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The Crime Of Sedition: At The Crossroads Of Reform And Resurgence, Adam M. Smith, Charlene Yim, Marryum Kahloon, Human Rights Institute
The Crime Of Sedition: At The Crossroads Of Reform And Resurgence, Adam M. Smith, Charlene Yim, Marryum Kahloon, Human Rights Institute
Human Rights Institute
The offense of “sedition” — often characterized as criminalizing the incitement of rebellion against the government — is an archaic crime that is frequently used to target political speech. Introduced in the sixteenth century in England specifically to suppress dissent, sedition laws spread through the British colonies. These laws still persist in some legal systems, and while there are reforms underway in some of those jurisdictions, in a few outliers, the offense continues to be prosecuted — and in some there has been a resurgence in cases.
Sedition laws have been criticized by the United Nations (“U.N.”), human rights experts, …
Socialist Republic Of Vietnam V. Pham Thi Doan Trang, David Mccraw, Human Rights Institute
Socialist Republic Of Vietnam V. Pham Thi Doan Trang, David Mccraw, Human Rights Institute
Human Rights Institute
On the night of October 6, 2020, at the conclusion of a virtual human rights meeting between the governments of the United States of America and Vietnam, Vietnamese police arrested the journalist and human rights activist Pham Thi Doan Trang at her home in Hanoi. Ms. Trang was arrested and detained for allegedly “conducting propaganda against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam” and “making, storing, spreading information, materials, items for the purpose of opposing the State of Socialist Republic of Vietnam” — two of the most notorious of Vietnam’s fifteen national security offenses.
It would be a full year — during …
Getting To Death: Race And The Paths Of Capital Cases After Furman, Jeffrey A. Fagan, Garth Davies, Ray Paternoster
Getting To Death: Race And The Paths Of Capital Cases After Furman, Jeffrey A. Fagan, Garth Davies, Ray Paternoster
Faculty Scholarship
Decades of research on the administration of the death penalty have recognized the persistent arbitrariness in its implementation and the racial inequality in the selection of defendants and cases for capital punishment. This Article provides new insights into the combined effects of these two constitutional challenges. We show how these features of post-Furman capital punishment operate at each stage of adjudication, from charging death-eligible cases to plea negotiations to the selection of eligible cases for execution and ultimately to the execution itself, and how their effects combine to sustain the constitutional violations first identified 50 years ago in Furman …