A., M.S.L.S., J.D., Professor of Law Librarianship Lynn C. Foster, A.B., M.S., J.D., Arkansas Bar Foundation Professor of Law Kenneth S. Gallant, A.B., J.D., Ben J. Altheimer Professor of Law W. Dent Gitchel, B.A., J.D., Arkansas Bar Foundation Professor of Law Charles W. Goldner, Jr., B.A., J.D., LL.M., Dean and Professor of Law Susan W. Goldner, B.A., M.S., Professor of Law Librarianship Kenneth S. Gould, B.A., J.D., Professor of Law Sarah Howard Jenkins, B.A., M.A., J.D., Charles C. Baum Distinguished Professor of Law Morrell E. Mullins, B.A., M.A., J.D., Professor of Law Arthur G. Murphey, Jr., A.B., J.D., LL.M., Arkansas Bar Foundation Professor of Law John R. Pagan, A.B., M. Litt., J.D., D. Phil., Professor of Law L. Scott Stafford, B.S., B.A., J.D., Professor of Law THE JOURNAL OF APPELLATE PRACTICE AND PROCESS VOLUME 20/NUMBER 2 FALL 2019 ARTICLES Margaret D. McGaughey May It Please the Court—or Not: Appellate Judges’ Preferences and Pet Peeves about Oral Argument 141 Stephen Louis A. Dillard The Robed Tweeter: Two Judges’ Bridget Mary McCormack Views on Public Engagement 179 Jessie Wallace Burchfield The End of an Era? Abolishing the Abstract Requirement for Arkansas Appellate Briefs 199 Linda L. Berger “Remarkable Influence”: The Eric C. Nystrom Unexpected Importance of Justice Scalia’s Deceptively Unanimous and Contested Majority Opinions 233 BOOK REVIEW Jamal Greene One of the Good Guys: The Making of a Justice—Reflections on My First 94 Years 327 WILLIAM H. BOWEN SCHOOL OF LAW UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK THE JOURNAL OF APPELLATE PRACTICE AND PROCESS FOREWORD AVE ATQUE VALE I have always been a planner. That means, of course, that I have been thinking about this foreword for years. It is my last. I notice as I pack up my things and begin to take stock that I have used this space to catalogue my professional life (and on more than a few occasions, my personal life as well).