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A Justified Obligation: Counsel’S Duty To File A Requested Appeal In A Post-Waiver Situation, Lauren Gregorcyk
A Justified Obligation: Counsel’S Duty To File A Requested Appeal In A Post-Waiver Situation, Lauren Gregorcyk
Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice
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Contextualizing Legitimacy, Kish Vinayagamoorthy
Contextualizing Legitimacy, Kish Vinayagamoorthy
Scholarly Articles
The article discusses the effects of jurisprudential values on the responsibility to prevent and the relationship between the State sovereignty and the responsibility of the State to prevent its citizens from crime. It evaluates how international law can facilitate the implementation of the responsibility to prevent. It emphasizes that international lawyers and academics should consider the qualities that define law and distinguish legal norms and social norm from principles of society.
Rage Against The Machine: A Reply To Professors Bierschbach And Bibas, Erik Luna
Rage Against The Machine: A Reply To Professors Bierschbach And Bibas, Erik Luna
Scholarly Articles
The article presents a response to the article by Professor Albert Alschuler on the administrative rulemaking in criminal law enforcement and guiding the power which was wielded by criminal justice officials. It mentions that the increase in the rate of the punishment given to the convicts is less effective in reducing the crime and enhancing public safety. It informs that bureaucratization can be considered as the means to improve the criminal process in the U.S.
Beyond “Life And Liberty”: The Evolving Right To Counsel, John D. King
Beyond “Life And Liberty”: The Evolving Right To Counsel, John D. King
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The majority of Americans, if they have contact with the criminal justice system at all, will experience it through misdemeanor courtrooms. More than ever before, the criminal justice system is used to sort, justify, and reify a separate underclass. And as the system of misdemeanor adjudication continues to be flooded with new cases, the value that is exalted over all others is efficiency. The result is a system that can make it virtually painless to plead guilty (which has always been true for low-level offenses), but that is now overlaid with a new system of increasingly harsh collateral consequences. The …