A death row inmate who challenges either his conviction or sentence in postconviction proceedings can be said to succeed if he obtains either a new guilt-phase trial, a new sentencing-phase trial, or a commutation of his death sentence. This Article...
March 10, 2020 In this episode, we sit down with Professor Rebecca Wexler to discuss the intersection of privacy laws and the criminal justice system. States around the country are adopting new, stricter privacy laws, in response to a growing...
Regents Professor of Law, University of Arizona; Visiting Professor of Law and American Indian
Introduction The law masks as natural what is chosen; it obscures the consequences of social selection as inevitable. The result is that the distortions in social relations are immunized from truly effective intervention, because the existing...
Kānāwai: Using Ancient Hawaiian Law to Prepare for the Future Introduction The Kingdom of Hawaiʻi and its people have been wrought with turmoil since their first contact with Western civilization. From systematic land taking to the overthrow of the...
Sacchi v. Argentina: Fighting for Indigenous Children’s Climate Rights Introduction On September 23, 2019, a group of sixteen children from twelve countries, ages ranging eight to eighteen, filed an official petition against five countries[1] under...