Judges’ Insight into the Task of Sentencing

Members of the judiciary recently shared their thoughts on the challenge of sentencing in an article for The National Law Journal.The piece, “The Hardest Thing About Being a Judge? What Courts Say About Sentencing,” provides insight into what it’s like to pass...

Federal Criminal Risk Assessment

This article was originally published in Vol. 41, Issue 1 of the Cardozo Law Review. Risk assessments are a common feature of federal decisionmaking across a wide variety of areas of regulation. Perhaps the most widely used definition describes risk assessment as “the...