Chesney on Military Detention and Habeas
December 27, 2010 By
Robert Chesney (University of Texas School of Law) has posted Who May Be Held? Military Detention Through the Habeas Lens (Boston College Law Review, Vol. 52, No. 3, 2011) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: We lack consensus regarding who...
Top-Ten Recent SSRN Downloads
December 27, 2010 By
are here. The usual disclaimers apply. Rank Downloads Paper Title 1 362 The Facade of FCPA Enforcement Mike Koehler, Butler University College of Business, Date posted to database: November 9, 2010 2 315 Good Faith, New Law, and the Scope...
Waldron on Torture, Suicide, and Natural Law
December 23, 2010 By
Jeremy Waldron (New York University (NYU) - School of Law) has posted Torture, Suicide, and Determinatio (The American Journal of Jurisprudence, Vol. 55, 2010) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In natural law theory, "determinatio" is the process by which...
Joy on Safeguards Against Informant Perjury
December 22, 2010 By
Peter A. Joy (Washington University School of Law) has posted Constructing Systemic Safeguards Against Informant Perjury (Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, Vol. 7, p. 677, 2010) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Reliance on an informant's testimony as the...
“Drunk driver who killed Angels’ Nick Adenhart sentenced to 51 years in prison”
December 22, 2010 By
The L.A. Times has the story: An Orange County judge handed down the sentence for Andrew Thomas Gallo, 23, on Wednesday morning. . . . Gallo had been convicted of driving under the influence three years before the crash and...
Hughes on Innocence Unmodified
December 22, 2010 By
Emily Hughes (Washington University School of Law in St. Louis) has posted Innocence Unmodified (North Carolina Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The Innocence Movement has unwittingly participated in the construction of a binary between “actual” and...
Said on the Terrorist Informant
December 22, 2010 By
Wadie E. Said (University of South Carolina School of Law) has posted The Terrorist Informant (Washington Law Review, Vol. 85, No. 4, 2010) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: A man sets himself on fire in front of the White...
ScotusBlog highlights Miranda petition
December 22, 2010 By
as one of its Petitions of the Day. The issue: Whether this Court’s clearly established precedent under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 holds that a prisoner is always "in custody" for purposes of Miranda any time that prisoner is isolated from...
Risinger on the NAS Report and Error in Forensic Science
December 21, 2010 By
D. Michael Risinger (Seton Hall University School of Law) has posted Whose Fault? - Daubert, the NAS Report, and the Notion of Error in Forensic Science (Fordham Urban Law Journal, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The notion of...
Boyne on Prosecuting Low-Level Crime in Germany
December 21, 2010 By
Shawn Marie Boyne (Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis) has posted Is the Journey from the 'In Box' to the 'Out Box' a Straight Line: The Prosecution of Low Level Criminality in Germany on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The defining...