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Roll Call
"The basic idea is that the Constitution is everybody's birthright, and it's also necessary to have a real knowledge of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, " Professor Jamin Rasking said in describing the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project in Roll Call's Graduate and Law Schools special section.

Watch story on Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project success on FOX 5 or read the press release
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National Law Journal

Professor Amanda Frost on judicial recusals: "People are very aware of who contributes to their campaigns. What do we think the role of the judge is? Impartial decision-maker is the most important aspect of due process. All of the other due process type rights mean nothing if we don't have an impartial decision-maker." Read full article.

NPR's "Talk of the Nation"
Professor Diane Orentlicher discussed whether war crimes trials are effective: "And then there's genocide, which...is in many ways the most morally potent charge a prosecutor can bring...There's really quite a significant stigma associated with this charge. It happens to be notoriously hard for a prosecutor to prove charges of genocide. The essence of the crime is that certain acts, such as killing members of an ethnic group, are carried out with the very specific intent of destroying that group either entirely or killing a substantial part of that group."

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