Barkow on Federalism and Criminal Law

March 11, 2010 by CrimProf BlogEditor  
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Rachel E. Barkow (New York University - School of Law) has posted Federalism and Criminal Law: What the Feds Can Learn from the States on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Criminal law enforcement in the United States is multi-jurisdictional. Local,...

Jones, Buckholtz, Schall & Marois on Brain Imaging

March 10, 2010 by CrimProf BlogEditor  
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Owen D. Jones (Vanderbilt University School of Law), Joshua Buckholtz (Vanderbilt University), Jeffrey D. Schall (Vanderbilt University), and Rene Marois (Vanderbilt University) have posted Brain Imaging for Legal Thinkers: A Guide for the Perplexed (Stanford Technology Law Review, Symposium Issue:...

Hallevy on Culture Crimes Against Women

March 10, 2010 by CrimProf BlogEditor  
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Gabriel Hallevy (Ono Academic College, Faculty of Law) has posted Culture Crimes Against Women on SSRN. Here is the abstract: About five thousand women are murdered by their families each year in the name of family honor. A young Muslim...

Hessick and Hessick on Recognizing Constitutional Rights at Sentencing

March 9, 2010 by CrimProf BlogEditor  
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F. Andrew Hessick III (Arizona State University - Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law) and Carissa Byrne Hessick (Arizona State, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law) have posted Recognizing Constitutional Rights at Sentencing (California Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here...

Pettys on Jurors and Abandoning the Exclusionary Rule

March 9, 2010 by CrimProf BlogEditor  
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Todd E. Pettys (University of Iowa - College of Law) has posted Instrumentalizing Jurors: An Argument Against the Fourth Amendment Exclusionary Rule (Fordham Urban Law Journal, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In this symposium contribution, I contend that...

Guiora on “Enemy Belligerent Interrogation, Detention and Prosecution Act of 2010″

March 9, 2010 by CrimProf BlogEditor  
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Amos Guiora (University of Utah College of Law) critiques this recent proposal in a piece at Jurist.The bill mandates that any person detained on suspicion of terrorist acts or material support for terrorism be placed in military custody. The detainee...

Today’s Speedy Trial Act opinion

March 8, 2010 by CrimProf BlogEditor  
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in Bloate v. United States is here. Here is the syllabus: The Speedy Trial Act of 1974 (Act) requires a criminal defendant’s trial to commence within 70 days of his indictment or initial appearance,18 U. S. C. §3161(c)(1), and entitles...

Arcila on the Death of Suspicion

March 8, 2010 by CrimProf BlogEditor  
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Fabio Arcila Jr. (Touro College - Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center) has posted The Death of Suspicion (William & Mary Law Review, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 1275, 2010) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This article argues that neither...

Monahan & Walker on Social Science in (Criminal) Law

March 7, 2010 by CrimProf BlogEditor  
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John Monahan (pictured) and Laurens Walker (both of University of Virginia School of Law) have posted Twenty-Five Years of Social Science in Law (Law and Human Behavior, Forthcoming). While the piece addresses a range of legal issues, several criminal law...

Top-Ten Recent SSRN Downloads

March 7, 2010 by CrimProf BlogEditor  
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are here. The usual disclaimers apply. Rank Downloads Paper Title 1 378 The Emerging Law of Detention: The Guantanamo Cases as Lawmaking Benjamin Wittes, Robert Chesney, Rabea Benhalim, Unaffiliated Authors - affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Texas School...

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