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It Is Time To Get Back To Basics On The Border, Donna Coltharp Oct 2020

It Is Time To Get Back To Basics On The Border, Donna Coltharp

The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice

Abstract forthcoming.


Immigrating While Trans: The Disproportionate Impact Of The Prostitution Ground Of Inadmissibility And Other Provisions Of The Immigration And Nationality Act On Transgender Women, Luis Medina May 2017

Immigrating While Trans: The Disproportionate Impact Of The Prostitution Ground Of Inadmissibility And Other Provisions Of The Immigration And Nationality Act On Transgender Women, Luis Medina

The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice

Abstract forthcoming.


The Case Of Wang Zong Xiao V. Reno: The International Implications Of Prosecutorial Misconduct, William W. Tanner Oct 2014

The Case Of Wang Zong Xiao V. Reno: The International Implications Of Prosecutorial Misconduct, William W. Tanner

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.


On The American Paradox Of Laissez Faire And Mass Incarceration, Bernard E. Harcourt Jan 2012

On The American Paradox Of Laissez Faire And Mass Incarceration, Bernard E. Harcourt

Faculty Scholarship

In The Illusion of Free Markets (Harvard 2011), Professor Bernard Harcourt analyzes the evolution of a distinctly American paradox: in the country that has done the most to promote the idea of a hands-off government, we run the single largest prison complex in the entire world. Harcourt traces this paradox back to the eighteenth century and demonstrates how the presumption of government incompetence in economic affairs has been coupled with that of government legitimacy in the realm of policing and punishing. Harcourt shows how these linked presumptions have fueled the expansion of the carceral sphere in the nineteenth and twentieth …


Interstate Rendition: Rights And Remedies Of The Accused Seeking Asylum In Massachusetts, Gene R. Shreve Jan 1969

Interstate Rendition: Rights And Remedies Of The Accused Seeking Asylum In Massachusetts, Gene R. Shreve

Articles by Maurer Faculty

The subject of Interstate Rendition is one of conspicuous unfamiliarity to the average Massachusetts lawyer. Yet, as this article indicates, the rendition hearing presents a valuable opportunity to alert defense counsel to assist the accused at a critical stage of the criminal proceeding. The author, a graduate of Harvard Law School is presently law clerk to United States District Judge Sara/h T. Hughes of the Northern District of Texas. He formerly served as Massachusetts Assistant Attorney General where he presided at numerous rendition hearings conducted by the Department of the Attorney General for the Governor.