Recent Articles
Let’s Move Criminal Justice Reforms Upstream: A Perspective from the Bench
By Bridget McCormack Abstract “[S]ometimes it feels like this. There I am standing by the shore of a swiftly flowing river and I hear the cry of a drowning man. So I jump into the river, put my arms around him, pull him to shore and apply artificial respiration. Just...
Reforming State Bail Reform
By Shima Baughman, Lauren Boone, and Nathan Jackson Abstract We are waist-deep in the third wave of bail reform. Scholars, policy makers, and the public have realized that the short period of detention before trial creates ripple effects on a defendant’s judicial fate...
Beyond Transparency: Police Union Collective Bargaining and Participatory Democracy
By Walter Katz Abstract Police unions rose in power partially in response to the civil unrest in urban neighborhoods in the 1960s. As unions gained political power, critics argue that they have frequently stood as obstacles to accountability-related reforms. One...
Recent Student Work
Tweet, Post, Share. . .Get Haled into Court? Calder Minimum Contacts Analysis in Social Media Defamation Cases
By Ellen Smith Yost Abstract Modern communication has been transformed by ubiquitous social media platforms and near-universal connectivity. Any individual, from any location, can now publish speech to thousands or potentially millions of readers, viewers, or...
Off on a Technicality: The Proper Remedy for Improper Venue
By Christopher Thomson Abstract Since its introduction to the public discourse, lawyers have admonished the pejorative phrase, “off on a technicality”—and rightfully so. However, the phrase may rightfully find application to the law’s present treatment of criminal...
Imposing Identity: Why States Should Restrict Infant Intersex Surgery
By Laura Sundin Abstract Babies born with sex characteristics that do not “fit typical binary notions of male or female” are as common as babies born with red hair. These newborns may have one of many types of internal or external abnormalities, coined “intersex”...
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