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Paving The Way For Mind-Reading: Reinterpreting "Coercion" In Article 17 Of The Third Geneva Convention, John Zarrilli
Paving The Way For Mind-Reading: Reinterpreting "Coercion" In Article 17 Of The Third Geneva Convention, John Zarrilli
Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy Sidebar
Mind-reading is no longer a concept confined to the world of science-fiction: "Brain reading technologies are rapidly being developed in a number of neuroscience fields." One obvious application is to the field of criminal justice: Mind-reading technology can potentially aid investigators in assessing critical legal questions such as guilt, legal insanity, and the risk of recidivism. Two current techniques have received the most scholarly attention for their potential in aiding interrogators in determining guilt: brain-based lie detection and brain-based memory detection. The growing ability to peer inside someone's mind raises significant legal issues. A number of American scholars, especially in …
Nathan Chapman, Gerald B. Tjoflat
Nathan Chapman, Gerald B. Tjoflat
Special Collections
A discussion with Judge Tjoflat regarding litigation tactics, ethics, and the growth of magistrates’ system.
Hon. William F. Jung, Gerald B. Tjoflat
Hon. William F. Jung, Gerald B. Tjoflat
Special Collections
A discussion with Judge Tjoflat regarding the investigation into Judge Alcee Hastings’ conduct, which led to his impeachment and conviction by the Senate.
Hon. Timothy Corrigan, Gerald B. Tjoflat
Hon. Timothy Corrigan, Gerald B. Tjoflat
Special Collections
A discussion with Judge Tjoflat regarding his involvement on the Judicial Conference Committee — probation, sentencing, bail reform (1973-1989).
The Gay Perjury Trap, Christopher R. Leslie
The Gay Perjury Trap, Christopher R. Leslie
Duke Law Journal
In Bostock v. Clayton County, the Supreme Court held Title VII’s prohibition on sex-based employment discrimination applies to discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Although the opinion is an important victory, if history is any guide, Bostock was only one battle in a larger war against invidious workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Prejudiced employers and managers will seek alternative, less obvious ways to discriminate. Judges and civil rights lawyers must prepare themselves to recognize and reject pretextual rationales for adverse actions taken against lesbian, gay, and bisexual employees. A better understanding of history can …
Foreword, Jeff Ward
Beyond The Prediction Paradigm: Challenges For Ai In The Struggle Against Organized Crime, Paula Helm, Thilo Hagendorff
Beyond The Prediction Paradigm: Challenges For Ai In The Struggle Against Organized Crime, Paula Helm, Thilo Hagendorff
Law and Contemporary Problems
No abstract provided.
The Air We All Breathe: Internet Bans In Probation Conditions— Dalton V. State, Kristen M. Renberg, Angela Sbano
The Air We All Breathe: Internet Bans In Probation Conditions— Dalton V. State, Kristen M. Renberg, Angela Sbano
Alaska Law Review
In today’s world, the Internet is synonymous with opportunity. Recently, the Supreme Court has even recognized a First Amendment right to access the Internet. However, it is still common practice to assign the special conditions of Internet bans or restrictions for individuals on parole or supervised release. Courts have split on how to strike a balance between the goal of deterrence and protection of an individual’s rights. The Court of Appeals of Alaska weighed into this ongoing debate in Dalton v. State, by holding that a restriction requiring prior approval from a parole officer before any and all Internet use …
Selective Justice: A Crisis Of Missing And Murdered Alaska Native Women, Megan Mallonee
Selective Justice: A Crisis Of Missing And Murdered Alaska Native Women, Megan Mallonee
Alaska Law Review
Across the country, Indigenous women are murdered more than any other population and go missing at disproportionate rates. This crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women is amplified in Alaska, where the vast landscape, a confusing jurisdictional scheme, and a history of systemic racism all create significant barriers to justice for Alaska Native women. This Note examines the roots of the crisis and calls for a holistic response that acknowledges the role of colonialism, Indigenous genocide, and governmental failures. While this Note focuses on the epidemic of violence against Alaska Native women in particular, it seeks to provide solutions that …
Meaningless Or Mandatory?: Automatic Probation's Revival And The Rule Of Lenity's Fall In Chinuhuk V. State, Kate Goldberg, Macklin Willigan
Meaningless Or Mandatory?: Automatic Probation's Revival And The Rule Of Lenity's Fall In Chinuhuk V. State, Kate Goldberg, Macklin Willigan
Alaska Law Review
Alaska’s common-law probation system requires that the period of supervision imposed is accompanied by a suspended term of imprisonment. Violation of probation conditions may trigger this suspended term, sending the probationer to prison. Should the probationer complete the entire suspended sentence, he or she is then usually eligible for discharge from probation. In Chinuhuk v. State, the Alaska Supreme Court held that the state legislature had abrogated this traditional scheme with respect to felony sex offenders, replacing it with one that allowed probation to continue although the offenders had completed their suspended terms of imprisonment. This Comment argues that in …
Othering Across Borders, Steven Arrigg Koh
Othering Across Borders, Steven Arrigg Koh
Duke Law Journal Online
Our contemporary moment of reckoning presents an opportunity to evaluate racial subordination and structural inequality throughout our three-tiered domestic, transnational, and international criminal law system. In particular, this Essay exposes a pernicious racial dynamic in contemporary U.S. global criminal justice policy, which I call othering across borders. First, this othering may occur when race emboldens political and prosecutorial actors to prosecute foreign defendants. Second, racial animus may undermine U.S. engagement with international criminal legal institutions, specifically the International Criminal Court. This Essay concludes with measures to mitigate such othering.
Probable Cause And Performing "For The People", Irene Oritseweyinmi Joe
Probable Cause And Performing "For The People", Irene Oritseweyinmi Joe
Duke Law Journal Online
The summer of 2020 presented the American public with two very different versions of how a state’s top prosecutor might respond to excessive use of force by law enforcement. In Kentucky, Attorney General Daniel Cameron was criticized for his conduct after stories emerged of his biased presentation to a grand jury contemplating whether officers should face criminal charges for killing an unarmed person, Breonna Taylor, in her own home. In Minnesota, Attorney General Keith Ellison proved to be less controversial as public sentiment emphasized his willingness to pursue the type of justice that the public demanded against all of the …
Jailhouse Immigration Screening, Eisha Jain
Jailhouse Immigration Screening, Eisha Jain
Duke Law Journal
Within the past decade, U.S. interior immigration enforcement has shifted away from the street and into the jailhouse. The rationale behind jailhouse screening is to target enforcement efforts on those who fall within federal removal priorities. This Article shows how a program undertaken with the stated aim of targeting immigration enforcement has had precisely the opposite effect: it has massively expanded the reach of immigration enforcement and created extended carceral treatment within the criminal justice system based on suspected immigration status. This approach, in turn, leads to removals that lack adequate process, are inaccurate, or that reflect underlying racial biases …
The Law Of Lenity: Enacting A Codified Federal Rule Of Lenity, Maisie A. Wilson
The Law Of Lenity: Enacting A Codified Federal Rule Of Lenity, Maisie A. Wilson
Duke Law Journal
The rule of lenity is an ancient canon of statutory construction that requires courts to find in favor of criminal defendants charged under ambiguous statutes. Traditionally, lenity endorses important constitutional concerns regarding due notice, consistent enforcement of law, and legislative supremacy. In modern courts, if lenity were regularly—and properly—applied, it could combat important social problems that plague our criminal justice system. Ambiguous laws allow government actors to arbitrarily target disfavored groups. And more generally, ambiguity within criminal law contributes to overcriminalization, wanton punishment, and capricious enforcement. As the volume of federal criminal law continues to expand, this overcriminalization leads to …
The Agent’S Problem, Asaf Eckstein, Gideon Parchomovsky
The Agent’S Problem, Asaf Eckstein, Gideon Parchomovsky
Duke Law Journal
The agency problem, the idea that corporate directors and officers are motivated to prioritize their self-interest over the interest of their corporation, has had a long-lasting impact on corporate-law theory and practice. In recent years, however, as federal agencies have stepped up enforcement efforts against corporations, a new problem has surfaced: what we call the “reverse agency problem.” The surge in criminal investigations against corporations, combined with the rising popularity of settlement mechanisms, including pretrial diversion agreements and corporate plea agreements, has led corporations to sacrifice directors and officers in order to reach settlements with law enforcement authorities as expeditiously …
Who Protects Whom: Federal Law As A Floor, Not A Ceiling, To Protect Students From Inappropriate Use Of Force By School Resource Officers, Elsa Haag
Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy Sidebar
Over the past forty years, students in the U.S. have experienced increasingly strict school discipline policies and increased police presence in schools. Sent into schools with the aim of improving security in the wake of mass shootings, school resource officers (SROs) are sworn law enforcement regularly assigned to schools. But there is a paucity of evidence that SROs are effective in preventing mass shootings or provide other significant benefits. Instead, research shows that the presence of SROs results in students achieving less and experiencing more physical and emotional harm, with long-term implications and costs for individuals and communities. As trained …
Handle With Care: Constitutional Standards For Information Sharing In Medical-Correctional Transition, Andrew R. Hayes
Handle With Care: Constitutional Standards For Information Sharing In Medical-Correctional Transition, Andrew R. Hayes
Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy Sidebar
Correctional institutions have an Eighth Amendment obligation to provide healthcare to inmates. In practice though, jails and prisons struggle to provide adequate care to millions of incarcerated individuals, roughly half of whom have at least one chronic health condition. As a result, harsh conditions of confinement routinely threaten the health of inmates who require specific medical accommodations. Recognizing this risk, the courts hold corrections institutions liable for harm when government officials are “deliberately indifferent” to prisoner medical needs.
Beginning with the HITECH Act of 2009, mainstream medicine embraced tools that eliminate gaps in medical communication. Today, most Americans rely on …
Time To Reload: The Harms Of The Federal Felon-In-Possession Ban In A Post-Heller Worl, Zach Sherwood
Time To Reload: The Harms Of The Federal Felon-In-Possession Ban In A Post-Heller Worl, Zach Sherwood
Duke Law Journal
Federal law permanently prohibits anyone who has been convicted of a felony from possessing a firearm. Keeping lethal weapons out of the hands of those who pose a risk to public safety is no doubt a worthy policy goal. But the federal felon-in-possession ban is blunt, punitive, and supremely damaging to the ex-felons who fall within its ambit. The statute’s sweeping scope ensures that any ex-felon who possesses any firearm for any length of time for any reason can be swiftly and harshly punished. And it indiscriminately targets conduct that is often neither harmful nor criminal.
The felon-in-possession ban gained …
The Case Against Chevron Deference In Immigration Adjudication, Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, Christopher J. Walker
The Case Against Chevron Deference In Immigration Adjudication, Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, Christopher J. Walker
Duke Law Journal
The Duke Law Journal’s fifty-first annual administrative law symposium examines the future of Chevron deference—the command that a reviewing court defer to an agency’s reasonable interpretation of an ambiguous statute the agency administers. In the lead article, Professors Kristin Hickman and Aaron Nielson argue that the Supreme Court should narrow Chevron ’s domain to exclude interpretations made via administrative adjudication. Building on their framing, this Article presents an in-depth case study of immigration adjudication and argues that this case against Chevron has perhaps its greatest force when it comes to immigration. That is because much of Chevron ’s theory …
Closing International Law's Innocence Gap, Brandon L. Garrett, Laurence R. Helfer, Jayne C. Huckerby
Closing International Law's Innocence Gap, Brandon L. Garrett, Laurence R. Helfer, Jayne C. Huckerby
Faculty Scholarship
Over the last decade, a growing number of countries have adopted new laws and other mechanisms to address a gap in national criminal legal systems: the absence of meaningful procedures to raise post-conviction claims of factual innocence. These legal and policy reforms have responded to a global surge of exonerations facilitated by the growth of national innocence organizations that increasingly collaborate across borders. It is striking that these developments have occurred with little direct help from international law. Although many treaties recognize extensive fair trial and appeal rights, no international human rights instrument—in its text, existing interpretation, or implementation—explicitly and …
Corporate Crimmigration, Brandon L. Garrett
Corporate Crimmigration, Brandon L. Garrett
Faculty Scholarship
Immigration laws are not just criminally enforced against individuals, but also corporations. For individuals, “crimmigration” is pervasive, as federal immigration prosecutions are a mass phenomenon. More than a third of the federal criminal docket — nearly 40,000 cases each year — consists of prosecutions of persons charged with violations of immigration rules. In contrast, prosecutors rarely charge corporations, which are required to verify citizenship status of employees. This Article sheds light on this unexplored area of corporate criminal law, including by presenting new empirical data. In the early 2000s, corporate immigration enforcement for the first time increased in prominence. During …
Punishing With Impunity: The Legacy Of Risk Classification Assessment In Immigration Detention, Robert Koulish, Kate Evans
Punishing With Impunity: The Legacy Of Risk Classification Assessment In Immigration Detention, Robert Koulish, Kate Evans
Faculty Scholarship
In 2012, the Department of Homeland Security adopted a risk classification assessment ("RCA") tool to run on migrants in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE"). The risk tool helped determine who was detained and who was released from ICE custody. It was intended to curb detention rates by limiting detention based on risk of flight and danger and to ensure that the conditions of civil immigration detention were distinct from those in criminal detention. This Article presents data from several RCA datasets received pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act.
The story of the RCA is one of …
Of Protest And Property: An Essay In Pursuit Of Justice For Breonna Taylor, H. Timothy Lovelace Jr.
Of Protest And Property: An Essay In Pursuit Of Justice For Breonna Taylor, H. Timothy Lovelace Jr.
Faculty Scholarship
In March 2020, Louisville police officers fatally shot Breanna Taylor in her apartment while executing a no-knock warrant. There was great outrage over the killing of the innocent woman, and Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron led an investigation of the officer-involved shooting.
Activists protested in Louisville after Taylor's killing, and when Cameron's investigation appeared stalled, these activists even conducted a sit-in on Cameron's front lawn. They demanded immediate justice for Taylor. Cameron sharply responded, lecturing the activists on how to achieve justice. He contended that neither trespassing on private property nor escalation in tactics could advance the cause of justice. …
"Slack" In The Data Age, Shu-Yi Oei, Diane M. Ring
"Slack" In The Data Age, Shu-Yi Oei, Diane M. Ring
Faculty Scholarship
This Article examines how increasingly ubiquitous data and information affect the role of “slack” in the law. Slack is the informal latitude to break the law without sanction. Pockets of slack exist for various reasons, including information imperfections, enforcement resource constraints, deliberate nonenforcement of problematic laws, politics, biases, and luck. Slack is important in allowing flexibility and forbearance in the legal system, but it also risks enabling selective and uneven enforcement. Increasingly available data is now upending slack, causing it to contract and exacerbating the risks of unfair enforcement.
This Article delineates the various contexts in which slack arises and …
Life Without Parole Sentencing In North Carolina, Brandon L. Garrett, Travis M. Seale-Carlisle, Karima Modjadidi, Kristen M. Renberg
Life Without Parole Sentencing In North Carolina, Brandon L. Garrett, Travis M. Seale-Carlisle, Karima Modjadidi, Kristen M. Renberg
Faculty Scholarship
What explains the puzzle of life without parole (LWOP) sentencing in the United States? In the past two decades, LWOP sentences have reached record highs, with over 50,000 prisoners serving LWOP. Yet during this same period, homicide rates have steadily declined. The U.S. Supreme Court has limited the use of juvenile LWOP in Eighth Amendment rulings. Further, death sentences have steeply declined, reaching record lows. Although research has examined drivers of incarceration patterns for certain sentences, there has been little research on LWOP imposition. To shed light on what might explain the sudden rise of LWOP, we examine characteristics of …
Pointing Guns, Joseph Blocher, Samuel W. Buell, Jacob D. Charles, Darrell A. H. Miller
Pointing Guns, Joseph Blocher, Samuel W. Buell, Jacob D. Charles, Darrell A. H. Miller
Faculty Scholarship
The American gun debate is increasingly populated with scenes of people pointing and otherwise displaying guns. What is the legal regime governing gun displays, and how well can it address the distinct social and legal problems they pose? In this Essay, we argue that the current structure of criminal law does not supply clear rules of conduct sufficient to avoid the negative effects of gun displays, and that the rhetorical and expressive effects of Second Amendment debates threaten to make the situation worse. We also suggest how the legal rules might be improved, and how battles over norms—as much as …
Monitoring The Misdemeanor Bail Reform Consent Decree In Harris County, Texas, Brandon L. Garrett, Sandra Guerra Thompson
Monitoring The Misdemeanor Bail Reform Consent Decree In Harris County, Texas, Brandon L. Garrett, Sandra Guerra Thompson
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Pay To Play? Campaign Finance And The Incentive Gap In The Sixth Amendment’S Right To Counsel, Neel U. Sukhatme, Jay Jenkins
Pay To Play? Campaign Finance And The Incentive Gap In The Sixth Amendment’S Right To Counsel, Neel U. Sukhatme, Jay Jenkins
Duke Law Journal
For nearly sixty years, the U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed that the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees felony defendants the right to counsel, regardless of their ability to pay. Yet nearly all criminal procedure scholars agree that indigent defense as practiced today falls far short of its initial promise. These scholars frequently cite a lack of political support, insufficient public funding, and a failure to address instances of inadequate legal representation, among other things, as causes for the underlying systemic dysfunction.
This Article contends that these conventional critiques are incomplete. Rather, indigent defense systems often fail due to …
Deterring Algorithmic Manipulation, Gina-Gail S. Fletcher
Deterring Algorithmic Manipulation, Gina-Gail S. Fletcher
Faculty Scholarship
Does the existing anti-manipulation framework effectively deter algorithmic manipulation? With the dual increase of algorithmic trading and the occurrence of “mini-flash crashes” in the market linked to manipulation, this question has become more pressing in recent years. In the past thirty years, the financial markets have undergone a sea change as technological advancements and innovations have fundamentally altered the structure and operation of the markets. Key to this change is the introduction and dominance of trading algorithms. Whereas initial algorithmic trading relied on preset electronic instructions to execute trading strategies, new technology is introducing artificially intelligent (“AI”) trading algorithms that …