Jackson Lanier has posted Plea Problems and Diversion Dilemmas: Protecting Juvenile Rights Through Pragmatic Means on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This paper examines issues
surrounding plea bargains and diversion programs in the juvenile justice system, focusing on the need... [...]
Rachel Killean and Damien Short (The University of Sydney - Faculty of Law and Independent) have posted A Critical Review of the Law of Ecocide on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
This paper reviews key definitions of ecocide that have... [...]
Marie Manikis (McGill University - Faculty of Law) has posted Victim-related Assumptions Underlying Plea-based Sentence Reductions: A Communicative and Experiential Framework
(in JV Roberts and J Ryberg (eds), Sentencing the Self-Convicted: The Ethics of Pleading Guilty (Hart, 2023) 151-168) on... [...]
Gottfried Keller (1878/1883) Ein Ungeziefer ruht In Staub und trocknem Schlamme Verborgen, wie die Flamme In leichter Asche tut. Ein Regen, Windeshauch Erweckt das schlimme
Leben, Und aus dem Nichts erheben Sich Seuchen, Glut und Rauch. [...]
Gottfried Keller (1878/1883) Vermin lies in rest In dust and crumbly mud, Concealed, as the flame Is hidden in the ash. A gush of rain, a gust Awakes the evil life And out
of nothing rise The plague, the blaze, the smoke. [...]
Matthew DeMichele, Christopher Inkpen, Ian Silver, and Jason Walker (RTI International, RTI International, RTI International and RTI International) have posted How Long is
Long Enough: Using Abbreviated Criminal Histories for Pretrial Assessment Instruments? on SSRN. [...]
Ian Keay, Kris Inwood, and Blair Long (Department of Economics, Queen's University, University of Guelph - Department of Economics and Cape Breton University) have posted Institutional
Change and Criminal Sentencing on the Frontier: Evidence from British Columbia's Jails, 1864-1913 on... [...]
We have received a request for participants for an international research project, International Customary Laws Database Project, coordinated by Sylvain Soleil, professor in
legal history at the University of Rennes. It aims to [...]
This week, Blaine Saito (Ohio State; Google Scholar) reviews a new work by Jeremy Bearer-Friend (George Washington; Google Scholar), Paying for Reparations: How to Capitalize
a Multi-Trillion Reparations Fund, 67 How. L.J. __ (2024). Even well-meaning liberals who support the idea in concept find reparations for slavery a difficult issue... [...]
