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Fareed Nassor Hayat
Jul 30, 2024
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...
Alisa Smith
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....
PROFILES
Chelsey Rogers
Nov 18, 2022
Practitioner Profile: Will Mount
Samantha Hall
Jan 9, 2022
Practitioner Profile: Ryan Norman
Siena Richardson
Nov 30, 2021
Practitioner Profile: Ayah Innab
Isabel V. Capecci
Jan 30
4 min read
Back from the dead: state “zombie” laws in the post-Dobbs era
In 2022, in the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization , the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution does not guarantee a...
Samuel Mercer
Jan 29
4 min read
The government's genetic gambit
Every hour, every person sheds 200,000,000 skin cells . Each of those cells holds a person's deoxyribonucleic acid —or, “DNA”— the...
Anne Comcowich
Jan 28
4 min read
What’s in a name? Developing identity through Shakespeare to reduce recidivism
People who have been sentenced to time in prison are often treated as “others,” and our prison systems frequently fail to rehabilitate...
Kimia Hosseinkhani
Jan 21
2 min read
Rehabilitating individuals with violent offense convictions, healing the victim within
Rehabilitation has been a long-standing goal of the criminal legal system because it allows for healthier communities with better access...
Kailey Ritchie
Apr 10, 2024
3 min read
The interpretation of imminency for self-defense in nonconfrontational homicides.
TW: Mentions of Domestic Violence Self-defense is considered a justification for homicide under the law, contingent upon four general...
Angela Chen
Apr 9, 2024
4 min read
Approaches to juvenile justice move backward, not forward in the Washington metropolitan area.
Pending legislation in Maryland and recently passed legislation in Washington D.C. move approaches to youth justice in the area backward...
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Bennett Nuss
Sep 9, 2023
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
Aug 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...
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Siena Roberts
Jul 30, 2024
Letter from the Editor, Volume XIV, Issue II
Jackie Solomon
Aug 15, 2022
Letter from the Editor, Volume XII, Issue III
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