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Defunding Cities: Reconsidering The Fiscal Sanctioning Measures Of State Punitive Preemption Statutes, Eliza Martin Jan 2024

Defunding Cities: Reconsidering The Fiscal Sanctioning Measures Of State Punitive Preemption Statutes, Eliza Martin

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In an effort to deter and punish cities for passing ordinances that conflict with state priorities, states are utilizing a new form of legislative power: punitive preemption. It is generally considered a legitimate use of state power to utilize statutes to preempt local measures and ordinances deemed inconsistent with state policy. State legislatures, however, are attaching punitive mechanisms to preemption legislation that, in the event of local noncompliance, create criminal and civil liability for local officials, provide removal mechanisms for elected officials, and allow for the fiscal sanctioning of local governments.

This Comment considers whether local governments are legally protected …


Bringing Up The Bodies, Bennett Capers Apr 2023

Bringing Up The Bodies, Bennett Capers

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Allow me to begin with a scene from one of my favorite novels of the last twenty years. The novel is Hilary Mantel’s Bring Up the Bodies, 1 the second in her award-winning trilogy of historical novels about Thomas Cromwell and King Henry VIII.2

By the start of Bring Up the Bodies, King Henry VIII has had his first marriage annulled and is now married to Anne Boleyn. Indeed, Anne Boleyn is pregnant, and the king is optimistic about a male heir. But the king already has eyes on Jane Seymour, and when Anne Boleyn miscarries, the king is …


Abortion Experts, Aziza Ahmed Apr 2023

Abortion Experts, Aziza Ahmed

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Ballot Access And The Role Of Diligence During An Election-Year Pandemic, Lauren Spungen Feb 2022

Ballot Access And The Role Of Diligence During An Election-Year Pandemic, Lauren Spungen

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Immigration, Retaliation, And Jurisdiction, Daniel E. Simon Dec 2020

Immigration, Retaliation, And Jurisdiction, Daniel E. Simon

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Defending Speech Crimes, Judith P. Miller Dec 2020

Defending Speech Crimes, Judith P. Miller

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#Metoo As Catalyst: A Glimpse Into 21st Century Activism, Jamillah Bowman Williams, Lisa Singh, Naomi Mezey Jan 2020

#Metoo As Catalyst: A Glimpse Into 21st Century Activism, Jamillah Bowman Williams, Lisa Singh, Naomi Mezey

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Unofficial Reporting In The #Metoo Era, Deborah Tuerkheimer Jan 2020

Unofficial Reporting In The #Metoo Era, Deborah Tuerkheimer

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The Rules Of #Metoo, Jessica A. Clarke Jan 2020

The Rules Of #Metoo, Jessica A. Clarke

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Keeping Juvenile Conduct In Juvenile Court: Why The Federal Juvenile Delinquency Act Does Not And Should Not Contain A Ratification Exception, Taylor Imperiale Feb 2019

Keeping Juvenile Conduct In Juvenile Court: Why The Federal Juvenile Delinquency Act Does Not And Should Not Contain A Ratification Exception, Taylor Imperiale

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“I Got The Shotgun, You Got The Briefcase”: Criminal Defense Ethics In The Wire, Alison Siegler, Erica Zunkel Feb 2019

“I Got The Shotgun, You Got The Briefcase”: Criminal Defense Ethics In The Wire, Alison Siegler, Erica Zunkel

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Second Chances In The Wire: Perspectives From Psychology And The Judiciary, Rebecca R. Pallmeyer, Dan P. Mcadams Feb 2019

Second Chances In The Wire: Perspectives From Psychology And The Judiciary, Rebecca R. Pallmeyer, Dan P. Mcadams

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Playing off a scene in The Wire wherein prison inmates discuss whether American lives have “second acts,” this essay considers psychological and legal issues at play in people’s efforts to turn their lives around, from bad to good. In the first half of the essay, a professor of psychology discusses empirical research into redemptive life stories in which people find positive meaning in suffering and/or transform their lives from failure to relative success. While examples of redemptive life stories may be found in The Wire, making good on second chances seems to be a relatively rare occurrence. In the second …


“Deserve Got Nothin’ To Do With It:” The Value Of Homicide Victims In The Wire, Janice Nadler Feb 2019

“Deserve Got Nothin’ To Do With It:” The Value Of Homicide Victims In The Wire, Janice Nadler

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Police Violence In The Wire, Jonathan Masur, Richard H. Mcadams Feb 2019

Police Violence In The Wire, Jonathan Masur, Richard H. Mcadams

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Transparency And Corruption: A General Analysis, Michael D. Gilbert Feb 2019

Transparency And Corruption: A General Analysis, Michael D. Gilbert

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Education, Violence, And Re-Wiring Our Schools, Margareth Etienne Feb 2019

Education, Violence, And Re-Wiring Our Schools, Margareth Etienne

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Criminal Procedure, The Police, And The Wire As Dissent, Bennett Capers Feb 2019

Criminal Procedure, The Police, And The Wire As Dissent, Bennett Capers

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Would “Hamsterdam” Work? Drug Depenalization In The Wire And In Real Life, John Bronsteen Feb 2019

Would “Hamsterdam” Work? Drug Depenalization In The Wire And In Real Life, John Bronsteen

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The television show The Wire depicts a plan called “Hamsterdam” in which police let people sell drugs in isolated places, and only those places, without fear of arrest. Based on limited but decent empirical evidence, we can make educated guesses about what would happen if that were tried in real life. Indeed, Swiss police tried something remarkably similar in the 1980s. More generally, the results of various forms of drug legalization, depenalization, and decriminalization in Europe—such as in Portugal, which has transferred the state’s method of dealing with drug use (including heroin and cocaine) from the criminal justice system to …


Making Connections With The Wire: Telling The Stories Behind The Statistics, Rachel E. Barkow Feb 2019

Making Connections With The Wire: Telling The Stories Behind The Statistics, Rachel E. Barkow

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Video, Popular Culture, And Police Excessive Force: The Elusive Narrative Of Over-Policing, Susan A. Bandes Feb 2019

Video, Popular Culture, And Police Excessive Force: The Elusive Narrative Of Over-Policing, Susan A. Bandes

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Allegations of police brutality are generally credibility contests between the officer and the accuser, and thus their resolution hinges on pre-existing assumptions about what stories arecredible. As long as aggressive policing is considered an aberration or a deserved response, legal accounts of unprovoked police violence will be considered incredible. This article explores the difficulties of overcoming the dominant story about policing and conveying the experience of living in an over-policed community. It considers the successes and failures of video evidence (body cam, dash cam, and cell phone) in conveying this experience, and also the possibilities and limits of popular cultural …


Policing The Police: The Status Of Immigration Checks In The Context Of Rodriguez V. United States, Vaishalee Yeldandi Jun 2017

Policing The Police: The Status Of Immigration Checks In The Context Of Rodriguez V. United States, Vaishalee Yeldandi

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An Insurance-Based Typology Of Police Misconduct, John Rappaport Jun 2017

An Insurance-Based Typology Of Police Misconduct, John Rappaport

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Encountering Resistance: Contesting Policing And Procedural Justice, Eric J. Miller Jun 2017

Encountering Resistance: Contesting Policing And Procedural Justice, Eric J. Miller

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The Right To Silence V. The Fifth Amendment, Tracey Maclin Jun 2017

The Right To Silence V. The Fifth Amendment, Tracey Maclin

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The Logic And Limits Of Chapter 9: The Case Of Police, Nathan E. Enfield Feb 2017

The Logic And Limits Of Chapter 9: The Case Of Police, Nathan E. Enfield

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How Many Killings By Police?, Franklin E. Zimring Feb 2017

How Many Killings By Police?, Franklin E. Zimring

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Does Hot Spots Policing Inevitably Lead To Unfair And Abusive Police Practices, Or Can We Maximize Both Fairness And Effectiveness In The New Proactive Policing?, David Weisburd Feb 2017

Does Hot Spots Policing Inevitably Lead To Unfair And Abusive Police Practices, Or Can We Maximize Both Fairness And Effectiveness In The New Proactive Policing?, David Weisburd

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Governing The American Police: Wrestling With The Problems Of Democracy, Samuel Walker Feb 2017

Governing The American Police: Wrestling With The Problems Of Democracy, Samuel Walker

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Police Discretion In The 21st Century Surveillance State, Tom Tyler Feb 2017

Police Discretion In The 21st Century Surveillance State, Tom Tyler

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Channeling Police Discretion: The Hidden Potential Of Focused Deterrence, David Thacher Feb 2017

Channeling Police Discretion: The Hidden Potential Of Focused Deterrence, David Thacher

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