Tag: justice system

Judge, Jury, and Regulator: Are SRO Courts More of a Threat than a Benefit?

| March 29, 2024 | 0 Comments
Judge, Jury, and Regulator: Are SRO Courts More of a Threat than a Benefit?

  “Our constitutional structure does not permit unaccountable private actors to wield governmental power. FINRA has only minimal oversight from an independent federal agency. Therefore, it must not issue and enforce rules that have the force and effect of federal law. Additionally, none of FINRA’s board members and hearing officers is appointed by the president […]

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Letter to professor Edwin Chemerinsky

| September 28, 2012 | 0 Comments
Letter to professor Edwin Chemerinsky

washington120929With all due respect, professor Chemerinsky, how can you agree with the Court’s 5-4 decision that there cannot be a mandatory life sentence without parole for homicides committed by juveniles? Isn’t the Court’s ruling in Miller tantamount to giving America’s endemic youth criminal class a key to their own jail cells? Perhaps my meta-analysis of juvenile law is incongruent with the macro/consensus view of your ABA article, the law Academy, and the Court.

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The Delinquencies of Juvenile Law: A Natural Law Analysis

| August 28, 2011 | 6 Comments
The Delinquencies of Juvenile Law: A Natural Law Analysis

Abstract: This article is a substantive analysis tracing the legal, philosophical, social, historical, jurisprudence and political backgrounds of juvenile law, which is an outgrowth of the so-called Progressive movement – a popular social and political movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. I also trace how this socio-political cause célèbre became a fixture […]

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