Law Reviews

Law Reviews

Sep 24, 2013

One of the nation’s lead­ing aca­d­e­m­ic experts on the death penal­ty has writ­ten a new arti­cle describ­ing how the con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing lethal injec­tions has great­ly inten­si­fied since the Sup…

Law Reviews

Sep 04, 2013

A new study of the cost of the death penal­ty in Colorado revealed that cap­i­tal pro­ceed­ings require six times more days in court and take much longer to resolve than life-with­out-parole (LWOP) cas­es. The study, pub…

Law Reviews

Aug 29, 2013

A new study test­ing inter­nal atti­tudes and stereo­types among poten­tial jurors in six death penal­ty states may help to explain the racial dis­par­i­ties that per­sist in the appli­ca­tion of cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment. Researchers Justin Levinson (l.), Robert Sm…

Law Reviews

Jul 09, 2013

The lat­est edi­tion of the Yale Law Journal fea­tures essays com­mem­o­rat­ing the 50^th anniver­sary of Gideon v. Wainwright, the land­mark 1…

Law Reviews

Jun 05, 2013

In a forth­com­ing arti­cle in the Washington and Lee Law Review, Ty Alper (pic­tured), Clinical Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley, exam­ines how recent U.S. Supreme Court deci­sions may affect the abil­i­ty of …