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The Limits Of The Polygraph, David L. Faigman, Stephen E. Fienberg, Paul C. Stern Jan 2003

The Limits Of The Polygraph, David L. Faigman, Stephen E. Fienberg, Paul C. Stern

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Eyewitness Identification: Expert Witnesses Are Not The Only Solution, Roger C. Park Jan 2003

Eyewitness Identification: Expert Witnesses Are Not The Only Solution, Roger C. Park

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Cognitive Foundation Of The Impulse To Blame, Lawrence Solan Jan 2003

Cognitive Foundation Of The Impulse To Blame, Lawrence Solan

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Sometimes What Everybody Thinks They Know Is True, Roger C. Park Jan 2003

Sometimes What Everybody Thinks They Know Is True, Roger C. Park

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Visions Of Applying The Scientific Method To The Hearsay Rule, Roger C. Park Jan 2003

Visions Of Applying The Scientific Method To The Hearsay Rule, Roger C. Park

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Expert Evidence In Flatland: The Geometry Of A World Without Scientific Culture, David L. Faigman Jan 2003

Expert Evidence In Flatland: The Geometry Of A World Without Scientific Culture, David L. Faigman

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Daubert On A Tilted Playing Field, Roger C. Park Jan 2003

Daubert On A Tilted Playing Field, Roger C. Park

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Fifteen Years After The Federal Sentencing Revolution: How Mandatory Minimums Have Undermined Effective And Just Narcotics Sentencing Perspectives On The Federal Sentencing Guidelines And Mandatory Sentencing, Ian Weinstein Jan 2003

Fifteen Years After The Federal Sentencing Revolution: How Mandatory Minimums Have Undermined Effective And Just Narcotics Sentencing Perspectives On The Federal Sentencing Guidelines And Mandatory Sentencing, Ian Weinstein

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Federal criminal sentencing has changed dramatically since 1988. Fifteen years ago, judges determined if and for how long a defendant would go to jail. Since that time, changes in substantive federal criminal statutes, particularly the passage of an array of mandatory minimum penalties and the adoption of the federal sentencing guidelines, have limited significantly judicial sentencing power and have remade federal sentencing and federal criminal practice. The results of these changes are significantly longer federal prison sentences, as was the intent of these reforms, and the emergence of federal prosecutors as the key players in sentencing. Yet, at the same …


An Empirical Test Of Justice Scalia's Commitment To The Rule Of Law, Gary S. Lawson Jan 2003

An Empirical Test Of Justice Scalia's Commitment To The Rule Of Law, Gary S. Lawson

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On January 13, 2001, barely one month after the Supreme Court's decision in Bush v. Gore, a group of 554 legal academics calling themselves "Law Professors for the Rule of Law" took out a full-page ad in the New York Times that essentially accused the Court's majority of being faithless to the rule of law. In full, the advertisement read: BY STOPPING THE VOTE COUNT IN FLORIDA, THE U.S. SUPREME COURT USED ITS POWER To ACT AS POLITICAL PARTISANS, NOT JUDGES OF A COURT OF LAW We are Professors of Law at 120 American law schools, from every part of …