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Terrific piece on constructions of equality in criminal law in first JLA issue

By Douglas A. Berman

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The first issue of a notable new law review, the Journal of Legal Analysis, is available here.  This new review is notable in part because it is faculty-edited and peer-reviewed, because it has an all-star editorial team and board, and because it is "dedicated to the best legal scholarship from all disciplinary perspectives and in all styles, whether verbal, formal, or empirical."  The first issue of JLA is notable for sentencing fans because it includes this great article by James Q. Whitman, titled "Equality in Criminal Law: The Two Divergent Western Roads."  Here is the abstract: Every western society embraces the ideal of equality before the criminal law. However, as this article observes, that ideal is understood differently in the United States and Continental Europe...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 05, 2009 (boomark / email).

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