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Set For Sentencing

Oct 31, 2022

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We like to say the United States has "the greatest system in the world."  But do we?  There's simply no way to answer that question until we learn how other countries adjudicate crime. 

Helping us get Set for Sentencing is Prof. Julian...


Oct 24, 2022

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Lawyers have everything to learn from great stories on the screen, on the page, or on the stage.  Legal Writing Professor Christina Frohock knows this well, as her latest law review article, Legal Fiction: Reading Lolita as a...


Oct 17, 2022

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Helping us get Set for Sentencing, Professor Doug Berman, author of the Sentencing Law and Policy Blog.  Prof. Berman helps us make sense of two major sentencing events of the past week - President Biden's blanket pardon for federal...


Oct 10, 2022

For the first time in nearly four years, there is a fully staffed, fully functioning United States Sentencing Guidelines Commission.  They have published a list of priorities for the 2022-23 cycle and are soliciting public comments until Oct. 17, 2022.  But many may not realize just how consequentional some of the...


Oct 3, 2022

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Steve Bannon is set for sentencing on Oct. 21, 2022, after a jury found him guilty of two counts of Contempt of Congress.  But, like many of the recent Trump-adjacent prosecutions, we are in uncharted waters.  Therefore, helping us get...