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Fate Control And Human Rights: The Policies And Practices Of Local Governance In America’S Arctic, Mara Kimmel Dec 2014

Fate Control And Human Rights: The Policies And Practices Of Local Governance In America’S Arctic, Mara Kimmel

Alaska Law Review

The loss of territoriality over lands conveyed under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act had adverse impacts for Alaskan tribal governance. Despite policy frameworks that emphasize the value of local governance at an international, regional, and statewide level, Alaskan tribes face unique obstacles to exercising their authority, with consequences for both human development and human rights. This Article examines how territoriality was lost and analyzes the four major effects of this loss on tribal governance. It then describes two distinct but complimentary strategies to rebuilding tribal governance authority that rely on both territorial and non-territorial authority.


Psychological Jurisprudence And The Power Of Law: A Critique Of North Carolina’S Woman’S Right To Know Act, Bruce A. Arrigo, Jessica L. Waldman Oct 2014

Psychological Jurisprudence And The Power Of Law: A Critique Of North Carolina’S Woman’S Right To Know Act, Bruce A. Arrigo, Jessica L. Waldman

Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


“The Obscenities Of This Country”: Canada V. Bedford And The Reform Of Canadian Prostitution Laws , Lauren Sampson Oct 2014

“The Obscenities Of This Country”: Canada V. Bedford And The Reform Of Canadian Prostitution Laws , Lauren Sampson

Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


The Judicial Expansion Of American Exceptionalism , Rachel López Jul 2014

The Judicial Expansion Of American Exceptionalism , Rachel López

Duke Forum for Law & Social Change

No abstract provided.


Treatment Of International Human Rights Violations In The United States , Johan D. Van Der Vyver Jul 2014

Treatment Of International Human Rights Violations In The United States , Johan D. Van Der Vyver

Duke Forum for Law & Social Change

No abstract provided.


Crossing The Line: An Analysis Of Problems With Classifying Recidivist Misdemeanor Offenses As Felonies, Andrew Katbi Jun 2014

Crossing The Line: An Analysis Of Problems With Classifying Recidivist Misdemeanor Offenses As Felonies, Andrew Katbi

Alaska Law Review

Alaska is in the minority of states that apply felony charges based on a defendant's history of misdemeanor violations. This approach to the challenges of criminal recidivism, however, creates both constitutional and prudential problems. While Alaska enjoys considerable latitude in its sentencing policies, this form of misdemeanor reclassification raises concerns about proportionality under the Eighth Amendment, double jeopardy under the Fifth Amendment, and poses dilemmas for participants in the pleabargaining process. This Note examines these problems and proposes a graduated approach to sentencing enhancement. By increasing punishment gradually and preventing recidivist misdemeanants from crossing the misdemeanor-felony border as quickly, Alaska …


Child, Victim, Or Prostitute? Justice Through Immunity For Prostituted Children , Tessa L. Dysart Apr 2014

Child, Victim, Or Prostitute? Justice Through Immunity For Prostituted Children , Tessa L. Dysart

Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


Fighting Fire With Fire: Technology In Child Sex Trafficking, Mary Graw Leary Apr 2014

Fighting Fire With Fire: Technology In Child Sex Trafficking, Mary Graw Leary

Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


Emerging Victimhood: Moving Towards The Protection Of Domestic Juveniles Involved In Prostitution , Nikki J. Hasselbarth Apr 2014

Emerging Victimhood: Moving Towards The Protection Of Domestic Juveniles Involved In Prostitution , Nikki J. Hasselbarth

Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


Comparative Criminal Justice: An Institutional Approach, Nicola Lacey Apr 2014

Comparative Criminal Justice: An Institutional Approach, Nicola Lacey

Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law

No abstract provided.


Moral Practices: Assigning Responsibility In The International Criminal Court , Joseph Hoover Mar 2014

Moral Practices: Assigning Responsibility In The International Criminal Court , Joseph Hoover

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.


Dynamic Investigative Practice At The International Criminal Court , Alex Whiting Mar 2014

Dynamic Investigative Practice At The International Criminal Court , Alex Whiting

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.


Practices Of Stigmatization, Frédéric Mégret Mar 2014

Practices Of Stigmatization, Frédéric Mégret

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.


Not Your Older Brother’S Bonds: The Use And Regulation Of Social-Impact Bonds In The United States , Kevin W. Humphries Mar 2014

Not Your Older Brother’S Bonds: The Use And Regulation Of Social-Impact Bonds In The United States , Kevin W. Humphries

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.


“We Cannot Allow Ourselves To Imagine What It All Means”: Documentary Practices And The International Criminal Court, Wouter G. Werner Mar 2014

“We Cannot Allow Ourselves To Imagine What It All Means”: Documentary Practices And The International Criminal Court, Wouter G. Werner

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.


Defensive Practices: Representing Clients Before The International Criminal Court, Karim A. A. Khan Qc, Anand A. Shah Mar 2014

Defensive Practices: Representing Clients Before The International Criminal Court, Karim A. A. Khan Qc, Anand A. Shah

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.


A Model Of International Judicial Administration? The Evolution Of Managerial Practices At The International Criminal Court, Philipp Ambach, Klaus U. Rackwitz Mar 2014

A Model Of International Judicial Administration? The Evolution Of Managerial Practices At The International Criminal Court, Philipp Ambach, Klaus U. Rackwitz

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.


Foreword, Jens Meierhenrich Mar 2014

Foreword, Jens Meierhenrich

Law and Contemporary Problems

The authors in this issue of Law and Contemporary Problems explore the everyday lives of international law. More specifically, the authors theorize and investigate select "practices" of the International Criminal Court (ICC), by which I mean recurrent and meaningful work activities—social or material—that are performed in a regularized fashion and that have a bearing, whether large or small, on the operation of the ICC. By conceiving the ICC as a bundle of practices rather than as a unitary actor whose performance is primarily governed by politics, I seek to re-direct the existing literature on the much debated international organization, which …


Representational Practices At The International Criminal Court: The Gap Between Juridified And Abstract Victimhood , Sara Kendall, Sarah Nouwen Mar 2014

Representational Practices At The International Criminal Court: The Gap Between Juridified And Abstract Victimhood , Sara Kendall, Sarah Nouwen

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.


Divorcing Sexual Harassment From Sex: Lessons From The French, L. Camille Hébert Feb 2014

Divorcing Sexual Harassment From Sex: Lessons From The French, L. Camille Hébert

Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


Kaley V. United States: The Right To Counsel Of Choice Caught In The Wide Net Of Asset Forfeiture, Adam J. Fine Jan 2014

Kaley V. United States: The Right To Counsel Of Choice Caught In The Wide Net Of Asset Forfeiture, Adam J. Fine

Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy Sidebar

This commentary previews an upcoming Supreme Court case, Kaley v. United States, in which the Court may decide whether a defendant who needs potentially forfeitable assets to retain counsel of choice is entitled, under the Due Process Clause, to a hearing to challenge the grand jury's finding of probable cause.


Ghana’S Jury System On Trial, Dennis D. Adjei Jan 2014

Ghana’S Jury System On Trial, Dennis D. Adjei

Duke Law Master of Judicial Studies Theses

Civil cases in Ghana are tried by the bench. Criminal cases are also handled by bench trials, except for certain indictable offenses, which may be tried by a judge or jury. Not all serious offenses are tried by jury. And a trend is developing away from jury to bench trials. For example, treason is punishable by death, but the case is determined in a bench trial by three High Court Judges. Robbery, which had been an indictable offense, is now tried by either jury or bench trial at the discretion of the Attorney-General; and prosecutors consistently have been opting for …


Leadership And Management Training In The North Carolina Judicial System: An Examination Of Identified Need, James E. Hardin Jr. Jan 2014

Leadership And Management Training In The North Carolina Judicial System: An Examination Of Identified Need, James E. Hardin Jr.

Duke Law Master of Judicial Studies Theses

The purpose of this paper is to ask whether North Carolina public service lawyers and judges believe that their judicial districts perform with maximum efficiency or whether there could be functional improvement with leadership and management training for system leaders, and with the perceived need of such training, as articulated by these professionals, what a general training model might look like. A brief examination of the institutionally provided leadership and management training offered to system leaders shows sparse resources are expended to develop leaders and train them so that they have the skills to direct individual organizations and change the …


Prosecutorial Discretion In Three Systems: Balancing Conflicting Goals And Providing Mechanisms For Control, Sara Sun Beale Jan 2014

Prosecutorial Discretion In Three Systems: Balancing Conflicting Goals And Providing Mechanisms For Control, Sara Sun Beale

Faculty Scholarship

In regulating the authority and discretion exercised by contemporary prosecutors,national systems balance a variety of goals, many of which are in tension or direct conflict. Forexample, making prosecutors politically or democratically accountable may conflict with theprinciple of prosecutorial neutrality, and the goal of efficiency may conflict with accuracy. National systems generally seek to foster equal treatment of defendants and respect for theirrights while also controlling or reducing crime and protecting the rights of victims. Systems thatrecognize prosecutorial discretion also seek to establish and implement policy decisions aboutthe best ways to address various social problems, priorities, and the allocation of resources. …


Liability And Admission Of Wrongdoing In Public Enforcement Of Law, Samuel W. Buell Jan 2014

Liability And Admission Of Wrongdoing In Public Enforcement Of Law, Samuel W. Buell

Faculty Scholarship

Some judges and scholars have questioned the social value of the standard form in which the Securities and Exchange Commission settles its corporate enforcement actions, including the agency’s use of essentially unreviewed consent decrees that include no admission of liability or wrongdoing. This essay for a symposium on SEC enforcement provides an analysis of the deterrent effects of the three main components of settlements in public enforcement of law: liability, admission, and remedy. The conclusions are the following. All three components have beneficial deterrent effects. Cost considerations nonetheless justify some settlements that dispense with liability or admission, or even both. …


“White Collar” Crimes, Samuel W. Buell Jan 2014

“White Collar” Crimes, Samuel W. Buell

Faculty Scholarship

In addition to serving as a précis of the subject of ‘white collar’ crime, this chapter does three things. First, it deals with white collar crime’s longstanding definitional problem, rejecting several standard approaches and arguing that the category is most usefully understood according to the conceptual legal problem these offenses generate. White collar crimes, much more than other offenses, are committed in social settings in which undesirable behaviors are embedded within socially welcome conduct. Thus they are difficult to set apart and extract through clearly specified ex ante rules of law. Second, the chapter illustrates this definitional claim, and discusses …


Public Opinion And The Abolition Or Retention Of The Death Penalty Why Is The United States Different?, Sara Sun Beale Jan 2014

Public Opinion And The Abolition Or Retention Of The Death Penalty Why Is The United States Different?, Sara Sun Beale

Faculty Scholarship

What explains the difference between the United States and the many other countries that have abolished capital punishment? Because the United States and many other nations that have abolished the death penalty are democracies, there seems to be an obvious answer: abolition or retention reflects the preferences of the electorate. According to this view, the U.S. electorate is simply more punitive, and the question becomes explaining the difference in national attitudes. There is some truth to this explanation. As I have argued elsewhere, the U.S. public generally does favor punitive criminal justice policies. But that cannot be the whole story. …


Hawking Hyphens In Compound Modifiers, Joan Ames Magat Jan 2014

Hawking Hyphens In Compound Modifiers, Joan Ames Magat

Faculty Scholarship

The first principle of legal writing is surely its clarity — visible actors (unless the action matters more), uncluttered syntax, and, of course, logical structure. But the little things can matter to clarity, too — such as deliberate punctuation that signifies. In the language of law, in which compound nouns are rife, the reader can feel adrift as to where modifiers end and the noun begins. (Consider government-subsidized health flexible-spending arrangement without those hyphens.) Hyphens help. Whether an author cares to hyphenate the noun is his call; but hyphenating compound modifiers (also called phrasal adjectives, though they may include adverbs …


For-Profit Public Enforcement, Margaret H. Lemos, Max Minzner Jan 2014

For-Profit Public Enforcement, Margaret H. Lemos, Max Minzner

Faculty Scholarship

This Article investigates an important yet undertheorized phenomenon: financial incentives in public enforcement. Each year, public enforcers assess billions of dollars in penalties and other financial sanctions for violations of state and federal law. Why? If the awards in question were the result of private lawsuits, the answer would be obvious. We expect that private enforcers—the victims of law violations and their fee-seeking attorneys—will attempt to maximize financial recoveries. Record recoveries come as no surprise in private class actions, for example. But dollar signs are harder to explain in the context of public enforcement. Unlike private attorneys, public enforcers are …


Eyewitness Identifications And Police Practices In Virginia, Brandon L. Garrett Jan 2014

Eyewitness Identifications And Police Practices In Virginia, Brandon L. Garrett

Faculty Scholarship

Over three decades of social science research has powerfully shown that lineup procedures really matter and that eyewitness errors predictable result from substandard lineups. Yet traditionally, many police departments had no written policies at all on conducting photo arrays or lineups. In response, more police departments, prosecutors, state courts and legislatures have acted to improve identification procedures. Although much has changed in the past decade, less is known about how many police departments have not yet adopted best practices. This Essay reports the results of a 2013 survey conducted of lineup procedures in Virginia, where a new state model policy …