BY D. MARVIN JONES, 68 U. Miami L. Rev. 1025 (2014). Introduction: George Zimmerman claimed to know quite a lot about Trayvon Martin. “This guy looks like he’s up to no good, or he’s on drugs or something,” Zimmerman tells the 911 operator. “He’s just staring, looking at all the houses. Now he’s coming toward […]
BY AYA GRUBER, 68 U. Miami L. Rev. 961 (2014). Introduction: Stand-your-ground laws have come to symbolize, especially for many in the center-to-left, the intense racial injustice of the modern American criminal system. The lesson of the George Zimmerman trial saga is clear: Stand-your-ground laws, which remove from self-defense law the requirement to retreat before […]
BY STEVEN STRICKLAND — Professor Louis Rulli’s law review article, On the Road to Civil Gideon, asks what method civil rights advocates should use to establish a right to counsel in certain civil proceedings. The “Civil Gideon” campaign for a civil right to counsel draws its name from Gideon v. Wainwright, the landmark civil rights case that held that a […]
The University of Miami Law Review is so pleased to announce that Justice John Paul Stevens will be the Keynote Speaker at our 2015 Symposum entitled Criminalized Justice: Consequences of Punitive Policy. We could not be more excited to welcome Justice Stevens to Miami Law and our Symposium. For more information concerning this event, please […]
Thank you to all those who participated in the 2014 University of Miami Law Review Writing Competition! Selection announcements can be found at https://lawreview.law.miami.edu/writing-competition/
