Greening Criminal Legal Deserts In Rural Texas, Pamela R. Metzger, Claire Buetow, Kristin Meeks, Blane Skiles, Jiacheng Yu

Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center

Texas’ rural communities urgently need more prosecutors and public defense providers. On average, Texas’ most urban areas have 28 lawyers for every 100 criminal cases, but rural areas only have five. Many rural prosecutor’s offices cannot recruit and retain enough staff. The Constitution’s promise of equal justice for all remains unfulfilled. Rural Texans charged with misdemeanors are four times less likely to have a lawyer than urban defendants. In 2021, only 403 rural Texas lawyers accepted an appointment to represent an adult criminal defendant. In 65 rural counties, no lawyer accepted an appointment. And the problem is getting worse. Since …

Patriarchy’S Link To Intimate Partner Violence: Applications To Survivors’ Asylum Claims, Daniel G. Saunders, Tina Jiwatram-Negrón, Natalie Nanasi, Iris Cardenas

Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Eligibility for asylum for survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) has recently been contested. We summarize social science evidence to show how such survivors generally meet asylum criteria. Studies consistently show a relationship between patriarchal factors and IPV, thereby establishing a key asylum criterion that women are being persecuted because of their status as women. Empirical support is also provided for other asylum criteria, specifically: patriarchal norms contribute to state actors’ unwillingness to protect survivors, and survivors’ political opinions are linked to an escalation of perpetrators’ violence. The findings have implications for policy reform and supporting individual asylum-seekers.

The Quad (The 2022 Alumni Magazine), Southern Methodist University, Dedman School Of Law

The Quad (Law Alumni Magazine), 1988-present

• SMU Law Welcomes New Dean Jason P. Nance

• Thank you Dean Collins

• Jennifer M. Collins Women's Leadership Initiative: Making strides in gender inequality in the legal profession

• Corporate Counsel Externship Program: 10 Year Anniversary

• Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center receives $5 million from local and national philanthropies for public defense research and advocacy

• Underwood Law Library’s 50th Anniversary Celebrated

Grading Injustice: Initial Appearance Report Cards, Malia N. Brink, Jiacheng Yu, Pamela R. Metzger

Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center

Arrested people across the United States often wait in jail for days, weeks, or even months before seeing a judge or meeting an attorney. In November 2021, the Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center published Ending Injustice: Solving the Initial Appearance Crisis, a comprehensive report about this ongoing crisis in pre-trial due process. That report described the devastating consequences of delayed and uncounseled initial appearances.

Now, these Initial Appearance Report Cards offer a closer look at the laws governing post-arrest procedures in each U.S. state, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. While the Deason …

Life Sciences & Health Law, Carly Toepke, Katrin Hanschitz, Yevgeniya Ocheretko, Danny Shebaclo

The Year in Review

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Anti-Corruption, Marc Alain Bohn, Collmann Griffin, Uche Ewelukwa Ofodile, Frank Fariello, Dmitri Lohvinski

The Year in Review

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United Nations And International Organizations, Renee Dopplick, Richard L. Field, Joseph Bongiorno, Pooja Mehta, Roncevert D. Almond, Melodic Arian, Dana R. Bucy Miller, Charlotte Rickets

The Year in Review

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Anti- Corruption, Marc Alain Bohn, Collman Griffin, Uche Ewelukwa Ofodile, Dmitri Lohvinski, Leslie A. Benton, Emily Beirut

The Year in Review

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Immigration And Naturalization, Nicole Hallett, Christina J. Martin, Sabrina Damast, Amelia Steadman Mcgowan, Christopher N. Lasch

The Year in Review

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Women's Interest Network, Renee Dopplick, Delissa A. Ridgway, Linda Strite Murnane, Patricia Lopez Aufranc, Olufunmi Oluyede, Lisette Lavergne

The Year in Review

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A Practical Guide For A New 21st Century Prison Outreach Ministry Model - Mass Incarceration, Criminal Reform And Reentry-The Role And Response Of Churches And Para-Church Organizations, Robert G. Danage, Robert G. Danage

Doctor of Ministry Projects and Theses

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The numbers are staggering and shocking. The United States of America leads all nations in having more people incarcerated in its federal and state prisons, jails, and detention centers. This thesis project is the lived experience of having had a ringside seat of human depravity and the effects of mass incarceration. Over the past 30 years, I have been on the front lines serving the inside behind the impenetrable menacing walls of our nation’s federal prison system Department of Justice Federal Bureau Prison (DOJ-FBOP), State prison system in Texas (TDCJ) as well as inside of a Naval Brig doing …

Class Of 2022 Graduation Ceremony For The Degree Of Juris Doctor And Advanced Degrees, Southern Methodist University, Dedman School Of Law

Law School Commencement / Hooding Programs, 1942-present

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Btk: A Case Study In Psychopathy, Matthew S. Hutnyan

SMU Journal of Undergraduate Research

Psychopathy and serial murder have been topics of great public interest and media attention for several decades. Dennis Rader, a serial killer well-known by his pseudonym “BTK,” was responsible for the gruesome torture and murder of ten people between 1974 and 1991. Although some information is known about him through media accounts, little work has been done to synthesize information about his life and crimes, and to examine him as a case study of psychopathy. Through careful literature review and analysis, this study aims to provide insight into Rader’s life and crimes, and to delineate his psychopathology to gain a …

The Character Of Jury Exclusion, Anna Offit

Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Encounters with the legal system are unevenly distributed throughout the American population, with Black and poor citizens targeted as disparate subjects of surveillance, arrest, and criminal conviction. At the same time, these encounters, as well as a stated belief in the unfairness of the legal system, are commonly viewed as legitimate grounds for excusal from jury service. This follows from an understanding of juror bias that assumes that people with negative experiences with legal actors—police and prosecutors, for example—will be less likely to trust and more likely to discount the contributions of those actors within the context of the jury …

Life Beyond Bars: Nine Prisoners And Their Families, And Faith-Based Efforts To Recognize And Avoid-Cross-Generational Criminal Habits., Alfreda Reese

Doctor of Ministry Projects and Theses

The aim of this study is to examine prisoners’ firsthand experiences and their underlying family issues to bring awareness and delete current cross-generational criminal habits. Through analyzing a series of individual experiences and exploring underlying family issues, the study intends to bring awareness and exposure to the implications of the criminal justice system on prisoners and their families. This study will analyze personal stories of prisoners and their families to identify, interact, and intervene in best practices to avoid criminal habits. The research gathered aims to empower prisoners and their families in suggested ways to delete repeated criminal patterns and …

Getting Gideon Right, Andrew L.B. Davies, Blane Skiles, Pamela R. Metzger, Janelle Gursoy, Alex Romo

Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center

In Gideon v. Wainwright, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the government must provide a criminal defense lawyer for any accused person who cannot afford one. But for too many people, Gideon's promise remains unfulfilled. In Texas, there are no statewide guidelines about who is entitled to a court-appointed lawyer. Instead, counties create their own rules that create serious gaps in constitutional protection. Getting Gideon Right investigates the financial standards that determine an accused person's eligibility for appointed counsel in Texas county courts. The report reveals a patchwork of county court policies that are both complex and severe.

Mexico, Ana Karen Inzunza Sánchez, Bianka Aryesha Llamas Covarrubias, Eduardo Sánchez Madrigal, Fernanda Ambrosio Agraz, José Antonio Cervantes Acosta, José Edgardo Muñoz López, José Francisco Marcías Calleja, María Del Rocío De Orta Abúndi, Soyla H. León Tovar, Yurixhi Gallardo Martínez, Susan Burns, Zel Saccari

The Year in Review

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Africa, Englebert Akong, Susan Bishai, Anne Bodley, Michela Cocchi, D. Porpoise Evans, Pamela Fapohunda, Katherine Flannery, Sara Frazão, Rebecca Gerome, David Hofisi, Tyler Holmes, Jennifer Ismat, Alexandra Kerr Meise, Linda Lowson, Anis Mahfoud, Adeshola Mos-Shogbamimu, John Mukum Mbaku, Kelly Newsome, Ivan Allan Ojakol, Kingsley Osei, Danielle Rowland Lindahl, Ricardo Alves Silva, Matthew Snyder, Anna Toubiana, João Luís Traça

The Year in Review

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International Procurement, Martin G. Masse, Erin Brown, Samuel W. Jack, Steven D. Tibbets, Daniel Carey Brown, Kristina Dahmann

The Year in Review

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Judging Biden, John P. Collins Jr.

SMU Law Review Forum

It would have been easy for President Joe Biden to approach judicial appointments (and, particularly, circuit court appointments) the same way as the Administration he served as Vice President. Like President Obama, President Biden inherited a country in turmoil. A deadly pandemic had killed nearly 400,000 Americans. Necessary quarantine orders shuttered schools and businesses, and ground the economy to a halt. Partisan tensions were still raging, culminating in the violent storming of the Capitol by right-wing insurrectionists. People needed the vaccine, economic relief, and a return to some semblance of normalcy. Also, like President Obama (and thanks to President Trump), …

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SMU Law Review

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SMU Annual Texas Survey

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Ai, Equity, And The Ip Gap, Daryl Lim

SMU Law Review

Artificial intelligence (AI) has helped determine vaccine recipients, prioritize emergency room admissions, and ascertain individual hires, sometimes doing so inequitably. As we emerge from the Pandemic, technological progress and efficiency demands continue to press all areas of the law, including intellectual property (IP) law, toward incorporating more AI into legal practice. This may be good when AI promotes economic and social justice in the IP system. However, AI may amplify inequity as biased developers create biased algorithms with biased inputs or rely on biased proxies. This Article argues that policymakers need to take a thoughtful and concerted approach to graft …

Algorithmic Destruction, Tiffany C. Li

SMU Law Review

Contemporary privacy law does not go far enough to protect our privacy interests, particularly where artificial intelligence and machine learning are concerned. While many have written on problems of algorithmic bias and data deletion, this Article introduces the novel concept of the “algorithmic shadow” and explains the new privacy remedy of “algorithmic destruction,” also known as algorithmic disgorgement or machine unlearning. The algorithmic shadow describes the persistent imprint of training data that has been fed into a machine learning model and used to refine that machine learning system. This shadow persists even if data is deleted from the initial training …

The Deficiencies Of Oregon Ballot Measure 110, Jacob Towles

SMU Science and Technology Law Review

In 1970, the Federal Government enacted the Controlled Substance Act (CSA), which made certain drugs and substances illegal absent a medical prescription. The control of drugs through the CSA exists to prevent harm to the public. Nonetheless, some cities and states have enacted laws that allow for the benefit of selling or pleasure of using illegal drugs to outweigh the legal ramifications.

In November 2020, The Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act, also known as Oregon Ballot Measure 110 (Measure 110), made Oregon the first state in the country to decriminalize all drugs. Measure 110 was enacted with the overarching …

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SMU Science and Technology Law Review

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Journal of Air Law and Commerce

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Journal of Air Law and Commerce

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Journal of Air Law and Commerce

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"Second-Class" Rhetoric, Ideology, And Doctrinal Change, Eric M. Ruben, Joseph Blocher

Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters

A common refrain in current constitutional discourse is that lawmakers and judges are systematically disfavoring certain rights. This allegation has been made about the rights to free speech and free exercise of religion, but it is most prominent in debates about the right to keep and bear arms. Such “second-class” treatment, the argument goes, signals that the Supreme Court must intervene aggressively to police the disrespected rights. Past empirical work casts doubt on the descriptive claim that judges and policymakers are disrespecting the Second Amendment, but that simply highlights how little we know about how the second-class argument functions as …