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The Ideological Origins of the Right to Counsel
Get PDFThe defense counsel is a paramount actor in modem criminal trials, but this was not always the case. Indeed, the allowance of counsel to felony defendants can be traced to only a few hundred years ago, a relatively modem innovation in the area of legal history. This Essay examines the intellectual origins of the right to counsel, which it situates in the era of the English Revolution. Drawing on pamphlet literature, cases, and statutes from the seventeenth century in both England and North America, it argues that the right originated from a fear of unfairness brought on by a mistrust of the law among puritan reformers who worried that without the guiding hand of counsel, defendants would be wrongly convicted. The right to assistance of counsel is found in nascent form in the Body of Liberties of Massachusetts Bay, which is the first Anglo-American legal code to remove the prohibition on defense counsel. Although initially opposed by the colony\u27s leaders, the code reflected their desire to reform the common law and their attempt to blend religious law with English law. The intellectual origin of the right to counsel thus also represents the transatlantic circulation of legal ideas
The steel kiss
No full textNew York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver returns with his next blockbuster thriller featuring forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme. Amelia Sachs is hot on the trail of a killer. She\u27s chasing him through a department store in Brooklyn when an escalator malfunctions. The stairs give way, with one man horribly mangled by the gears. Sachs is forced to let her quarry escape as she jumps in to try to help save the victim. She and famed forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme soon learn, however, that the incident may not be an accident at all, but the first in a series of intentional attacks. They find themselves up against one of their most formidable opponents ever: a brilliant killer who turns common products into murder weapons. As the body count threatens to grow, Sachs and Rhyme must race against the clock to unmask his identity--and discover his mission--before more people die. -- Provided by publisherhttps://scholarship.law.ua.edu/harper_lee_prize_books_2017/1005/thumbnail.jp
The Center seat: life and death in the Supreme Court
No full textDeals with the death penalty and the death of a liberal Supreme Court Chief Justice.https://scholarship.law.ua.edu/harper_lee_prize_books_2017/1014/thumbnail.jp
No man\u27s land
No full textJohn Puller may be the US Army\u27s most tenacious investigator, but he is not equipped to face the truth about his mother\u27s disappearance thirty years ago. New evidence has come to light suggesting that Puller\u27s father -- a highly decorated army veteran -- may have murdered his wife. When Puller\u27s friend, intelligence operative Veronica Knox, arrived on the scene, he realized that there is far more to this case than he first thought. He knows that nothing will prevent him from discovering what really happened to his mother -- even proving that his father is a killer. Meanwhile, Paul Rogers has just been paroled after spending ten years in a high-security prison for murder. And with his freedom comes a desire to pay back old debts. Harbouring a dark past that changed him in unimaginable ways, Rogers embarks on a journey across the country, set on a path of revenge against the people who took away his humanity. As both men uncover a trail of deception that stretches back decades, they realize that the truth will bind them together in ways they could never have imaginedhttps://scholarship.law.ua.edu/harper_lee_prize_books_2017/1001/thumbnail.jp
With all due respect
No full textBirth Date: April 26, 1935; On the anniversary of D-Day in 1974, after joining a prestigious Wall Street law firm, Michael Cullen learns that one of his new partners may be a Nazi sympathizer. Cullen is forced to deal with this utterly unexpected issue as it resounds within the firm and, eventually, within his personal life. The novel explores the internal dynamics of a law firm as it addresses - and avoids - the conflicting values and ambitions of its partners. And it forcefully addresses the tension between a lawyer\u27s sense of obligation to pursue justice and the obstacles to that pursuit thrown up by human nature and frailty.-- Provided by publisherhttps://scholarship.law.ua.edu/harper_lee_prize_books_2017/1023/thumbnail.jp
Religious Institutionalism - Why Now?
No full textWhat are the rights of religious institutions? Should those rights extend to for-profit corporations? These questions are now the subject of significant controversy. In the United States, churches have long asserted claims to institutional autonomy, especially with respect to laws interferring with their internal governance. Faith-based nonprofits have claimed similar rights, and now for-profit corporations have as well, with the Supreme Court vindicating their rights in the landmark decision, Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. This book explores the corporate turn in law and religion. Part I addresses the shift from individual to institutional accounts of religious liberty, focusing on “freedom of the church” in the context of the Supreme Court’s decision in Hosanna-Tabor Lutheran Church & School v. EEOC, involving the constitutional foundations of the “ministerial exception” to antidiscrimination laws. Part II marks the transition from claims of church autonomy to corporate rights of religious free exercise. Part III looks at the implications of the Court’s decision in Hobby Lobby for same-sex marriage, health care, and religious freedom. Part IV presents various legal, moral, and philosophical challenges to corporate religious liberty.https://scholarship.law.ua.edu/fac_bookchapter/1028/thumbnail.jp