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Save to My PortfolioUnusual Nonsense: Supreme Court's Decision about "Cruel and Unusual Punishment"

Benjamin Wittes, April 28, 2008, The New Republic

Unusual Nonsense: Supreme Court's Decision about The Supreme Court recently handed down a decision upholding as constitutional the specific mixture of drugs by which thirty states put condemned prisoners to death.  In this piece, Ben Wittes writes about the Supreme Court's failure to rationalize its decisions about cruel and unusual punishment. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioA Collapse of the Campaign Finance Regime?

Thomas E. Mann, April 2008, The Forum, Volume 6, Issue 1

The fascinating 2008 presidential election has produced recent campaign finance developments, writes Thomas Mann, suffiently dramatic as to raise questions about the viability of the entire regime of campaign finance law. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioJohn Yoo Interrogation Memo

Benjamin Wittes, April 05, 2008, The New Republic

John Yoo Interrogation MemoThe Justice Department recently released John Yoo's 2003 "torture" memo to Congress.  Questions remain on what to do with the people the military and the CIA interrogated brutally in 2002 and 2003, writes Ben Wittes, and how the CIA should handle such people in the future. Read More

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Save to My PortfolioTrial by Fire: How Military Commissions Work and Why They Fail

Benjamin Wittes, February 14, 2008, The New Republic

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Save to My PortfolioTerrorists and Detainees: Do We Need a New National Security Court?

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Save to My PortfolioMukasey Has the Capacity to Be a Great Attorney General, But Not the Time

Benjamin Wittes, January 31, 2008, The New Republic

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Save to My PortfolioThe Death Clock: Don't Count Out the Death Penalty Yet

Benjamin Wittes, January 07, 2008, The New Republic

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Save to My PortfolioDetention Retention: Are Guantanamo Detainees All Innocent?

Benjamin Wittes, December 07, 2007, The New Republic

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Save to My PortfolioWaterboarding and Torture

Benjamin Wittes, November 06, 2007, Minnesota Public Radio

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Save to My PortfolioThe Mukasey Ultimatum

Benjamin Wittes, October 29, 2007, The New Republic

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Save to My PortfolioCampaign Finance: Matching Candidates' Scratch

Thomas E. Mann, July 12, 2007, Los Angeles Times

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Save to My PortfolioCampaign Finance Reform: Are There Smarter Ways to Fix the System?

Thomas E. Mann, July 12, 2007, Los Angeles Times

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Save to My PortfolioCampaign Finance Reloaded

Thomas E. Mann, July 09, 2007, Los Angeles Times

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Save to My PortfolioDitch the Second Amendment

Benjamin Wittes, March 19, 2007, The New Republic

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Save to My PortfolioThe Judiciary and Economic Development

Kenneth Dam, March 01, 2006, John M. Olin Law & Economics Working Paper No. 287

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