Tanguay-Renaud on Criminal Law and Reason

François Tanguay-Renaud (Osgoode Hall Law School – York University) has posted Understanding Criminal Law Through the Lens of Reason (Res Publica, Vol. 16, No. 1, p. 89, 2010) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This is a review essay of…

Dripps on the Substance-Procedure Relationship in Criminal Law

This chapter, contributed to Philosophical Foundations of Criminal Law, edited by Antony Duff and Stuart Green, forthcoming from Oxford in early 2011, takes up what it claims to be “the hardest problem” in criminal justice scholarship: the relationship between the…

Top-Ten Recent SSRN Downloads

are here. The usual disclaimers apply. Rank Downloads Paper Title 1 335 The Facade of FCPA Enforcement Mike Koehler, Butler University College of Business, Date posted to database: November 9, 2010 2 300 Good Faith, New Law, and the Scope…

Argument transcript in case involving tolling of habeas time limits

The transcript in Wall v. Kholi is here.

“Petition for Certiorari Filed in Pineda-Moreno, The Ninth Circuit GPS Case”

Orin Kerr at The volokh Conspiracy explains why he thinks the petition should be denied: The puzzling part about the panel decision in Pineda-Moreno was that it essentially undid the government’s concession: It held that the warrantless search was okay…

Argument transcript regarding regulation of violent video games

The transcript in Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants is here.

Sigler on the Methodology of Desert

Mary Sigler (Arizona State University – College of Law) has posted The Methodology of Desert (Arizona State Law Journal, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In a series of books and articles Paul Robinson (along with various coauthors) builds…

Stubbs on Restorative Justice and Domestic Violence

Julie Stubbs (University of NSW - Faculty of Law) has posted Relations of Domination and Subordination: Challenges for Restorative Justice in Responding to Domestic Violence on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Restorative Justice (RJ) is often promoted as a response...

“CIA removed terror suspects from Guantanamo to avoid due process: AP”

Jurist points to and expands on this AP story: WASHINGTON — Four of the nation's most highly valued terrorist prisoners were secretly moved to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2003, years earlier than has been disclosed, then whisked back into overseas...

Borgers & Stevens on the Use of Illegally Gathered Evidence in the Dutch Criminal Trial

Matthias J. Borgers and Lonneke Stevens (VU University Amsterdam and VU University Amsterdam) have posted The Use of Illegally Gathered Evidence in the Dutch Criminal Trial on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This report, written for the the XVIIIth International...