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Race And Selective Prosecution: Discovering The Pitfalls Of Armstrong, Richard H. Mcadams Jan 1998

Race And Selective Prosecution: Discovering The Pitfalls Of Armstrong, Richard H. Mcadams

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Against Constitutional Theory, Richard A. Posner Jan 1998

Against Constitutional Theory, Richard A. Posner

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In this Madison Lecture, Chief Judge Posner advocates a pragmatic approach to constitutional decisionmaking, criticizing constitutional theorists who conceal their normative goals in vague and unworkable principles of interpretation. After discussing specific constitutional theories as well as the legal academy's increasing reliance on theory in genera Posner demonstrates the ineffectuality of constitutional theory, using the Supreme Court's decisions in United States v. Virginia and Romer v. Evans as examples. He argues not that these cases were necessarily wrongly decided, but that the opinions lack the empirical support that is crucial to sound constitutional adjudication. Posner urges law professors to focus …


Introduction: Adding A Comparative Perspective To American Criminal Procedure Classes, Albert Alschuler Jan 1998

Introduction: Adding A Comparative Perspective To American Criminal Procedure Classes, Albert Alschuler

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Bad Incentives And Bad Institutions, Cass R. Sunstein Jan 1998

Bad Incentives And Bad Institutions, Cass R. Sunstein

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Federalism And The Family Reconstructed, Jill Elaine Hasday Jan 1998

Federalism And The Family Reconstructed, Jill Elaine Hasday

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Federalism And The Family Reconstructed, Jill Elaine Hasday Jan 1998

Federalism And The Family Reconstructed, Jill Elaine Hasday

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Constructing A Jury That Is Both Impartial And Representative: Utilizing Cumulative Voting In Jury Selection, Edward S. Adams, Christian J. Lane Jan 1998

Constructing A Jury That Is Both Impartial And Representative: Utilizing Cumulative Voting In Jury Selection, Edward S. Adams, Christian J. Lane

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One of the main and ongoing problems plaguing the American jury system has been ensuring that juries in civil and criminal trials are truly representative of the communities in which they serve. Historically, minorities have been disproportionately excluded from jury service. This shortfall results from a combination of factors at each stage of the juror identification process. At the jury pool stage, juror notification methods often fail to identify or reach minorities for tie simple reason that minorities generally are poorer and more transient. At the venire stage, those minorities who actually receive notification report to the courthouse at a …


Intermediate Sanctions In Sentencing Guidelines, Michael Tonry Jan 1998

Intermediate Sanctions In Sentencing Guidelines, Michael Tonry

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Youth Violence In America, Mark H. Moore, Michael Tonry Jan 1998

Youth Violence In America, Mark H. Moore, Michael Tonry

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An Analysis Of The Forty-Ninth Session Of The United Nations Sub-Commission On Prevention Of Discrimination And Protection Of Minorities, David Weissbrodt, Shinobu Garrigues, Roman Kroke Jan 1998

An Analysis Of The Forty-Ninth Session Of The United Nations Sub-Commission On Prevention Of Discrimination And Protection Of Minorities, David Weissbrodt, Shinobu Garrigues, Roman Kroke

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The United Nations Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities convened its 49th Session from August 4 through August 29, 1997, in Geneva, Switzerland. 1 Under the authority of the U.N. Charter, the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) established the Sub-Commission in 1947 as a subsidiary body of the Commission on Human Rights. 2 ECOSOC also created two other sub-commissions at the same time, one to focus on women's rights 3 and the other to deal with freedom of information and freedom of the press. 4 The original mandate of the Sub-Commission was to recommend standards in pursuit …


Juvenile And Criminal Justice Systems' Responses To Youth Violence, Barry C. Feld Jan 1998

Juvenile And Criminal Justice Systems' Responses To Youth Violence, Barry C. Feld

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Within the past decade, nearly every state has amended its juvenile code in response to perceived increases in serious, persistent, and violent youth crime. These changes diminish the jurisdiction of juvenile courts as judicial decisions and statutory changes transfer more youths from juvenile courts to criminal courts so that young offenders can be sentenced as adults. Amendments to juvenile sentencing laws increase the punitiveness of sanctions available to juvenile court judges. Other strategies attempt to "blend," or merge, juvenile and criminal court jurisdiction and sentencing authority over violent young offenders. These "get tough" policies affect the numbers and types of …


Main-Streaming Comparative Criminal Justice: How To Incorporate Comparative And International Concepts And Materials Into Basic Criminal Law And Procedure Courses, Richard Frase Jan 1998

Main-Streaming Comparative Criminal Justice: How To Incorporate Comparative And International Concepts And Materials Into Basic Criminal Law And Procedure Courses, Richard Frase

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"We're All Stuck Here For A While": Law And The Social Construction Of The Black Male, D. Marvin Jones Jan 1998

"We're All Stuck Here For A While": Law And The Social Construction Of The Black Male, D. Marvin Jones

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Domestic Violence In Black And White: Racialized Gender Stereotypes In Gender Violence, Zanita E. Fenton Jan 1998

Domestic Violence In Black And White: Racialized Gender Stereotypes In Gender Violence, Zanita E. Fenton

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Economic Analysis Of Evidentiary Law: An Underused Tool, An Underplowed Field (Symposium: The Economics Of Evidentiary Law), Richard D. Friedman Jan 1998

Economic Analysis Of Evidentiary Law: An Underused Tool, An Underplowed Field (Symposium: The Economics Of Evidentiary Law), Richard D. Friedman

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The law and economics movement has had a major impact on many areas of law, but rather little on the law of evidence. This is not to say that there have been no attempts to analyze evidentiary issues through an economic lens,' but such efforts are far more scattered in evidence than in other legal fields, including the closely related one of civil procedure.2 Believing that economics has value for evidentiary analysis, I suggested to the Executive Committee and Advisory Board of the Evidence Section of the Association of American Law Schools ("AALS"), when I was chairman of the section, …


Lost Lives: Miscarriages Of Justice In Capital Cases, Samuel R. Gross Jan 1998

Lost Lives: Miscarriages Of Justice In Capital Cases, Samuel R. Gross

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One of the longstanding complaints against the death penalty is that it "distort[s] the course of the criminal law."' Capital prosecutions are expensive and complicated; they draw sensational attention from the press; they are litigated-before, during, and after trial-at greater length and depth than other felonies; they generate more intense emotions, for and against; they last longer and live in memory. There is no dispute about these effects, only about their significance. To opponents of the death penalty, they range from minor to severe faults; to proponents, from tolerable costs to major virtues. ntil recently, however, the conviction of innocent …


Update: American Public Opinion On The Death Penalty - It's Getting Personal (Symposium: How The Death Penalty Works: Empirical Studies Of The Modern Capital Sentencing System), Samuel R. Gross Jan 1998

Update: American Public Opinion On The Death Penalty - It's Getting Personal (Symposium: How The Death Penalty Works: Empirical Studies Of The Modern Capital Sentencing System), Samuel R. Gross

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Americans' views on capital punishment have stabilized. In 1994, when Professor Phoebe Ellsworth and I published a review of research on death penalty attitudes in the United States,' we began by noting that "support for the death penalty [is] at a near record high."'2 That finding, like most of the others we reported, has not changed. Nonetheless, it is interesting to pause and review the data on public opinion on the death penalty that have accumulated over the past several years. Stability is less dramatic than change but it may be equally important, and there is some news to report. …


Race Trials, Anthony V. Alfieri Jan 1998

Race Trials, Anthony V. Alfieri

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When Does Private Discrimination Justify Public Affirmative Action, Ian Ayres, Fredrick E. Vars Jan 1998

When Does Private Discrimination Justify Public Affirmative Action, Ian Ayres, Fredrick E. Vars

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Thoughts From Across The Water On Hearsay And Confrontation, Richard D. Friedman Jan 1998

Thoughts From Across The Water On Hearsay And Confrontation, Richard D. Friedman

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This article draws on the history of the hearsay rule, and on recent decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, to argue that the right to confrontation should be recognised as a basic principle of the law of evidence, and that aspects of the Law Commission's proposals for reform of the hearsay rule, and of the Home Office's proposals for restrictions on the right of cross-examination, are therefore unsatisfactory.


Physician-Assisted Suicide: The Problems Presented By The Compelling, Heartwrenching Case, Yale Kamisar Jan 1998

Physician-Assisted Suicide: The Problems Presented By The Compelling, Heartwrenching Case, Yale Kamisar

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Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld New York and Washington state laws prohibiting the aiding of another to commit suicide,2 the spotlight will shift to the state courts, the state legislatures and state referenda. And once again proponents of physician-assisted suicide (PAS) will point to a heartwrenching case, perhaps the relatively rare case where a dying person is experiencing unavoidable pain (i.e., pain that not even the most skilled palliative care experts are able to mitigate), and ask: What would you want done to you if you were in this person's shoes?


Making Pets: Social Workers, Problem Groups, And The Role Of The Spca--Getting A Little More Precise About Racialized Narratives Commentary, Richard Delgado Jan 1998

Making Pets: Social Workers, Problem Groups, And The Role Of The Spca--Getting A Little More Precise About Racialized Narratives Commentary, Richard Delgado

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In Memoriam: William J. Brennan, Richard A. Posner Nov 1997

In Memoriam: William J. Brennan, Richard A. Posner

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Lynching Ethics: Toward A Theory Of Racialized Defenses, Anthony V. Alfieri Jan 1997

Lynching Ethics: Toward A Theory Of Racialized Defenses, Anthony V. Alfieri

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Two Guns, Four Guns, Six Guns, More Guns: Does Arming The Public Reduce Crime Juvenile Crime?, Albert Alschuler Jan 1997

Two Guns, Four Guns, Six Guns, More Guns: Does Arming The Public Reduce Crime Juvenile Crime?, Albert Alschuler

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Constraint And Confession, Albert W. Alschuler Jan 1997

Constraint And Confession, Albert W. Alschuler

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Adversary Inferences, Frank H. Easterbrook Jan 1997

Adversary Inferences, Frank H. Easterbrook

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Abuse Excuse And Patriarchal Narratives, Mary E. Becker Jan 1997

Abuse Excuse And Patriarchal Narratives, Mary E. Becker

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Rational Choice, Behavioral Economics, And The Law, Richard A. Posner Jan 1997

Rational Choice, Behavioral Economics, And The Law, Richard A. Posner

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Abolish The Juvenile Court: Youthfulness, Criminal Responsibility, And Sentencing Policy, Barry C. Feld Jan 1997

Abolish The Juvenile Court: Youthfulness, Criminal Responsibility, And Sentencing Policy, Barry C. Feld

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The juvenile court system should be abolished and all juvenile offenders should be integrated into the traditional criminal court system. The offenders' age should be taken into account during sentencing. The juvenile court system is a failure because a criminal punishment system cannot also be a social welfare system.