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Hiding Lawyer Misconduct: Evidence From Florida
ABSTRACT I study the effects of hiding lawyers' professional disciplinary records. To do so, I exploit the rollout of a 2007 policy that posts disciplinary records of Florida lawyers to their official online profiles but automatically removes them after 10 years.
Kyle Rozema
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Abstract Mentally ill defendants are regularly sentenced to death in Texas, the leading executioner in the United States. In this article, I explore the reasons for this phenomenon by analysing the arguments developed by prosecuting attorneys in capital punishment trials involving defendants who advance insanity or diminished capacity claims but are ...
CHLOÉ DEAMBROGIO
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American Land Law Reform: Legal Co-Ownership, Dower, and Curtesy [PDF]
Cook, Robert N.
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Managing time: speeding up and slowing down in the immigration bail court
Abstract This article draws on recent theoretical interventions into the relationship between time and law to make sense of the role of time in the context of immigration bail hearings in the United Kingdom. It presents an analysis of the ways in which the Home Office, the First‐Tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber), and immigration judges ...
JO HYNES
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Urgent issues and prospects in guilty plea research and practice
Abstract Criminal legal systems around the world rely heavily on defendants foregoing their right to trial and pleading guilty. However, legal scholars, social scientists, and practitioners have identified and empirically examined numerous problems with pleas, such as the high potential for coercion, innocent defendants falsely pleading guilty, and ...
Allison D. Redlich+12 more
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Damned if you don't: Public perceptions of polygraph testing and suspect willingness to be tested
Abstract Purpose Information about whether an individual volunteered to take or refused to take a polygraph test may become public knowledge, and in some instances, becomes known to jurors. While numerous studies have investigated how the public regards polygraph test accuracy, little is known about public perceptions surrounding refusal or willingness
Bryan Barnes+3 more
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US State and Territorial Indigenous Consultation Laws: A Potential Strategy to Improve the Social Determinants of Health. [PDF]
Riley L+7 more
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Care for the Person, Protection of Health and Respect for the will of the Patient in Italy: Support Administration as a Tool to Jointly Promote Health and Respect for Autonomy in Incompetent Patients. [PDF]
Delbon P+3 more
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Kant's nutshell argument for idealism
Abstract The significance or vacuity of the statement, “Everything has just doubled in size,” attracted considerable attention last century from scientists and philosophers. Presenting his conventionalism in geometry, Poincaré insisted on the emptiness of a hypothesis that all objects have doubled in size overnight.
Desmond Hogan
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