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22 Dec 2008, 4:32 pm
Steiker and her brother Jordan, a law professor at the University of Texas, did a study in 2006 comparing capital cases in California, one of the slowest states in executing prisoners after sentencing, and Texas, one of the fastest. [read post]
22 Jan 2007, 5:24 am
Smith, represented by a University of Texas Law School professor, Jordan M. [read post]
31 May 2010, 10:33 am by Sandy Levinson
It would be interesting to see if Andrew Cuoma would actually be willing to defend the New York Senate in its current instantiation.While I'm at it in promoting budget cuts, I note that my colleague Jordan Steiker, at the UT Law School, is currently working on a terrific article focusing on the increasing budget-based opposition to the death penalty. [read post]
25 Nov 2011, 8:49 pm by Sandy Levinson
" I wonder if the Times editorial writer would be satisfied if, say, Judge Richard Posner and Justice Steven Breyer, the leading "pragmatists" on the bench, were put in charge of re-designing the curriculum, together with practicing lawyers, like, say, Brian Stevenson and Steven Bright, leading anti-capital punishment lawyers of this generation (who might enlist, say, my colleague Jordan Steiker, who helps to run a capital punishment clinic at the University of Texas… [read post]
19 Dec 2007, 7:32 am
Haurwitz.The legal team, which also includes law school faculty members Michael Sturley, Lynn Blais and Jordan Steiker, is pinning its hopes largely on a 2005 Supreme Court ruling in which the justices prohibited the death penalty for minors because of their underdeveloped sense of responsibility, still-forming personalities and other factors. [read post]
14 Aug 2007, 8:31 am
"The courts are not much of a check in Texas and the executive defers to the courts," said Jordan Steiker, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin's School of Law and co-director of the school's Capital Punishment Center.And: "A lot of evangelical Protestants not only believe that capital punishment is permissible but that it is demanded by God. [read post]
26 Jun 2010, 6:08 am by Gritsforbreakfast
"The last few weeks have been striking," said Jordan Steiker, co-director of the Capital Punishment Center at the University of Texas School of Law.The court's willingness to reconsider so many death sentences in such a short span is, some believe, a direct response to the exacting scrutiny and repeated criticisms that the U.S. [read post]
28 Sep 2007, 1:06 pm
UPDATE:  This new AP piece includes this assessment from an informed observer:"I think we're headed toward a moratorium, at least until the Supreme Court resolves the Kentucky case," University of Texas law professor Jordan Steiker said Friday. [read post]
12 Jan 2007, 2:13 pm
"My argument is the Court of Criminal Appeals didn't comply to the holding of the Supreme Court decision," said Jordan Steiker, Smith's lawyer. [read post]
29 Sep 2007, 10:52 am
"  UT law prof Jordan Steiker is being quoted in the later paragraphs.A better sense of the court's intentions could come Wednesday, when Texas is scheduled to execute Heliberto Chi, a Honduran citizen convicted of killing a Tarrant County store manager during a 2001 robbery. [read post]
7 Jul 2007, 7:34 pm
Steiker, a law professor at the University of Texas who has represented death-row inmates. [read post]
29 Feb 2008, 9:50 pm
"Now the key issue for an original meaning originalist, as Sandy Levinson, Jordan Steiker and I pointed out back in 1995, is whether "at the time of adoption of this Constitution" refers only to "Citizen of the United States" or also to the antecedent clause, "a natural born Citizen. [read post]
2 Sep 2011, 9:04 am by Steve Hall
  First, at the New Republic, law professors Carol and Jordan Steiker have posted a must-read, "Don’t Blame Perry for Texas’s Execution Addiction. [read post]
14 Apr 2010, 9:31 am by Steve Hall
“It’s a significant procedural impediment to require these cases to be brought via habeas,” says University of Texas law professor Jordan Steiker, who’s written extensively on constitutional law and the death penalty. [read post]
20 Sep 2016, 4:55 am by Edith Roberts
” In an opinion piece for The National Law Journal, Jordan Steiker contends that Buck v. [read post]
16 Dec 2007, 2:02 am
If several states were to abolish the death penalty over the next decade, the constitutional basis for attacking the death penalty would be substantially strengthened," said Jordan Steiker, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law. [read post]
20 Jan 2010, 7:53 am by Steve Hall
Jordan Steiker, who teaches death penalty law at the University of Texas, said the institute's model code had served as a blueprint for death penalty laws across the country, but problems prompted the change. [read post]