Engle on Mandatory Reporting of Campus Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence

Jill C. Engle (Pennsylvania State University, Penn State Law) has posted Mandatory Reporting of Campus Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence: Moving to a Victim-Centric Protocol that Comports with Federal Law (Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review, Vol. 24, No....

Lever on Race and Racial Profiling

Annabelle Lever (University of Geneva - Department of Political Science) has posted Race and Racial Profiling (Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Race, ed. Naomi Zack (OUP 2016)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Philosophical reflection on racial profiling tends...

"Queens Prosecutors Indict 17 in Internet Gambling Ring"

From The New York Times: An illegal gambling ring with more than 2,000 bettors in the United States moved millions of dollars through banks and credit card companies and used an overseas website to place the wagers and keep the...

Joh & Joo on DOJ Guidelines on Prosecuting White Collar Crime

Elizabeth E. Joh and Thomas Wuil Joo (University of California, Davis - School of Law and University of California, Davis - School of Law) have posted The Corporation as Snitch: The New DOJ Guidelines on Prosecuting White Collar Crime (Virginia...

"Video Shows Officer Flipping Student in South Carolina, Prompting Inquiry"

The New York Times has the story and the video: The authorities in South Carolina are investigating a confrontation in which a white school police officer in Columbia is seen in a video flipping a black female high school student...

"The Disproportionate Risks of Driving While Black"

From The New York Times: Documenting racial profiling in police work is devilishly difficult, because a multitude of factors — including elevated violent crime rates in many black neighborhoods — makes it hard to tease out evidence of bias from...

"F.B.I. Chief Links Scrutiny of Police With Rise in Violent Crime"

From The New York Times: CHICAGO — The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, said on Friday that the additional scrutiny and criticism of police officers that has come in the wake of highly publicized incidents of police brutality may be...

"U.S. Prosecutor to Drop Insider Trading Cases Against Seven"

From The New York Times: The dismissal of Mr. Steinberg’s conviction had been expected in light of the appellate court ruling that overturned the earlier convictions of Anthony Chiasson and Todd Newman on similar evidence of improper trading in shares...

Pizzi on Comparative Reflections on Jury Trial

William T. Pizzi has posted Comparative Reflections on Duncan v. Louisiana and Baldwin v. New York (Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This article takes a look back at two...

"Riveting Retelling of ’78 Lufthansa Heist, but in Court, Not on Film"

From The New York Times: They made off with $6.25 million in cash, as well as the jewelry and German bank notes. The Lufthansa heist, one of the biggest cash robberies in United States history, went unsolved for decades. ....

"Oklahoma suspends executions pending completion of investigation"

From Jurist: Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt[official website] agreed Friday to suspend all executions [stipulation, PDF; press release] until his office has completed an investigation into the use of a wrong lethal injection drug during an execution last January. Pruitt...

Abrams on The Law and Economics of Stop-and-Frisk

David Abrams (University of Pennsylvania Law School) has posted The Law and Economics of Stop-and-Frisk (Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, Vol. 46, Pg. 369, 2014) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The relevant economic and legal research relating to police...

"Notable new polling on distinct sentencing/punishment issues"

Doug Berman has this post at Sentencing Law & Policy. In part: For a host of reasons, I am not sure these polls are especially consequential when it comes to changing the minds or votes of established politicians. After all,...

MacDonald on Cyberterrorism and Enemy Criminal Law

Stuart K. MacDonald (Swansea University College of Law) has posted Cyberterrorism and Enemy Criminal Law (Cyber War: Law and Ethics for Virtual Conflicts (edited by Jens David Ohlin, Kevin Govern and Claire Finkelstein) (OUP, 2015)) on SSRN. Here is the...

"Minnesota court rules warrantless DWI blood tests unconstitutional"

From Jurist: The Minnesota Court of Appeals [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Tuesday that an officer must obtain a warrant in order to test the blood of a person suspected of driving while intoxicated (DWI). Minnesota's implied consent law, Statute...

"Reported hate crimes in England and Wales increase 18%"

From Jurist: Home Office statistics [materials] revealed Tuesday that hate crimes in England and Wales have risen by 18 percent over the last year. Police recorded [Huffington Post report] 52,528 hate crimes between 2014 and 2015, which were motivated by...

Donna & Espin-Sanchez on Letting the Punishment Fit the Criminal

Javier Donna and José-Antonio Espín-Sánchez (Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics and Yale University) have posted Let the Punishment Fit the Criminal on SSRN. Here is the abstract: We investigate the role of punishment progressivity and individual characteristics in the...

Howe on The Eighth Amendment Prohibition on Excessive Bail

Scott Howe (Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law) has posted The Implications of Incorporating the Eighth Amendment Prohibition on Excessive Bail (Hofstra Law Review, Vol. 43, No. 4, 2015) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In its...

Bean on The FIFA Corruption Scandal

Bruce W. Bean (Michigan State University - College of Law) has posted FIFA Has Made the 'Beautiful Game' Ugly on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This article provides background for a discussion of the criminal proceedings against 14 individuals and...

Barrozo on Cruelty in Criminal Law

Paulo Barrozo (Boston College - Law School) has posted Cruelty in Criminal Law: Four Conceptions (Criminal Law Bulletin Vol. 51 No. 5 (2015)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Article defines four distinct conceptions of cruelty found in underdeveloped...

Rowe on Cyberthefts of Trade Secrets

Elizabeth A. Rowe (University of Florida - Levin College of Law) has posted RATs, TRAPs, and Trade Secrets on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Technology has facilitated both the amount of trade secrets that are now stored electronically, and the...