Tanovich on Rap Lyrics in Criminal Cases

David M. Tanovich (University of Windsor - Faculty of Law) has posted R v Campbell: Rethinking the Admissibility of Rap Lyrics in Criminal Cases ((2016) 24 Criminal Reports (7th) 27-43) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: R v Campbell is...

Zatz on Criminal Enforcement of Child Support Obligations

Noah Zatz (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law) has posted A New Peonage?: Pay, Work, or Go to Jail in Contemporary Child Support Enforcement and Beyond (Seattle University Law Review, Vol. 39, No. 3, 2016) on...

Garvey on Authority, Freedom, and the Guilty Mind

Stephen P. Garvey (Cornell Law School) has posted Authority, Freedom, and the Guilty Mind on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Imagine an actor who commits a crime in thrall to a powerful desire. Think, for example, about those we call...

Johnson on Causation after Burrage

Eric Alan Johnson (University of Illinois College of Law) has posted Cause-in-Fact After Burrage v. United States (Florida Law Review, Vol. 68, 2016 Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: What significance, if any, should state courts assign to the...

Stenning & Shearing on Private Policing

Philip Stenning and Clifford Shearing (Griffith University and Griffith Institute of Criminology) have posted The Quiet Revolution: The Nature, Development and General Legal Implications of Private Policing in Canada (Criminal Law Quarterly, 22: 220-248) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:...

Terzian on The Fifth Amendment and Encryption

Dan Terzian has posted The Micro-Hornbook on the Fifth Amendment and Encryption (Georgetown Law Journal Online, 2016, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Micro-Hornbook objectively analyzes whether and how the government may compel you to provide access to...

Perlin & Lynch on Criminology, Scientific Discoveries and the Criminal Process

Michael L. Perlin and Alison J. Lynch (New York Law School and Disability Rights New York) have posted 'In the Wasteland of Your Mind': Criminology, Scientific Discoveries and the Criminal Process (Virginia Journal of Criminal Law, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here...

Patel on Crime in the Evolved Digital Age

Anar Patel (Arizona Prosecuting Attorneys' Advisory Council) has posted Crime in the Evolved Digital Age (Journal of Technology Law & Policy, Vol. 20, 2015) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Article examines computer crime statutes and focuses on their...

Plummer & Syed on Wrongful Convictions Based on Outdated Science

Caitlin M. Plummer and Imran J. Syed (Wisconsin Innocence Project and Michigan Innocence Clinic) have posted 'Shifted Science' Revisited: Percolation Delays and the Persistence of Wrongful Convictions Based on Outdated Science (Cleveland State Law Review, Vol. 64, 2016) on SSRN....

Green & Yaroshefsky on Prosecutorial Accountability

Bruce A. Green and Ellen Yaroshefsky (Fordham University School of Law and Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law) have posted Prosecutorial Accountability 2.0 on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This article examines prosecutors' accountability for professional misconduct....

Chapman & MacLean on Sexsomnia

Frances E. Chapman and Jason MacLean (Lakehead University - Faculty of Law and Lakehead University - Bora Laskin Faculty of Law) have posted Parasomnia, Sexsomnia, and Automatism in R. v. Hartman ((2015) 21 Criminal Reports 299) on SSRN. Here is...

"Utah v. Strieff and the future of the exclusionary rule"

Orin Kerr has this post at ScotusBlog previewing an upcoming oral argument. In part: Formally speaking, Utah v. Strieff considers the scope of the Fourth Amendment's exclusionary rule when an illegal stop leads to the discovery of public information that...

Bernstein on Penile Plethysmography Testing and Supervised Release

Max B Bernstein (Fordham University, School of Law, Students) has posted Erectile Dysfunction in Our Courts: Arousing Interest in Eliminating Mandated Penile Plethysmography Testing as a Condition of Supervised Release (Fordham Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:...

Lamparello & Swann on Refusing Consent to a Warrantless Blood Test

Adam Lamparello and Cynthia G Swann (Indiana Tech - Law School and Indiana Tech - Law School) have posted Birchfield v. North Dakota: Why the United States Supreme Court Should Rely on Riley v. California to Hold that Criminalizing a...

Brown on Judicial Power to Regulate Plea Bargaining

Darryl K. Brown (University of Virginia School of Law) has posted Judicial Power to Regulate Plea Bargaining (William & Mary Law Review, Vol. 57, No. 102, 2016) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Plea bargaining in the United States is...