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Ashley Krenelka, Copyrights and Fair Use in For-Profit Academic Libraries, 54 Reference Librarian 220– (2013)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Cynthia Hawkins DeBose, Adoption: Transracial/Transnational, in Multicultural America: A Multimedia Encyclopedia (Carlos E. Cortes ed., Sage, 2013)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Will Bunting et al., At America’s Expense: The Mass Incarceration of the Elderly, in More Than Race: Minority Issues in Criminal Justice (Howard Henderson ed., Cognella Academic Publishing, 2013)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
Elderly prisoners are twice as expensive to incarcerate as the average prisoner and pose little danger to society, yet the population of elderly prisoners in the United States is exploding. Our extreme sentencing policies and a growing number of life sentences have effectively turned many of our correctional facilities into veritable nursing homes — and taxpayers are paying for it.
This increasing warehousing of aging prisoners for low-level crimes and longer sentences is a nefarious outgrowth of the “tough on crime” and “war on drugs” policies of the 1980s and 1990s. Given the nation’s current overincarceration epidemic and persistent economic crisis, lawmakers should consider implementing parole reforms to release those elderly prisoners who no longer pose sufficient safety threats to justify their continued incarceration.
A new ACLU report, “At America's Expense: The Mass Incarceration of the Elderly,” makes a number of data-driven findings and issues recommendations for reform.
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, The SEC and Dark Political Money (2013)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, Democracy’s Masquerade Ball (2013)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, Somebody Give Bill Gates and Drew Faust a Copy of Citizens Disunited (2013)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, Bring Political Cash Out of the Shadows (2013)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Stacey-Rae Simcox and Mark Matthews, Trusts and Estates for Veterans and Active Duty Families, in The American Bar Association Legal Guide for Military Families (American Bar Association, 2013)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Ashley Krenelka, Put Your Library on the Map, Part 2: The Waiting Game, AALL Spectrum Online (2013)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Elizabeth Berenguer, Gideon’s Legacy: Taking Pedagogical Inspiration from the Briefs that Made History, 18 Barry L. Rev. 227 (2013)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the Gideon decision, this article guides the rhetorical study of the party briefs as a strategy for cultivating individual voice in legal writing. It is a rhetorical study of the party briefs filed in Gideon v. Wainwright, a 1963 U.S. Supreme Court decision establishing the constitutional right to counsel in state criminal proceedings and provides specific lessons to be used in the classroom setting to enhance students’ understanding of advanced persuasive techniques such as logos, ethos, pathos, and storytelling. Each lesson has been created through the lens of cognitive theory, in particular the concept of categories as organizers of perception. This article proposes that categories can either be reinforced or redefined to accomplish rhetorical purposes, and having a meta-cognitive understanding of that power is essential effective advocacy.