Here's the actual research, here's a news story, and here's an excerpt from the news story: In the study, Maguire and her colleagues Martin Chadwick, Demis Hassabis, and Nikolaus Weiskopf showed 10 people each three very short films before brain...
An eleven-year-old boy in Pennsylvania is charged with murdering his future stepmother. A judge will soon decide whether he will be tried as an adult and possibly face life in prison without the possibility of parole. (In unrelated cases, the...
The story is at FindLaw. In part: Police and prosecutors say changes would strengthen the law by defining "criminal gangs" and "criminal gang members," to broaden the types of crime considered gang activity. . . . Some of the proposed...
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,...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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