Margaret Love | April 5, 2019 | Sentencing
The Model Penal Code: Sentencing (MPC) is not specifically designed or intended to influence sentencing in the federal system, although the MPC itself often reflects the influence of federal law. In one recent case, the influence of one upon the other appears mutual:...
Margaret Love and Cecelia M. Klingele | March 29, 2019 | Sentencing
AbstractThe financial cost of mass incarceration has prompted states to pass legislation providing for early release of prisoners. Although early release laws are frequently in tension with principles underlying sentencing systems, most have been passed without any...
The American Law Institute | March 27, 2019 | Sentencing
Below is the Black Letter from the Proposed Final Draft of Model Penal Code: Sentencing, which was approved at the 2017 Annual Meeting. The project Reporters are now preparing the Institute’s official text for publication. The Reporters are authorized to correct...
Risa L. Goluboff and Leslie Kendrick | March 12, 2019 | Sentencing
Common Law is a new podcast sponsored by UVA School of Law and hosted by Dean Risa Goluboff and Vice Dean Leslie Kendrick. The first episode of the season features a conversation between best-selling author John Grisham and Professor Deirdre Enright of the Innocence...
Roberta Cooper Ramo, Christine Durham and Brandon Garrett | February 11, 2019 | Sentencing
The death penalty in the United States, both new convictions and executions, has declined through recent decades. In this episode of Reasonably Speaking, we explore the history of the death penalty and the various factors that are contributing to this decline. Death...
Alexandra Natapoff | January 17, 2019 | Sentencing
In a story from The Take Away, a podcast supported by New York Public Radio, Alexandra Natapoff of the UC Irvine School of Law discusses the position she presents in her new book Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes...
