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Sentencing Law and Policy

By Douglas A. Berman.

http://sentencing.typepad.com/sentencing_law_and_policy/

Sep 21
Ohio intermediate appeals court, finding functional LWOP sentence excessive for multiple burglaries, cuts 50 years off term

Ohio intermediate appeals court, finding functional LWOP sentence excessive for multiple burglaries, cuts 50 years off term

A helpful former student alerted me to an interesting state appeals court ruling in my own backyard handed down last week. Even though the ruling in State v. Gwynne, 2017-Ohio-7570 (5th Dist. Sept. 11, 2017) (available here), is pretty…
Sep 21
Federal prosecutors say Anthony Weiner merits years in prison for his online sexual offense

Federal prosecutors say Anthony Weiner merits years in prison for his online sexual offense

As reported in this AP piece, headlined "Government: Prison fits Weiner's sex crime on teen victim," federal prosecutors have filed their sentencing recommendation in the Anthony Weiner case. Here are the details: Former U.S. Rep.…
Sep 21
Interesting account of gender discrimination in Wyoming alternative sentencing boot camp program

Interesting account of gender discrimination in Wyoming alternative sentencing boot camp program

In part because women are a disproportionately small share of criminal offenders, they can experience a disproportionately large share of discriminatory treatment in the operation of criminal justice systems. An interesting example of this…

Rank this Week: 50

ADR Prof Blog

By Andrea Schneider, Michael Moffitt, Sarah Cole, Art Hinshaw, Jill Gross, Cynthia Alkon, Paul Kirgis and Jennifer Reynolds.

http://www.indisputably.org

Sep 18
Call for Papers: Running With Scissor

Call for Papers: Running With Scissor

From Jackie Font-Guzmán: We have a call for chapters of a book I am co-editing, Running with Scissors: Leading in Uncertainty. Anyone who has a powerful leadership story to share in the times we are living is welcome to…
Sep 15
Kiser’s Soft Skills for the Effective Lawyer

Kiser’s Soft Skills for the Effective Lawyer

I was really pleased to meet Randall Kiser at last year’s ABA conference. I was very impressed by his important study (co-authored with Martin Asher and Blakeley McShane), Let’s Not Make a Deal: An Empirical Examination of…
Sep 12
Chance to Support CFPB Arbitration Rule – Sept. 22 Deadline

Chance to Support CFPB Arbitration Rule – Sept. 22 Deadline

From Lauren Saunders, Associate Director, National Consumer Law Center: Folks, Thanks so much for signing the letter to the Senate asking it not to overturn the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s rule prohibiting…

Rank this Week: 87

Election Law @ Moritz

Information and insight on the laws governing federal, state and local elections. By the Moritz College of Law.

http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/

Sep 13
U.S. Supreme Court Grants Texas\' Request for Stay in Redistricting Case

U.S. Supreme Court Grants Texas\' Request for Stay in Redistricting Case
Sep 12
The Missing Link in Gerrymandering Jurisprudence

The Missing Link in Gerrymandering Jurisprudence
Jul 13
The Vare Precedent in the Senate—and Its Relevance to the Trump-Russia Inquiry

The Vare Precedent in the Senate—and Its Relevance to the Trump-Russia Inquiry

Rank this Week: 82

Features law-related calls for papers, conferences and workshops. From the Ohio State Moritz College of Law, University of Georgia School of Law, University of Pittsburgh School of Law and University of Washington School of Law.

http://legalscholarshipblog.com

Sep 21
Colloquia/Workshop

Colloquia/Workshop

Boston College Law School Professor Giuseppe Mazziotti, Trinity College, Dublin, presents today a program on Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Allowing Online Content to Cross Borders — Europe’s Quest for a ‘Digital...
Sep 20
Colloquia/Workshop

Colloquia/Workshop

Emory University School of Law Michael S. Kang, Thomas Simmons Professor of Law, Emory University School of Law, presents today his paper entitled Gerrymandering and the Constitutional Norm Against Government Partisanship. ...
Sep 19
Colloquia/Workshop

Colloquia/Workshop

New York Law School Nadine Strossen, John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law, New York Law School, presents today as part of the Tuesday Scholarship Luncheon series.

Rank this Week: 127

Marijuana Law, Policy & Reform

Edited by Douglas A. Berman.

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/marijuana_law/

Sep 21
AG Sessions' latest (measured?) comments on marijuana legalization

AG Sessions' latest (measured?) comments on marijuana legalization

Tom Angell has this Forbes report on the latest comments by Attorney General Jeff Sessions concerning marijuana reform. The piece's headline, "Jeff Sessions Slams Marijuana Legalization (Again)," strikes me as more alarming than…
Sep 19
Massachusetts top court addresses challenging issues surrounding marijuana and proof of impaired driving

Massachusetts top court addresses challenging issues surrounding marijuana and proof of impaired driving

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court this morning issued a unanimous opinion in Commonwealth v. Gerhardt, No. SJC-11967 (Mass. Sept. 19, 2017) (available here), which addresses matters of proof of marijuana-impaired driving. This Boston…
Sep 18
Fear of feds and prohibition prompt University of Maryland to cancel plans for medical marijuana instruction

Fear of feds and prohibition prompt University of Maryland to cancel plans for medical marijuana instruction

In this post from July, I reported on plans by the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy to begin offering training to prepare prospective workers for the medical marijuana industry. But this new Baltimore Sun article report that now,…

Rank this Week: 1099

Law School Innovation

Covers teaching, curriculum, and classroom technology. Edited by Professors Douglas A. Berman, Anupam Chander, Gene Koo and Mark W. Osler.

http://lsi.typepad.com/lsi/

Sep 3
"Tech skills are the key to law students’ future employment ..."

"Tech skills are the key to law students’ future employment ..."

Though I have not blogged in this space for a very long time, my own long history here of discussing how I think technologies should be at the center of law school innovation prompted me to want to blog about...
Oct 20
Unkind Cuts: Shrinking the law school budget

Unkind Cuts: Shrinking the law school budget

Legal education is under strain: Fewer people are applying to law school, and those who apply are less qualified. One result of this dynamic is that law schools are admitting fewer students, in order to keep qualifications up, but that...
Sep 19
Mentoring-- innovative, practical, and achievable

Mentoring-- innovative, practical, and achievable

One of the things we do well here at St. Thomas is establish mentor relationships for our students with lawyers in the community-- every student has a mentor. Neil Hamilton and Verna Monson have done some significant and important work...

Rank this Week: 833

Equal Vote: Election Law @ Mortiz

Covers election reform, the Voting Rights Act, the Help America Vote Act, and related topics. Special attention to the voting rights of people of color, non-English proficient citizens, and people with disabilities. Publsihed by Dan Tokaji at Moritz Colle

http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/blogs/tokaji/

Dec 18
The Wrong Approach to Election Reform

The Wrong Approach to Election Reform

The Ohio legislature yesterday approved a bill (SB 380) that would eliminate the window for early registration and absentee voting, among other things.
Nov 7
Reforming Registration

Reforming Registration

On Monday, I identified four problem areas to watch out for on Election Day: 1) lines at the polls, 2) voting equipment, 3) voter registration lists, and 4) provisional and absentee ballots. While machine breakdowns and polling place lines…
Nov 4
What We Don't Know

What We Don't Know

We now know that Barack Obama will be the 44th President of the United States of America. In the enormity of this moment in American history, the gritty details of election administration, upon which my Moritz colleagues and I spend so much…

Rank this Week: 1117

Equal Vote

Information and insight on the laws governing federal, state and local elections. By Michael E. Moritz College of Law Professor Dan Tokaji.