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The Diary Of An Ex-Con, Erica Edwards

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Evelyn Litwok talks about abuse that incarcerated people experience in prison and the punishment inmates face when they attempt to address it with administration.

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City University of New York Law Review

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Introduction: To Economic Justice

City University of New York Law Review

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Mfy Legal Services, Inc.'S Medical Legal Partnership With Bellevue Hospital Center: Providing Legal Care To Children With Psychiatric Disabilities, Aleah Gathings

City University of New York Law Review

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No Access, No Choice: Foster Care Youth, Abortion, And State Removal Of Children, Kara Sheli Wallis

City University of New York Law Review

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The Long Crisis: Economic Inequality In New York City, Fahd Ahmed, Tom Angotti, Jennifer Jones Austin, Shawn Blumberg, Robin Steinberg, Stephen Loffredo

City University of New York Law Review

City University of New York Law Review hosted this public panel discussion on November 12, 2014 at CUNY School of Law. CUNY Law Review would like to thank the co-sponsors of this event: Law Students for Reproductive Justice (LSRJ); Latin American Law Students Association (LALSA); Labor Coalition for Workers’ Rights and Economic Justice; National Lawyers Guild CUNY Law Chapter (NLG); Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP); Student for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and CUNY Law Association of Students for Housing (CLASH).

Elevating Substance Over Procedure: The Retroactivity Of Miller V. Alabama Under Teague V. Lane, Brandon Buskey, Daniel Korobkin

City University of New York Law Review

This Article proposes a unique framework establishing that the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Miller v. Alabama, which forbids states from automatically sentencing juveniles to life imprisonment without any meaningful opportunity for release, must apply retroactively to hundreds of juveniles whose convictions and life sentences were already final at the time of the decision. Such a framework is timely and critical. The lower state and federal courts are divided on the question, and the Supreme Court is likely to settle the issue within the next year. The Article reviews how, absent guidance from the Supreme Court, a host of …

A Founding Failure Of Enforcement: Freedmen, Day Laborers, And The Perils Of An Ineffectual State, Raja Raghunath

City University of New York Law Review

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One Condo, One Vote: The New York Bid Act As A Threat To Equal Protection And Democratic Control, Brett Dolin

City University of New York Law Review

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Vawa @ 20: Introduction, Nishan Bhaumik

City University of New York Law Review

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Vawa After The Party: Implementing Proposed Guidelines On Campus Sexual Assault Resolution, Mary P. Koss, Elise C. Lopez

City University of New York Law Review

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Roll Back "Prison Nation", Donna Coke

City University of New York Law Review

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Vawa @ 20: Raising The Visibility Of The Margins And The Responsibility Of The Mainstream, Marcia Olivo, Kelly Miller

City University of New York Law Review

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Vawa @ 20: Hiv, Violence Against Women, And Criminal Law Interventions, Aziza Ahmed

City University of New York Law Review

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Stalled At 20: Vawa, The Criminal Justice System, And The Possibilities Of Restorative Justice, Leigh Goodmark

City University of New York Law Review

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Vawa @ 20: Art, Violence, And Women, Yxta Maya Murray

City University of New York Law Review

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Vawa @ 20: The Politics Of Pretext: Vawa Goes Global, Deborah M. Weissman

City University of New York Law Review

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Vawa @ 20: Gender Violence And Civil Rights, Julie Goldscheid

City University of New York Law Review

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A Disappearing Act: The Dwindling Analysis Of The Anti-Violence Movement, Kerry Toner

City University of New York Law Review

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Vawa In The Lives Of Battered South Asian Women In The United States, Shamita Das Dasgupta

City University of New York Law Review

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Vawa @ 20: The Gender Justice Movement: The Fullest Expression Of The Former Battered Women's Movement And The Domestic Violence Movement, Tiloma Jayasinghe

City University of New York Law Review

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Vawa @ 20: Vawa And Welfare Reform: Criminalizing The Most Marginalized Women, Ann Cammett

City University of New York Law Review

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Vawa @ 20: Improving Civil Legal Assistance For Ending Gender Violence, Elizabeth L. Macdowell

City University of New York Law Review

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Vawa @ 20: The Mainstreaming Of The Criminalization Critique: Reflections On Vawa 20 Years Later, Mimi E. Kim

City University of New York Law Review

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Exploring The Illusion Of Transparency When Lying And Truth-Telling: The Impact Of Age, Self-Consciousness, And Framing, Jason Mandelbaum

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Individuals often overestimate the ability of others to accurately determine their internal states. This illusion of transparency has been shown to manifest itself in everyday scenarios, including when people are asked to estimate if others can tell when they are lying. Yet it has not been observed when truth-telling, nor investigated developmentally. The current experiments tested for an illusion of transparency when individuals were truth-telling and lying and investigated how a participant's age, dispositional self-consciousness, situational self-awareness and how questions were framed impacted the strength and prevalence of the illusion of transparency.

In Experiments 1 and 2, children and adolescents …

Is Burglary A Violent Crime? An Empirical Investigation Of Classifying Burglary As A Violent Felony And Its Statutory Implications, Phillip Kopp

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Under the common law, burglary is defined as a crime committed against the property of another, and is listed as a property offense for purposes of statistical description by the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). However, burglary is prosecuted and sentenced as a violent crime under habitual offender laws at the federal level, and can be regarded as violent in state law, depending on varied circumstances. Using a mixed methods approach, the current study compared state and federal burglary and habitual offender statutes to an empirical description of the offense. First, a comprehensive content …

Ulu Al Amr & Authority: The Central Pillars Of Sunni Political Thought, Hisseine Faradj

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation evaluates the political history of Islam through the prism of the Sunni conception of authority. It finds an historical red thread that explains the legal and political evolution of different types of Islamic government that have, instead of a European-type sovereign, the Ulu Al Amr (those in authority). In addition, it argues that it is the authority of Ulu Al Amr that legitimizes temporal power via legal rulings such as Wilayah al ahed (allegiance to a dynastic monarchy) and Wlayah al qaher (obedience to coercive power and rule). Those rulings are essential to legitimating historical change. Historical legal …

Law Without Recognition: The Lack Of Judicial Discretion To Consider Individual Lives And Legal Equities In United States Immigration Law, John Clark Salyer

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Law is not separate and apart from society but exists as a unique institution within society both being directed by social change and affecting social change. The history of U.S. immigration law shows that immigrants were welcomed or rejected depending on economic, political, and social factors (such as racial attitudes) and the legal definitions of what sorts of immigration were permissible or excludable differed over time. Since the 1990s, hostile attitudes towards certain immigrants have been represented in laws to a greater and greater extent, most significantly with the 1996 amendments to the Immigration and Nationality Act. As a result …

Queen Of The Underworld: The Biography Of Sophie Lyons (1848-1924), Barbara M. Gray

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Sophie Lyons was a nineteenth-century American pickpocket, blackmailer, con-woman, and bank robber. She was raised in New York City's underworld, by Jewish immigrant parents who were criminals that trained their children to pick pockets and shoplift. "Pretty Sophie" possessed a rare combination of skill at thievery, intellect, guts and beauty and became the woman Herbert Ashbury described in Gangs of New York as, "the most notorious confidence woman America has ever produced." Newspapers around the world chronicled Sophie's exploits for more than sixty years, because her life read like a novel. Her mentor was another forgotten woman who held a …

Improving Law School For Trans* And Gender Noncomforming Students: Suggestions For Faculty, Gabriel Arkles

City University of New York Law Review

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