Add to ORKGThis article supports constraint of the modern federal criminal law regime through greater attention to, and use of, congressional investigation and over =sight powers. Through an analysis of the 2009 and 2010 United States House of Representatives hearings on over-criminalization, this article asserts that Congress has political and constitutional incentives to use its investigation and oversight powers to address these problems. Conventional wisdom asserts that political disincentives to reduce the federal criminal law regime and weaknesses in investigative and oversight powers limit congressional effectiveness
It is difficult in constitutional-law circles to avoid the observation that we are living through a ...
The number of people incarcerated for federal firearm convictions has increased ten-fold in the past...
Book Chapter Overfederalization in Reforming Criminal Justice: Volume 1: Introduction and Criminaliz...
The literature treats overcriminalization (and, at the federal level, the federalization of crime) a...
Professor Beale\u27s Article, Too Many and Yet Too Few: New Principles to Define the Proper Limits f...
This Essay explores the mechanisms of control over federal criminal enforcement that the administrat...
The dominant story of American political process and criminal law is one of democratic dysfunction. ...
This essay – written for the annual Duke Law Journal Administrative Law Symposium – explores the mec...
A vast body of constitutional law regulates the way that police investigate crimes and the way that ...
The state and federal courts largely exercise concurrent jurisdiction over most criminal law matters...
The federalization of American criminal law was not an issue that would have been discussed prior to...
This article notes that throughout the presidential campaigns there has been little emphasis on crim...
The first area is the substantive criminal law, especially at the federal level. In the following pa...
Congress has responded to increasing public concern about violent crime by expanding the scope of th...
This Article spotlights the flawed analytical framework at the heart of the federal courts’ approach...
It is difficult in constitutional-law circles to avoid the observation that we are living through a ...
The number of people incarcerated for federal firearm convictions has increased ten-fold in the past...
Book Chapter Overfederalization in Reforming Criminal Justice: Volume 1: Introduction and Criminaliz...
The literature treats overcriminalization (and, at the federal level, the federalization of crime) a...
Professor Beale\u27s Article, Too Many and Yet Too Few: New Principles to Define the Proper Limits f...
This Essay explores the mechanisms of control over federal criminal enforcement that the administrat...
The dominant story of American political process and criminal law is one of democratic dysfunction. ...
This essay – written for the annual Duke Law Journal Administrative Law Symposium – explores the mec...
A vast body of constitutional law regulates the way that police investigate crimes and the way that ...
The state and federal courts largely exercise concurrent jurisdiction over most criminal law matters...
The federalization of American criminal law was not an issue that would have been discussed prior to...
This article notes that throughout the presidential campaigns there has been little emphasis on crim...
The first area is the substantive criminal law, especially at the federal level. In the following pa...
Congress has responded to increasing public concern about violent crime by expanding the scope of th...
This Article spotlights the flawed analytical framework at the heart of the federal courts’ approach...
It is difficult in constitutional-law circles to avoid the observation that we are living through a ...
The number of people incarcerated for federal firearm convictions has increased ten-fold in the past...
Book Chapter Overfederalization in Reforming Criminal Justice: Volume 1: Introduction and Criminaliz...