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Mikos on Accuracy in Criminal Sanctions

Posted on May 11, 2010
Robert A. Mikos (Vanderbilt University - School of Law) has posted Accuracy in Criminal Sanctions (CRIMINAL LAW AND ECONOMICS, Alon Harel and Keith Hylton, eds., 2010) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Chapter examines the law and economics of...

Farrar on Defence in Islamic Law

Posted on May 11, 2010
Salim Farrar (University of Sydney - Faculty of Law) has posted The Role of the Defence in Islamic Law on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This article explores the role of the defence in Islamic criminal trials both within the...

Brain Scan Lie Detection Evidence Not Admitted (Kolber)

Posted on May 10, 2010
A court in Brooklyn has deemed inadmissible fMRI evidence of the truthfulness of a witness in an employment discrimination case. The details are sketchy but it sounds like the evidence was declined on the ground that credibility is a jury...

Top-Ten Recent SSRN Downloads

Posted on May 09, 2010
are here. The usual disclaimers apply. Rank Downloads Paper Title 1 333 Brain Imaging for Legal Thinkers: A Guide for the Perplexed Owen D. Jones, Joshua Buckholtz, Jeffrey D. Schall, Rene Marois, Vanderbilt University - School of Law & Department...

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Parry on the "Torture Lawyers" and Guilty Minds

Posted on May 09, 2010
John T. Parry (Lewis & Clark Law School) has posted Do the 'Torture Lawyers' Have Guilty Minds?: A Response to Jens Ohlin (Harvard International Law Journal, Vol. 51, pp. 23-34, 2010) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In this paper,...

"Helping" Prisoners

Posted on May 09, 2010
Part I of an interesting investigative piece focused on California prisons appear in today's Sacramento Bee. A Bee investigation into the behavior units, including signed affidavits, conversations and correspondence with 18 inmates, has uncovered evidence of racism and cruelty at...

Convictions and the Right to Counsel

Posted on May 07, 2010
Ratio Juris reports on a case from the New York Court of Appeals concluding that defendants need not be convicted before seeking to vindicate their right to counsel.

Markel on Punitive Damages

Posted on May 07, 2010
Dan Markel (Florida State University College of Law) has posted Punitive Damages and Private Ordering Fetishism: A Reply to Professors Krauss and Owen (University of Pennsylvania Law Review PENNumbra, Vol. 158, p. 283, 2010) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:...

Bloom & Fentin on the Exclusionary Rule

Posted on May 07, 2010
Robert M. Bloom (pictured) and David H. Fentin (Boston College - Law School and Boston College) have posted ?A More Majestic Conception:? The Importance of Judicial Integrity in Preserving the Exclusionary Rule (University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, Forthcoming)...

Vladeck on Internment and the Rule of Law after the Bush Administration

Posted on May 06, 2010
Stephen I. Vladeck (American University - Washington College of Law) has posted Justice Jackson, Internment, and the Rule of Law after the Bush Administration (WHEN GOVERNMENTS BREAK THE LAW: THE RULE OF LAW AND THE PROSECUTION OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION,...

Davis & Leo on the "Sympathetic Detective" Interrogation Strategy

Posted on May 06, 2010
Deborah Davis and Richard A. Leo (University of Nevada, Reno and University of San Francisco - School of Law) have posted Selling Confession: Setting the Stage with the ?Sympathetic Detective with a Time-Limited Offer? (Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, Forthcoming)...

Motomura on Legal Claims and Immigration Outside the Law

Posted on May 06, 2010
Hiroshi Motomura (University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law) has posted The Rights of Others: Legal Claims and Immigration Outside the Law (Duke Law Journal, Vol. 59, pp, 1723-1786, 2010) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Article analyzes...

Chin on the Jena Six

Posted on May 05, 2010
Gabriel J. Chin (University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law) has posted The Jena Six and the History of Racially Compromised Justice in Louisiana (Harvard Civil Rights - Civil Liberties Law Review, Vol 44, p. 361, 2009) on...

Mason & Stubbs on Feminist Approaches to Criminological Research

Posted on May 05, 2010
Gail Mason and Julie Stubbs (University of Sydney and University of Sydney - Faculty of Law) have posted Feminist Approaches to Criminological Research (CRIMINOLOGICAL RESEARCH METHODS, D. Gadd, S. Karstedt, S. Messner, eds., Sage Publishing, Forthcoming) on SSRN...

Kreit on Moving to a Civil Drug Court Model

Posted on May 05, 2010
Alex Kreit (Thomas Jefferson School of Law) has posted The Decriminalization Option: Should States Consider Moving From a Criminal to a Civil Drug Court Model? (University of Chicago Legal Forum, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: As states look...

Kennedy on Character and Criminalization

Posted on May 04, 2010
Joseph Edward Kennedy (University of North Carolina) has posted The Story of Staples v. United States and the Innocent Machine Gun Owner: The Good, the Bad, and the Dangerous on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Harold Staples claimed that he...

Silbey on Film Images as Evidence

Posted on May 04, 2010
Jessica M. Silbey (Suffolk University Law School) has posted Evidence Verit� and the Law of Film (Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 31, No. 4, p. 1257-1299, 2010) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This paper explores a puzzle concerning the authority...

Said on Coercing Voluntariness

Posted on May 03, 2010
Wadie E. Said (University of South Carolina School of Law) has posted Coercing Voluntariness (Indiana Law Journal, Vol. 85, No. 1, 2010) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In recent years, the issue of coercive interrogations has generated a great...

Pether on the Subjects of Rape Law

Posted on May 03, 2010
Penelope J. Pether (Villanova University School of Law) has posted What is Due to Others: Speaking and Signifying Subject(s) of Rape Law (Griffith Law Review, Vol. 18, p. 237, 2009) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Australian journalist Paul Sheehan's....

Supreme Court seeks SG's views on denying voting rights to prisoners

Posted on May 03, 2010
The action is described in a story at ScotusBlog.

Opinion in Habeas/Mistrial/Double Jeopardy Case

Posted on May 03, 2010
The opinion in Renico v. Lett is here. Here is the syllabus: From jury selection to jury instructions in a Michigan court, respondent Lett?s first trial for, inter alia, first-degree murder took less than nine hours. During approximately four hours...

Top-Ten Recent SSRN Downloads

Posted on May 02, 2010
are here. The usual disclaimers apply. Rank Downloads Paper Title 1 313 Brain Imaging for Legal Thinkers: A Guide for the Perplexed Owen D. Jones, Joshua Buckholtz, Jeffrey D. Schall, Rene Marois, Vanderbilt University - School of Law & Department...

Today's Chuckle: Flipping off the Police

Posted on May 01, 2010
The Colbert Report has this video profile of Robert Ekas, who explains how his practice of flipping off police officers helps make us all more free. CrimProf Ira Robbins (pictured) is featured discussing the constitutional dimensions.

Smith on Strickland Claims

Posted on April 30, 2010
Stephen F. Smith (Notre Dame Law School) has posted Taking Strickland Claims Seriously on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Every criminal defendant is promised the right to the effective assistance of counsel. Whether at trial or on first appeal of...

Hashimoto on Class

Posted on April 30, 2010
Erica J. Hashimoto (University of Georgia Law School) has posted Class Matters on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Poor people constitute one of the most overrepresented categories of people in the criminal justice system. Why is that so? Unfortunately, we...

Schedule for 2010 Law and Society Shadow Crim Prof Conference

Posted on April 29, 2010
Here's the schedule for this great looking event, organized by Dan Markel and Alice Ristoph, to be held in Chicago. A wonderful line up, and the Cubs won't yet be mathmatically eliminated: Thursday May, 27 8:15am to 10:00am ? ?...

Austin on Victim Impact Videos

Posted on April 29, 2010
Regina Austin (University of Pennsylvania Law School) has posted Documentation, Documentary, and the Law: What Should be Made of Victim Impact Videos? (Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 31, p. 979, 2010) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Since the Supreme Court....

Wolitz on Innocence Commissions and Post-Conviction Review

Posted on April 28, 2010
David Wolitz (Georgetown University Law Center) has posted Innocence Commissions and the Future of Post-Conviction Review (Arizona Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In the fall of 2006, North Carolina became the first state to establish an...

Chandler on Neuroscientific Evidence for Lie Detection

Posted on April 28, 2010
Jennifer A. Chandler (University of Ottawa - Faculty of Law) has posted Reading the Judicial Mind: Predicting the Courts' Reaction to the Use of Neuroscientific Evidence for Lie Detection (Dalhousie Law Journal, Vol. 33, 2010) on SSRN. Here is the...

"Secrecy Shrouds NYPD's Anti-Terror Camera System"

Posted on April 27, 2010
City Limits has the story: The New York Police Department is spending $160 million in city and federal funding on a massive surveillance network of video cameras and license plate readers for Lower and Midtown Manhattan. Despite the investment of...

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