The Legal Aggregate
Enlightening the Pardon Power
(This essay was first published in The Hill on February 20, 2020.) President Trump’s use of the pardon power has gone too far — even for Republicans. Trump commuted the sentence of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, whom Trump included and then fired on “Celebrity Apprentice.” The same year, Blagojevich was found guilty…
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Online Features
2019 End-of-Year Faculty Reading and Podcast List
Michelle Wilde Anderson, Professor of Law, recommends Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on…
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Remembering Award-Winning Criminologist Joan Petersilia, Who Inspired Students, Advised Governors, and Made a Difference to Many
Joan Petersilia was an empirical researcher who pointed to clear-eyed data rather than emotions in a field often dominated by…
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Three Strikes Project Update
I’m very happy to report that yesterday morning our client, Agustin Diaz, was ordered immediately released from prison after serving…
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