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Presentation On Jury Nullification And Suggestions For Implementing A Mixed Jury System In Japan, Robert Bloom Oct 2013

Presentation On Jury Nullification And Suggestions For Implementing A Mixed Jury System In Japan, Robert Bloom

Robert Bloom

No abstract provided.


Ratting: The Use And Abuse Of Informants In The American Justice System, Robert Bloom Oct 2013

Ratting: The Use And Abuse Of Informants In The American Justice System, Robert Bloom

Robert Bloom

No abstract provided.


Appointment: Visiting Professor At Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, Japan, Robert Bloom Oct 2013

Appointment: Visiting Professor At Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, Japan, Robert Bloom

Robert Bloom

No abstract provided.


Presentation On Jury Nullification And Suggestions For Implementing A Mixed Jury System In Japan, Robert Bloom Dec 2001

Presentation On Jury Nullification And Suggestions For Implementing A Mixed Jury System In Japan, Robert Bloom

Robert M. Bloom

No abstract provided.


Appointment: Visiting Professor At Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, Japan, Robert Bloom Dec 2001

Appointment: Visiting Professor At Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, Japan, Robert Bloom

Robert M. Bloom

No abstract provided.


Equity And Efficiency In Markets For Ideas, Richard Adelstein Dec 2001

Equity And Efficiency In Markets For Ideas, Richard Adelstein

Richard Adelstein

Intellectual property and patent protection in light of the AIDS crisis in Africa.


Publicity In Criminal Cases, Scott Howe Dec 2001

Publicity In Criminal Cases, Scott Howe

Scott W. Howe

No abstract provided.


American Legal Education, Robert Bloom Dec 2001

American Legal Education, Robert Bloom

Robert M. Bloom

No abstract provided.


Magistrate Judges, Article Iii, And The Power To Preside Over Federal Prisoner Section 2255 Proceedings, Ira P. Robbins Dec 2001

Magistrate Judges, Article Iii, And The Power To Preside Over Federal Prisoner Section 2255 Proceedings, Ira P. Robbins

Ira P. Robbins

In 1968, Congress enacted the Federal Magistrates Act to enhance judicial efficiency in the federal courts. Since then, some judicial functions delegated to magistrate judges have been challenged on constitutional grounds: while federal district judges, appointed pursuant to Article III of the United States Constitution, are protected with life tenure and undiminishable salary, thereby enhancing judicial independence, federal magistrate judges, appointed pursuant to Article I, have no such protection. The most recent major challenge to magistrate judge authority came in 2001, when the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in United States v. Johnston, decided that referral …


Justice By The Numbers: The Supreme Court And The Rule Of Four-Or Is It Five?, Ira P. Robbins Dec 2001

Justice By The Numbers: The Supreme Court And The Rule Of Four-Or Is It Five?, Ira P. Robbins

Ira P. Robbins

INTRODUCTION:

In the early hours of April 14, 2000, Robert Lee Tarver died in Alabama's electric chair, even though four Justices of the United States Supreme Court had voted to review the merits of his case. This situation is not unique. Each year, practitioners and pro se litigants alike petition the Supreme Court without fully knowing the rules pursuant to which the Court will decide their client's, or their own, fate. The reason is that the Supreme Court operates under two sets of rules-those that are published and those that are not. The former specify This Article is based on …