Miriam H. Baer (Brooklyn Law School) has posted Cooperation's Cost (Washington University Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Article explores the costs and benefits of criminal cooperation, the widespread practice by which prosecutors offer criminal defendants...
Lucian E. Dervan (Southern Illinois University School of Law) has posted Bargained Justice: Plea Bargaining's Innocence Problem and the Brady Safety-Valve on SSRN. Here is the abstract: If any number of attorneys were asked in 2004 whether Lea Fastow’s plea...
Bernard E. Harcourt (left) and Tracey L. Meares (University of Chicago - Law School and Yale University) have posted Randomization and the Fourth Amendment on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Randomized checkpoint searches are generally taken to be the exact...
Russell D. Covey (Georgia State University College of Law) has posted Pervasive Surveillance and the Future of the Fourth Amendment (Mississippi Law Journal, Vol. 80, No. 4, 2010) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: We are in a period of...
Erin Murphy (NYU) has published "Is Steven Slater a Criminal?" in USA Today. In part: Cannibalistic criminalization is also bad for the rest of us. Because harm prevention seems an unconvincing justification for this prosecution, perhaps the district attorney is...
Stephen Schulhofer (pictured), Tom Tyler and Aziz Z. Huq (New York University - School of Law , New York University - Department of Psychology and University of Chicago Law School) have posted American Policing at a Crossroads on SSRN. Here...
S. David Mitchell (University of Missouri) has posted Impeding Reentry: Agency and Judicial Obstacles to Longer Halfway House Placements on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Over 700,000 prisoners were released into their communities in 2008, at least 50,000 of those...
John F. Stinneford (University of Florida Levin College of Law) has posted Rethinking Proportionality under the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Although a century has passed since the Supreme Court started reviewing criminal punishments...
Legal Scholarship Blog notes this symposium focusing on "A Gendered Perspective of Victims in the Criminal Justice System." Those interested in submitting papers should send an abstract by by October 31.
Gerald S. Reamey (St. Mary's University School of Law) has posted Innovation or Renovation in Criminal Procedure: Is the World Moving Toward a New Model of Adjudication? (Arizona Journal International & Comparative Law, Vol. 27, p. 324, 2010) on SSRN....
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