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In Aid Of Removal: Due Process Limits On Immigration Detention, David Cole
In Aid Of Removal: Due Process Limits On Immigration Detention, David Cole
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
In this Article, I seek to demonstrate the radical consequences that taking due process seriously would have for immigration detention as currently practiced. Part I lays out the general principles that apply to civil preventive detention, which establish that substantive due process is violated without an individualized showing after a fair adversarial hearing that there is something to prevent, namely danger to the community or flight. Part II applies this general framework to immigration detention. It first demonstrates, by a review of Supreme Court decisions, that the Court has applied the same due process principles to immigration detention that it …
Procedural Justice: Tempering The State’S Response To Domestic Violence, Deborah Epstein
Procedural Justice: Tempering The State’S Response To Domestic Violence, Deborah Epstein
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Part I of this Article documents the recent legal reforms implemented on behalf of battered women in the criminal and civil justice systems. These include warrantless arrest, mandatory arrest laws, and no-drop prosecution policies, as well as civil protection order statutes and statutory modifications recommended by the Model State Code on Domestic and Family Violence. Part II describes the ways in which these reforms have improved the state's responsiveness to victims, yet simultaneously entailed serious costs by diminishing batterers' perceptions of procedural justice. Part III defines the building blocks of procedural justice and reviews the social science data demonstrating its …