Prof. Adam Kolber's theory on punishment calibration is a novel and interesting way to approach the problem of personality differences among prisoners and the questions those differences raise for classical retributivist and consequentialist punishment theories. However, there are problems of...

Since the law on market abuse in EU countries has in recent years become predominantly European-based, it makes sense to address this area of law from a European point of view. However, there is, so far, no European case law on the new market abuse regime. This article therefore uses some...

This Article is as simple and provocative as its title suggests: it explores the legal implications of the word fuck. The intersection of the word fuck and the law is examined in four major areas: First Amendment, broadcast regulation, sexual harassment, and education. The legal implications...

In response to the increasingly vast economic impact of organized crime, Congress in 1970 enacted the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) to provide federal prosecutors additional tools to combat such crime. RICO requires that enterprises whose members are charged with...

The recent spate of misconduct in large, publicly-traded corporations has led to what can be viewed as a new form of overcriminalization: the targeting of legal advice as an obstacle to be removed by prosecutors in pursuing the investigation of corporate wrongdoing. This form of...

The Miranda warnings are very much a product of their time, and this paper argues that, because they are prophylactic, the warnings can and should be modified in the context of the War on Terror. On the other hand, while Miranda over-regulates confessions in some contexts, it under-regulates in...

This Essay, prepared in connection with the Marquette University Conference on Plea Bargaining: Understanding and Improving Dispute Resolution in Criminal Law, critiques the application of behavioral law and economics to the criminal justice system. It offers two reasons to be skeptical of the...

The worst problems with the fetal homicide laws that have proliferated around the nation are quite different than the existing scholarship suggests. Critics often argue that the statutes, which criminalize the killing of a fetus by a third party other than an abortion provider, undermine a...

Through analysis of two recent cases, one Israeli and one British this paper advances a deliberative paradigm with which to understand emerging global, meta-constitutional norms, such as prohibition against torture, enforced through transitional adjudication. More specifically, this paper...