Guest post: Dan Subotnik: “Redefining Rape”? Let's Hope Not; Or Catharine MacKinnon is at it Again

Our Genitals, Ourselves. For many years, chaired Harvard law professor, feminist icon, and mother of sexual harassment jurisprudence Catharine MacKinnon has held that, far from being an emotional and physical blessing, sex is an attack on women's bodies and a...

"Federal judge blasts Philly DA's 'juvenile lifers' policy"

From The Philadelphia Inquirer, via the NACDL news scan: An openly frustrated U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Savage - who ordered a new sentence for Songster four years ago, and again in August with a 120-day deadline - said the...

Dissent from cert denial in ineffectiveness/death penalty case

Justice Sotomayor, joined by Justice Ginsburg, dissented from the denial of certiorari in Elmore v. Holbrook.

"James Cartwright, Ex-General, Pleads Guilty in Leak Case"

From The New York Times: The plea completes a stunning fall from grace for General Cartwright, who was known as “Obama's favorite general,” and it adds a new twist to a surge of leak-related criminal cases in the Obama era....

"Florida: death sentence unconstitutional without unanimous jury vote"

From Jurist: JURIST - Florida: death sentence unconstitutional without unanimous jury vote The Florida Supreme Court [official website] on Friday held [opinion, PDF] that a trial court may not impose the death penalty unless the jury's recommended sentence of death...

Anderson on Use of Deadly Force

José F. Anderson (University of Baltimore - School of Law) has posted From Fugitives to Ferguson: Repairing Historical and Structural Defects in Legally Sanctioned Use of Deadly Force (Washington University Journal of Law and Policy, Vol. 49, 2015) on SSRN....

Ristroph on The Constitution of Police Violence

Alice Ristroph (Seton Hall University - School of Law) has posted The Constitution of Police Violence (UCLA Law Review, Vol. 64, No. 5, 2017 Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Police force is again under scrutiny in the United...