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. 6 Lockstepping’s critics have increasingly found their voice in the courts. State constitutions are unique documents, with their own histories, texts, and procedures. But often,...
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 The Supreme Court has long declared itself “supreme in the exposition of the law of the Constitution.” But that does not leave the state...
Vol. 138 No. 8 The Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment provides that when the government takes private property for a public purpose, it must compensate the property...
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.
Vol. 138 No. 7 While technology advances, do Fourth Amendment rights keep pace to preserve privacy? Or do they get left behind? Regardless of the answer, it would...
