The title of this post is the title of a remarkable 280-page report produced by Alison Siegler and the Federal Criminal Justice Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School.
Here is the start of its executive summary: Over thirty years ago, the Supreme Court held that people charged with federal crimes should only rarely be locked in [...]
Last month, as blogged here, US District Judge Edward Davila sentenced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes to a (within guideline) prison term of 135 months. Today brought
sentencing for former Theranos COO Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, and this TechCrunch account provides these highlights of the process and outcome: The former COO of [...]
AKMED E-Bülten Koç University Suna & İnan Kıraç Research Centre for Mediterranean Civilizations (AKMED) seeks to be a leading research center on the Mediterranean
world focusing on the history, archaeology, art history, ancient languages, architectural history, cultural heritage and related disciplines. [...]
[First posted in AWOL 16 June 2009. Updated 7 December 2022] [First posted in AWOL 16 June 2009. Updated 7 December 2022] ANMED, one of the annual periodicals by Suna & İnan
Kıraç Research Institute on Mediterranean Civilisations, has been published bilingual in Turkish and English in Antalya since 2003. [...]
Motor vehicle crashes remain the leading cause of death for Americans under age 25, and many of these crashes involve substance use. To help reduce the volume of impaired drivers,
many--but not all--states allow for sobriety checkpoints (SC). While historically checkpoint stops were used to enforce drunk driving laws, they are increasingly [...]
Les tatoueurs sont-ils des artistes ? L'arrêt rendu par le Conseil d'État le 5 décembre 2022 ne répond à cette question que sur un plan strictement juridique. Cette approche
présente le double avantage de le maintenir dans sa compétence et de lui éviter d'avoir à se prononcer un jugement sur la qualité des oeuvres réalisées sur [...]
Daniel Hemel (NYU; Google Scholar), House Democrats Can Release Trump’s Tax Returns. But Should They?: Now that a House committee has obtained access to six years of former
President Trump’s tax returns, congressional Democrats face an easy question and a harder one. [...]
From the Federal Criminal Justice Clinic at the University of Chicago, via NACDL's news update: In Freedom Denied: How the Culture of Detention Created a Federal Jailing Crisis,
the Clinic finds that federal judges routinely violate the very bail laws... [...]
Andrew M. Perlman (Dean, Suffolk; Google Scholar) & Open AI's Assistant, The Implications of OpenAI’s Assistant for Legal Services and Society: On November 30, 2022, OpenAI
released a public-facing version of a chatbot called ChatGPT. To demonstrate the chatbot’s remarkable sophistication and its potential implications, both for the [...]
From the Center on Privacy and Technology at Georgetown Law, via NACDL's news update: A report released by the Center on Privacy & Technology evaluates the reliability of face
recognition as it is used by police in the United States.... [...]
