Fiona Doherty (Yale University - Law School) has posted Testing Periods and Outcome Determination in Criminal Cases (Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 103, No. 1699, 2019) on SSRN.

Here is the abstract: This Article introduces the concept of “Testing Periods” to... [...]

The title of this post is the title of this new short paper authored by Paul Robinson and Muhammad Sarahne. Here is its abstract: The criminal justice system traditionally

performs its public functions — condemning prohibited conduct, shaming and stigmatizing violators, promoting societal norms — through the use of negative examples: [...]

As regular readers know, ever since the passage of the FIRST STEP Act, I have been talking up 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) as a critical and valuable new mechanism to reduce

problematic prison sentences in any and every case in which the defendant presents "extraordinary and compelling reasons" for the reductions.  Though to date it [...]

Bruce W. Bean (Michigan State University - College of Law) has posted FIFA is Corruption: What is to be Done? (Michigan State University College of Law International Law Review,

Vol. 27, No. 2, 2019) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:... [...]

Jeffrey Segal, Avani Mehta Sood and Benjamin Woodson (Stony Brook University, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and affiliation not provided to SSRN) have

posted The 'Murder Scene Exception'—Myth or Reality? Empirically Testing the Influence of Crime Severity... [...]

Long-time readers know I cannot resist gearing up for big Presidential debates by suggesting some criminal justice and sentencing questions I would like to hear asked and encouraging

readers to do the same.  (And if you want to see how the shape and nature of the criminal justice debate evolves in four-year increments, you might enjoy looking [...]

The title of this post is the title of this notable new Filter commentary authored by Rory Fleming.  I recommend the piece in full, and here are excerpts: David Barren is

a Black man from Pittsburgh who was sentenced in 2010 to life without parole in the federal criminal justice system.  That was during President Obama’s tenure [...]

Kurt M. Saunders and Michelle Evans (California State University, Northridge and affiliation not provided to SSRN) have posted Criminal Trade Secret Theft Cases Against Judgment

Proof Defendants in Texas and California (10 William & Mary Business Law Review 579 (2019))... [...]

Gustavo A. Beade (University of Buenos Aires (UBA)) has posted Should Public Blame Replace the Criminal Trial? A Comment on R. A. Duff, the Realm of Criminal Law (Law, Ethics

and Philosophy (Forthcoming)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: What... [...]

Steven Arrigg Koh (Columbia Law School) has posted Foreign Affairs Prosecutions (New York University Law Review, Vol. 94, June 2019) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Contemporary

global crime and cross-border law enforcement cooperation have multiplied “foreign affairs prosecutions,” cases... [...]