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When Minnesota created the first sentencing commission in 1978 and the first sentencing guidelines in 1980, it was hard to… Continue reading →

In United States v. Booker, the Supreme Court excised two provisions of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 (SRA) that… Continue reading →

Commentators analyzing the Supreme Court’s watershed decision in Graham v. Florida, which prohibited sentences of life without parole for juveniles… Continue reading →

Borrowing from its English forebears, the United States once had a form of punishment called civil death. Civil death extinguished… Continue reading →

The Supreme Court decided recently in Graham v. Florida that the Eighth Amendment prohibits a sentence of life in prison… Continue reading →

Is property a black box? Is it best understood in terms of the relationship between owners and nonowners, without regard… Continue reading →

Quasi-property interests refer to situations in which the law seeks to simulate the idea of exclusion, normally associated with property… Continue reading →

There is nothing so uncontestable as the incentive of an owner to safeguard her belongings. Yet property law contains various… Continue reading →

A bridge stretching only three-quarters of the distance across a chasm is useless, while a bridge that is longer than… Continue reading →

Over the past several decades, discussions about the appropriate tools of commons management have played out in a particularly illuminating… Continue reading →