Articles

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A Pro-Death, Self-Fulfilling Constitutional Construct: The Supreme Court’s Evolving Standard of Decency for the Death Penalty, Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly (1996)

In recent Eighth Amendment decisions applying the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause to substantive challenges...

 

Unpublished Papers

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Kennedy, Kennedy, and the Eighth Amendment: "Still in Search of a Unifying Principle"?, ExpressO (2011)

In Kennedy v. Louisiana, the United States Supreme Court held unconstitutional a state law that...