ACLR Online is the online companion to the American Criminal Law Review. The online platform includes submitted work from professors and practitioners in the field of criminal law through its Online Contributor Program. ACLR Online also consists of the Featured Online Contributor Program. The program selects a small group of students each year to submit shorter posts on contemporary areas of American criminal law. The students’ work is then published through\u00a0 ACLR Online as well as on WestLaw.<\/p>\n
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Pattern or Paranoia: Do U.S. Prosecutors Enforce the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Differently Based on the Nationality of the Defendant?<\/a><\/p>\n Robert Luskin and Bridget Vuona<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n I Hate Self-Care: A Criminal Defense Lawyer’s Lament<\/a><\/p>\n Abbe Smith<\/p>\n The Civil Death Penalty: How Life Without Parole Has Become America\u2019s Favorite Inhumane Answer to Crime<\/a><\/p>\n Mia Plante<\/p>\n A Noxious Echo: How Nitrogen Hypoxia Evokes Images of the Gas Chamber and Pushes the Bounds of the Eighth Amendment<\/a><\/p>\n Aashay Desai<\/p>\n When Cooperation Equals Control: What Criminal Defendants and Their Counsel Need to Know To Seek Discovery from Cooperators Through the Government<\/a><\/p>\n Michael T. Packard and George T. Phillips<\/p>\n The Mens Rea of True Threats: Revisiting\u00a0Counterman v. Colorado<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Alyson Brusie<\/p>\n Punishment in the Shadows: Reforming Abeyance Agreements in School Discipline<\/a><\/p>\n Rebekah Siliezar<\/p>\n New Grounds for Lenity: Text, “Context”, and Giving Criminal Defendants the Benefit of the Doubt<\/a><\/p>\n William E. Brown<\/p>\n Treating the Social Cancer: Applying Abolition Constitutionalism to Qualified Immunity<\/a><\/p>\n Caroline Kelly<\/p>\n Why Attacks on Prosecutorial Discretion Are Attacks on Democracy<\/a><\/p>\n Rebecca Blair and Miriam Aroni Krinsky<\/p>\n Smoke and Seizure: Holding Law Enforcement Accountable for the Use of Chemical Irritants on Lawful Protesters by Means of the Fourth Amendment in the Age of\u00a0Torres v. Madrid<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Caitlyn Coffey<\/p>\n The Impact of ChatGPT on Cybercrime and Why Existing Criminal Laws are Adequate<\/a><\/p>\n Hasala Ariyaratne<\/p>\n The Dawn After\u00a0Dobbs<\/em>: Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness for Women are No Longer Natural Rights<\/a><\/p>\n Harshita K Ganesh<\/p>\n A Public Defense Perspective: An Interview with Heather Pinckney, Director of Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia<\/a><\/p>\n Aasha Rajani<\/p>\n Protecting Children Through Deepfake Child Pornography: A Moral, Legal, and Philosophical Discussion on the Intersection of the Evolution in Law and Technology<\/a><\/p>\n Harshita K. Ganesh<\/p>\n The Need for Remedial Resentencing For Survivors Of Domestic Violence: A Trauma-Informed Assessment Of New York’s Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act<\/a><\/p>\n Abigail Van Buren<\/p>\n Indifferent To Our Wellbeing: How Legal Standards Controlling Mental Illness Discrimination Lawsuits Prevent Accountability And Progress<\/a><\/p>\n Anna Gyori<\/p>\n Driving While Stoned in Virginia<\/a><\/p>\n Paul J. Larkin<\/p>\n Planning Brady<\/em>‘s Comeback: Public Defenders are Needed as Judges to Lead the Restoration of\u00a0 Brady<\/em>‘s Lost Promise<\/a><\/p>\n Ben Miller<\/p>\n Ghost Guns: What Prosecutors Should Do to Combat The New Frontier of Untraceable Violence<\/a><\/p>\n Victoria Sheber<\/p>\n Taking a Shot at Vaccine Hesitancy: Using Criminal Liability Within Research Regulations to Increase Trust in Vaccines<\/a><\/p>\n Ryan Steinberg<\/p>\n Seizing \u00a7 1983 After Your Protest Today: Fourth Amendment and Protest Policing Post-Torres<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Chun Hin Jeffrey Tsoi<\/p>\n Compassionate Release as Compassionate Decarceration: State Influence on Federal Compassionate Release and the Unfinished Federal Reform<\/a> Decentralized Finance: Identity Protection and Economic Opportunity for Both Good and Bad Actors<\/a> From \u201cCivil Death\u201d to Universal Suffrage: The Case for Restoring a Prisoner\u2019s Right to Vote<\/a> The Exclusion of Evidence in Conflicts of Criminal Procedure<\/a> In the Name of Secrecy: Revisiting Grand Jury Secrecy as Applied to Witnesses<\/a> After the Opioid Epidemic: A Proposed Return to a Model Penal Code Defense in Federal Cases Involving Addiction<\/a> Under Attack: How Enhanced Anti-Protest Laws Impede and Endanger the Free Press<\/a> Failures of the Stock Act and the Future of Congressional Insider Trader Reform<\/a> Federal Criminal Prosecutions of Labor Market Restrictions: Small Cases with Big Implications<\/a> What Coronavirus Has Taught Us About Unnecessary Incarceration<\/a> Lessons from the FinCEN Files: A Call to Reform the Regulation of Money Laundering<\/a> Bioterrorism or Over-Deterrence? The Use of Federal Terrorism Statutes to Counter COVID-19 “Hoaxes”<\/a> Time to Ditch Deliberate Indifference: COVID-19, Immigrant Challenges, and the Future of Due Process<\/a> “The Heart of the Business”: An Analysis of the Antitrust Division’s New Policy of Crediting Corporate Compliance at the Charging Stage<\/a> Unlawful Silence: St. Louis Families’ Fight for Records After the Killing of a Loved One by Police<\/a> One Strike, You’re Out: The Post-Hueso<\/em> State of Habeas Corpus Petitions Under the Savings Clause<\/a> Beating Qualified Immunity on Appeal<\/a> Privacy in the Dumps: Analyzing Cell Tower Dumps Under the Fourth Amendment<\/a> Another Brick in the Wall: A Call for Reform to Maryland’s Disturbing-School Law<\/a> Do We Need to Make a Federal Case Out of It? The Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act as Over-Federalization of Criminal Law<\/a> Bloodied: How So-Called Exigencies Continue to Erode the Fourth Amendment<\/a> Banned from the Jury Box: Examining the Justifications and Repercussions of Felon Jury Exclusion in the District of Columbia<\/a> Facing the Future: Facial Recognition Technology Under the Confrontation Clause<\/a> Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss: How Federal Agencies Have Leveraged Existing Law to Regulate Cryptocurrency<\/a> Fighting Tooth and Nail: Deterring Wildlife Trafficking in the Era of Mass Extinction<\/a> Rape Shield, Not Rape Force-Field: A Textualist Argument for Limiting the Scope of the Federal Rape Shield Law<\/a> Prosecutorial Discretion, Extradition, and National Security: Reading Between the Lines of the Assange Indictment<\/a> Valuing Procedure Over Substance: Racial Bias in the Capital Jury Room<\/a> Pleas, Sir, May I Have an Attorney? Why the Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel Should Extend to Pre-Indictment Plea Negotiations<\/a> If Words Can Kill, How Should Criminal Law Intervene?<\/a> Entitling the Accused to Exculpatory Evidence: Why Prosecutors Should Have to Disclose During Plea Bargaining<\/a> Alexa: Can You Keep a Secret? The Third-Party Doctrine in the Age of the Smart Home<\/a> Immigration Status in Jury Trials: State Legislature & State Supreme Court Involvement in Combatting Jury Bias<\/a> Tolling Time: How John Doe DNA Indictments are Skirting Statutes of Limitations and Crippling the Criminal Justice System<\/a> With Big Data Should Come Big Responsibility: Regulating Supply and Demand of Alternative Data<\/a> Using the Power of “Me Too” Evidence in Criminal Sexual Assault Trials<\/a> Caught Holding the Bag: Constitutional Limits on Live Video Surveillance\u00a0<\/a> Blurred Lines: The Potential for Partial Judges and Impartial Lawyers in Drug Courts<\/a> Protecting Our Most Vulnerable: Placing Limits on Pro Se Rape Defendants<\/a> Using Technology to Impede Privacy and Consent: A Survey of Revenge Porn Laws<\/a> Gender Nonconforming Expression and Binary Thinking: Understanding How Implicit Bias Becomes Explicit in the Legal System, Considering the Shooting Death of Philando Castile<\/a> Un-Making a Murderer: New True Crime Sensationalism and the Criminal Justice System<\/a> The Continuing Duty in Reality: A Preliminary Empirical Look<\/a> Closing the Boyfriend Loophole: Proposals to Protect Dating Partners from Gun Violence<\/a> In the Officer\u2019s Omnipresence: Live Surveillance and Warrantless Misdemeanor Arrests<\/a> Remember Me, \u201cPart C\u201d? Honest Services Fraud Schemes Involving Bribery Under \u201cPart C\u201d of the Federal Bribery Statute Post-McDonnell<\/a> Decriminalizing Slavery: Why Jurisdictions Should Focus on Criminalizing Johns<\/a> Tips with Benefits: Insider Trading at Oral Arguments in Salman<\/a> The Effects of Crime Media on Reality<\/a> The Unintended Consequences of Deinstitutionalization\u00a0<\/a> It\u2019s All Derivative: Insider Trading Without a Personal Benefit<\/a> Improving Conditions for Mentally Ill Individuals in the Criminal Justice System<\/a> Anti-Money Laundering Laws for Bitcoin Exchanges<\/a>Fall Perspective Contribution<\/em><\/h3>\n
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Volume 62<\/h2>\n
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Fall Featured Online Contributions<\/em><\/h3>\n
Volume 61<\/h2>\n
Spring Featured Online Contributions<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
Volume 60<\/h2>\n
Spring Featured Online Contributions<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
Spring<\/em>PerspectivesContributions<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
Fall Featured Online Contributions<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
Fall<\/em>PerspectivesContributions<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
Volume 59<\/h2>\n
Spring Practitioner Contributions<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
Spring Student Contributions<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
Fall Featured Online Contributions<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nChun Hin\u00a0Jeffrey Tsoi<\/p>\n
\nAlyssa Rose Domino<\/p>\n
\nVictoria Sheber<\/p>\n
\nJonghyun (John) Lee<\/p>\nVolume 58<\/h2>\n
Spring Practitioner Contribution<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nKimberly A. Leaman & Andrew T. Winkler<\/p>\nSpring Student Contributions<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nLucas Hammill<\/p>\n
\nApril Knight<\/p>\n
\nSana Mesiya<\/p>\n
\nTheodore Salem-Mackall<\/p>\nFall Practitioner Contribution<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nCarrie Leonetti<\/p>\nFall Student Contributions<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nMadison Flowers<\/p>\n
\nZachary Mitchell<\/p>\n
\nHannah Nguyen<\/p>\n
\nTheodore Salem-Mackall<\/p>\nVolume 57<\/h2>\n
Spring Practitioner Contribution<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nEmanuel Powell<\/p>\nSpring Student Contributions<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nAshley Alexander<\/p>\n
\nAlex Bodaken<\/p>\n
\nEmma Lux<\/p>\n
\nJohn Marinelli<\/p>\n
\nL.S. Stegman<\/p>\nWinter Contributions<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nHassan Ahmad<\/p>\n
\nAshley Alexander<\/p>\n
\nEmma Lux<\/p>\n
\nJohn Marinelli<\/p>\n
\nL.S. Stegman<\/p>\n
\nUriel Hinberg<\/p>\nVolume 56<\/h2>\n
Spring Contributions\u00a0<\/em><\/h3>\n
\nEphraim David Abreu<\/p>\n
\nGrace Manning<\/p>\n
\nAbbe Dembowitz<\/p>\n
\nYixuan Zhang<\/p>\n
\nEmily Clarke<\/p>\nWinter Contributions\u00a0<\/em><\/h3>\n
\nGrace Manning<\/p>\n
\nVeena Bansal<\/p>\n
\nEmily Clarke<\/p>\n
\nAbbe Dembowitz<\/p>\n
\nYixuan Zhang<\/p>\nVolume 55<\/h2>\n
Winter Student Contributions<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nJoseph Lanuti<\/p>\n
\nRyan Shymansky<\/p>\n
\nAnna Fasano<\/p>\n
\nKellianne Hickey<\/p>\nSpring Practitioner Contributions<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nPatrick C. Brayer<\/p>\n
\nDavid Costello<\/p>\n
\nDavid M. Siegel & Tigran W. Eldred<\/p>\nSpring Student Contributions<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nRyan Shymansky<\/p>\n
\nJoseph Lanuti<\/p>\n
\nBridget Vuona<\/p>\n
\nAnna Fasano<\/p>\nVolume 54<\/h2>\n
Fall Student Contributions<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nRaphael Davidian<\/p>\nWinter Student Contributions<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nDestiny Howell<\/p>\n
\nDestiny Howell<\/p>\n
\nRaphael Davidian<\/p>\nSpring Student Contributions<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nDestiny Howell<\/p>\n
\nRaphael Davidian<\/p>\n