Most scholarship on prosecutors in the United States is diagnostic, prescriptive, or both; the
motivating questions are, What is the problem with prosecutors, and how do we fix it …

The job of investigating and prosecuting police officers who commit crimes falls on local
prosecutors, as it has in the wake of a number of highly public killings of unarmed African …

American criminal justice systems blend elected or politically appointed leaders with career
civil servants. This organizational hybrid creates challenges at the intersection of democratic …

Or do they? Contrary to the conventional wisdom on the division between public and private
enforcement, this Article argues that public enforcers often seek large monetary awards for …

IN most places around the world, the idea of an elected prosecutor is downright bizarre. In
the United States, it is the norm. This difference over the election of prosecutors reflects a …

Today, the consequences of having a criminal record can far outstrip any penalty imposed
by criminal law. 1 Consider the case of Andre Venant, a longtime lawful permanent resident …

THE CURE FOR YOUNG PROSECUTORS' SYNDROME Page 1 THE CURE FOR YOUNG
PROSECUTORS' SYNDROME Ronald F. Wright & Kay L. Levine* Although legal scholars …

Conventional wisdom tells us that, after the United States was founded, we replaced our
system of common law crimes with criminal statutes and that this shift from common law to …

Constitutional checks are an important part of the American justice system. The Constitution
demands structural checks where it provides commensurate power. The Constitution …

Race is arguably the single most troublesome and volatile concept of the social sciences in
the early 21st century. It is invoked to explain all manner of historical phenomena and …