The Banality of Wrongful Executions

For the over half-million people currently homeless in the United States, the U.S. Constitution has historically provided little help: it is strongly...

In recent years, several popularly elected leaders have moved to consolidate their power by eroding checks and balances. Courts are commonly the...

Supreme Court opinions involving race and the jury invariably open with the Fourteenth Amendment, the Civil Rights Act of 1875, or landmark cases like...

The role of implicit racial biases in police interactions with people of color has garnered increased public attention and scholarly examination over...

Evidence law controls what information will be admissible in court and when, how, and by whom it may be presented. It shapes not only the trial...

A crucial first step in addressing intimate-image abuse is its proper conceptualization. Intimate-image abuse amounts to a violation of intimate...

On January 1, 2022, the most radical change to the American jury in at least thirty-five years occurred in Arizona: peremptory strikes, long a feature...

Like the federal government, states can apply their laws to people beyond their borders. Statutes can reach out-of-state conduct, such as fraud, that...

During times of crisis, governments often consider policies that may promote safety, but that would require overstepping constitutionally protected...

This casebook aspires to help students understand and think systematically about the techniques of statutory interpretation. It blends exposition with...

In an era defined by partisan rifts and government gridlock, many celebrate the rare issues that prompt bipartisan consensus. But extreme consensus...

Working hand-in-hand with the private sector, largely in a regulatory vacuum, policing agencies at the federal, state, and local level are acquiring...

The decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard [SFFA], invalidating the use of race in college admissions, reignites...

How should judges decide hard cases involving rights conflicts? Standard debates about this question are usually framed in jurisprudential terms...

Berryessa et al. (2022) consider how prior experience as a criminal prosecutor may influence judicial behaviour, but their concerns about prior...

For several days, former President Donald Trump and his 18 co-defendants in a Georgia election interference case trickled into the Fulton County Jail...

This chapter examines several ways that the United States takes advantage of international law’s permissiveness and ambiguity to extend its criminal...

Virginia adopted a risk assessment to help determine sentencing for sex offenders. It was incorporated as a one-way ratchet toward higher sentences...