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Full-Text Articles in Comparative and Foreign Law
A Decade Of International Legal Reform Regarding Child Abuse Investigation And Litigation: Steps Toward A Child Witness Code, John E.B. Myers
A Decade Of International Legal Reform Regarding Child Abuse Investigation And Litigation: Steps Toward A Child Witness Code, John E.B. Myers
McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles
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Reform Of The Procuracy And Bar In Russia, Stephen C. Thaman
Reform Of The Procuracy And Bar In Russia, Stephen C. Thaman
All Faculty Scholarship
This article discusses recent efforts to reform the Russian bar and procuracy, the institutions’ responses, and the problem of criminal procedure reform as it relates to them.
Discovering Who We Are: An English Perspective On The Simpson Trial, William T. Pizzi
Discovering Who We Are: An English Perspective On The Simpson Trial, William T. Pizzi
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Punishment And Procedure: A Different View Of The American Criminal Justice System, William T. Pizzi
Punishment And Procedure: A Different View Of The American Criminal Justice System, William T. Pizzi
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Fact-Bargaining: An American Phenomenon, William T. Pizzi
Fact-Bargaining: An American Phenomenon, William T. Pizzi
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Mature Adjudication: Interpretive Choice In Recent Death Penalty Cases, Bernard Harcourt
Mature Adjudication: Interpretive Choice In Recent Death Penalty Cases, Bernard Harcourt
Faculty Scholarship
Capital punishment presents a "hard" case for adjudication. It provokes sharp conflict between competing constitutional interpretations and invariably raises questions of judicial bias. This is particularly true in the new Republic of South Africa, where the framers of the interim constitution deliberately were silent regarding the legality of the death penalty. The tension is of equivalent force in the United States, where recent expressions of core constitutional rights have raised potentially irreconcilable conflicts in the application of capital punishment.
Two recent death penalty decisions – the South African Constitutional Court opinions in State v. Makwanyane and the United States Supreme …