Criminal "Justice": Demanding Certainty in an Uncertain World

In a memorial to the ideas of former Virginia Law professor Bill Stuntz '84, faculty members and alumni discuss issues and challenges in the criminal justice system, including prosecutorial discretion, the war on drugs, sentencing, policing, forensic evidence, plea bargaining and post-conviction appeals.
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Art in this issue was produced by inmates of the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail. More

 
Hatching a Gadfly: A Defense Attorney on the Front Lines of the Drug War

The war on drugs has led to American prisons filled with inmates convicted of crimes that many consider minor. Public defender Catherine Scott Bernard '07 shares stories from the frontlines. MORE

A Colleague Remembers:
William J. Stuntz, 1958-2011

David Skeel '87's final year at Virginia Law marked the first year Bill Stuntz taught there. Skeel, who eventually shared authorship of the blog "Less Than the Least" with his friend, recalled what Stuntz was like as a scholar, teacher, intellectual, writer and role model.
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Shared Pathologies: Drugs and the Laws Against Them

Civil liberties advocates see a disturbing pattern of discrimination in charging minorities with drug-related crimes.
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Of Strip Searches and Immigration Stops

Professor Barbara Armacost '89 questions Fourth Amendment rules for conducting searches and seizures that don't distinguish between serious and minor crimes.
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