Use of Longer Periods of Temporary Detention to Reduce Mental Health Civil Commitments

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...

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...

A crucial first step in addressing intimate-image abuse is its proper conceptualization. Intimate-image abuse amounts to a violation of intimate...

Differences in employee evaluations due to gender bias may be small in any given rating cycle, but these small differences may accumulate to produce...

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...

Like the federal government, states can apply their laws to people beyond their borders. Statutes can reach out-of-state conduct, such as fraud, that...

Berryessa et al. (2022) consider how prior experience as a criminal prosecutor may influence judicial behaviour, but their concerns about prior...

For several days, former President Donald Trump and his 18 co-defendants in a Georgia election interference case trickled into the Fulton County Jail...

This chapter examines several ways that the United States takes advantage of international law’s permissiveness and ambiguity to extend its criminal...

Virginia adopted a risk assessment to help determine sentencing for sex offenders. It was incorporated as a one-way ratchet toward higher sentences...