Sara Sun Beale (Duke University - School of Law) has posted The Story of Ewing V. California: Three Strikes Laws and the Limits of the Eighth Amendment Proportionality Review (CRIMINAL LAW STORIES, Donna Coker, Robert Weisberg, eds., Foundation Press, Forthcoming)...

Crime and Consequences excerpts this article from the London Telegraph. England and Wales has one of the worst crime rates among developed nations for rapes, burglaries and robberies, a major report has found. However, offenders are locked up for shorter...

From the BLT: “The government’s own memoranda show that more than six months before the raid, Judge Linda Reade began a series of meetings in which she collaborated with the law-enforcement team that prosecuted the case against Sholom Rubashkin,” Lewin,...

Cynthia Lee (George Washington University Law School) has posted Reasonable Provocation and Self-Defense: Recognizing the Disctincton between Act Reasonableness and Emotion Reasonableness (CRIMINAL LAW CONVERSATIONS, Paul H. Robinson, Stephen Garvey, Kimberly Ferzan, eds., Oxford University Press, 2009) on SSRN. Here...

Keith N. Hylton (Boston University) has posted Some Notes on Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Criminal Law (RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON THE ECONOMICS OF CRIMINAL LAW, A. Harel, K. Hylton, eds., Edward Elgar, 2011) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The...

Jurist has this update on the challenge to the federal law requiring a special license to provide legal services to "Specially Designated Terrorists."

Does a 911 operator have affirmative duties? Do they extand beyond the operator's jurisdiction? Does it matter if the operator is mistaken? All suggested by the following from the Lorenzen Wright case, as reported in the San Diego Union-Tribune: Police...

Gabriel J. Chin and Marc L. Miller (pictured, lower right) (both of University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law) have posted Cracked Mirror: SB1070 and Other State Regulation of Immigration through Criminal Law on SSRN. Here is the...

Jurist has this commentary by Eric Sterling, President of The Criminal Justice Policy Foundation. In part: For this long-awaited Act to be meaningful, we must see something in the U.S. Attorneys Manual or a memorandum from the Attorney General to...

Richard A. Leo (pictured) and Alexa Koenig (University of San Francisco - School of Law and University of California, Berkeley - Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program) have posted The Gatehouses and Mansions: 50 Years Later (The Annual Review of Law...