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Ticket Scalping: A New Look At An Old Problem, Thomas A. Diamond
Ticket Scalping: A New Look At An Old Problem, Thomas A. Diamond
University of Miami Law Review
Social, economic and legal factors have contributed to the success of ticket scalpers. Recently enacted unfair trade practices laws now provide courts with the means to regulate scalping and to provide effective redress for aggrieved consumers
Foreword, G. Michael Mccrossin, Editor
Foreword, G. Michael Mccrossin, Editor
Vanderbilt Law Review
One of the primary goals of the American criminal justice system is to protect the civil liberties of accused persons while at the same time ensuring the security of citizens' persons and property. Recently, some people have begun to argue that the pursuit of these dual purposes has resulted in a dangerous imbalance, and that our criminal justice system now focuses far too heavily on the rights of the accused. These people have perceived an alarming upswing in the incidence of violent crime and have attributed that upswing to a breakdown in the legal profession's administration of the criminal law.
Criminal Law: The Missing Element In Sentencing Reform, Michael H. Tonry
Criminal Law: The Missing Element In Sentencing Reform, Michael H. Tonry
Vanderbilt Law Review
The thesis of this Article is that the substantive criminal law is the missing element in sentencing reform. If comprehensive sentencing reform strategies are to have lasting effect, legislatures must reintroduce the criminal law to the sentencing process. This step will require a rekindled interest in a moral analysis of the substantive criminal law and the enactment of greatly reduced statutory sentence maximums, along with more conventional institutional changes to structure discretion and increase official accountability.
Objections to American sentencing procedures range from the principled to the practical. Part II of this Article summarizes the basic objections that have influenced …
Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Of Federal Criminal Law: The Assassination Of Congressman Ryan, David W. Mills
Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Of Federal Criminal Law: The Assassination Of Congressman Ryan, David W. Mills
University of Miami Inter-American Law Review
No abstract provided.
Socialist Legalism: Reform And Continuity In Post-Mao People's Republic Of China, Hungdah Chiu
Socialist Legalism: Reform And Continuity In Post-Mao People's Republic Of China, Hungdah Chiu
Maryland Series in Contemporary Asian Studies
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Books Received, Journal Staff
Books Received, Journal Staff
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Books Received
CANADIAN CRIMINAL LAW: INTERNATIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL ASPECTS
By Sharon A. Williams and J. G. Castel
Toronto: Butterworth's, 1981. Pp. 513. $80.00.
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CASES AND MATERIALS ON SALE OF GOODS
By John Adams
London & Canberra: Croom Helm: Ltd., 1982. Pp. 174. $15.50.
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THE DEFENSE POLICIES OF NATIONS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY
Edited by Douglas J. Murray and Paul R. Viotti
Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982. Pp. 525. $35.00 (cloth), $12.95 (paper)
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DOCUMENTS ON THE LAWS OF WAR
Edited by Adam Roberts and Richard Guelff
New York: the Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press, 1982. …