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A History of Exclusion: “For Cause” Challenges and Black Jurors
The Truth about Truth in Sentencing
Black Jurors Matter: Why the Law must Protect Minorities' Right to Judge
Not up for Deliberation: Expanding the Peña-Rodriguez Protection to Cover Jury Bias Against LGBTQ+ Individuals
The Trial Tax and the Intersection of Race/ethnicity, Gender, and Age in Criminal Court Sentencing
The Influence of Race on Jurors' Perceptions of Lethal Police Use of Force
Does “Jamal” Receive a Harsher Sentence than “James”? First-name Bias in the Criminal Sentencing of Black Men
Black Lives Matter in the Jury Box: Abolishing the Peremptory Strike
Further Punishing the Vulnerable: Why Home Confinement Is Superior to Solitary Confinement in a Pandemic Situation
Batson Fails Again: How the Resurgence of Black Lives Matter Highlights the Ease of Bypassing the Race-Neutral Requirement and Proposed Modifications to Refine the Standard
How Free Is Free Speech: Media Bias, Pretrial Publicity, and Defendants' Need for a Universal Appellate Rule to Combat Prejudiced Juries
Where Black Lives Matter Less: Understanding the Impact of Black Victims on Sentencing Outcomes in Texas Capital Murder Cases from 1973 to 2018
Walking a Mile in Their Shoes Before Judging: Optimizing Judicial Empathy in the Criminal Sentencing of Black Americans with “Impact of Race and Culture Assessments”
Criminal Stereotypes of Muslim and Arab Americans and the Impact on Evaluations of Ambiguous Criminal Evidence
Modern Sentencing Mitigation
The Ballad of the "White" Collar Criminal: an Examination of the Intersection of Race and Gender in Federal White-collar Sentencing and Possible Implications of the Findings
Addressing Racial Inequities in the Criminal Justice System Through a Reconstruction Sentencing Approach
Analyzing Wrongful Convictions Beyond the Traditional Canonical List of Errors, for Enduring Structural and Sociological Attributes, (Juveniles, Racism, Adversary System, Policing Policies)
Reconstruction Sentencing: Reimagining Drug Sentencing in the Aftermath of the War on Drugs
Racism, Incorporated: Ramos v. Louisiana and Jogging While Black
Deadly Bias: Why North Carolina's Legacy of Systemic Racism Within Capital Sentencing Necessitates the Reinstatement of the Racial Justice Act
Sentencing Memoradum of Derek Chauvin for Murder of George Floyd
A Racially Biased Obstacle Course: Apprendi Transformed the Federal Sentencing Guidelines into a Series of Judicial Obstacles; Can Shame Reduce the Racial Disparities?
Race-conscious Jury Selection
Awakening the American Jury: Did the Killing of George Floyd Alter Juror Deliberations Forever?
Solitary Confinement as Illegitimately Proscribed and Disproportional Punishment: Another Angle from Which to Attack the Inhumane Practice
Bringing Sentencing into the 21st Century: Closing the Gap Between Practice and Knowledge by Introducing Expertise into Sentencing Law
Junk Science at Sentencing
Moving the Needle: Two Promising Tools to Attack Arkansas's Racial Disparity in Criminal Sentencing
Have Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Sentencing Declined?
The Implicit Racial Bias in Sentencing: The Next Frontier
Excusing “Women of Circumstance”: Redefining Conspiracy Law to Hold Culpable Offenders Accountable
Slave Narratives and the Sentencing Court
Mandatory Minimum Sentencing and Black Males

 

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The University of Dayton School of Law
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