Apr 3, 2012 | Lead Articles, Number 2, Print Edition, Volume 45
There is good reason to think that law and war have nothing to do with one another, and this has certainly been so for most of the lifetime of mankind. Cicero’s famous observation—silent enim leges inter arma—from which I take my title, was not a novel insight when...
Apr 3, 2012 | Lead Articles, Number 2, Print Edition, Volume 45
In Michigan v. Bryant, the United States Supreme Court wrote another chapter in the clash between the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution and the admissibility of extra-judicial statements. This article presents an outline of...
Apr 3, 2012 | Lead Articles, Number 2, Print Edition, Volume 45
The death penalty is rapidly receding in the former British colonies of common-law Africa. Although proposals to institute or retain the death penalty for a wide assortment of crimes are not uncommon, actual judicial executions have grown extremely rare south of the...
Apr 3, 2012 | Notes, Number 2, Print Edition, Volume 45
This Note will begin by examining the historical background of the constitutional standards for search and seizure analysis. Next, it will address the gradual erosion of the particularized-suspicion requirement, illustrating the modern trend of courts to allow...
Apr 3, 2012 | Case Comments, Number 2, Print Edition, Volume 45
When analyzing a claim under 42 U.S.C § 1983 that the government withheld exculpatory evidence from a criminal defendant, courts typically use the Fifth or Fourteenth Amendment’s due process standard as articulated in the iconic 1963 case of Brady v. Maryland. In...
Apr 3, 2012 | Notes, Number 2, Print Edition, Volume 45
This Note will explore the effects and ramifications when the former employee chooses self-employment in an effort to mitigate the damages of the wrongful discharge. It will begin by providing an overview of the history of mitigating damages through self-employment,...
