The Best Defense Is No Offense: Preventing Crime through Effective Public Defense
Public defense's public perception and ability to be effective and reduce crime in communities.
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Public defense's public perception and ability to be effective and reduce crime in communities.
A discussion of how to transform the culture public defender offices to have a more holistic, client-centered vision.
Looks at public defense leadership in three dimensions from very specific and local to broad and global.
Discussion of the benefits and challenges of a community based public defense system then looks at a case study. Concerns are also addressed.
Discusses ineffective assistance of counsel cases; argues that courts need to define instances when the court's integrity is implicated.
Argues that the educational tax exemption regime raises risks of arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement and offers a mask of objectivity.
A discussion of several policy and social issues within the adoption and foster care systems and their effects on these systems and the children within them.
Discusses monogamy and its alternatives. Imagines how law is used to encourage people to express monogamy as a preference.
Compares Japanese Internment with post 9/11 programs targeting Muslims such as the Absconder Apprehension Initiative and explores its constitutionality.
Explores the vocabulary used in the war on terror and how it reflects the indecision of the executive branch on what to call terrorism suspects.
Reviews pre and post 9/11 terrorism legislation and tensions between the three branches of government in grappling with threats to national security.
Brief of Amicus Curiae Fred Korematsu who challenged the constitutionality of Japanese internment.
Explores the problems behind the proposed "solution" of police desegregation and focus on changing Blacks' perceptions instead of changing the police itself.
Argues that the Court must confront the reality of inner-city crime in its search and seizure jurisprudence and take into account crime statistics.
Examines the ideological underpinnings of the Civil Rights Movement and questions whether these principles form a viable framework for shaping today's advocacy.
Explores the absence of state-sanctioned barriers to educational access in Latin American, segregation in Brazil and the rhetorical value of Brown v. Board.