“Stay in role!” exhorts Professor Carol Steiker ’86, as some 90 students in her upper-level course Capital Punishment in America split into groups for an exercise in which they’ll argue whether a death sentence should be reversed due to ineffective assistance of counsel. “Don’t say, ‘If I were the lawyer, I would … ’”
When Navi Pillay LL.M. ’82 S.J.D. ’88 was growing up in South Africa, there was no international court in which apartheid could be prosecuted as a crime against humanity. Now there is–and she’s on it.
As the marshal shouted “Let justice be done,” Peter von Hagenbach was beheaded in 1474, after being tried and convicted by the first international criminal tribunal. Created by the Archduke of Austria, the tribunal consisted of 28 judges from different states in the Holy Roman Empire. Von Hagenbach, appointed governor by Charles the Bold, Duke […]
Kenneth Scott ’79 makes sure there’s no whitewash after ethnic ‘cleansing’
Brandon Moon was a 25-year-old college student at the University of Texas at El Paso in 1988 when he was convicted of rape and sentenced to 75 years in prison. Last December, after 16 years behind bars, he was released following conclusive DNA testing that proved his innocence.
Through literature and law, Larissa Behrendt LL.M. ’94 S.J.D. ’98 speaks for aboriginal rights.
Drug use is down over the last 25 years, but a half million Americans are in prison for drug offenses. How should success be measured?
Can a veteran prosecutor whip the Department of Homeland Security into shape? Michael Chertoff ’78 has already started.
After her people were slaughtered by neighbors, Geraldine Umugwaneza LL.M. ’05 knows that forgiveness is elusive, but she is determined to help Rwanda move forward.
On Jan. 12, 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the strict and sometimes unforgiving sentencing guidelines that have tied the hands of federal judges for nearly 20 years would no longer bind them.
