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Child Pornography And The Restitution Revolution, Cortney E. Lollar
Child Pornography And The Restitution Revolution, Cortney E. Lollar
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
Victims of child pornography are now successfully seeking restitution from defendants convicted of watching and trading their images. Restitution in child pornography cases, however, represents a dramatic departure from traditional concepts of restitution. This Article offers the first critique of this restitution revolution. Traditional restitution is grounded in notions of unjust enrichment and seeks to restore the economic status quo between parties by requiring disgorgement of ill-gotten gains. The restitution being ordered in increasing numbers of child pornography cases does not serve this purpose. Instead, child pornography victims are receiving restitution simply for having their images viewed. This royalty-type approach …
Reviving The Federal Crime Of Gratuities, Sarah N. Welling
Reviving The Federal Crime Of Gratuities, Sarah N. Welling
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
The federal crime of gratuities prohibits people from giving gifts to federal public officials if the gift is tied to an official act. Both the donor and the donee are liable. The gratuities crime is dysfunctional in two main ways. It is overinclusive in that it covers conduct indistinguishable from bribery. It is underinclusive in that it does not cover conduct that is clearly dangerous: gifts to public officials because of their positions that are not tied to a particular official act.
This Article argues that Congress should extend the crime of gratuities to cover gifts because of an official’s …