The Yale Law Journal

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Worse than Death

Alex Kozinski

For decades, lawyers and activists have questioned the constitutionality of our criminal justice system’s most severe punishments. Is lethal injection okay?1 What about a firing squad?2 How about life sentences for pirates3 or drug possessors4 or people who pass rubber checks?5 But we he…

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I Say Dissental, You Say Concurral

Alex Kozinski & James Burnham

Increasing numbers of circuit judges are writing dissents from, and concurrences in, orders denying rehearing en banccolloquially known as dissentals and concurrals. Not everyone is happy about this practice, and some judges have lamented their proliferation. The authors here argue that this has be…

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The Judicial "Odd Couple"

Alex Kozinski

120 Yale L.J. 535 (2010).