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Population-Based Sentencing, Jessica M. Eaglin
Population-Based Sentencing, Jessica M. Eaglin
Articles by Maurer Faculty
The institutionalization of actuarial risk assessments at sentencing reflects the extension of the academic and policy-driven push to move judges away from sentencing individual defendants and toward basing sentencing on population level representations of crimes and offenses. How have courts responded to this trend? Drawing on the federal sentencing guidelines jurisprudence and the emerging procedural jurisprudence around actuarial risk assessments at sentencing, this Article identifies two techniques. First, the courts have expanded individual procedural rights into sentencing where they once did not apply. Second, the courts have created procedural rules that preserve the space for judges to pass moral judgment …
Fee-Shifting Statutes And Compensation For Risk, Maureen Carroll
Fee-Shifting Statutes And Compensation For Risk, Maureen Carroll
Indiana Law Journal
A law firm that enters into a contingency arrangement provides the client with more than just its attorneys’ labor. It also provides a form of financing, because the firm will be paid (if at all) only after the litigation ends; and insurance, because if the litigation results in a low recovery (or no recovery at all), the firm will absorb the direct and indirect costs of the litigation. Courts and markets routinely pay for these types of risk-bearing services through a range of mechanisms, including state feeshifting statutes, contingent percentage fees, common-fund awards, alternative fee arrangements, and third-party litigation funding. …
Sticks, Stones, And So-Called Judges: Why The Era Of Trump Necessitates Revisiting Presidential Influence On The Courts, Quinn W. Crowley
Sticks, Stones, And So-Called Judges: Why The Era Of Trump Necessitates Revisiting Presidential Influence On The Courts, Quinn W. Crowley
Indiana Law Journal
This Note will be primarily divided into three main sections. Part I of this Note will begin by discussing the importance of judicial independence in modern society and the role of elected officials in shaping the public perception of the courts. Additionally, as problems of judicial legitimacy are age-old and date back to America’s founding, Part I will include a brief discussion of an early clash between President Thomas Jefferson and the courts.
Parts II and III of this Note will seek to place President Trump’s conduct towards the judicial branch within the proper historical context. Part II examines the …
Court Personnel Attitudes Towards Medication-Assisted Treatment: A Statewide Survey, Barbara Andraka-Christou, Meghan Gabriel, Jody L. Madeira, Rod D. Silverman
Court Personnel Attitudes Towards Medication-Assisted Treatment: A Statewide Survey, Barbara Andraka-Christou, Meghan Gabriel, Jody L. Madeira, Rod D. Silverman
Articles by Maurer Faculty
Background: Despite its efficacy, medication-assisted treatment (MAT) is rarely available in the criminal justice system in the United States, including in problem-solving courts or diversionary settings. Previous studies have demonstrated criminal justice administrators' hostility towards MAT, especially in prisons and jails. Yet, few studies have examined attitudes among court personnel or compared beliefs among different types of personnel. Also, few studies have explored the relationship between MAT education/training and attitudes. Finally, few studies have directly compared attitudes towards methadone, oral buprenorphine, and extended-release naltrexone in the criminal justice system.
Methods: We modified a survey by Matusow et al. (2013) to …
Human Rights In State Courts, India Thusi, Robert L. Carter
Human Rights In State Courts, India Thusi, Robert L. Carter
Books & Book Chapters by Maurer Faculty
Human rights are among society’s most powerful ideals. The notion that all people have rights, simply by virtue of their humanity, has sparked new nations, inspired countless freedom movements, and transformed the relationship between people and their governments in places big and small around the globe. The founders of our country declared that we are all created equal and endowed with certain inalienable rights, and that opinions of other nations are entitled to “decent respect.” In the aftermath of the Holocaust and World War II, the United States helped craft the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and the modern …
Beyond The Verdict: Why The Courts Must Protect Jurors From The Public Before, During, And After High-Profile Cases, Scott Ritter
Beyond The Verdict: Why The Courts Must Protect Jurors From The Public Before, During, And After High-Profile Cases, Scott Ritter
Indiana Law Journal
In a time when more and more criminal trials are saturated in news coverage, media outlets race to get as much information as possible to the public. That access to the criminal justice system is a right protected by the First Amendment. But where does the access stop? This Note explores those limits, and the intersection between the First and Fourth Amendments.
Lost Without Translation?: Cross-Referencing And A New Global Community Of Courts, Antje Wiener, Philip Liste
Lost Without Translation?: Cross-Referencing And A New Global Community Of Courts, Antje Wiener, Philip Liste
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
Anne-Marie Slaughter has described the "new world order" as characterized by some "conceptual shifts," including an increasing cooperation of domestic courts across nation-state boundaries. The cross-jurisdictional referencing of legal norms and decisions, as Slaughter holds, would lead into a "global community of courts." This article takes issue with that observation. We argue that for such a community to emerge, cross-referencing would need to be followed by an effective transmission of meaning from one (legal) context to another. Following recent insights in the field of International Relations norm research, however, we can expect such meanings to be contested-in particular, when different …
Identifying Congressional Overrides Should Not Be This Hard, Deborah Widiss
Identifying Congressional Overrides Should Not Be This Hard, Deborah Widiss
Articles by Maurer Faculty
This paper is an invited response to Professor William N. Eskridge, Jr., and Mr. Matthew R. Christiansen’s recently-published study (92 Texas L. Rev. 1317 (2014)) identifying and analyzing Congressional overrides of Supreme Court statutory interpretation decisions since 1967. Christiansen and Eskridge provide a new taxonomy for overrides that distinguishes between "restorative" overrides, which denounce a judicial interpretation as misrepresenting prior Congressional intent, and overrides that simply update or clarify policy. Although political science and legal scholarship has focused on the interbranch struggle implicit in restorative overrides, Christiansen and Eskridge classify only about 20% of the overrides in their total dataset …
An Essay On The Emergence Of Constitutional Courts: The Cases Of Mexico And Columbia, Miguel Schor
An Essay On The Emergence Of Constitutional Courts: The Cases Of Mexico And Columbia, Miguel Schor
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
This essay explores the emergence of the Mexican Supreme Court and the Colombian Constitutional Court as powerful political actors. Mexico and Colombia undertook constitutional transformations designed to empower their respective national high courts in the 1990s to facilitate a democratic transition. These constitutional transformations opened up political space for the Mexican Supreme Court and the Colombian Constitutional Court to begin to displace political actors in the tasks of constitutional construction and maintenance.
These two courts play different roles, however, in their respective democratic orders. Mexico chose to empower its Supreme Court to police vertical and horizontal separation of powers whereas …
The War Powers Outside The Courts, William Michael Treanor
The War Powers Outside The Courts, William Michael Treanor
Indiana Law Journal
Symposium: War, Terrorism and Torture: Limits on Presidential Power in the 21st Century. Convened by the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy and the Indiana University School of Law- Bloomington, prominent legal scholars, human rights advocates and government lawyers gathered in Bloomington on October 7, 2005.
Back To Government?: The Pluralistic Deficit In The Decisionmaking Process And Before The Courts, Fulvio Cortese, Marco Dani, Francesco Palermo
Back To Government?: The Pluralistic Deficit In The Decisionmaking Process And Before The Courts, Fulvio Cortese, Marco Dani, Francesco Palermo
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
Back to Government?: The Pluralistic Deficit in the Decisionmaking Processes and Before the Courts, Symposium. University of Trento, Italy, June 11-12, 2004.
Access To U.S. Federal Courts As A Forum For Human Rights Disputes: Pluralism And The Alien Tort Claims Act, Christiana Ochoa
Access To U.S. Federal Courts As A Forum For Human Rights Disputes: Pluralism And The Alien Tort Claims Act, Christiana Ochoa
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
Back to Government?: The Pluralistic Deficit in the Decisionmaking Processes and Before the Courts, Symposium. University of Trento, Italy, June 11-12, 2004.
Courts And Globalization, Sir David Williams David Q. C.
Courts And Globalization, Sir David Williams David Q. C.
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
Globalization, Courts, and Judicial Power Symposium
Legality, Standing And Substantive Review In Community Law, Paul Craig
Legality, Standing And Substantive Review In Community Law, Paul Craig
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Selecting Impartial Juries: Must Ignorance Be A Virtue In Our Search For Justice -- Welcome And Statement Of The Issue, Fred H. Cate, Newton N. Minow
Selecting Impartial Juries: Must Ignorance Be A Virtue In Our Search For Justice -- Welcome And Statement Of The Issue, Fred H. Cate, Newton N. Minow
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Forward: Paul Bator: Legislative And Administrative Courts Under Article Iii Symposium, Patrick L. Baude
Forward: Paul Bator: Legislative And Administrative Courts Under Article Iii Symposium, Patrick L. Baude
Indiana Law Journal
Symposium: Paul Bator: Legislative and Administrative Courts Under Article III
Caseload And Judging: Judicial Adaptations To Caseload, Lauren K. Robel
Caseload And Judging: Judicial Adaptations To Caseload, Lauren K. Robel
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Judicial Enforcement Of Nlrb Bargaining Orders: What Influences The Courts?, Terry A. Bethel, Catherine A. Melfi
Judicial Enforcement Of Nlrb Bargaining Orders: What Influences The Courts?, Terry A. Bethel, Catherine A. Melfi
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Should Federal Courts Give Greater Effect To State Judgments Than Would The Courts That Rendered Them?, Gene R. Shreve
Should Federal Courts Give Greater Effect To State Judgments Than Would The Courts That Rendered Them?, Gene R. Shreve
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
When May State Courts Exercise Personal Jurisdiction Over Nonresident Class Members, Gene R. Shreve
When May State Courts Exercise Personal Jurisdiction Over Nonresident Class Members, Gene R. Shreve
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Book Review. The Judicial Process: An Introductory Analysis Of The Courts Of The United States, England, And France By Henry J. Abraham, Bryant G. Garth
Book Review. The Judicial Process: An Introductory Analysis Of The Courts Of The United States, England, And France By Henry J. Abraham, Bryant G. Garth
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Comparative Negligence Versus The Constitutional Guarantee Of Equal Protection: A Hypothetical Judicial Decision, Daniel O. Conkle, Claude R. Sowle
Comparative Negligence Versus The Constitutional Guarantee Of Equal Protection: A Hypothetical Judicial Decision, Daniel O. Conkle, Claude R. Sowle
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Civil Rights, The Constitution And The Courts, By Archibald Cox, Mark Dewolfe Howe, And J.R. Wiggins, Winton D. Woods
Civil Rights, The Constitution And The Courts, By Archibald Cox, Mark Dewolfe Howe, And J.R. Wiggins, Winton D. Woods
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Retroactive Effect Of Judicial Decisions
Coram Nobis, Prohibition, And Appeal
The Jurisdiction Of Courts (Part 3), Bernard C. Gavit
The Jurisdiction Of Courts (Part 3), Bernard C. Gavit
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Congress And The Courts, Silas H. Strawn
The Jurisdiction Of Courts (Part 2), Bernard C. Gavit
The Jurisdiction Of Courts (Part 2), Bernard C. Gavit
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
The Jurisdiction Of Courts (Part 1), Bernard C. Gavit
The Jurisdiction Of Courts (Part 1), Bernard C. Gavit
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.