Student Reviews of Law Review Articles

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• PART ONE - GATHERING INFORMATION

• Chapter 1 - The Borders of Criminal Procedure: Daily Interactions Between Police and Citizens
  • Kathryn R. Urbonya - Dangerous Misperceptions: Protecting Police Officers, Society, and the Fourth Amendment Right to Personal Security

• Chapter 2 - Brief Stops and Searches
  • Craig M. Bradley - Two Models of the Fourth Amendment
  • George E. Dix - Nonarrest Investigatory Detentions in Search and Seizure Law
  • Adina Schwartz - "Just Take Away Their Guns": The Hidden Racism of Terry v. Ohio
  • John M. Copacino - Suspicionless Criminal Seizures After Michigan Department of State Police v. Sitz
  • Michael Hallam - Casualty of "War on Drugs": Mandatory, Suspicionless Drug Testing of Student Athletes in Vernonia School 47J v. Acton

• Chapter 3 - Full Searches of People and Places: Basic Concepts
  • Tracy Maclin - The Central Meaning of the Fourth Amendment
  • Joseph D. Grano- Probable Cause and Common Sense: A Reply to the Critics of Illinois v. Gates
  • Akhil Reed Amar - Fourth Amendment First Principles

• Chapter 4 - Searches in Recurring Places and Contexts
  • Stephen A. Saltzburg - Another Victim of Illegal Narcotics: The Fourth Amendment
  • Phyliss T. Bookspan - Reworking the Warrant Requirement: Resuscitating the Fourth Amendment

• Chapter 5 - Arrests
  • Geoffrey P. Alpert and William C. Smith - Criminology: How Reasonable Is the Reasonable Man?: Police and Excessive Force
  • James Fyfe - Blind Justice: Police Shootings in Memphis

• Chapter 6 - Remedies for Unreasonable Searches and Seizures
  • Sean Hecker - Race and Pretextual Traffic Stops: An Expanded Role for Civilian Review Board
  • Myron W. Orfield, Jr. - The Exclusionary Rule and Deterrence: An Empirical Study of Chicago Narcotics Officers

• Chapter 7 - The Influence of Technology and Politics
  • Paul Finkelman - The Second Casualty of War: Civil Liberties and the War on Drugs
  • Christopher Slobogin - State Adoption of Federal Law: Exploring the Limits of Florida's "Forced Linkage" Amendment
  • Anjali Singhal - The Piracy of Privacy?: A Fourth Amendment Analysis of Key Escrow Cryptography
  • Jill M. Ryan - Freedom to Speak Unintelligibly: The First Amendment Implications of Government-Controlled Encryption

• Chapter 8 - Interrogations
  • Deborah Young - Unnecessary Evil: Police Lying in Interrogations
  • Paul Cassell and Bret Hayman - Police Interrogation in the 1990's: An Empirical Study of the Effects of Miranda

• Chapter 9 - Identifications
  • Neal Coleman McCabe - The Right to a Lawyer at a Lineup: Support From State Courts and Experimental Psychology
  • Steven Penrod, Margaret A. Bull, and Sonja Lengnick - Children as Observes and Witnesses

• Chapter 10 - Complex Investigations
  • Paul Marcus - Presenting, Back from the [Almost] Dead, The Entrapment Defense

• PART TWO - EVALUATING CHARGES

• Chapter 11 - Defense Counsel
  • William H. Simon - The Ethics of Criminal Defense
  • Bruce A. Green - "Through A Glass, Darkly": How the Court Sees Motions to Disqualify Criminal Defense Lawyers

• Chapter 12 - Pretrial Release and Detention
  • Jonathan Drimmer - When Man Hunts Man: The Rights and Duties of Bounty Hunters in the American Criminal Justice System
  • Ian Ayres and Joel Waldfogel, A Market Test for Race Discrimination in Bail Setting

• Chapter 13 - Charging
  • Angela Corsiles - No Drop Policies in the Prosecution of Domestic Violence Cases
  • Tracey L. Meares - Rewards for Good Behavior: Influencing Prosecutorial Discretion and Conduct with Financial Incentives

• Chapter 14 - Jeopardy and Joinder
  • William H. Theis - The Double Jeopardy Defense and Multiple Prosecutions For Conspiracy

• Chapter 15 - Forfeiture of Assests
  • Sandra Guerra - Family Values?: The Family as an Innocent Victim of Civil Drug Asset Forfeiture
  • Eric Blumenson and Eva Nilsen - Policing for Profit: The Drug War's Hidden Economic Agenda

• PART THREE - RESOLVING GUILT AND INNOCENCE

• Chapter 16 - Discovery and Speedy Trial

• Chapter 17 - Pleas and Bargains
  • Kim Banks Mayer - Applying Open Records Policy to Wisconsin District Attorneys

• Chapter 18 - Decisionmakers at Trial
  • Sheri Lynn Johnson - Racial Imagery in Criminal Cases
  • Kenneth S. Klein - Unpacking the Jury Box

• Chapter 19 - Witnesses and Proof
  • Jon O. Newman - Beyond "Reasonable Doubt"
  • Paul G. Cassell - Balancing the Scales of Justice: The Case For and the Effects of Utah's Victims' Rights Amendment

• PART FOUR - MEASURING PUNISHMENT AND REASSESSING GUILT

• Chapter 20 - Sentencing
  • Kevin R. Reitz - Sentencing Facts: Travesties of Real-Offense Sentencing
  • David Yellen - Illusion, Illogic, and Injustice: Real-Offense Sentencing and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines

• Chapter 21 - Race and Punishment
  • Pamela S. Karlan - Race, Rights, and Remedies in Criminal Adjudication

• Chapter 22 - Appeals
  • Eric L. Muller - Solving the Batson Paradox: Harmless Error, Jury Representation, and the Sixth Amendment

• Chapter 23 - Habeas Corpus