Vol. 139 No. 8 Introduction The current Administration’s detention of individuals in foreign prisons — claiming afterward to have no power over their treatment or return — represents just one example of...
Vol. 139 No. 6 Lifetime sex offender registration statutes are common across the states, and several state supreme courts have reached conflicting results in analyzing the constitutionality of...
Vol. 139 No. 5 Our society generally agrees that possessing, producing, and distributing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is morally reprehensible. This societal judgment is represented in sentencing...
Vol. 139 No. 4 All lawyers are bound by the ethical rules of the legal profession. However, newly collected empirical evidence suggests that a subset of court-appointed attorneys in Pennsylvania routinely violate basic ethical principles when they employ a particular procedure: the Finley...
Vol. 139 No. 4 Sometimes what we call a practice can matter just as much as the practice itself. Jury nullification has a storied history dating back to...
Vol. 139 No. 3 When military officers have been tried for grave atrocities, from the Holocaust to the My Lai Massacre, some have claimed that they were “only...
Vol. 139 No. 3 After New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen, § 922(g) challenges proliferate. Enacted as the “centerpiece” of the Gun Control Act of 1968,...
The Trump Administration is enforcing an old, harmful wartime law purporting to require noncitizens to register with the federal government. This provision primarily targets...
Vol. 138 No. 8 Every year, police perform searches governed by the Fourth Amendment on hundreds of thousands of individuals and their property throughout the United States. Many of the academy’s most decorated scholars have focused on the genesis and jurisprudential nature of the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement. Surprisingly, we know almost nothing about how the Fourth Amendment regulates searches and how searches actually work in practice.In this Article, we pull back the curtain on the search and seizure process by presenting the largest quantitative study of warrants of any kind.
