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13 Feb 2007, 1:00 am
.' Political scientist Austin Sarat of Amherst College says, 'We're in an amazing moment of national reconsideration that would have been unimaginable a decade ago.' The inability to tolerate a single execution method for very long seems to stem partly from the conflicted relationship Americans have with capital punishment, says the magazine. [read post]
8 Feb 2007, 9:23 pm
I haven't had the chance to read the piece carefully yet -- I just stumbled across it in the new book edited by Austin Sarat and Nasser Hussain entitled Forgiveness, Mercy and Clemency (Stanford University Press, 2007). [read post]
19 Jan 2007, 8:31 am
My lengthy analysis follows.From Blom's article (at 1, citing Austin Sarat and Stuart Scheingold) "cause lawyering" is about: using legal skills to pursue ends and ideals that transcend client service - be those ideals, social, cultural, political, economic or indeed, legal. [read post]
16 Jan 2007, 9:00 am
., and Austin Sarat (KF9227 .C2 F76 2006 at Classified Stacks). [read post]
10 Jan 2007, 8:33 am
Earlier commentary by Austin is here, here, and here. [read post]
8 Jan 2007, 12:43 pm
That's the title of a new OpEd by Austin Sarat published in the New Jersey Record. [read post]
4 Jan 2007, 7:44 am
Austin Sarat has a must-read OpEd essay in The Guardian, "The tide is turning: New Jersey's move to abandon capital punishment is a defining moment in America's death penalty debate. [read post]
3 Jan 2007, 9:11 am
Finally, part IV delineates the politics that can be inferred from Cover's perspective, and assesses—in contraposition to the very different appraisals of Robert Post and Austin Sarat—its relationship (or lack thereof) with political liberalism. [read post]
3 Jan 2007, 5:14 am
. 'We're in a period of national reconsideration of the death penalty,' said Austin Sarat, a professor of political science and law at Amherst College. 'I believe what's happening in New Jersey will have a tremendously galvanizing effect.'
New York Times [read post]
27 Dec 2006, 4:18 am
" Though I won't have my draft chapter ready for prime time until next month, Austin Sarat has sent along his chapter and has allowed me to post it here. [read post]
18 Dec 2006, 8:06 am
"When Executions Go Wrong: A Horribly Botched Florida Execution Adds Strong Impetus to a National Reconsideration of Capital Punishment," is the title of commentary by scholar Austin Sarat on FindLaw.com.After this execution, a spokesman for the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty noted that "Florida has certainly deservedly earned a reputation for being a state that conducts botched executions, whether electrocution or lethal injection. [read post]
18 Dec 2006, 4:09 am
This morning at FindLaw, Austin Sarat has this essay entitled "When Executions Go Wrong: A Horribly Botched Florida Killing Adds Strong Impetus to a National Reconsideration of Capital Punishment. [read post]
18 Dec 2006, 3:32 am
" And Austin Sarat has an essay entitled "When Executions Go Wrong: A Horribly Botched Florida Killing Adds Strong Impetus to a National Reconsideration of Capital Punishment. [read post]
15 Dec 2006, 4:42 am
Jonathan Yovel and Elizabeth Ellen Mertz (University of Haifa - Faculty of Law and American Bar Foundation) have posted The Role of Social Science in Legal Decisions (HANDBOOK OF LAW AND SOCIETY, Austin Sarat, ed., Blackwell, 2004) on SSRN. [read post]
18 Nov 2006, 9:16 am
Perhaps it is fitting that, during a lunch break of a great conference organized by Austin Sarat (who continues to do great clemency work), I see this interesting article from California about an investigation of a clemency advocate: State agents have searched a San Francisco apartment for evidence that a former criminal defense investigator, working on the appeals of four death penalty cases, forged statements from jurors and others involved in the cases, Attorney General Bill… [read post]
