Lack of criminal responsibility due to “legal insanity” is probably one of the most misunderstood concepts in the criminal legal system. Contrary to...
Societies worldwide are polarized over social justice, with identity-based status hierarchies manifesting inequalities at both individual and...
In New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen, the Supreme Court acknowledged the difficulties in applying its constitutional originalism to the...
The history of public policy is littered with failures to solve large-scale social problems using interventions derived from behavioral science...
Memory issues stemming from criminal trials that involve the reliability of eyewitnesses are well-known. However, the relevance of memory to law...
Detailed descriptions of violent postictal episodes are rare. We provide evidence from an index case and from a systematic review of violent postictal...
Our perceptions of what we owe each other turn somewhat on whether we consider “another” to be “an other”—a stranger and not a friend. In this essay...
Supreme Court opinions involving race and the jury invariably open with the Fourteenth Amendment, the Civil Rights Act of 1875, or landmark cases like...
These are momentous times for the comparative analysis of judicial behaviour. Once the sole province of US political scientists, a new generation of...
Professor Elizabeth Scott, the chief reporter of the American Law Institute’s (ALI) Restatement of Children and the Law, has often observed that the...
Constitutional review is the power of a body, usually a court, to assess whether law or government action complies with the constitution. Originating...
Evidence law controls what information will be admissible in court and when, how, and by whom it may be presented. It shapes not only the trial...
Differences in employee evaluations due to gender bias may be small in any given rating cycle, but these small differences may accumulate to produce...
Donald J. Trump appointed 234 federal judges in his first term. Trump, as is his wont, claims, with an inflated number, that he appointed a record...
On January 1, 2022, the most radical change to the American jury in at least thirty-five years occurred in Arizona: peremptory strikes, long a feature...
Legal ethicists, advocacy groups, and politicians have called for greater restrictions on the use of nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) when parties...
In recent years, the federal courts have seen a plethora of lawsuits originated by states challenging federal government actions. As a result, there...
This casebook aspires to help students understand and think systematically about the techniques of statutory interpretation. It blends exposition with...