In the five decades since African Americans won their civil rights, hundreds of thousands
have lost their liberty. Blacks now make up a larger portion of the prison population than they …

The role of international law in global politics is as poorly understood as it is important. But
how can the international legal regime encourage states to respect human rights? Given that …

The American criminal justice system's ills are by now so familiar as scarcely to bear
repeating: unprecedented levels of incarceration, doled out disproportionately across racial …

We are living through an era of increased robotisation. Some authors have already begun to
explore the impact of this robotisation on legal rules and practice. In doing so, many …

Laws against wrongdoing may originate in justice intuitions that are part of universal human
nature, according to the adaptationist theory of the origins of criminal law. This theory …

The International Criminal Court (ICC), an institution in its infancy, has had occasion to make
only a relatively small number of decisions about which defendants and which crimes to …

As Rule 10b-5 approaches the age of seventy, deep familiarity with this supremely potent
and consequential provision of American administrative law has obscured its lack of clear …

Classically, the ambition of legal regulation is to change behaviors. Laws might aim to
increase or decrease various activities, such as owning a gun, or taking a work leave to care …

In its dark and quiet core, the administration of criminal justice in America depends-far more
than we like to admit-on amateur mind readers. This is because the thought processes …

Farewell to the Felonry Page 1 Farewell to the Felonry Alice Ristroph* Bastard. Idiot. Imbecile.
Pauper. Felon. These terms, medieval in origin, have served as formal legal designations and …