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 →
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 →
Codifying decentralized forms of law, such as the common law and customary international law, has been a cornerstone of the… Continue reading →
The Offer in Compromise (OIC) is a procedure by which the IRS may agree to forgive a portion of the… Continue reading →
Fashion designers in the United States, unlike those in many for- eign jurisdictions, enjoy only limited intellectual property protection for… Continue reading →
Since the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Dothard v. Rawlinson in 1977, gender-based disparate impact litigation has been limited in… Continue reading →
In 2006, the Supreme Court started a revolution in environmental law. In Rapanos v. United States, while addressing jurisdiction over… Continue reading →
The intricate legal framework governing the admission of out-of-court statements in American trials is premised on increasingly outdated communication norms.… Continue reading →
The requirements of procedural due process must adapt to our constantly changing world. Over thirty years have passed since the… Continue reading →
On April 27, 2011, the Supreme Court announced its decision in AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion, one of the most… Continue reading →