All Articles tagged justice
Justice Commentaries
December 24, 2024 EDT This Essay explores how the law identifies climate-displaced people and states’ obligations to protect them, aruging that guaranteeing substantial support for the Loss and Damage Fund is the first step.
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October 11, 2024 EDT This Article praises the Code of Conduct adopted by SCOTUS and highlights areas to amend to restore trust in the Court and ensure uniform ethical standards apply to all judges.
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April 22, 2024 EDT Tracking his opinion in Students for Fair Admissions, this Essay proposes Justice Thomas’s “originalist defense of the colorblind Constitution” is manufactured history, refuting Thomas's race-blind reading of the 14th Amendment.
Justice Commentaries
February 26, 2024 EDT By linking court and sentencing data from the Federal Justice Statistics Program, this Article examines the influence of the type of counsel in federal criminal cases.
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April 25, 2023 EDT We must ask ourselves daily: Am I going to take the easy road, and affirm the status quo? Or am I going to take a bold leap and fight injustice?
New York Appeals
March 23, 2023 EDT This Article traces the history of the New York Workers’ Compensation Law from its origin to the present day.
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November 02, 2022 EDT Using the example of Lolita, the Article explains how we can read Nabokov’s novel as a prolonged sentencing memorandum.
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October 18, 2022 EDT Following the passing of Justice Ginsburg, and the ascendancy of Justice Barrett, Chief Justice Roberts's role on the Court has changed -- and changed in some dramatic ways.
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August 18, 2022 EDT The process for seeking review by the NY Court of Appeals should be the same for civil and criminal cases.
Justice Commentaries
September 27, 2020 EDT If the question is whether Hans Schmidt’s conviction and execution were defensible in law and also consistent with justice, the answers, at a minimum, are debatable.
Justice Commentaries
September 27, 2020 EDT This article contains semi-structured interviews with twenty prosecutors (nine working in conviction integrity units) who have proactively assisted with an exoneration.
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July 22, 2020 EDT This article analyzes Jackson’s concurrence in Youngstown Co. v. Sawyer in the context of his other writings to better understand his position on presidential power.
State Constitutional Commentary
March 18, 2020 EDT This article aims to tackle the issue of women as chief justices in State Supreme Court in the Trump era.
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January 17, 2020 EDT This article focuses on the actions of the Chief Justice, the man believed to be the only potential successor to Justice Kennedy as the “swing voter” on this lofty bench.
State Constitutional Commentary
September 13, 2019 EDT This article contrasts the U.S. Supreme Court value skepticism with reasoned values engagement by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
State Constitutional Commentary
September 13, 2019 EDT This article presents an examination of the current common frameworks shared by the states for addressing judicial conduct appealing to popular social and political influences.
State Constitutional Commentary
September 13, 2019 EDT This article examines the possible role of ideology in the split decisions and the relative importance of the divided opinions.
Justice Commentaries
May 28, 2019 EDT This article attempts to illuminate the causes of wrongful conviction of persons with intellectual disability.
Justice Commentaries
May 28, 2019 EDT This article attempts to cast a somewhat different light on the traditional domain of wrongful conviction scholarship and policy.
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February 28, 2019 EDT How politically conservative will Justice Kavanaugh will prove to be and how will the rest of the Court react to the newcomer in their midst?
New York Appeals
October 12, 2018 EDT Although Judge Wilson brings commercial litigation experience to the bench, we can expect that his most significant contributions will likely be advocating for reform in the criminal justice system.
New York Appeals
October 12, 2018 EDT This paper presents an account of wrongful liberty and a first-of-its-kind documentation of all known crimes of wrongful liberty in a single state, North Carolina.
Justice Commentaries
July 17, 2018 EDT This article is a reflection on Justice Sotomayor's appearance before students at Albany Law School in 2017 when she received the Kate Stoneman Award.
Justice Commentaries
July 17, 2018 EDT This article is a transcript of the conversation between Justice Sotomayor and Albany Law School Students.
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April 15, 2018 EDT This article reveals the alliances and divisions that formed on the Court during this most recent term.
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April 15, 2018 EDT Foreword.
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April 15, 2018 EDT Symposium transcript.
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January 01, 2018 EDT Viewing the Catholic Church's response to widespread sexual abuse of minors through the lens of transitional justice shows that the Church failed. Instead, efforts at accountability should be survivor focused.
State Constitutional Commentary
December 13, 2017 EDT Instead of building a new, independent state constitutional law, state supreme courts still rely primarily on federal doctrine with only occasional state decisions offered on an ad hoc basis.
Justice Commentaries
November 08, 2017 EDT This article explores the history of state oversight in NY and the departure represented by the "New York State Justice Center for the Protection of People with Special Needs.”
Justice Commentaries
November 08, 2017 EDT Foreword to the seventh edition of Miscarriages of Justice which highlights the extreme disparate implications that choice of forum decisions can have on some of society’s most vulnerable populations.
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May 01, 2017 EDT This article focuses on one problem-solving course through which students engage in real-world problem solving in ways that invoke Pink’s aptitudes of the Conceptual Age.