Review of Caplan, The Insanity Defense and the Trial of John W. Hinckley, Jr

Over two centuries, UVA Law evolved from a regional, segregated law school into a nationally recognized leader in legal education. As this collection...

Until he joined the U.S. government in 1934, Robert H. Jackson had been a lawyer in private practice in Upstate New York who was admitted to the bar...

Although research suggests that countries' colonial experiences are associated with a range of contemporary outcomes, the link between colonial...

Curtis Bradley’s new book on Historical Gloss and Foreign Affairs is the definitive account of a mode of constitutional interpretation that has proven...

Lack of criminal responsibility due to “legal insanity” is probably one of the most misunderstood concepts in the criminal legal system.  Contrary to...

Noncarceral conviction is a common outcome of criminal court cases: for every individual incarcerated, there are approximately three who were recently...

It is hard to imagine an area of constitutional law that has changed more in Judge Wilkinson's time on the bench than the First Amendment. When Judge...

Before he became editor of the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, and before he served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the United States, and before he...

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...

Professor Elizabeth Scott, the chief reporter of the American Law Institute’s (ALI) Restatement of Children and the Law, has often observed that the...

The Law of the Police, Second Edition provides materials and analysis for law school classes on policing and the law. It offers a resource for...

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...