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.
Covers the ethical issues in public defense as a result of "problem solving courts" and the rise of plea deals.
Judges, practitioners, and law professors should collaborate to improve the justice system.
A discussion of how to transform the culture public defender offices to have a more holistic, client-centered vision.
Discusses monogamy and its alternatives. Imagines how law is used to encourage people to express monogamy as a preference.
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.
Explores the role of judges during war and the balancing of the risk of government overreach against the risk of enforcing certain constitutional rights.
Brief of Amicus Curiae Fred Korematsu who challenged the constitutionality of Japanese internment.
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.
2004 NYU Review of Law and Social Change Colloquium, Keynote Address
Argues that the Court must confront the reality of inner-city crime in its search and seizure jurisprudence and take into account crime statistics.
Explores the problems behind the proposed "solution" of police desegregation and focus on changing Blacks' perceptions instead of changing the police itself.
Examines the ideological underpinnings of the Civil Rights Movement and questions whether these principles form a viable framework for shaping today's advocacy.