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Full-Text Articles in Law
Minority Shareholder, Minority Citizen: A Perspective Piece, Anthony Briggs
Minority Shareholder, Minority Citizen: A Perspective Piece, Anthony Briggs
Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice
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Imputing War Crimes In The War On Terrorism: The U.S., Northern Alliance, And 'Container Crimes', Ahmed S. Younis
Imputing War Crimes In The War On Terrorism: The U.S., Northern Alliance, And 'Container Crimes', Ahmed S. Younis
Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice
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New Federalism's Unanswered Question: Who Should Prosecute State And Local Officials For Political Corruption?, George D. Brown
New Federalism's Unanswered Question: Who Should Prosecute State And Local Officials For Political Corruption?, George D. Brown
Washington and Lee Law Review
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Looking Up, Down And Across: The Icty's Place In The International Legal Order, Mark A. Drumbl
Looking Up, Down And Across: The Icty's Place In The International Legal Order, Mark A. Drumbl
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Abusing State Power Or Controlling Risk?: Sex Offender Commitment And Sicherungverwahrung, Nora V. Demleitner
Abusing State Power Or Controlling Risk?: Sex Offender Commitment And Sicherungverwahrung, Nora V. Demleitner
Scholarly Articles
This article addresses a paradigmatic risk-based collateral sanction, the so-called civil confinement. In contrast to many other collateral sanctions, it does not follow automatically but is judicially imposed following a hearing. In Hendricks v. Kansas (1997) the Supreme Court specifically upheld involuntary confinement following a criminal justice sentence for a sexually violent predator. The Kansas statute mandated confinement based on an assessment of dangerousness which had to result from a mental abnormality. Once it characterized the sanction as civil, the Court concluded that procedural protections traditional in the criminal context, such as double jeopardy, do not apply. The narrow majority …