Volume 60, Issue 4

A growing body of academic literature discusses the problem of wrongful convictions—i.e., convictions of factually innocent defendants for crimes they did not commit. But how often do such miscarriages of…

The DNA revolution has revealed that, contrary to received wisdom, the conviction of an innocent defendant by the vaunted American criminal justice system is far from a freakish event. The…

Determining an error rate for wrongful convictions remains among the most pressing problems in the criminal justice literature. In a response to my earlier article, Professor George Thomas has offered…

For the past 40 years, policymakers have engaged in a debate over which institution should wield the principal power over punishment. Should courts and parole boards have the dominant role…

The manner in which financial firms are governed directly impacts the stability and sustainability of both the financial sector and the “real” economy, as the financial crisis and associated regulatory…

Police are an important part of our criminal justice system. When people begin to lose faith and trust in the police, chaos inevitably erupts. Although we are not at a…

In Texaco Inc. v. Short, Justice Stevens quoted: “Property interests, of course, are not created by the Constitution. Rather, they are created and their dimensions are defined by existing rules…