Prof. Francis Shen Quoted in New York Times on Judge Overseeing Maduro Trial

Professor Francis Shen, Solly Robins Distinguished Research Fellow, was quoted in a New York Times article exploring the 92-year-old Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein’s fitness for overseeing the trial of Nicolás Maduro in Federal District Court in Manhattan. Prof. Shen is a national expert at the intersection of neursoscience and law, including aging brains. He said that though cases are sometimes reassigned away from judges based on their physical fitness, there is no uniform process for removing a judge from the bench. Rather, such cases are handled informally by the chief judge of a given federal district, who may gently encourage the judge in question to retire.