Booker Rules
In United States v. Booker, the Supreme Court excised two provisions of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 (SRA) that… 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 →
In recent years, many Western governments and organizations have pressed developing nations to build robust private property institutions and have… Continue reading →