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NYLS Patent Law Clinic Helps Disabled Veteran Patent Clean Energy Invention
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Policy Briefing | The Adams Administration’s “City of Yes for Housing Opportunity” Zoning Reform Proposal
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Preventing and Remedying Race, Color, and National Origin Discrimination in Schools: A PRIMER ON TITLE VI OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964
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Lunch Talk | Securities Arbitration & Litigation: An Overview
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Ask the Professor: How has the Recent U.S. Supreme Court Opinion in Murray v. UBS Securities Provided Much Needed Protection to Whistleblowers?
Get PDFI Hope the Final Judgment’s Fair: Alternative Jurisprudences, Legal Decision-Making, and Justice
Get PDFAt the core of any legal decision is an assumption that the decision will be “fair,” yet this is an elusive term. A close study of cases involving criminal defendants with mental disabilities shows that many (perhaps most) of the decisions involving this cohort are not “fair” in the contexts of due process and justice. If legal decisions reflect principles such as procedural justice, restorative justice, and therapeutic jurisprudence, the chances of such fairness will be significantly enhanced. This chapter explains why this goal of fairness, in the context of these cases, can never be met absent a consideration of the virulence of sanism and pretextuality, along with the misuse of heuristics and false “ordinary common sense.” These factors enable much of society to ignore gray areas of human behavior, and predispose fact-finders to endorse beliefs in accord with their prior experiences