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Human Rights In Texas: Analyzing Operation Lone Star Through A Human Rights Framework, Olivia S. Callan
Human Rights In Texas: Analyzing Operation Lone Star Through A Human Rights Framework, Olivia S. Callan
Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law
In 2021, Texas Governor Greg Abbott launched Operation Lone Star (OLS) under the guise of border security. For over three years, OLS has threatened the lives of migrants and U.S. citizens alike. While advocates have primarily challenged OLS under U.S. state and federal law, this Note examines arguments based on the U.S.'s international treaty obligations, particularly emphasizing the importance of enforcing international mechanisms of accountability. This Note analyzes OLS under three international law treaties the U.S. has ratified: the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the …
Facial Recognition Ai: Alaska Is An Ideal Forum For Introducing Regulation, Sarah Edwards
Facial Recognition Ai: Alaska Is An Ideal Forum For Introducing Regulation, Sarah Edwards
Alaska Law Review
As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly commonplace, we are all exposed to shockingly dystopian forms of surveillance. This Note details the unique danger of facial recognition technologies powered by artificial intelligence. First, this Note examines the rise of facial recognition technologies in both the public and the private sector. It illustrates this phenomenon by highlighting a few key players in both the development and implementation of facial recognition. Second, it proceeds by examining the current privacy landscape in Alaska. Alaska's unique focus on privacy rights makes the State a promising forum for regulation. Finally, it provides possible statutory and judicial solutions …
In Conversation About The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’S New Mass Atrocity Prevention Training, Tatiana Varanko, Ann O’Rourke
In Conversation About The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’S New Mass Atrocity Prevention Training, Tatiana Varanko, Ann O’Rourke
Judicature International
No abstract provided.
Barcoding Bodies: Rfid Technology And The Perils Of E-Carceration, Jackson Samples
Barcoding Bodies: Rfid Technology And The Perils Of E-Carceration, Jackson Samples
Duke Law & Technology Review
Electronic surveillance now plays a central role in the criminal legal system. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people are tracked by ankle monitors and smartphone technology. And frighteningly, commentators and policymakers have now proposed implanting radio frequency identification (“RFID”) chips into people’s bodies for surveillance purposes. This Note examines the unique risks of these proposals—particularly with respect to people on probation and parole—and argues that RFID implants would constitute a systematic violation of individual privacy and bodily integrity. As a result, they would also violate the Fourth Amendment.
The Epicycles Of General Equilibrium Theory, David Singh Grewal
The Epicycles Of General Equilibrium Theory, David Singh Grewal
Law and Contemporary Problems
No abstract provided.
The Past As A Colonialist Resource, Deepa Das Acevedo
The Past As A Colonialist Resource, Deepa Das Acevedo
Duke Law Journal
Originalism’s critics have failed to block its rise. For many jurists and legal scholars, the question is no longer whether to espouse originalism but how to espouse it. This Article argues that critics have ceded too much ground by focusing on discrediting originalism as either bad history or shoddy linguistics. To disrupt the cycle of endless “methodological” refinements and effectively address originalism’s continued popularity, critics must do two things: identify a better disciplinary analogue for originalist interpretation and advance an argument that moves beyond methods.
Anthropology can assist with both tasks. Both anthropological analysis and originalist interpretation are premised on …
Full Faith And Credit In The Post-Roe Era, Celia P. Janes
Full Faith And Credit In The Post-Roe Era, Celia P. Janes
Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy Sidebar
In 2022, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, once again leaving the question of whether abortion should be legal to individual state legislatures. This decision allowed the Texas law known as S.B. 8, alternatively known as the Texas Heartbeat Act, to go into effect. The law allows private individuals to sue anyone who has performed or has aided and abetted the performance or inducement of an abortion in Texas. California responded to this law with Assembly Bill 2091, which prevents California state courts from issuing subpoenas arising under S.B. 8 and similar laws in other states. This Note addresses …
Neglected Discovery, Jenia I. Turner, Ronald F. Wright, Michael Braun
Neglected Discovery, Jenia I. Turner, Ronald F. Wright, Michael Braun
Duke Law Journal
In recent decades, many states have expanded discovery in criminal cases. These reforms were designed to make the criminal process fairer and more efficient. The success of these changes, however, depends on whether defense attorneys actually use the new discovery opportunities to represent their clients more effectively. Records from digital evidence platforms reveal that defense attorneys sometimes fail to carry out their professional duty to review discovery.
Analyzing a novel dataset we obtained from digital evidence platforms used in Texas, we found that defense attorneys never accessed any available electronic discovery in a substantial number of felony cases between 2018 …
Legal Remedies To Collective Trauma In Northern Ireland, Katherine S. Thomas
Legal Remedies To Collective Trauma In Northern Ireland, Katherine S. Thomas
Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law
How can a country legally address collective trauma? Northern Ireland faced this daunting question in 1998, when the signing of the Good Friday Agreement heralded the end of decades of sectarian violence known as the Troubles. More than two decades later, the social and economic damage of the Troubles lingers. Years of piecemeal reconciliation efforts have proved controversial and yielded inconsistent results. The "truth" of the Troubles remains a divisive issue, and the question of how Northern Ireland can achieve lasting reconciliation still looms. This Note offers an up-to-date review of transitional justice efforts in Northern Ireland and the ongoing …
Corporate Racial Responsibility, Gina-Gail S. Fletcher, H. Timothy Lovelace Jr.
Corporate Racial Responsibility, Gina-Gail S. Fletcher, H. Timothy Lovelace Jr.
Faculty Scholarship
The 2020 mass protests in response to the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor had a significant impact on American corporations. Several large public companies pledged an estimated $50 billion to advancing racial equity and committed to various initiatives to internally improve diversity, equity, and inclusion. While many applauded corporations’ willingness to engage with racial issues, some considered it further evidence of corporate capitulation to extreme progressivism at shareholders’ expense. Others, while thinking corporate engagement was long overdue, critiqued corporate commitment as insincere.
Drawing on historical evidence surrounding the passage of Title II of the Civil Rights Act of …
False Accuracy In Criminal Trials: The Limits And Costs Of Cross Examination, Lisa Kern Griffin
False Accuracy In Criminal Trials: The Limits And Costs Of Cross Examination, Lisa Kern Griffin
Faculty Scholarship
According to the popular culture of criminal trials, skillful cross-examination can reveal the whole “truth” of what happened. In a climactic scene, defense counsel will expose a lying accuser, clear up the statements of a confused eyewitness, or surface the incentives and biases in testimony. Constitutional precedents, evidence theory, and trial procedures all reflect a similar aspiration—that cross-examination performs lie detection and thereby helps to produce accurate outcomes. Although conceptualized as a protection for defendants, cross-examination imposes some unexplored costs on them. Because it focuses on the physical presence of a witness, the current law of confrontation suggests that an …
The Right To A Glass Box: Rethinking The Use Of Artificial Intelligence In Criminal Justice, Brandon L. Garrett, Cynthia Rudin
The Right To A Glass Box: Rethinking The Use Of Artificial Intelligence In Criminal Justice, Brandon L. Garrett, Cynthia Rudin
Faculty Scholarship
Artificial intelligence (“AI”) increasingly is used to make important decisions that affect individuals and society. As governments and corporations use AI more pervasively, one of the most troubling trends is that developers so often design it to be a “black box.” Designers create AI models too complex for people to understand or they conceal how AI functions. Policymakers and the public increasingly sound alarms about black box AI. A particularly pressing area of concern has been criminal cases, in which a person’s life, liberty, and public safety can be at stake. In the United States and globally, despite concerns that …
Evidence-Based Transitional Justice: Incorporating Public Opinion Into The Field, With New Data From Iraq And Ukraine, Mara Revkin, Ala Alrababah, Rachel Myrick
Evidence-Based Transitional Justice: Incorporating Public Opinion Into The Field, With New Data From Iraq And Ukraine, Mara Revkin, Ala Alrababah, Rachel Myrick
Faculty Scholarship
The field of “transitional justice” refers to a range of processes and mechanisms for accountability, truth-seeking, and reconciliation that governments and communities pursue in the aftermath of major societal traumas, including civil war, mass atrocities, and authoritarianism. This relatively new field emerged in the 1980s as scholars, practitioners, and policymakers looked for guidance to support post-authoritarian and post-communist transitions to democracy in Eastern Europe and Latin America. Since then, the field has grown rapidly—so rapidly that it is outpacing its capacity to learn from past mistakes. Recent methodological advances in the study of public attitudes about transitional justice through quantitative …
The Brady Database, Brandon L. Garrett, Adam M. Gershowitz, Jennifer Teitcher
The Brady Database, Brandon L. Garrett, Adam M. Gershowitz, Jennifer Teitcher
Faculty Scholarship
The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Brady v. Maryland turns sixty this year. The Brady doctrine, which requires the government to disclose favorable and material evidence to the defendant, is one of the most frequently litigated criminal procedure issues. Yet, despite decades of Brady cases in federal and state courts, we still know relatively little about how Brady claims are litigated, adjudicated, and what such claims can tell us about the criminal justice system writ large. Scholars are in the dark about how often Brady violations occur, whether it is primarily the fault of prosecutors or the police, whether violations …
Smart Money For The People: Using Financial Innovation And Technology To Promote Esg, Frank Emmert
Smart Money For The People: Using Financial Innovation And Technology To Promote Esg, Frank Emmert
Duke Law & Technology Review
Traditional fiat currencies managed by governments and central banks have had negative impacts on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals. Central banks in mature democracies pursue policies that prioritize economic growth and high employment. However, these policies often lead to inflation, eroding the savings and pension funds of average citizens and encouraging risky behavior by banks and entrepreneurs. The pursuit of endless growth is socially and environmentally unsustainable. Leaders in developing countries and dictatorships use expansive monetary policy to maintain their positions, further exacerbating the situation. Convertible fiat currencies moving across borders in untraceable transactions evade regulation and taxation, with …
A Public Technology Option, Hannah Bloch-Wehba
A Public Technology Option, Hannah Bloch-Wehba
Law and Contemporary Problems
No abstract provided.
Looking Backward To Move Forward: Ending The "History And Tradition" Of Gun Violence Against The Lgbtq+ Community, Brett V. Ries
Looking Backward To Move Forward: Ending The "History And Tradition" Of Gun Violence Against The Lgbtq+ Community, Brett V. Ries
Duke Law Journal Online
Anti-LGBTQ+ gun violence is occurring in the United States at an alarming rate. The Department of Homeland Security has even issued a domestic terrorism warning for attacks against the LGBTQ+ community. When the shootings at the Pulse Nightclub in Florida and Club Q in Colorado are combined, fifty-four individuals were murdered and seventy-eight more were wounded while simply existing in an LGBTQ+ space. Both of these targeted shootings occurred within the past six years, indicating that anti-LGBTQ+ gun violence is not a relic of the past. As they were ten years ago, LGBTQ+ individuals are still disproportionately impacted by hate …
Science As Superstition: A Model Statute For Changed Science Claims, Jack D. Wasserman
Science As Superstition: A Model Statute For Changed Science Claims, Jack D. Wasserman
Duke Law Journal
Over the last fifteen years, the legal community has increasingly recognized the role of “changed science” in contributing to wrongful convictions. Changed science wrongful convictions occur when the scientific evidence used to convict a criminal defendant at trial has since been questioned or repudiated by the greater scientific community. To address this issue, seven states have enacted “changed science writs,” providing petitioners who may have been wrongfully convicted with a more reliable state habeas mechanism to challenge their convictions. Under these statutes, petitioners may bring challenges based on now-discredited scientific evidence, new guidelines, expert recantations, and scientific advancements. Importantly, these …
Shading Sunshine: The Proliferation Of Exemptions To State Open Records Laws, Cat Reid
Shading Sunshine: The Proliferation Of Exemptions To State Open Records Laws, Cat Reid
Duke Law Journal
State and local open records laws play a vital role in our democracy. They shed light on the darkest places, exposing corruption and holding the powerful accountable. Yet lawmakers are continually chipping away at the public’s right to know by limiting the information available under open records laws. Exemptions have been passed to bolster special interests, in response to investigative journalism, and to shield lawmakers. This Note examines the proliferation of exemptions and proposes a three-pronged solution that combines statutory improvements from federal FOIA and Florida’s open records law with a call for greater public engagement on the importance of …
Forensic Evidence And Rule 3.8: What Does The Use Of Bite Mark Evidence Tell Us About Prosecutorial Ethics?, Brendan Clemente
Forensic Evidence And Rule 3.8: What Does The Use Of Bite Mark Evidence Tell Us About Prosecutorial Ethics?, Brendan Clemente
Duke Law & Technology Review
Rule 3.8 of the ABA’s Model Rules of Professional Conduct should include rules that specifically address unethical uses of forensic evidence in criminal prosecutions. Forensic evidence is common in criminal trials. But the traditional rules of ethics do not effectively address the use of forensic evidence. Rule 3.8 should include a rule requiring prompt and full disclosure of information about expert witnesses whom the prosecutor plans to call and all relevant information that the prosecutor knows about a forensic method’s application in the case. Rule 3.8 should also include a requirement that the prosecutor use reasonable diligence to learn about …
Playing The Long Game: The Role Of International Courts And Tribunals In The Russo-Ukrainian War, Paul W. Grimm, Kim Scheppele, Paul Stephan, Harold Hongju Koh, Oleksandra Matviichuk
Playing The Long Game: The Role Of International Courts And Tribunals In The Russo-Ukrainian War, Paul W. Grimm, Kim Scheppele, Paul Stephan, Harold Hongju Koh, Oleksandra Matviichuk
Judicature International
No abstract provided.
Match Up: Increasing Disclosure Of Facial Recognition Technology With Criminal Discovery Rules, Paget Barranco
Match Up: Increasing Disclosure Of Facial Recognition Technology With Criminal Discovery Rules, Paget Barranco
Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy
No abstract provided.
Issues In Implementing Special Domestic Violence Criminal Jurisdiction In Alaska's Tribal Courts, Danika Watson
Issues In Implementing Special Domestic Violence Criminal Jurisdiction In Alaska's Tribal Courts, Danika Watson
Alaska Law Review
Until 2022, all but one of the 229 Alaska tribes were barred from special domestic violence criminal jurisdiction (SDVCJ): Congress's jurisdictional tool for tribal courts to address domestic violence and hold perpetrators of violence against Alaska Native women criminally accountable. The reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) in 2022 brought SDVCJ to Alaska's rural Native communities. This landmark achievement was made possible by decades of advocacy from Alaska's tribal, state, and federal leadership. In the wake of VAWA 2022, Alaska tribes and tribal justice systems face several significant legal, political, and cultural challenges. This Article outlines the legal …
The Unique Promise Of The Alaska Constitution: The Right To Rehabilitation, Adam Beyer
The Unique Promise Of The Alaska Constitution: The Right To Rehabilitation, Adam Beyer
Alaska Law Review
The Alaska Constitution creates a unique promise for those convicted of crimes. In Abraham v. State, the Alaska Supreme Court held that article I, § 12 grants offenders a "right to rehabilitation." Such a right is uncommon; few states, if they have similar protections at all, have labeled it a right. In the years since Abraham, the Court has occasionally addressed claims invoking the right, making clear that its decision was not an aberration. The court's most thorough examination of the right occurred this term in Department of Corrections v. Stefano. This article seeks to examine and clarify …
Diversion And/As Decarceration, Katherine Beckett
Diversion And/As Decarceration, Katherine Beckett
Law and Contemporary Problems
No abstract provided.
Triaging Mental Health Emergencies: Lessons From Philadelphia, Jennifer D. Wood, Evan Anderson
Triaging Mental Health Emergencies: Lessons From Philadelphia, Jennifer D. Wood, Evan Anderson
Law and Contemporary Problems
No abstract provided.
North Carolina Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (Lead): Considerations For Optimizing Eligibility And Referral, Allison R. Gilbert, Reah Siegel, Michele M. Easter, Meret S. Hofer, Josie Caves Sivaraman, Deniz Ariturk, Jeffrey W. Swanson, Marvin S. Swartz, Ruth Wygle, Grace Feng
North Carolina Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (Lead): Considerations For Optimizing Eligibility And Referral, Allison R. Gilbert, Reah Siegel, Michele M. Easter, Meret S. Hofer, Josie Caves Sivaraman, Deniz Ariturk, Jeffrey W. Swanson, Marvin S. Swartz, Ruth Wygle, Grace Feng
Law and Contemporary Problems
No abstract provided.
In Consideration Of The Behavioral Health Of Police, Meret S. Hofer, Jennifer Rineer
In Consideration Of The Behavioral Health Of Police, Meret S. Hofer, Jennifer Rineer
Law and Contemporary Problems
No abstract provided.
Policing And Behavioral Health Conditions, Jeffrey W. Swanson, Marvin S. Swartz, Brandon Garrett
Policing And Behavioral Health Conditions, Jeffrey W. Swanson, Marvin S. Swartz, Brandon Garrett
Law and Contemporary Problems
No abstract provided.
Expansion Of The Police Role In Responding To Mental Health Crises Over The Past Fifty Years: Driving Factors, Race Inequities And The Need To Rebalance Roles, Amy C. Watson, Taleed El-Sabawi
Expansion Of The Police Role In Responding To Mental Health Crises Over The Past Fifty Years: Driving Factors, Race Inequities And The Need To Rebalance Roles, Amy C. Watson, Taleed El-Sabawi
Law and Contemporary Problems
No abstract provided.