Lynn Fitch is the attorney general of Mississippi. The American Law Institute last month chose to unravel decades of progress that prosecutors, law enforcement, and victims’ advocates have made in the ...

KING COUNTY, Wash. — A state advisory panel is doing damage control after recommendations regarding sex offenders stirred outrage in the community. The recommendations are for community notifications ...

The Model Penal Code is one of the most important developments in American law, and perhaps the most important influence on American criminal law. Conceived as a way to standardize and organize the ...

What are records? Since 2014, The Marshall Project has been curating some of the best criminal justice reporting from around the web. In these records you will find the most recent and the most ...

Founded in 1852 as the American Law Register, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review is the nation's oldest law review. The Law Review has both a professional and an educational mission. It serves ...

In a straightforward six-two decision in Voisine v. United States, the Court ruled on the last opinion day of the Term that Congress’s 1996 extension of a firearms prohibition to persons convicted of ...

At the American Law Institute’s Annual Meeting on Wednesday, May 24, 2017 members voted to approve The Model Penal Code: Sentencing Project—a 15-year project to revise the Model Penal Code, first ...