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American Criminal Law Review articles from September 2006
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American Criminal Law Review archives from September 2006
Inventing the public defender.
September 22, 2006... ABSTRACT
Clara Foltz, one of the first women lawyers in the United States, was also the first person to propose a public defender and to launch a movement based on the radical idea that the state should provide a defense for those it...
Culture as justification, not excuse.
September 22, 2006... ABSTRACT
The wide discussion of cultural defenses over the last twenty years has produced very little actual change in the criminal law. This Article urges a reorientation of our approach thus far to cultural defenses and aspires to move...
Emotional competence, "rational understanding," and the criminal defendant.
September 22, 2006... ABSTRACT
Adjudicative competence, more commonly referred to as competence to stand trial, is a highly under-theorized area of law. Though it is well established that, to be competent, a criminal defendant must have a "rational" as well as...