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Still Unfair, Still Arbitrary -- But Do We Care?, Samuel R. Gross

Other Publications

Keyword Address to the Twenty-Third Annual Law Review Symposium The Ultimate Pentalty: A Multifarious Look at Capital Punishment

An Analysis Of Plan Colombia As It Meets Criteria For Protracted Military Intervention, Sarah Roper

Student Work

For over thirty years, the conflict in Colombia has wrecked havoc on the country's civil society, political order, military capabilities, and the stability of the entire region. Bom of drug cartels and exacerbated by police and military corruption, rebel guerrilla groups, and ineffective international policy, drug trafficking and the consequences thereof pose a critical threat to policy makers worldwide. Consequently, the Colombian and United States governments committed, in February 2000, to new legislation, entitled Plan Colombia, aimed at reducing narcotics cultivation, processing, and distribution by fifty percent by the year 2006. While the plan is ambitious, it is riddled with …

Spectrum, Volume 17, Number 23, Sacred Heart University

Newspapers (Obelisk & Spectrum)

Highlights include: Several renovations planned for summer -- El Salvador delegation visits new town -- SHU professor Ralph Corrigan leaving SHU after 33 years -- Seniors struggling to maintain sanity for last 2 weeks of classes -- Art seniors display talents -- Band shows improvement with each passing year -- SHU sports need more support -- Woman's lacrosse headed to playoffs -- New technique changes workouts

Spectrum, Volume 17, Number 22, Sacred Heart University

Newspapers (Obelisk & Spectrum)

Highlights include: Student government elections wrap up -- Candlelight vigil attracts over 200 participants -- Stamford mayor new SHU professor -- Student web pages growing -- Lazy East Hall cops jeopardize student's safety -- Social work program going the extra mile -- SHU posts three winners at science com[petition -- Works by Luxembourg artists at the Gallery -- Baseball loses 3 NEC games - Dance team places 13th in national competition -- More NCAA changes pass

Franco's Spain, Queer Nation?, Gema Pérez-Sánchez

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

This Article discusses how, through its juridical apparatus, the Spanish dictatorship of Francisco Franco sought to define and to contain homosexuality, followed by examples of how underground queer activism contested homophobic laws. The Article concludes by analyzing a literary work to illustrate the social impact of Francoism's homophobic law against homosexuality.

Spectrum, Volume 17, Number 20, Sacred Heart University

Newspapers (Obelisk & Spectrum)

Highlights included: Noted author and lecturer Michael Parenti speaks about the conservative bias he feels dominates the media --Core Curriculum to change --The challenge of sharing one space primarily between the SHU Players and the Center for the Performing Arts has created tension within the Sacred Heart University Theater --More students want to live off campus --Library still in dire need of improvements, say many --Spring Break worldwide --Editorials: Warped politics of Michael Parenti; Religious rebirth needed in SHU community; Alcohol on campus --Spring recruitment day was held in the library (photo) --Fox 5 News Director shares secrets of his …

Catalyst, New College Of Florida

Student Publications

Eight page issue of the student produced newspaper.

The Pacifican February 10, 2000, University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

No abstract provided.

Prologue 2000, Sacred Heart University

Prologue (Yearbook)

No abstract provided.

New College Conference On Medieval And Renaissance Studies 2000 Program, New College Of Florida

Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference Collection

Program for the 2000 New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

"Can (Did) Congress 'Overrule' Miranda?, Yale Kamisar

Articles

I think the great majority of judges, lawyers, and law professors would have concurred in Judge Friendly's remarks when he made them thirty-three years ago. To put it another way, I believe few would have had much confidence in the constitutionality of an anti-Miranda provision, usually known as § 3501 because of its designation under Title 18 of the United States Code, a provision of Title II of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (hereinafter referred to as the Crime Act or the Crime Bill), when that legislation was signed by the president on June 19, …

Transitional Justice, Ruiti G. Teitel

Books

Ruti Teitel explores the ways in which a society should respond to evil rule. This is an insightful analysis of one of the most fundamental political science issues of our times - how the emerging democracies in Eastern Europe and elsewhere should deal with the legal systems inherited from their authoritarian pasts.

Should the past system be repudiated altogether? Should the leaders from the authoritarian period be punished? If so, how? Under what principles of law would punishment be justified, given that the leaders were, in general, acting legally according to the legal systems in effect at the time? This …

The Suggestibility Of Children: Scientific Research And Legal Implications, Stephen J. Ceci, Richard D. Friedman

Articles

In this Article, Professors Ceci and Friedman analyze psychological studies on children's suggestibility and find a broad consensus that young children are suggestible to a significant degree. Studies confirm that interviewers commonly use suggestive interviewing techniques that exacerbate this suggestibility, creating a significant risk in some forensic contexts-notably but not exclusively those of suspected child abuse-that children will make false assertions of fact. Professors Ceci and Friedman address the implications of this difficulty for the legal system and respond to Professor Lyon's criticism of this view recently articulated in the Cornell Law Review. Using Bayesian probability theory, Professors Ceci and …

Linking The Visions, Thomas A. Green

Other Publications

Professor Thomas Green talks about his teaching and work.

Student Fact Book, Fall 1999, Twenty Third Annual Edition November 1999, Wright State University, Office Of Student Information Systems, Wright State University

Wright State University Student Fact Books

The student fact book has general demographic information on all students enrolled at Wright State University for Fall Quarter, 1999.

Senate Trials And Factional Disputes: Impeachment As A Madisonian Device, Jonathan Turley

Duke Law Journal

In this Article, Professor Turley addresses the use of impeachment, specifically the Senate trial, as a method of resolving factional disputes about an impeached official's legitimacy to remain in office. While the Madisonian democracy was designed to regulate factional pressures, academics and legislators often discuss impeachments as relatively static events focused solely on removal. Alternatively, impeachment is sometimes viewed as an extreme countermajoritarian measure used to "reverse" or "nullify" the popular election of a President. This Article advances a more dynamic view of the Senate trial as a Madisonian device to resolve factional disputes. This Article first discusses the history …

Spectrum, Volume 16, Number 20, Sacred Heart University

Newspapers (Obelisk & Spectrum)

Highlights include: East Hall construction expected to be finished in July, opening a new sophomore dorm at SHU - SHU received two awards at the 7th annual Department of Higher Education's Community Service fellowship program -- A decrease in student's taking Spanish classes leads to decrease in Spanish professors -- Lack of faculty advising for clubs leads to 10 inactive clubs on campus -- STAR program shines on ans off campus, building a playground for Bridgeport children -- Marijuana use still apparent on college campuses like SHU -- Class of 200 officers deliver singing telegrams to students and administrators -- …

The Scottish Criminal Jury: A Very Peculiar Institution, Peter Duff

Law and Contemporary Problems

Duff describes and discusses the Scottish criminal jury. While the exact origins of the Scottish criminal jury are obscure, it is clear that it developed in tandem with, although in a different fashion from, its English counterpart.

"This Province, So Meanly And Thinly Inhabited": Punishing Maryland's Criminals, 1681-1850, Jim Rice

History Faculty Scholarship

This essay examines three questions, in each case using the colony and state of Maryland as a case study. First, why did some states adopt the penitentiary so much earlier than others? Pennsylvania opened one in 1790, but South Carolina waited until 1868 to do so. Given the variations in timing, did different states establish penitentiaries for different reasons? That seems to have been the case, as a comparison of Maryland's path to the penitentiary with that of other jurisdictions will demonstrate. Second, was the penitentiary truly revolutionary? Perhaps in some places, but not in Maryland. Third, did the diverse …

Decline Of The “Little Parliament”: Juries And Jury Reform In England And Wales, Sally Lloyd-Bostock, Cheryl Thomas

Law and Contemporary Problems

Lloyd-Bostock and Thomas take a historical look at the English jury and place the jury and jury reform in the context of the English legal and political system.

The American Criminal Jury, Nancy Jean King

Law and Contemporary Problems

King describes the American criminal jury, focusing on those aspects of the institution that distinguish it from juries in other parts of the world.

Criminal Trial Juries In Australia: From Penal Colonies To A Federal Democracy, Michael Chesterman

Law and Contemporary Problems

The recent history of juries in Australia reveals an interesting clash between the endeavours of state and territory governments to reduce the costs associated with jury trial by various means and the determination of the High Court of Australia to reassert the traditional values and features of jury trial.

The New Zealand Jury, Neil Cameron, Susan Potter, Warren Young

Law and Contemporary Problems

In New Zealand, the recent history of the jury has been one of fairly steady decline. This is particularly so of the civil jury, which has become virtually extinct with little realistic prospect of revival.

The Jury System In Contemporary Ireland: In The Shadow Of A Troubled Past, John D. Jackson, Katie Quinn, Tom O'Malley

Law and Contemporary Problems

Jackson et al discuss the distinctive features of criminal trial by jury in Ireland, both north and south, to explain how the jury continues to survive within modern Ireland and how it also has managed to decline in significance.

Reviving The Criminal Jury In Japan, Lester W. Kiss

Law and Contemporary Problems

Kiss analyzes whether the readoption of criminal jury trials in present-day Japan would be feasible from cultural, societal and legal viewpoints in light of Japan's prior experience with a jury system.

“Guardian Of Civil Rights … Medieval Relic”: The Civil Jury In Canada, W. A. Bogart

Law and Contemporary Problems

Bogart offers some explanations of why Canadian civil juries exist only at the margins by examining the availability of civil juries, empirical evidence regarding their use and cost in Ontario Canada and academic and policy debates concerning their role.

The Legal History Of The State Of Missouri, Honorable Joseph J. Simeone

Saint Louis University Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Grotius Repudiated: The American Objections To The International Criminal Court And The Commitment To International Law, Marcell David

Michigan Journal of International Law

This article analyzes the American objections to the Statute. Part I describes the historical precedents for a permanent international criminal court and the drafting process undertaken. Part I concludes with a summary of the sections of the Statute which are implicated by the American objections. These statutory sections include the Statute's definitions of crimes, the role of the Prosecutor, the Court's anticipated relationship with the U.N. Security Council, and the Court's anticipated jurisdiction over states not party to the Statute. Part II selects three recent or current instances where the United States has used armed force, and analyzes the claims …

Review: Esau's Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism And The Rise Of The Jews, Bruce F. Pauley

Faculty Bibliography 1990s

No abstract provided.

Beyond The Hero Judge: Institutional Reform Litigation As Litigation, Margo Schlanger

Reviews

In 1955, in its second decision in Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court suggested that federal courts might be called upon to engage in long-term oversight of once-segregated schools. Through the 1960s, southern resistance pushed federal district and appellate judges to turn that possibility into a reality. The impact of this saga on litigation practice extended beyond school desegregation, and even beyond the struggle for African-American equality; through implementation of Brown, the nation’s litigants, lawyers, and judges grew accustomed both to issuance of permanent injunctions against state and local public institutions, and to extended court oversight of compliance. …