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Waiting For Study Iii: A Review Of Explaining Race Disparities In South Dakota Sentencing And Incarceration By Richard Braunstein And Amy Schweinle, Danelle J. Daugherty

South Dakota Law Review

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A Lose-Lose Situation - The Inherent Pitfalls Of The South Dakota Supreme Court's Decision In Brakeall V. Weber, Michelle L. Dewaelsche

South Dakota Law Review

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State V. Janklow: Shall Means Shall, Joshua Houy

South Dakota Law Review

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Why The Billy Mitchell Case Still Matters: Some Notes On The First Amendment, International Law, Civil Rights, And A Pioneer Of Military Aviation - Douglas Waller - A Question Of Loyalty: Gen. Billy Mitchell And The Court-Martial That Gripped The Nation, Jonathan L. Entin

Journal of Air Law and Commerce

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National Security Versus Defense Counsel's "Need To Know": An Objective Standard For Resolving The Tension, Rachel S. Holzer

Fordham Law Review

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Choosing Balance: Congressional Powers And The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act Of 2003, Alissa Schecter

Fordham Law Review

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Sliding Down A Slippery Slope? The Future Use Of Administrative Subpoenas In Criminal Investigations, Risa Berkower

Fordham Law Review

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A View From The Bench: Why Judges Fail To Protect Trust And Confidence In The Lawyer-Client Relationship—An Analysis And Proposal For Reform, Lindsay R. Goldstein

Fordham Law Review

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It's The Prosecution's Story, But They're Not Sticking To It: Applying Harmless Error And Judicial Estoppel To Exculpatory Post-Conviction Dna Testing Cases , Hilary S. Ritter

Fordham Law Review

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Bearing The Cross, Tom Lininger

Fordham Law Review

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The New Universal Jurisdiction: In Absentia Signaling Over Clearly Defined Crimes, Anthony J. Colangelo

Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters

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Nationalizing International Criminal Law, Jenia I. Turner

Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters

International law scholars often assume that the best way to enforce human rights is by establishing strong international institutions that develop the law progressively and enforce it independently. Political realists counter that such institutions are only as useful as powerful states permit them to be, and discourage expansive visions of their mandate. Partisans of the recently created International Criminal Court (ICC) must come to terms with the realist challenge. They must work to adapt the institution accordingly, without abandoning hope for the project altogether. Although the ICC will be constrained by the state support it commands, it can make a …

Crawford V. Washington: Implications For The War On Terrorism, Margaret M. O'Neil

Catholic University Law Review

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The Injustice Of Imposing Death Sentences On People With Severe Mental Illnesses, Ronald S. Horberg

Catholic University Law Review

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The Two Faces Of Intercountry Adoption: The Significance Of The Indian Adoption Scandals, David M. Smolin

Seton Hall Law Review

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Racial Disparities In The Federal Sentencing Of Drug Offenders, Jorge Adrian Castrejon

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Drawing upon a national sample of offenders from the U.S. Sentencing Commission through the ICPSR, the current study examines the extent of racial disparities in federal sentencing of drug offenders. After controlling for demographic characteristics of the defendants results from the analysis indicate that blacks and Hispanics convicted of drug offenses receive more prison sentences than white defendants. Black defendants receive longer prison sentences than whites and Hispanics for the same type of drug offenses. Although Hispanics receive more prison sentences than whites their prisons sentences are significantly shorter than prison sentences for black and white defendants. It is determined …

Hellfire And Damnation Through Crime Or Bliss Through Faith: A Look At Faith-Based Corrections, Gregory Paul Warren Wuthrich

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The latest movement in trying to combat the U.S. crime problem is through "faith-based" corrections. These programs are in the infancy stages and minimal data are present at this time to illustrate true effectiveness of such programs. This study is a theoretical evaluation of such programs and incorporates a framework from Gary LaFree (1988). Results indicate that "faith-based" programs tend to be one dimensional and in order for them to work properly they must be set up in conjunction with other institutional changes. Often other theories can incorporate the dimension of religion, yet religion alone, such as through "faith-based" programs, …

Cognitive Heterogeneity In Murderers, Erin Warnick

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

It has long been recognized that damage to one or more brain regions can produce antisocial and aggressive behavior. Unfortunately, however, attempts to develop a replicable neurocognitive profile that characterize serious forms of criminality have been relatively unsuccessful. Evidence of cognitive heterogeneity in violent offender populations may indicate different biobehavioral subtypes underling this complex multidetermined behavior. These subtypes may interact with other clinical and environmental vulnerabilities. In the current study, cluster analytic techniques were applied to a sample of 55 homicide offenders. Using select Halstead-Reitan and Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) variables four distinct cognitive clusters were derived and externally …

Justifying The Plaintiff's Receipt Of Punitive Damages, Marlisa Moschella

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

This thesis addresses the punitive damages reform issue of whether or not the plaintiff should receive the award. Reformers argue the purposes of punitive damages would be better served with other distribution options; and prioritized societal gains, above the gains of the plaintiff. The various purposes of punitive damages show that receipt by the plaintiff is in accordance with original intentions of punitive damages and serves justice. The historical and modern purposes of punitive damages such as vengeance satisfaction, redeeming honor, repairing insult, and supporting 'private attorneys general,' are maintained by the plaintiff receiving damages. These purposes provide an important …

Criminogenic Needs And Treatment Considerations For Inmates With Dual Diagnoses, Jennee Evans Dickens

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

Individuals with both a mental illness and substance use disorder (i.e., dual diagnoses) are over represented and underserved in state prisons. Without treatment, inmates with dual diagnoses (DD) are at an increased risk for a variety of negative outcomes, including re-incarceration. Unfortunately, few prison-based treatment programs are designed to meet the special needs of these inmates, and none are empirically supported. Various researchers have stressed the importance of incorporating criminogenic needs into treatment programs to reduce recidivism. The criminogenic needs of inmates with DD have gone largely unstudied. Utilizing a bottom-up approach, the present study offered a first look at …

Unlv Magazine, Lori Bachand, Regina Barcolas, Barbara Cloud, Holly Ivy De Vore, Gian Galassi, Cayrn Key, Jennifer Robison, Gillian Silver, Jason Vaughan, John F. Gallagher, Cate Weeks, Diane Russell

UNLV Magazine

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Telling Stories And Keeping Secrets, Abbe Smith

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Nothing is better than a good story. You don't need to be a trial lawyer to know this, but you wouldn't be a very good trial lawyer if you didn't. There is a reason trial lawyers are favored dinner party guests: if the food is a flop, the energy level low, and the people in attendance do not have much in common, there will at least be a good story for entertainment. Good trial lawyers have the gift of gab and a bounty of endless material.

Criminal trial lawyers have it even better. They don't just recount tales involving conflict …

Wearing Two Hats: Life As A Scholar And Activist Legal Scholarship Symposium: The Scholarship Of Nadine Strossen, Nadine Strossen

Articles & Chapters

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Co-Teaching International Criminal Law: One Law Student's Experience In A Team-Taught Course, Stacy Caplow, Maryellen Fullerton

Brooklyn Journal of International Law

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Seeking Justice In Transitional Societies: An Analysis Of The Problems And Failures Of The Judiciary In Nigeria, Okechukwu Oko

Brooklyn Journal of International Law

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Transforming Humanitarian Intervention From An Expedient Accident To A Categorical Imperative, Mirko Bagaric, John R. Morss

Brooklyn Journal of International Law

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"No Existira La Pena De Muerte": Does The United States Violate Regional Customary Law By Imposing The Death Penalty On Citizens Of Puerto Rico, Monique Marie Gallien

Brooklyn Journal of International Law

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Croll V. Croll And The Unfortunate Irony Of The Hague Convention On The Civil Aspects Of International Child Abduction: Parents With "Rights Of Access" Get No Rights To Access Courts, Daniel M. Fraidstern

Brooklyn Journal of International Law

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African Americans And Aboriginal Peoples: Similarities And Differences In Historical Experiences, David E. Wilkins

Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications

In August of 2003, Harvard University hosted a major conference, organized by the Civil Rights Project, titled Segregation and Integration in America's Present and Future. The conference was appropriately subtitled the Color Lines Conference, in reference to W.E.B. Du Bois's classic 1903 study The Souls of Black Folk. This sprawling conference brought together some of the more significant actors in the Civil Rights arena—including Gary Orfield, Julian Bond, Antonia Hernandez, Glenn Loury, William Julius Wilson, and Gerald Torres—to reflect on the dynamics of residential segregation, racial identity, institutional barriers to racial integration, inequalities in higher education, and, or …

Compositional Analysis Of Bullet Lead As Forensic Evidence, Michael O. Finkelstein, Bruce Levin

Journal of Law and Policy

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