Gateway to Justice: Constitutional Claims to Actual Innocence

Actual Innocence : The Justice System Confronts Wrongful Convictions

In some abstract, impersonal way, all of us are aware that mistakes are made in our justice system. It is, after all, a human institution, and human beings make mistakes. Even as we read occasional stories about the release of an innocent person, the issues raised by that apparent mistake may remain abstract, without a sense of urgency attached to them. After all, this may have been an isolated...

The "Presumption of Innocence" as Constitutional Doctrine

To Preserve Innocence

Scapegoats have always served to underline the standards of the majority, a new book suggests that society in the 19th and 20th centuries has used the mentally ill as the outcasts necessary to confirm its stability and righteousness.

a survey on constitutional justice

the idea of supervising  the conformity of statutory law with constitutional law, is due to necessities rooted in two essential principles: the supremacy of constitution and the hierarchy of the law. constitution as the supreme law in the sense of status and legal value , is placed at the top of the legal pyramid of every political system and therefore requires a special organization and discip...

Gateway to the chloroplast.

data-processing demands. The technology exists and tentative designs are beginning to appear 7–9. Such a telescope, which would have many applications in other branches of astronomy, is projected to cost about $100 million (about half the price of a Jumbo jet). What is missing is any sign that such a facility will be funded by governments and their agencies. Perhaps astronomers can attract the ...