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20 Mar 2022, 9:00 pm by Austin Sarat
”For a brief period in the 1960s and 1970s, courts rejected the “hands off” doctrine and used the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment as a justification to scrutinize and reform the conditions of confinement in America’s prisons.Pugh v Locke, decided in 1976, is one of the most famous examples of this approach. [read post]
22 Jan 2021, 6:00 am by Guest Blogger
But the argument bombed in a moot session and ultimately attracted only the vote of Justice Denise Johnson in Baker v. [read post]
11 Oct 2020, 6:30 am by Sandy Levinson
(Harvard University Press, 2020), and Jesse Wegman, Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College (St. [read post]
5 Jun 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Campaign Funds for Judges Warp Criminal Justice, Study Finds New York Times – Adam Liptak | Published: 6/1/2020 In Gideon v. [read post]
5 Feb 2020, 1:52 pm by Stephen Griffin
  They worked for years to reverse this common understanding of the 1970s, and they had plenty of help. [read post]
11 Oct 2019, 7:12 am by Jay Pinho
Bush Presidential Center and the next day held a conversation with Mark Updegrove of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation. [read post]
24 Aug 2019, 6:30 am by Dan Ernst
Department of Commerce (nikkikalbing@gmail.com) The Future of Law in British Africa on the Eve of IndependenceRabiat Akande, Harvard Law School (oakande@sjd.law.harvard.edu) Marginalizing "Secularism," Decolonizing the State: Missionary Advocacy for Religious Freedom in British Colonial Northern Nigeria, 1945-1960Terence Mashingaidze, Midlands State University, Zimbabwe (mashingaidzet@staff.msu.ac.zw) Constitutionalism and Ritual Controversies in a Zimbabwean Chiefdom,… [read post]