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FROM THE PUBLICATION
Centering the People's Voice in Teaching and Learning First-Year Criminal Law
To read the full article, click here for the PDF. Abstract Traditional legal teaching is premised on creating an educational environment...
Fareed Nassor Hayat
Jul 30, 2024
Moving Beyond Yoga: An Exploratory, Qualitative Study of Public Defenders' Solutions for Improving Work-Life and Effective Assistance of Counsel
To read the full article, click here for the PDF. Abstract Public defenders are frontline workers defending the poor accused of crimes....
Alisa Smith
Jul 30, 2024
PROFILES
Practitioner Profile: Will Mount
Chelsey Rogers
Nov 18, 2022
Practitioner Profile: Ryan Norman
Samantha Hall
Jan 9, 2022
Practitioner Profile: Ayah Innab
Siena Richardson
Nov 30, 2021
Teens need protection too: an examination of adolescent safeguards to dating violence.
Trigger Warning: Violence, child abuse, mentions of suicide The month of February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month. In the United...
Alexia Ferraro
Apr 14
4 min read
Biosocial criminology as a foundation for rehabilitation and reintegration efforts.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, reducing recidivism is one of the best ways to prevent crime. Over the past 16 years,...
Aidalis Santana
Apr 14
4 min read
Prosecutorial discretion regarding abortion-related offenses post-Dobbs.
Since the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs, nineteen states have banned abortion or restricted abortion to early-in pregnancy. However,...
Angela Chen
Apr 10
3 min read
Felon disenfranchisement: The legal paradox of an elected felon.
President Trump’s election into office in 2024 emphasized the legal paradox that exists when a country that strips most felons of their...
Jordyn Ehlinger
Apr 10
2 min read
The unreliable nature of informant testimony.
In the United States, we pride ourselves on the notion that an individual is innocent until proven guilty. However, wrongful convictions...
Casey Williams
Apr 9
3 min read
Wrongful convictions and the imperative of post-conviction DNA testing: lessons from the Central Park Five.
The 1989 case of the Central Park Five remains a sobering illustration of the fallibility of the criminal legal system. Five teenagers,...
Shreya Diwan
Apr 8
4 min read
FROM THE BLOG
COLUMNS
Bittner v. United States: 2022-23 Supreme Court Criminal Decisions
In Bittner v. United States, the Court faced a statutory interpretation question pertaining to the methodology of charging parties under...
Bennett Nuss
Sep 9, 2023
Samia v. United States: 2022-23 Supreme Court Criminal Decisions
Samia v. United States was decided on June 23, 2023. According to the facts of the case, in 2012, Paul LeRoux tasked petitioner Adam...
Bennett Nuss
Aug 9, 2023
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Letter from the Editor, Volume XIV, Issue II
Siena Roberts
Jul 30, 2024
Letter from the Editor, Volume XII, Issue III
Jackie Solomon
Aug 15, 2022
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