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A Justice System Overwhelmed, Colin Starger
A Justice System Overwhelmed, Colin Starger
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In Search Of "Laissez-Faire Constitutionalism", Matthew Lindsay
In Search Of "Laissez-Faire Constitutionalism", Matthew Lindsay
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This article is a response to Professor Jed Shugerman’s Economic Crisis and the Rise of Judicial Elections and Judicial Review, HARVARD LAW REVIEW (2010). Professor Shugerman argues that the widespread adoption of judicial elections in the 1850’s and the embrace by the first generation of elected judges of countermajoritarian rationales for judicial review helped to effect a transition from the active, industry-building state of the early nineteenth century to the "laissez-faire constitutionalism" of the Lochner era. This response argues that Professor Shugerman overstates the causal relationship between the elected judiciary’s robust constitutional defense of "vested rights" and the iconic, if …
Managed Care And Managed Sentencing — A Tale Of Two Systems, Ronald Weich
Managed Care And Managed Sentencing — A Tale Of Two Systems, Ronald Weich
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The daily injustices mount. The front line professionals who administer the system cry out for more discretion to depart from the rigid rules that bind them, Congress finally hears their call, and is poised to enact sweeping reforms.
Are improvements in federal sentencing law on the way? Probably not in the near future. But the new Congress will surely take up proposals to regulate the managed health care industry, and the impending debate over a proposed "Patients' Bill of Rights" law offers important lessons for federal sentencing policy.
At first blush, sentencing reform and health care reform have about as …