[Jan-Michael Simon is a Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law.] A year after being established by the Human Rights Council
(resolution 42/25), the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (FFM-Venezuela) has recently made public its report. [...]
Jean-Claude Farcy intervenant devant les étudiants. (5 décembre 2013. Séminaire Criminocorpus de Marc Renneville) Jean-Claude Farcy intervenant devant les étudiants. (5
décembre 2013. Séminaire Criminocorpus de Marc Renneville) [...]
Le numéro spécial de la revue Les Cahiers de la sécurité et de la justice sur La prison hors les murs ?, « A quoi sert la probation », que j’ai coordonné avec Guillaume
Arandel, vient de paraître. C’était ma proposition l’année dernière pour fêter les 20 ans de la création des Services pénitentiaires d’insertion et de [...]
Prior to 2020, the federal government executed only three persons in over half a century. But thanks largely to the efforts and persistence of US Attorney General William
Barr, the feds as of tonight have been able to complete double that many executions in just the year 2020. This AP story about the latest execution, headlined "US [...]
I receive via email from Arizona State College of Law's Academy for Justice a terrific review (with links) of some of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg major work in criminal justice
cases during her tenure on the Court, as well as some leading scholarship discussing this work. [...]
Ronald J. Krotoszynski Jr. (University of Alabama - School of Law) has posted "A Republic If [We] Can Keep It": A Prolegomenon on Righting the Ship of State in the Wake of
the Trumpian Tempest (89 Texas Law Review 539 (2020)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This review essay provides an overview and critique of Sandy Levinson’s and [...]
In 1961, Ruth Bader Ginsburg joined a comparative project on civil procedural based at Columbia Law School. She took on the Swedish portion of the project, and studied the
implementation of the Swedish procedural law, Rättegångsbalken, which became effective in... [...]
Lisa Steele has posted Investigating and Presenting an Investigative Omission Defense (Criminal Law Bulletin, Vol. 57, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This paper
explores defense challenges to the adequacy of police investigations, and investigative lapses as a cause... [...]
