Exacerbating Injustice
Professor Bibas argues that the false guilty pleas championed in Bowers’ article would serve to undermine “the public faith and… Continue reading →
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Searching Secrets
A Fourth Amendment violation has traditionally involved a physical intrusion such as the search of a house or the seizure… Continue reading →
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Redistricting and the Territorial Community
As the current redistricting cycle unfolds, the courts are stuck in limbo. The Supreme Court has held unanimously that political… Continue reading →
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The New Bond Workouts
Bond workouts are a famously dysfunctional method of debt restructuring. The process is so ridden with opportunistic and coercive behavior… Continue reading →
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Sentencing Guidelines at the Crossroads of Politics and Expertise
When Minnesota created the first sentencing commission in 1978 and the first sentencing guidelines in 1980, it was hard to… Continue reading →
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Corporate Bankruptcy Hybridity
Spend a day in a busy bankruptcy court and your research agenda could be set for life. Bankruptcy is crisis… Continue reading →
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Proportionality and Parole
Commentators analyzing the Supreme Court’s watershed decision in Graham v. Florida, which prohibited sentences of life without parole for juveniles… Continue reading →
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The New Civil Death: Rethinking Punishment in the Era of Mass Conviction
Borrowing from its English forebears, the United States once had a form of punishment called civil death. Civil death extinguished… Continue reading →
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Why Proportionality Matters
The Supreme Court decided recently in Graham v. Florida that the Eighth Amendment prohibits a sentence of life in prison… Continue reading →
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Governance Property
Is property a black box? Is it best understood in terms of the relationship between owners and nonowners, without regard… Continue reading →