Items tagged with Criminal Law

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  Not Girls in a Gang nor a Gang of Girls: A Law-Focused Review of “Out in the Night”
  August 11
  The law uses the term “gang” too loosely.  “Out in the Night” explores what happened when the term was applied to four young-adult black working-class lesbians from Newark.
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  Forget Flattery: The Attributes of a Good, Effective Sentencing Video
  May 29
  A sentencing video should be more than a flattering portrait of a defendant; it should tell the story of what the defendant has done to deserve a lighter sentence and why he or she is unlikely to reoffend.
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  Prof. Robinson examines criminal law’s core principles
  May 27
  In “Criminal Law’s Core Principles,” Robinson writes that focusing only on the current criminal justice theory leads to a “blank slate” conception of lawmaking, which is “dangerously misguided.”
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  Prof. Morse argues that mental states should remain central to determinations of culpability and responsibility
  April 13
  In a recent article, Prof. Morse explores internal and external challenges to culpability.
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  Appellate Advocacy Clinic’s inaugural year a resounding success with students
  June 19
  The Appellate Advocacy Clinic focused on issues of economic justice in the criminal law contest.
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  Brown and Dangerous: How the Trump Administration Sees Immigrants
  April 30
  Michael Neal
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  Remedial Sentencing Legislation as a Tool for Reducing Overrepresentation in Correctional Facilities
  January 6
  Makenzie Way
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  “Baby, it’s Just a Picture!” - A Critique of Revenge Porn Laws
  October 28
  Maria Sevlievska
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  A Critical Appraisal of Developments in International Criminal Law After Nuremberg: Part Three
  December 6
  Part three of a tripartite series as presented by Judge Patrick Robinson of the International Court of Justice at the University of Pennsylvania Law School on November 1, 2016.
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  A Critical Appraisal of Developments in International Criminal Law After Nuremberg: Part Two
  December 6
  Part two of a tripartite series as presented by Judge Patrick Robinson of the International Court of Justice at the University of Pennsylvania Law School on November 1, 2016.
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  A Critical Appraisal of Developments in International Criminal Law After Nuremberg: Part One
  December 6
  Part one of a tripartite series as presented by Judge Patrick Robinson of the International Court of Justice at the University of Pennsylvania Law School on November 1, 2016.
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  Defendant uses ‘Cops’ video footage to suppress handgun evidence
  February 23

  Documentary television footage contradicts a police officer’s testimony about a stop-and-frisk, and leads a federal district court to find that the officer violated the defendant’s constitutional rights.

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  A “Hidden Collection” at Biddle!
  February 11
  Of interest to scholars of legal history or comparative law …
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  Sentencing Videos: Visual Legal Advocacy for Criminal Defendants
  April 25
  Sentencing videos are short nonfiction advocacy pieces that can help criminal defendants obtain better sentences by illustrating with images, sound, and text their capacity as a human beings to suffer, err, grow and change.
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  Highlighted Archives Collection: The William E. Mikell Files
  February 26
  A spotlight on the collection of papers from attorney, legal scholar, and Penn Law professor, William E. Mikell.