This Term, Cunningham v. California offers the Supreme Court a rare opportunity to bring
order to its confusing, incoherent, formalistic body of sentencing law. Sentencing law must …

… Berman is an Assistant Professor ofLaw at The Ohio State University College of Law.
Professor Berman is an editor of the Federal Sentencing Reporter (U. Cal. Press). …

Criminal sentencing was once an exercise in rehabilitation-judges imposed sentences based
on their estimation of how likely defendants were to reform their lawless ways and avoid …

… Berman, Examining the Blakely Earthquake and its Aftershocks, 16 FED. SENT'G REP.
307 (2004); Douglas A… Berman, Does Blakely draw a bright line? What is that line? SENT'G …

During the past fifty years, federal disaster policy in the United States has been shaped by
an ongoing conflict between proponents who favor federal intervention following a disaster …

Over the past four decades, the number of cases filed in federal courts has expanded dramatically.
This increase has had little impact on the workload of the Supreme Court, which in its …

The Planck All-Sky Survey to Analyze Gravitationally-lensed Extreme Starbursts project aims
to identify a population of extremely luminous galaxies using the Planck all-sky survey and …

T wo recent developments involving changes to severe sentencing laws have engendered
new debates over whether old sentences should be reviewed and reconsidered. In 2010, …

This study evaluated the impact of a four-session interactive nutrition education program—Eat
Smart, Live Strong (ESLS)—on the consumption of fruit and vegetables by low-income …

Rodney King's poignant plea may well have been resonating in the Supreme Court's
collective consciousness as it considered the punishment of the Los Angeles police officers …