Judicial Retirement Laws of the 50 States and the District of Columbia - Paperback

by Bernard S. Meyer (Author)

Judicial Retirement Laws of the Fifty States and the District of Columbia, the first comprehensive work on the subject, brings together a complete survey of existing judicial retirement laws in all fifty-one jurisdictions. Using appropriate constitutional and statutory citations, Bernard S. Meyer identifies, in each jurisdiction, provisions for mandatory retirement on account of age, for retirment for disability (voluntary and involuntary), as well as for further judicial service after retirement. This work also suggests how these laws should be changed for the improvement, and the interest, of justice.

Author Biography

Bernard S. Meyer graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1936 and from the University of Maryland School of Law in 1938. In 1941, he joined the General Counsel of the U.S. Treasury. From 1943 to 1946 he served in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific Theater of Operations. After the war he began practicing law in 1947 in New York. In 1958 he was elected to a fourteen-year term on the New York Supreme Court. He was Associate Judge of the New York State Court of appeals from 1979 to 1986. He also practiced law with the firm of Meyer, Suozzi, English &Klein, of Mineola, New York. He had been a senior partner of the firm before being appointed to the Court of Appeals in 1979 by Governor Hugh Carey.