Temporal Arbitrariness: A Back To The Future Look At A Twenty-Five-Year-Old Death Penalty Trial,
2015
University of Richmond
Temporal Arbitrariness: A Back To The Future Look At A Twenty-Five-Year-Old Death Penalty Trial, Mary Kelly Tate
Law Faculty Publications
his essay grapples with a previously unexamined feature of the death penalty: temporal arbitrariness. How does the circumstance of time affect capital defendants? What might this mean for the stability of our notions of justice? I explore these questions using a 25-year-old death penalty trial as a case study, examining the procedural and factual highlights of the case and situating it in its temporal milieu. I then explore how the roles of doctrine, policy, and cultural attitudes would dramatically alter the nature and probable outcome of the case today, illustrating how temporal arbitrariness further exposes the death penalty’s unsteady administration …
In The Beginning There Was None: Supreme Court Review Of State Criminal Prosecutions,
2015
University of Richmond
In The Beginning There Was None: Supreme Court Review Of State Criminal Prosecutions, Kevin C. Walsh
Law Faculty Publications
This Article challenges the unquestioned assumption of all contemporary scholars of federal jurisdiction that section 25 of the Judiciary Act of 1789 authorized Supreme Court appellate review of state criminal prosecutions. Section 25 has long been thought to be one of the most important provisions of the most important jurisdictional statute enacted by Congress. The Judiciary Act of 1789 gave concrete institutional shape to a federal judiciary only incompletely defined by Article III. And section 25 supplied a key piece of the structural relationship between the previously existing state court systems and the new federal court system that Congress constructed …
Foreword,
2015
University of Baltimore School of Law
The Twilight Zone: Perspectives From A Man On Death Row,
2015
University of Richmond
The Twilight Zone: Perspectives From A Man On Death Row, Leah Stiegler
Law Student Publications
This interview was conducted through a series of written correspondences between Gerald Dean Cruz and Leah Stiegler, the Allen Chair Editor for Volume 49 of the University of Richmond Law Review. This exchange was reproduced, in excerpts, for the sole purpose of giving readers a rare glimpse into the perspective of a death row inmate.
Making Sure We Are Getting It Right: Repairing "The Machinery Of Death" By Narrowing Capital Eligibility,
2015
University of Richmond
Making Sure We Are Getting It Right: Repairing "The Machinery Of Death" By Narrowing Capital Eligibility, Ann E. Reid
Law Student Publications
This comment argues that, starting with the framework of the federal system, there is a way to reconcile modern concerns about the death penalty with society's need for leverage over those criminals who truly are the worst of the worst-those who present grave threats to society even after incarceration. This reconciliation can be achieved by amending the Federal Death Penalty Act to require prosecutors to establish one additional element before they can secure a capital conviction: future dangerousness of the defendant in prison..
Who Is Best Suited To Combat Sexual Violence On College Campuses?: An Analysis Of H.B. 1785,
2015
University of Richmond
Who Is Best Suited To Combat Sexual Violence On College Campuses?: An Analysis Of H.B. 1785, Susana Bass
Law Student Publications
Virginia House Bill 1785, requiring campus police to notify the Commonwealth's Attorney of any victim-initiated sexual assault investigations, is a positive step forward in helping to combat sexual assault on Virginia college campuses. Under this legislation, victims of sexual assault are much more likely to receive the protection and justice they deserve. Part II of this comment outlines current federal law that intends to address sexual assault on college campus and whether these laws have been effective in preventing sexual assault. Part III details Virginia House Bill 1785 introduced in the 2015 Virginia General Assembly Session to address sexual assault …
Human Rights Thinking And The Laws Of War,
2015
Georgetown University Law Center
Human Rights Thinking And The Laws Of War, David Luban
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
In a significant early case, the ICTY commented: “The essence of the whole corpus of international humanitarian law as well as human rights law lies in the protection of the human dignity of every person…. The general principle of respect for human dignity is . . . the very raison d'être of international humanitarian law and human rights law.”
Is it true that international humanitarian law and international human rights law share the same “essence,” and that essence is the general principle of respect for human dignity? Is it true that, in the words of Charles Beitz, humanitarian law is …
The Financial Action Task Force: International Regulatory Convergence Through Soft Law,
2015
New York Law School, 2012
The Financial Action Task Force: International Regulatory Convergence Through Soft Law, Nicholas W. Turner
NYLS Law Review
No abstract provided.
United States V. Batista,
2015
New York Law School, 2015
United States V. Castleman: The Meaning Of Domestic Violence,
2015
Roger Williams University School of Law
United States V. Castleman: The Meaning Of Domestic Violence, Emily J. Sack
Law Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Catalogs,
2015
[email protected]
Shifting Our Focus From Retribution To Social Justice: An Alternative Vision For The Treatment Of Pregnant Women Who Harm Their Fetuses,
2015
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University
Shifting Our Focus From Retribution To Social Justice: An Alternative Vision For The Treatment Of Pregnant Women Who Harm Their Fetuses, April L. Cherry
Journal of Law and Health
The ways in which society responds to pregnant women whose behavior purportedly harms their fetuses can be explored from a variety of legal vantage points. This article argues that the criminal law model currently used is ineffective. The assignment of criminal liability to pregnant women is often rooted in fetal personhood and maternal deviance discourse. Criminal law solutions fail because they fail to take into account the fact that maternal behavior is often the result of a myriad of the social and economic conditions over which pregnant women have little or no control. The criminal law model, therefore, simply punishes …
Ultracrepidarianism In Forensic Science: The Hair Evidence Debacle,
2015
Penn State Law
Ultracrepidarianism In Forensic Science: The Hair Evidence Debacle, David H. Kaye
Faculty Scholarship
For over 130 years, scientific sleuths have been inspecting hairs under microscopes. Late in 2012, the FBI, the Innocence Project, and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers joined forces to review thousands of microscopic hair comparisons performed by FBI examiners over several of those decades. The results have been astounding. Based on the first few hundred cases in which hairs were said to match, it appears that examiners “exceeded the limits of science” in over 90% of their reports or testimony. The disclosure of this statistic has led to charges that the FBI “faked an entire field of forensic …
"Fuck Your Breath": Black Men And Youth, State Violence, And Human Rights In The 21st Century,
2015
Florida A&M University College of Law
"Fuck Your Breath": Black Men And Youth, State Violence, And Human Rights In The 21st Century, Jeremy I. Levitt
Journal Publications
This polemical essay was written at the behest of Black men and youth, and it is dedicated to African American women who relentlessly fight to safeguard the rights and well-being of Black men, even when in the process their maltreatment and welfare are grossly overlooked and forgotten. Bree Newsome's courageous and necessary removal of the confederate flag in the South Carolina State House is a prime example of such fearless activism. Joanne Deborah Chesimard aka Assata Shakur's-a former leader of the revolutionary organization known as the Black Liberation Armyascendency to the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist list is another tragically intoxicating …
Lawyer Ethics And The Financial Action Task Force: A Call To Action,
2015
Professor of law and faculty director of the Miller-Becker Center for Professional Responsibility at the University of Akron School of Law
Lawyer Ethics And The Financial Action Task Force: A Call To Action, Jack P. Sahl
NYLS Law Review
No abstract provided.
Explaining Inhumanity: The Use Of Crime-Definition Experts At International Criminal Courts,
2015
Vanderbilt University Law School
Explaining Inhumanity: The Use Of Crime-Definition Experts At International Criminal Courts, Caroline Davidson
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
International criminal courts must not only decide the guilt or innocence of defendants in immensely serious cases, but also make good law in the process. To help them do so, these courts have turned to experts. This Article identifies a type of expert witness that, thus far, has escaped scholarly attention: the crime-definition expert. Crime-definition experts have provided expert reports and testimony to international criminal courts on the meaning of the very crimes with which defendants are charged, including genocide, forced marriage, and recruitment and use of child soldiers. This Article critically evaluates the risks associated with using crime-definition experts …
Anti-Rape Culture,
2015
University of Colorado Law School
Cyberharassment And Workplace Law,
2015
University of Colorado Law School
The Irrelevance Of Prisoner Fault For Excessively Delayed Executions,
2015
University of Tulsa College of Law
The Irrelevance Of Prisoner Fault For Excessively Delayed Executions, Russell L. Christopher
Washington and Lee Law Review
Are decades-long delays between sentencing and execution immune from Eighth Amendment violation because they are self-inflicted by prisoners, or is such prisoner fault for delays simply irrelevant to whether a state-imposed punishment is cruel and unusual? Typically finding delay to be the state’s responsibility, Justices Breyer and Stevens argue that execution following upwards of forty years of death row incarceration is unconstitutional. Nearly every lower court disagrees, reasoning that prisoners have the choice of pursuing appellate and collateral review (with the delay that entails) or crafting the perfect remedy to any delay by submitting, as Justice Thomas has invited complaining …
The Prior Convictions Exception—A Comment,
2015
Washington and Lee University School of Law
The Prior Convictions Exception—A Comment, Matthew Engle
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
