 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|
||||
|
|
|||||
|
|
|
||||
|
Annual Review of Criminal Procedure
|
|
||||
|
|
|
||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
A Description of the Annual Review of Criminal Procedure
The current edition of the Annual Review of Criminal Procedure, published in August of 2004, represents the thirty third year in which the editors and staff of The Georgetown Law Journal have provided a topic-by-topic summary of criminal procedure in the United States Supreme Court and Courts of Appeals. The goal of the Annual Review, which is written, updated, and edited by Journal members, is to provide its readers with an objective, concise, and accurate overview of criminal procedure in the federal courts by supplying references to and descriptions of current federal caselaw in each federal circuit and the Supreme Court in a format that is accessible to the greatest number of readers. Early on, the editors of what would become the Annual Review recognized that the publication was of the greatest benefit to legal practitioners, rather than academics. Consequently, the Annual Review's editors have focused on providing a practical aid to a wide readership that includes prosecutors and defense attorneys, judges and their law clerks, and prisoners assisting in their own defense or appeal. In order to be of the greatest utility to all of its the readers as an objective research tool, the Annual Review has sought to provide concise and accurate descriptions of the decisions of the federal courts on criminal procedure, and not to critique those decisions. The History of the Annual Review of Criminal Procedure The Annual Review began as one part of a larger endeavor to analyze in a Circuit Note every major decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit during the 1964-1965 term. This ambitious effort, however, soon came to focus exclusively on the D.C. Circuit's rulings on questions of criminal law and procedure. In 1971, the Circuit Note expanded to incorporate the criminal decisions of all of the U. S. Courts of Appeals. The Circuit Note expanded again in 1973 to explicitly cover the relevant decisions of the Supreme Court. At this point, the Circuit Note had grown to over 350 pages and was for the first time published as a separate issue of the Journal. In 1976, the editors dropped most of the substantive criminal law topics and the Circuit Note became a criminal procedure review. Finally, in 1978, counting back to the first edition in which all Courts of Appeals decisions were included, the Circuit Note took the title Eighth Annual Review of Criminal Procedure. Over the years, the Annual Review has continued to grow in size and refine its structure in order to best meet the needs of its readers. The Twenty-Ninth Annual Review, published last year, was nearly one thousand pages long and had a distribution of over twelve thousand copies, making it the Journal's most widely read issue. How to Order a Copy of the Annual Review of Criminal Procedure The Annual Review must be purchased separately from the rest of The Georgetown Law Journal's issues. Special rates are available for qualifying individuals. For price information and to order, please see CLE's Annual Review of Criminal Procedure subscription page, or contact:
How to Contact an Editor of the Annual Review of Criminal Procedure We strongly encourage our readers to send comments and suggestions so that future staff members and editors can continue to improve the Annual Review. We also welcome contact from organizations, such as books-to-prisoners programs, who are interested in cooperating in efforts to achieve wider distribution of the Annual Review to prisoners. Please send all correspondence to:
Revised November 17, 2004 (BEM) |
|
|||
 |
||||||
