CrimProf Blog
Features news, information, course materials, scholarship and research primarily for those teaching criminal law.
Author: Mark A. Godsey, a law professor a the University of Cincinnati College of Law, edits CrimProf Blog, which is part of the Law Professor Blogs Network. Godsey also is faculty director of the Lois and Richard Rosenthal Institute for Justice/Ohio Innocence Project.
Blawg Related Categories: Criminal Justice • Law Professors • Evidence • University of Cincinnati • Law Professor
Recent Posts from CrimProf Blog
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Top-Ten Recent SSRN Downloads
are here. The usual disclaimers apply. Rank Downloads Paper Title 1 270 The Emerging Criminal War on Sex Offenders Corey Rayburn Yung, The John Marshall Law School, Date posted to database: August 18, 2009 [new…
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Hate Crimes and Thought Crimes
Sherry F. Colb (Cornell Law School) has a column on the topic of the new federal hate crimes legislation at Findlaw.
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Upcoming and Recent Arguments Previewed and Recapped
ScotusBlog has a preview of the upcoming arguments in the juvenile life without parole cases a recap of the argument in Wood v. Allen a recap of the argument in Pottawattamie County v. McGhee
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Post-Booker Sentencing
Ellen Podgor at White Collar Crime Prof discusses Looser Rules on Sentencing Stir Concerns about Equity, a Wall Street Journal article. Her conclusion: the looser rules actually make real equity more likely.
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Gabel on Familial DNA
Jessica D. Gabel (Georgia State University College of Law) has posted Probable Cause from Probable Bonds: A Genetic Tattle Tale Based on Familial DNA (Hastings Women's Law Journal, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:…
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Clough on Corporate Criminal Complicity in Human Rights Abuses
Jonathan Clough (Monash University - Faculty of Law) has posted Punishing the Parent: Corporate Criminal Complicity in Human Rights Abuses (Brooklyn Journal of International Law, Vol. 33, No. 3, p. 899) on SSRN. Here is…
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The Fourth Amendment, Email, and Computer Searches
There is an interesting podcast on this topic at Legal Talk Network featuring Orin Kerr (George Washington University Law School), who mentions it in a post at The Volokh Conspiracy. In a separate post, Orin…
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Glazier on Combating Al Qaeda within the Law of War
David W. Glazier (Loyola Law School Los Angeles) has posted Playing by the Rules: Combating Al Qaeda within the Law of War (William & Mary Law Review, Vol. 51, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the…
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Next Week's Criminal Law and Procedure Arguments
Description of issue is from ScotusWiki, which also has briefs and the opinion below: Monday Graham v. Florida (08-7412)—Whether the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishments prohibits the imprisonment of a juvenile for…
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"14 Charged With Insider Trading in Galleon Case"
The New York Times story begins as follows: Federal prosecutors charged 14 money managers, lawyers and other investors on Thursday with trading on insider information, significantly expanding a wide-ranging, multiyear investigation that is sweeping through…