Results for “S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah”

a Harvard Law School professor and one of the nation’s preeminent constitutional lawyers

abolitionists were focusing on the significant number of death row inmates who had neither killed nor intended to kill. Most of these non-triggermen had been convicted of murder on the basis of two legal fictions. The first was the law of conspiracy under which each member of a...

along with Canadian law professor Irwin Cotler

consulting with him on numerous projects involving criminal law

there would be anarchy. The “rule of personal politics” would replace the rule of law. The defense of “rodef” was not

the law is regressing. It is becoming increasingly difficult to reopen “closed cases

this should have been the easiest appeal I ever argued. The law

I have never encountered a more thoroughly corrupt legal system than I did in 1992 in Indiana and a less fair trial and appeal than those accorded Mike Tyson. If hard cases make bad law

I teach the law of rape as an example of a cutting-edge subject that poses a sharp conflict between the rights of defendants and their accusers. As usual

she offers no resistance and appears to consent? The answer is yes. Under the law

but such a belief is unreasonable as a matter of law. In some situations

because the law treats famous people differently. Sometimes better. Sometimes worse. Never the same. It has been said that hard cases make bad law. So

I made another career change. I stopped writing law review articles and started to write books about law for a general audience. My first book

Prime Minister Trudeau invoked an emergency law called “The War Measures Act” that authorized arrests without trial of dangerous people. The Prime Minister then convened a conference of Canadian experts to advise him about the implementation of this extraordinary law. We met at...

where “community values” help define the law. Such values are ever-shifting and