Items tagged with Criminal Law

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  “The Return”: Resentencing, Reentry Support, and a Criminal Defense Lawyer’s Evolving Roles
  June 21
  “The Return” reveals why a lawyer, deeply involved in the resentencing of Three Strikers as a way of reducing mass incarceration, placed reentry services near the top of his concerns.
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  Not Girls in a Gang nor a Gang of Girls: A Law-Focused Review of “Out in the Night”
  August 11
  The law uses the term “gang” too loosely.  “Out in the Night” explores what happened when the term was applied to four young-adult black working-class lesbians from Newark.
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  Forget Flattery: The Attributes of a Good, Effective Sentencing Video
  May 29
  A sentencing video should be more than a flattering portrait of a defendant; it should tell the story of what the defendant has done to deserve a lighter sentence and why he or she is unlikely to reoffend.
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  Penn Law’s Quattrone Center launches new research on reforming, improving criminal justice system with $2.2 million from Charles Koch Foundation
  March 7
  The Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice at the University of Pennsylvania Law School will expand upon its work producing innovative new research that improves American criminal justice policy with the support of up to $2.2 million over four years from the Charles Koch Foundation.
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  Legal experts examine connections between sexual assault and mass incarceration
  February 6
  On February 1, Penn Law hosted a panel discussion titled “Double Standards: Mass Incarceration, Sexual Assault, and the Brock Turner Case” to discuss how sexual assault cases and the problems associated with mass incarceration coincide.
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  A Critical Appraisal of Developments in International Criminal Law After Nuremberg: Part Three
  December 6
  Part three of a tripartite series as presented by Judge Patrick Robinson of the International Court of Justice at the University of Pennsylvania Law School on November 1, 2016.
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  A Critical Appraisal of Developments in International Criminal Law After Nuremberg: Part Two
  December 6
  Part two of a tripartite series as presented by Judge Patrick Robinson of the International Court of Justice at the University of Pennsylvania Law School on November 1, 2016.
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  A Critical Appraisal of Developments in International Criminal Law After Nuremberg: Part One
  December 6
  Part one of a tripartite series as presented by Judge Patrick Robinson of the International Court of Justice at the University of Pennsylvania Law School on November 1, 2016.
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  A “Hidden Collection” at Biddle!
  February 11
  Of interest to scholars of legal history or comparative law …
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  Sentencing Videos: Visual Legal Advocacy for Criminal Defendants
  April 25
  Sentencing videos are short nonfiction advocacy pieces that can help criminal defendants obtain better sentences by illustrating with images, sound, and text their capacity as a human beings to suffer, err, grow and change.
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  Highlighted Archives Collection: The William E. Mikell Files
  February 26
  A spotlight on the collection of papers from attorney, legal scholar, and Penn Law professor, William E. Mikell.