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Supreme Court of the United States

Michigan Law Review

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Full-Text Articles in Criminal Law

Process, The Constitution, And Substantive Criminal Law, Louis D. Bilionis Mar 1998

Process, The Constitution, And Substantive Criminal Law, Louis D. Bilionis

Michigan Law Review

Criminal law scholars have pined for a substantive constitutional criminal law ever since Henry Hart and Herbert Packer first embraced the notion in the late 1950s and early 1960s. To this day, scholars continue to search for a theory fhat giv:es content to, in Hart's words, "the unmistakable indications that the Constitution means something definite and spμiething serious when it speaks of 'crime.'" To their dismay, the Supreme Court has - with two exceptions - seemingly resisted the notion. The two exceptions are familiar. First came the 1957 case of Lambert v. California, in which the Court came as close …


Berger's Defense Of The Death Penalty: How Not To Read The Constitution, Hugo Adam Bedau Mar 1983

Berger's Defense Of The Death Penalty: How Not To Read The Constitution, Hugo Adam Bedau

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Death Penalties: The Supreme Court's Obstacle Course by Raoul Berger


The Death Penalty In America, Michigan Law Review Mar 1983

The Death Penalty In America, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Death Penalty in America (Third Edition) by Hugo Adam Bedau