The title of this post is the title of this notable new article authored by Benjamin Levin now available via SSRN. Here is its abstract: Over the past decade, workers’
rights activists and legal scholars have embraced the language of “wage theft” in describing the abuses of the contemporary workplace. The phrase invokes a [...]
Roni M. Rosenberg (Ono Academic College - Law School) has posted Human Dignity and the Doctrine of Provocation: A New Approach (34 NOTRE DAME JOURNAL OF LAW, ETHICS & PUBLIC
POLICY 281 (2020)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The... [...]
Robert Hughes (Legal Studies and Business Ethics Department, The Wharton School) has posted Imprisonment and the Right to Freedom of Movement (In Chris W. Surprenant, ed.,
Rethinking Punishment in the Era of Mass Incarceration (New York: Routledge 2018)) on SSRN.... [...]
A helpful reader sent me this thoughtful review of some notable recent reasonableness rulings by the Sixth Circuit: The review of sentences for substantive reasonableness is
often thought of as toothless, or as a “one-way ratchet” toward more severe sentences. Of the countless appeals challenging sentences as overly harsh, only [...]
The title of this post is the title of this notable new article now available via SSRN authored by Penny White and Glenn Harlan Reynolds. Here is its abstract: Inspired
by the Justice Department's report on criminal law enforcement and the use of courts as a revenue-generation machine in Ferguson, Missouri, we address the widespread [...]
are here. The usual disclaimers apply. Rank Paper Downloads 1. What We Got Wrong in the War on Drugs Mark William Osler University of St. Thomas - School of Law (Minnesota)
Date Posted: 26 Aug 2020 [2nd last week] 259... [...]
I am pleased to see this CBS News new article headlined "Compassionate release, once seldom used, offers some federal inmates hope." Here are excerpts: [C]ompassionate release
[was] a once seldom used remedy that allows inmates to receive a reduction in their sentence. [...]
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was nominated to be a Justice when I was still in law school, so it has been a very long time since I have thought about a Supreme Court without
her voice and views being integral to the Court's work. And, as I noted in this post last night, she was literally the critical swing vote in US v. [...]
are here. The usual disclaimers apply. Rank Paper Downloads 1. Why Do Rule 48(a) Dismissals Require 'Leave of Court'? Thomas Frampton University of Virginia School of Law Date
Posted: 08 Jul 2020 2,732 2. An Abolitionist Horizon for (Police) Reform... [...]
I was sad to see this news this evening: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a diminutive yet towering women’s rights champion who became the court’s second female
justice, died Friday at her home in Washington. She was 87. Ginsburg died of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer, the court said.... [...]
