Results for “Yale Law Journal”

and because I was teaching criminal law. I had a lot of freedom since no one really cared about criminal law at Harvard. Our students were unlikely to become criminal lawyers in those days. In fact

Harvard Law School had been admitting women for only about a decade

each assistant professor had to publish a “tenure piece.” I wrote an article on the relationship between law and psychiatry that was critical of the law’s overreliance on psychiatry in judging whether mentally ill criminals could be held responsible for their crimes

I began to get offers from the other elite law schools—Columbia

000 students over my half century career as a law professor. Among the students I have taught

bang on the law. If you have the facts on your side

a Harvard Law School professor and one of the nation’s preeminent constitutional lawyers

abolitionists were focusing on the significant number of death row inmates who had neither killed nor intended to kill. Most of these non-triggermen had been convicted of murder on the basis of two legal fictions. The first was the law of conspiracy under which each member of a...

along with Canadian law professor Irwin Cotler

consulting with him on numerous projects involving criminal law

there would be anarchy. The “rule of personal politics” would replace the rule of law. The defense of “rodef” was not

the law is regressing. It is becoming increasingly difficult to reopen “closed cases

this should have been the easiest appeal I ever argued. The law

I have never encountered a more thoroughly corrupt legal system than I did in 1992 in Indiana and a less fair trial and appeal than those accorded Mike Tyson. If hard cases make bad law

I teach the law of rape as an example of a cutting-edge subject that poses a sharp conflict between the rights of defendants and their accusers. As usual