When examining the architecture of modern criminal procedure, few phrases carry more weight—or inflict more damage—than the requirement that...

The Sixth Amendment Question California Has Not Fully Answered: Does “Unable to Assist Counsel” Protect the Right to Counsel or Undermine I...

If we all genuinely believed in Jesus Christ, perhaps we would have a greater measure of unity within our communities. Yet we li...

[We have word of the following open-access publication in the Global Perspectives on Legal History series of the Max Planck Institute for Le...

[We have the following announcement.  DRE] Making Connections: New Works in Legal History Series  Sponsored by the American Society for Lega...

The Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit is hosting a series of reenactments relating to the Scooter Libby trial.  Hree is...

José Argueta Funes, UC Berkeley Law, has published The "Code American" and Law's Empire , a review of Kellen Funk’s Law’s Mac...

Matthew Ritger, Dartmouth College , has published Houses of Correction: Carceral Institutions and Humanist Culture in Early Modern England ...

Benjamin Schonthal, University of Otago , has published Courts, Constitutions and Karma Buddhism, Law and the Practices of Legal Pluralism ...

  Allegations of Accountability Failures Inside the Los Angeles County Public Defender’s Office Questions about the duties and responsibilit...

A major development in the case surrounding the killing of Young Dolph has now been finalized in the courts. A Tennessee appellate panel ha...

On June 27, 2025, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office , led by Nathan Hochman , filed a forceful reply brief in the Menendez r...

In our modern discourse on reproductive rights , the ethical and legal frameworks surrounding pregnancy often focus almost exclusively on th...

In theory, the American criminal justice system is designed to function as an adversarial safeguard : prosecutors advocate for the state, de...