All Articles tagged accountability

• Justice Commentaries
  September 27, 2020 EDT
  INDEPENDENT CRITICAL INCIDENT INVESTIGATION AGENCIES: A UNIQUE FORM OF POLICE OVERSIGHT
  Richard A. Rosenthal

  This article examines and compares the statutory framework for these agencies and examines theoretical best practices in this unique area of police oversight.

• General
  December 12, 2018 EDT
  EFFECT OF THE REGULATORY ACCOUNTABILITY ACT OF 2017 ON INTER PARTES REVIEW: A LOOK AT TELEBRANDS CORP., V. TINNUS ENTERS., LLC
  Ashley E. Panek

  This article discusses a specific instance of an inconsistent ruling by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board in Telebrands Corp., v. Tinnus Enters., LLC.

• Justice Commentaries
  November 08, 2017 EDT
  A MATTER OF DUE REGARD: POLICE MISCONDUCT, THE NEW YORK STATE COURTS, AND THE EMPTINESS OF THEORETICAL JUSTICE
  Felicia A. Reid

  This article argues that judicial accountability, in both civil and criminal courts, for police misconduct does not exist.

• Justice Commentaries
  December 08, 2016 EDT
  ORWELL’S ELEPHANT AND THE ETIOLOGY OF WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS
  James M. Doyle

  This essay considers the question: is the challenge presented by wrongful convictions one best approached as protecting a safe system from amoral people or one of repairing a vulnerable system?

• Justice Commentaries
  October 16, 2014 EDT
  PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT IN THE DIGITAL AGE
  John G. Browning

  As this article demonstrates, prosecutorial misconduct arising out of the use of technology poses a particular concern thanks to the ease of use and inexorable spread of new communication platforms.

• Justice Commentaries
  May 05, 2012 EDT
  UNEVEN REPARATIONS FOR WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS:EXAMINING THE STATE POLITICS OF STATUTORY COMPENSATION LEGISLATION
  Michael Leo OwensElizabeth Griffiths

  In this article the authors argue that absolute immunity protects both the honest and the dishonest prosecutor.

• New York Appeals
  March 03, 2011 EDT
  STATE & LOCAL ECONOMIC SANCTIONS: THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF NEW YORK’S DIVESTMENT ACTIONS AND THE SUDAN ACCOUNTABILITY & DIVESTMENT ACT OF 2007
  Elizabeth Trachy

  This article argues that state action, like New York's divestment policy in Sudan, is constitutional so long as the divestment measures remain within the boundaries that the SADA carefully establishes.

• State Constitutional Commentary
  August 08, 2010 EDT
  EXTRAORDINARY WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS, ORDINARY ERRORS—WHY MEASUREMENT MATTERS
  Amy Bach

  Ms. Bach's symposium remarks.

• General
  January 01, 2005 EDT
  JUSTICE JACKSON, NUREMBERG AND HUMAN RIGHTS LITIGATION
  Paul L. Hoffman

  Remarks from the symposium duscussion on Wartime Security and Constitutional Liberty