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Homicides Among Chicago Families: 1870-1930, Roland Chilton

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Capital Punishment For The Crime Of Homicide In Chicago: 1870-1930, Derral Cheatwood

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Life Terms Or Death Sentences: The Uneasy Relationship Between Judicial Elections And Capital Punishment, Richard R. W. Brooks, Steven Raphael

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Firearm Deaths, Gun Availability, And Legal Regulatory Changes: Suggestions From The Data, Greg S. Weaver

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

What Were They Smoking: The Supreme Court's Latest Step In A Long, Strange Trip Through The Fourth Amendment, Daniel Mckenzie

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Mixed Signals: Rational-Choice Theories Of Social Norms And The Pragmatics Of Explanation, W. Bradley Wendel

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

The question of how societies secure cooperation and order in the absence of state enforced sanctions has long vexed law and economics scholars. Recently the concept of social norms--informally enforced rules of behavior--has occupied the attention of a large number of these theorists, who are concerned with understanding why economically rational actors would bother to follow rules whose costs seem to outweigh their benefits. Because of the prestige (or at least trendiness) of law and economics, it seems that now everyone in the legal academy is talking about social norms. This burgeoning scholarship is closely related to a wider concern …

Book Review

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Recent Books

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

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Questions Unanswered: The Fifth Amendment And Innocent Witnesses, Angela Roxas

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

City Of Indianapolis V. Edmond: The Constitutionality Of Drug Interdiction Checkpoints, Ann Mulligan

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Federal Habeas Review: The Supreme Court's Failure To Apply Williams Consistently, Marry Connell Grubb

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

United States V. Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative: Whatever Happened To Federalism, Caroline Herman

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Shafer V. South Carolina: Another Missed Opportunity To Remove Juror Ignorance As A Factor In Capital Sentencing, William Baarsma

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Blurring The Line: Impact Of Offense-Specific Sixth Amendment Right To Counsel, Melissa Minas

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Foreword: Terrorism And Utilitarianism: Lessons From, And For, Criminal Law, Paul Butler

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Habermas's Discourse Theory Of Law And Democracy, Hugh Baxter

Buffalo Law Review

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Rates Of Reversible Error And The Risk Of Wrongful Execution, James S. Liebman

Faculty Scholarship

Innocent fatalities are a concern of all social activity with a capacity to kill. This is especially true when the social activity is the death penalty since an innocent person's execution is not simply a tragic collateral consequence of activity with a non-fatal objective. Instead, the taking of life is the goal of the enterprise, and the killing is the intended act of the state.

There is another difference between accidental fatalities in other social activities and those that occur when the capital system miscarries. Typically, the former fatalities are easy to spot and quantify; the latter are not. Precisely …

Conflict Of Interest And Competency Issues In Law Clinic Practice, Peter A. Joy, Robert R. Kuehn

Scholarship@WashULaw

Although clinical legal education is an established part of American legal education, few commentators have considered how the ethical issues governing lawyers' conflicts of interest and competency apply in the law school clinic context. This article fills that gap by identifying and explaining the ethical obligations law clinic students and supervising clinical faculty encounter in case and client selection due to conflict of interest and competency considerations. It analyzes various conflicts of interest due to prior, current, or future employment of law clinic students and faculty, and it explores conflicts based on the status of clinical faculty as employees of …

Gender Contests, Susan Frelich Appleton

Scholarship@WashULaw

This contribution for the “Law, Ethics, and Gender in Medicine” column in the Journal of Gender Specific Medicine interrogates the understanding of gender itself, at a time when transgender and intersex issues were just beginning to “come out” in both popular culture and case law. Against this background, the column explores the roles that physicians have played in such gender contests and considers how evolving medical attitudes can help achieve reform.

Common Law Courts In An Age Of Equity Procedure: Redefining Appellate Review For The Mass Tort Era, Melissa A. Waters

Scholarship@WashULaw

From expansion of tort liability rules, to novel claims aggregation and settlement techniques, to statistically derived liability and damages assessments, mass tort litigation is producing unprecedented innovations at every level of the federal legal system. What is particularly striking about these innovations is that they are almost exclusively the product of a handful of federal trial judges who specialize in mass tort cases. Because appellate courts lack the necessary tools to supervise their decisions, these few mass tort trial judges are shaping the rules that govern the mass tort legal regime with little or no appellate supervision. The result is …

A Broken System, Part Ii: Why There Is So Much Error In Capital Cases And What Can Be Done About It, James S. Liebman, Jeffrey A. Fagan, Andrew Gelman, Valerie West, Garth Davies, Alexander Kiss

Faculty Scholarship

There is growing awareness that serious, reversible error permeates America’s death penalty system, putting innocent lives at risk, heightening the suffering of victims, leaving killers at large, wasting tax dollars, and failing citizens, the courts and the justice system.

Our June 2000 Report shows how often mistakes occur and how serious it is: 68% of all death verdicts imposed and fully reviewed during the 1973-1995 study period were reversed by courts due to serious errors.

Analyses presented for the first time here reveal that 76% of the reversals at the two appeal stages where data are available for study were …

Teaching Foreign Ll.M. Students About U.S. Legal Scholarship, Matthew A. Edwards

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Walt Was Right, John Henry Schlegel

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Broadly Speaking - November, 2001, Nova Southeastern University

Broadly Speaking

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Public Access To Legal Resources On The Internet, Alice M. Mccanless

The Southeastern Librarian

In the not so distant past, before the Internet, doing legal research necessitated access to either a substantial law collection or one of the expensive legal databases, Lexis-Nexis or Westlaw. That limited legal reference to law librarians, some special librarians and reference librarians at large university or public libraries. The Internet has changed all of that, giving any library with an Internet connection access to a wealth of current law, especially at the state and federal level.

Based on a presentation at the Joint Conference of the Georgia Council of Media Organizations and Southeastern Library Association on October 12, 2000.

Nebraska Transcript (University Of Nebraska College Of Law), Volume 35, Number 2, Fall 2001

Nebraska Transcript

2 New Dean Steve Willborn Sees College’s Mission as ‘Changing Trajectory of Students’ Lives’

4 Former Dean Harvey Perlman Appointed UNL Chancellor

7 Breaking Ground

10 Kauffman Family Gift to Improve Student Writing

12 Celebration Dinner Honors Two Remarkable Professors

14 Graduation 2001

16 Honor Classes Return To Pay Tribute to Past, Offer Advice

for Future

18 It’s a Family Affair

20 Law College Faculty, Students Bring Skills Training to Balkans

22 Experimental Class Puts Legal Writing in Realistic Context

24 Alumni Council Awards to Honor Special Contributions to College

30 Humanitarian Intervention and International Law In the

New Millennium …

Laborious Law, Bas De Gaay Fortman

Human Rights & Human Welfare

Inaugural Address at Utrecht University, on the occasion of accepting the Chair in Political Economy of Human Rights 21 MAY 2001

Race-Based Affirmative Action In American Legal Education, Adrien Katherine Wing

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Fear And Loathing Of Politics In The Legal Academy, William H. Simon

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Is Evolutionary Analysis Of Law Science Or Storytelling?, Jeffrey J. Rachlinski

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

In recent years, some legal scholars have argued that legal scholarship could benefit from a greater reliance on theories of human behavior that arise from biological evolution. These scholars contend that reliance on biological evolution would successfully combine the rigor of economics with the scientific aspects of psychology. Complex legal systems, however, are uniquely human. Law has always been the product of cognitive processes that are unique to humans and that developed as a response to an environment that no longer exists. Consequently, the evolutionary development of the cognitive mechanisms upon which law depends cannot be rigorously modeled or studied …