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Robert C Power

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The Wire And Alternative Stories Of Law And Inequality, Robert Power Dec 2012

The Wire And Alternative Stories Of Law And Inequality, Robert Power

Robert C Power

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“Intelligence Searches” And Criminal Investigative Purposes, Robert Power Dec 2010

“Intelligence Searches” And Criminal Investigative Purposes, Robert Power

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“Just The Facts”: Detective Fiction In The Law School Curriculum, Robert Power Dec 2008

“Just The Facts”: Detective Fiction In The Law School Curriculum, Robert Power

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Lawyers And The War, Robert Power Dec 2008

Lawyers And The War, Robert Power

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Pinochet And The Uncertain Globalization Of Criminal Law, Robert C. Power Dec 2006

Pinochet And The Uncertain Globalization Of Criminal Law, Robert C. Power

Robert C Power

This article examines how the efforts to bring former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet Ugarte to justice have affected international criminal law. It argues that traditional international law seems largely irrelevant today because the paradigmatic crime of the Pinochet era was torture, which is now addressed primarily through the Torture Convention, and the most appropriate forum is the International Criminal Court (ICC) rather than national courts. The article emphasizes the need to use international tribunals such as the ICC to help protect international criminal prosecutions from the kind of political erosion that left a very mixed record concerning Augusto Pinochet.

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Changing Expectations Of Privacy And The Fourth Amendment, Robert Power Dec 2005

Changing Expectations Of Privacy And The Fourth Amendment, Robert Power

Robert C Power

Public attitudes about privacy are central to the development of fourth amendment doctrine in two respects. These are the two “reasonableness” requirements, which define the scope of the fourth amendment (it protects only “reasonable” expectations of privacy), and provide the key to determining compliance with its commands (it prohibits “unreasonable” searches and seizures). Both requirements are interpreted in substantial part through evaluation of societal norms about acceptable levels of privacy from governmental intrusions. Caselaw, poll data, newspaper articles, internet sites, and other vehicles for gauging public attitudes after the September 11 attacks indicate that public concerns about terrorism and the …

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Reasonable And Other Doubts: The Problem Of Jury Instructions, Robert C. Power Dec 1998

Reasonable And Other Doubts: The Problem Of Jury Instructions, Robert C. Power

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The Fourth Revolution, Robert C. Power Jan 1996

The Fourth Revolution, Robert C. Power

Robert C Power

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Comment, Presumptions And Due Process: Congress Attacks Organized Crime, Robert Power Dec 1972

Comment, Presumptions And Due Process: Congress Attacks Organized Crime, Robert Power

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