Esther Hong (Arizona State University (ASU) - Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law) has posted The Age of Creativity and Crime on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Creativity and crime
may seem like worlds apart, but they have much more... [...]
Esther Hong (Arizona State University (ASU) - Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law) has posted The Age of Creativity and Crime on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Creativity and crime
may seem like worlds apart, but they have much more... [...]
I have been looking forward to spending my weekend mostly ignoring work while watching the PGA Championship to see if World No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler could secure the
second leg of the Grand Slam after his impressive Masters victory last month. But an unfortunate incident, as detailed in this Fox News story, now has me thinking [...]
Alexandra Natapoff (Harvard Law School) has posted Misdemeanor Declination: A Theory of Internal Separation of Powers (Texas Law Review, Vol. 102, No. 5, 2024) on SSRN. Here
is the abstract: Millions of times every year, American prosecutors make the all-important... [...]
Diarmuid Griffin (School of Law, National University of Ireland, Galway) has posted 'Dangerous' and 'Devious': Exploring judicial rationales when imposing discretionary sentences
of life imprisonment. on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Existing research on life imprisonment focuses on interrogating the... [...]
The title of this post is the title of this new article authored by Thea Johnson available via SSRN. Here is its abstract: Much of the rhetoric about criminal justice reform
posits that trials are good and pleas are bad. Trials provide full, public adversarial process, while plea bargaining is secretive, coercive, and unfair. As such, [...]
The Govenor of Texas issued a notable (and previously promised) clemency, as detailed in this local article. Here are excerpts: Daniel Perry, a former Army sergeant convicted
of killing a Black Lives Matter protester in downtown Austin in 2020, was freed from prison Thursday within an hour of Gov. [...]
Maximo Langer (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law) has posted What is Penal Minimalism? (Washington University Law Review, Vol. 101, 2024) on SSRN.
Here is the abstract: This article provides an account of penal minimalism. It... [...]
As reported in this Washington Post article, a "30-year-old antiabortion activist who kept fetuses in a Capitol Hill home was sentenced Tuesday to nearly five years in prison
for illegally blockading and breaking into a reproductive health clinic in D.C." Here is more about a number of sentencings in this case: Lauren Handy, of Alexandria, [...]
Ion Meyn (University of Wisconsin Law School) has posted White-on-Black Crime: Revisiting the Convict Leasing Narrative (Wisconsin Law Review (2024), Forthcoming) on SSRN.
Here is the abstract: Between 1880 and 1915, the Southern criminal legal system enslaved and re-enslaved legally... [...]
Peter Chan & Wanqiang Wu (City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Centre for Chinese & Comparative Law and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) - KoGuan Law School) have posted
From “Line Appraisal” to “Case-Process Ratio”: Will the New Case... [...]