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The Arizona Constitution provides that criminal defendants facing death or a minimum thirty-year prison term are entitled to a twelve-person jury. However, in a unanimous decision, the Arizona Supreme Court…

According to one commentator, "state budgets were a mess in . . . 2009, a debacle in . . . 2010, and look like an impending catastrophe in . .…

Past property theft is often a volatile political issue that has threatened to destabilize many nascent democracies. How does a transitional state avoid present-day property-related disobedience when a significant number…

A powerful coalition has made “Racial Disproportionality” the central issue in child welfare today. It notes that black children represent a larger percentage of the foster care population than they…

An empirical study of 163 preliminary memoranda, recently made available when Justice Blackmun’s papers were opened, demonstrates that the Court’s certiorari process is neither objective nor neutral. The research, reflecting…

This Article shows that the original public meaning of the slavery-as-punishment clause in the Thirteenth Amendment leads to abhorrent outcomes, including the emasculation of many modern protections grounded on the…