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STEPHEN BRIGHT BIBLIOGRAPHY
Capital Punishment
The failure to achieve fairness: Race and poverty continue to influence who dies.(symposium: Cruel and unusual punishment: Litigating under the eighth amendment). 11 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 23 (2008).
The death penalty and the society we want. 6 Pierce L. Rev. 369 (2008).
Will the death penalty remain alive in the twenty-first century?: International norms, discrimination, arbitrariness, and the risk of executing the innocent. 2001 Wis. L. Rev. 1 (2001).
The death penalty as the answer to crime: Costly, counterproductive and corrupting. 36 Santa Clara L. Rev. 1069 (1996).
Death in Texas - not even the pretense of fairness. 23 Champion 1 (1999).
Developing themes in closing argument and elsewhere: Lessons from capital cases. 27 Litigation 40 (2000).
Jamin B. Raskin, Ira P. Robbins, Stephen B. Bright, Edward Chikofsky, Laurie Ekstrand, Harriet C. Ganson, Paul D. Kamenar, et al, Conference: The death penalty in the twenty-first century. 45 Am. U. L. Rev. 239 (1995).
Henry Schwarzschild, William A. Schabas, David Matas, Diann Yvonne Rust-Tierney, Barbara Frey, Neal Walker, Stephen B. Bright, et al, Commission report: Death penalty on trial, amnesty international USA. 22 Am. J. Crim. L. 272 (1994).
Death penalty moratorium: Fairness, integrity at stake speaking out in favor of the ABA's position. 13 Crim. Just. 28 (1998).
Counsel - The Right to a Lawyer
Counsel for the poor: The death sentence not for the worst crime but for the worst lawyer. 103 Yale L.J. 1835 (1994).
Neither equal nor just: The rationing and denial of legal services to the poor when life and liberty are at stake. 1997 Ann. Surv. Am. L. 783 (1997).
Turning celebrated principles into reality. 27 Champion 6 (2003).
Stephen B. Bright & Andrew A. Mickle, Is the process choking PD system? Fulton County Daily Report. 2009
Death by lottery--procedural bar of constitutional claims in capital cases due to inadequate representation of indigent defendants. 92 W. Va. L. Rev. 679 (1990).
Trisha Renaud, Agitator of the year: Efforts to create a public defender system in Georgia, Fulton County Daily Report: 4-10.2003
Criminal Justice - Generally
Is fairness irrelevant?: The evisceration of federal habeas corpus review and limits on the ability of state courts to protect fundamental rights. 54 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1 (1997).
The electric chair and the chain gang: Choices and challenges for america's future. 71 Notre Dame L. Rev. 845 (1996).
The politics of crime and the death penalty: Not "soft on crime," but hard on the Bill of Rights. 39 St. Louis U. L.J. 479 (1995).
In defense of life: Enforcing the bill of rights on behalf of poor, minority and disadvantaged persons facing the death penalty. 57 Mo. L. Rev. 849 (1992).
Casualties of the war on crime: Fairness, reliability and the credibility of criminal justice systems. 51 U. Miami L. Rev. 413 (1997).
Judicial Independence
Stephen B. Bright & Patrick J. Keenan, Judges and the politics of death: Deciding between the bill of rights and the next election in capital cases. 75 B.U. L. Rev. 759 (1995).
Political attacks on the judiciary: Can justice be done amid efforts to intimidate and remove judges from office for unpopular decisions? 72 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 308 (1997).
Can judicial independence be attained in the south? overcoming history, elections, and misperceptions about the role of the judiciary. 14 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 817 (1998).
Elected judges and the death penalty in texas: Why full habeas corpus review by independent federal judges is indispensable to protecting constitutional rights. 78 Tex. L. Rev. 1805 (2000).
Stephen B. Bright, Charles F. Baird, George H. Kendall, Stephen F. Hanlon, Charles J. Ogletree Jr., & Penny J. White, Breaking the most vulnerable branch: Do rising threats to judicial independence preclude due process in capital cases. (panel discussion). 31 Colum. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 123 (1999).
Stephen B. Bright, Rene Guerra, Mike Heiskell, & Rodney Ellis, Panel 2: The need for timeliness and independence to ensure fairness and the appearance of justice. 42 S. Tex. L. Rev. 1015 (2001).
Racial Discrimination
Discrimination, death and denial: The tolerance of racial discrimination in infliction of the death penalty. 35 Santa Clara L. Rev. 433 (1995).
Bright, Stephen B. 1994. Challenging racism in the infliction of the death penalty. (special issue: Justice in the age of O.J., part 1). Guild Practitioner. 09/22.
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