Feb 2, 2004 | Notes, Number 1, Print Edition, Volume 37
The Fifth Amendment secures a defendants right against compelled self-incrimination at trial. The United States Supreme Court expanded that protection to include custodial interrogations, which are presumed to be inherently coercive in nature. When faced with the...
Jan 21, 2004 | Lead Articles, Number 1, Print Edition, Volume 37
The horrific events of September 11, 2001 shook the foundations of many of the most basic assumptions of American life. These include our confidence in relative isolation from the trouble spots of the world; our belief, and need to believe, that our culture is...
Jan 19, 2004 | Lead Articles, Number 1, Print Edition, Volume 37
This essay presents an extended legal analogy. It proceeds by examining two broad areas of law; extracting some salient underlying principles that have been created in those disciplines over the years for important, context-specific reasons; and then considering...
Jan 19, 2004 | Case Comments, Number 1, Print Edition, Volume 37
The Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees an individual the right against self-incrimination. The compulsion component protects individuals from particular coercive threats or penalties that the State imposes upon an individual refusing to...
Jan 19, 2004 | Notes, Number 1, Print Edition, Volume 37
Like the year 1929, history will remember the year 2001 as one of failed companies, market disruption, and scandalous allegations. Enron Corp. (Enron) and WorldCom Inc. (WorldCom) exemplify the pattern of corporate greed that emerged. Enron and WorldCom rank among...
Jan 19, 2004 | Case Comments, Number 1, Print Edition, Volume 37
The Sixth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States grants jury trial rights to criminal defendants. In Ring v. Arizona, the Court considered whether a trial judge may impose the death penalty and therefore increase a criminal defendant’s jury imposed...