Paul J. Larkin, Jr.

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1.

Revenge Porn, State Law, and Free Speech

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, Vol. 48, 2014
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 27 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 02 Jun 2015
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
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Revenge porn, tort law, criminal law, First Amendment, Free Speech Clause

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Clemency, Parole, Good-Time Credits, and Crowded Prisons: Reconsidering Early Release

Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2013
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 30 Jul 2013
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
Downloads 364 (84,950)

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clemency, parole, good-time credit, early release

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Medical or Recreational Marijuana and Drugged Driving

American Criminal Law Review, Vol. 52, No. 3, 2015
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 28 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 21 May 2015
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
Downloads 320 (97,899)

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Reawakening the Congressional Review Act

Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 27 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2018
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
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Congressional Review of Regulations, Regulatory State, Regulations, Administrative State, Legislative Veto, Congressional Review Act

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Introduction to a Debate: 'Marijuana: Legalize, Decriminalize, or Leave the Status Quo in Place?'

Berkley Journal of Criminal Law, Vol. 23.1, Spring 2018
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 02 May 2018
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
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Marijuana, Cannabis, Debate Over Liberalization, Arguments for Liberalization, Arguments Against Liberalization

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Managing Prisons by the Numbers: Using the Good-Time Laws and Risk-Needs Assessments to Manage the Federal Prison Population

Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2014
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 15 Jun 2014
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
Downloads 185 (169,650)
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Risk-needs assessments, predictions of future dangerousness, predictions of future recidivism, good-time laws, prison reform

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Public Choice Theory and Occupational Licensing

Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 38, 2015
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 19 Dec 2014 Last Revised: 17 Feb 2015
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
Downloads 184 (170,488)
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Public Choice Theory, Occupational Licensing, Regulation, Constitutional Law, Equal Protection Clause, Private Delegation Doctrine

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Swift, Certain, and Fair Punishment -- 24/7 Sobriety and Hope: Creative Approaches to Alcohol- and Illicit Drug-Using Offenders

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 105, 2015, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 14 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 19 Mar 2015
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
Downloads 177 (176,516)

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24/7 Sobriety, Hawaii HOPE Program, Swift, Certain & Faior Punishment, alcohol abuse, drug use

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Opioids, Overdoses, and Cannabis: Is Marijuana An Effective Therapeutic Response to the Opioid Abuse Epidemic?

Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 25 Nov 2018 Last Revised: 27 Aug 2019
Paul J. Larkin, Jr. and Bertha K Madras, PhD
The Heritage Foundation and Harvard University - Department of Psychiatry
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Marijuana, Cannabinoids, Opioids, Opioid Overdoses

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Strict Liability Offenses, Incarceration, and the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause

Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 37, No. 1065, 2014
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 30 May 2014 Last Revised: 03 Jun 2014
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
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Strict liability, strict liability offenses, strict liability crimes, Due Process Clause, Eighth Amendment, Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause

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Public Choice Theory and Overcriminalization

Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 36, No. 715, 2013
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 30 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 24 Jan 2014
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
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public choice theory, overcriminalization, mistake of law defense, rule of lenity

12.

Crack Cocaine, Congressional Inaction, and Equal Protection

Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 37, 2013
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 11 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2013
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
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Crack cocaine, congressional inaction, equal protection, due process

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Death Row Dogs, Hard Time Prisoners, and Creative Rehabilitation Strategies: Prisoner-Dog Training Programs

Catholic University Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 06 Dec 2016
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
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Prisoners, Dogs, Rehabilitation, Prisoner-Dog Training Programs

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Regulation, Prohibition, and Overcriminalization: The Proper and Improper Uses of the Criminal Law

Hofstra Law Review, Vol. 42, p. 745, 2014, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 10 May 2014 Last Revised: 18 Dec 2014
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
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Regulation, prosecution, overcriminalization

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Are Criminals Bad or Mad? Premeditated Murder, Mental Illness, and Kahler V. Kansas

Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 03 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 21 Jan 2020
Paul J. Larkin, Jr. and GianCarlo Canaparo
The Heritage Foundation and Georgetown University Law Center
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Insanity, Insanity defense, diminished capacity defense, mental illness, mental disease or defect, competence to stand trial, competence to be executed, due process clause, cruel and unusual punishments clause

16.

Marijuana Edibles and 'Gummy Bears'

Buffalo Law Review Vol. 66, No. 2, April 2018
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 26 Apr 2018
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
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Justice Scalia and the Criminal Law

86 University of Cincinnati Law Review 743 (2018)
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 01 Apr 2019
David R. Stras, Orin S. Kerr, Rachel E. Barkow, Stephanos Bibas and Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
Minnesota Supreme Court, University of California, Berkeley School of Law, New York University School of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School and The Heritage Foundation
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Justice Scalia, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Fourth Amendment, Sixth Amendment

18.

The Original Understanding of 'Property' in the Constitution

Marquette Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 15 Nov 2016
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
Downloads 85 (305,604)
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Property, Liberty, Constitution, Regulation

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Oversized Frauds, Undersized Fish, and Deconstruction of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act

Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 103, No. 17, 2014
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 30 Jun 2014
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
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Sarbanes-Oxley Act, overcriminalization, plain meaning rule, reliance on the dictionary, rule of lenity

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'A Day Late and a Dollar Short': President Obama's Clemency Initiative 2014

Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2018
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 08 Mar 2018
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
Downloads 75 (329,119)
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Pardon Clause, pardon power, pardon, clemency power, clemency

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Parole: Corpse or Phoenix?

American Criminal Law Review, Vol. 50, p. 303, 2013
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 29 Jul 2013
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
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Parole, Sentencing Reform Act of 1984, Mistretta, Booker

22.

Mistakes and Justice — Using the Pardon Power to Remedy a Mistake of Law

Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 11 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 15 May 2017
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
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mistake of law, ignorance of the law, clemency, pardon power

23.

The Dynamic Incorporation of Foreign Law and the Constitutional Regulation of Federal Lawmaking

Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 38, No. 1, 2015
Number of pages: 100 Posted: 29 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 25 Aug 2015
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
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Prisoners, Dogs, Training, and Rehabilitation

Number of pages: 7 Posted: 12 Sep 2018
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
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Prisoners, dogs, prisoner-dog training programs, rehabilitation

25.

The Lost Due Process Doctrines

Catholic University Law Review, Vol. 66, No. 1, 2016
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 25 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2017
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
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Due Process Clause, Incorporation Doctrine, Void-for-Vagueness Doctrine, Magna Carta

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Funding Favored Sons and Daughters: Nonprosecution Agreements and 'Extraordinary Restitution' in Environmental Criminal Cases

Loyola Law Review, New Orleans, Vol. 47, 2014, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 03 Apr 2014
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
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Nonprosecution agreement, deferred prosecution agreement, plea bargaining, fine, restitution, extraordinary restitution

27.

The World After Seminole Rock and Auer

42 Harv. J. L. & Pub. Pol'y 625 (2019)
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 06 Feb 2019 Last Revised: 09 Apr 2019
Paul J. Larkin, Jr. and Elizabeth Slattery
The Heritage Foundation and The Heritage Foundation
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Seminole Rock, Auer, Skidmore, Administrative Law, Standard of Review

28.

States’ Rights and Federal Wrongs: The Misguided Attempt to Label Marijuana Legalization Efforts as a 'States’ Rights' Issue

Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2018
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 14 May 2018 Last Revised: 21 Oct 2018
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
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Marijuana, Cannabis, States' Rights, Food & Drug Administration

29.

Taking Mistakes Seriously

28 B.Y.U. J. of Pub. L. (2014) (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 14 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 24 Jan 2014
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
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Mistake of law, ignorance of the law, reasonable mistake exception to the exclusionary rule, qualified immunity, harmless error doctrine

30.

Agency Deference After Kisor v. Wilkie

Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 15 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 20 Nov 2019
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
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Chevron, Seminole Rock, Auer, Deference, Deference to an agency's interpretation of a statute, Deference to an agency's interpretation of a rule

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Chevron and Federal Criminal Law

32 J. L. & Pol. 211 (2017)
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 06 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 15 Feb 2018
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
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Chevron Deference, Chevron and Federal Criminal Law

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Essay: A New Law Enforcement Agenda for a New Attorney General

Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, Vol. 17, No. 1, 2019
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 20 Jun 2019
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
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federal law enforcement, federal law enforcement priorities, federal law enforcement agencies, federal law enforcement success

33.

Flight, Race, and Terry Stops: Commonwealth v. Warren

Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, Vol. 16, No. 163, 2018
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 13 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 18 Mar 2018
Paul J. Larkin, Jr. and David Rosenthal
The Heritage Foundation and Independent
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Terry v. Ohio, Commonwealth v. Warren, Terry stop, stop-and-frisk, stop-question-and-frisk, Fourth Amendment

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Baseball, Legal Doctrines, and Judicial Deference to an Agency’s Interpretation of the Law: Kisor v. Wilkie

Cato Supreme Court Review, 2019
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 05 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 01 Oct 2019
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
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Seminole Rock, Auer, Chevron, Kisor v. Wilkie, Deference, Agency Interpretation of Rules, Judicial Interpretation of Agency Rules

35.

Can Captured ISIS Fighters Be Prosecuted for Genocide in an International Tribunal?

Legal Memorandum, No. 225 January 22, 2018
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 12 May 2018
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
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Genocide, Genocide of Christians, International Criminal Court, International Law

36.

Reconsidering the Constitutionality of Obamacare

The Heritage Foundation, No. 230, March 20, 2018
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 02 Apr 2018
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
Downloads 43 (428,942)

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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, Taxing and Spending Clause

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The Trump Administration and the Congressional Review Act

Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2018
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 14 May 2018 Last Revised: 23 Sep 2018
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
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The Congressional Review Act, The Trump Administration, Regulatory Reform, Administrative State

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Guiding Presidential Clemency Decision-making

Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 05 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 11 Dec 2019
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
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Clemency, Pardons, Commutations, Pardon Clause, Article II

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The Proper Way to Reconsider Federal Marijuana Policy

Issue Brief, No. 4806, January 8, 2018
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 14 May 2018
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
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Marijuana, Marijuana Policy, Controlled Substances Act, Food and Drug Administration, FDA

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The Future of Presidential Clemency Decisionmaking

University of St. Thomas Law Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 24 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 29 Aug 2019
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
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Clemency, Pardon, Commutation, First Step Act of 2018, Compassionate release

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The Need to Treat Driving Under the Influence of Drugs as Seriously as Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 11 Jun 2018
Paul J. Larkin, Jr., Robert DuPont and Bertha K Madras, PhD
The Heritage Foundation, Institute for Behavior and Health, Inc and Harvard University - Department of Psychiatry
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Driving Under the Influence, DUI, Driving Under the Influence of Drugs, DUID

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Essay: A Proposal to Restructure the Clemency Process — The Vice President as Head of a White House Clemency Office

Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 02 Nov 2016
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
Downloads 30 (485,552)
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Revitalizing the Clemency Process

39 Harv. J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 833 (2016)
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 02 Nov 2016
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
Downloads 30 (485,552)
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Reforming American Medical Licensure

Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 19 Jan 2019
Paul J. Larkin, Jr., Kevin Dayaratna and John O'Shea
The Heritage Foundation, The Heritage Foundation and The Heritage Foundation
Downloads 25 (512,312)

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The Demise of Capital Clemency

73 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1295 (2016)
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 02 Nov 2016
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
Downloads 20 (541,995)
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Capital Punishment, Executive Clemency, Innocence, Disproportionate Sentences

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The 'Waters of the United States' Rule and the Void-for-Vagueness Doctrine

The Heritage Foundation, No. 207, June 22, 2017
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 04 Oct 2017
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
Downloads 16 (566,481)

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Waters of the United States, Clean Water Act, void for vagueness doctrine

47.

The Folly of Requiring Complete Knowledge of the Criminal Law

Liberty University Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 14 May 2018
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
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Rule of Legality, Presumption of Knowledge of the Criminal Law, Void-for-Vagueness Doctrine, Mistake of Law Defense

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Reorganizing the Federal Administrative State: The Disutility of Criminal Investigative Programs at Federal Regulatory Agencies

Downloads 14 (579,205)

Reorganizing the Federal Administrative State: The Disutility of Criminal Investigative Programs at Federal Regulatory Agencies

Legal Memorandum, No. 208 (July 2017)
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 27 Jul 2017
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
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administrative agency, regulatory agency, administrative state, federal law enforcement, FBI, EPA, Marshal's Service

Reorganizing the Federal Administrative State: The Disutility of Criminal Investigative Programs at Federal Regulatory Agencies

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 14 May 2018
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
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Administrative State, Federal Regulatory Agencies, Criminal Investigation Programs, U.S. Marshal's Service, FBI

49.

Philemon, Marbury, and the Passive-Aggressive Assertion of Legal Authority

29 B.Y.U. J. of Pub. L. (2014, Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 13 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 02 Apr 2014
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
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Marbury v. Madison, judicial review

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Finding Room in the Criminal Law for the Desuetude Principle

65 Rutgers L. Rev. Commentaries 1 (2014)
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 03 Oct 2017
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
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Desuetude, desuetude doctrine, desuetude principle

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Reconsidering the Mistake of Law Defense

102 J. of Crim. L. & Criminology 725 (2012)
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 04 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 15 Jan 2014
Paul J. Larkin, Jr. and Edwin Meese
The Heritage Foundation and The Heritage Foundation
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Mistake of law, ignorance of the law, mistake of fact

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A Brief History of Occupational Licensing

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 27 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 28 Jul 2017
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
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occupational licensing, licensing

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A Positive Step Toward Occupational Licensing Reform: The ALLOW Act

Legal Memorandum, No. 212 (July 2017)
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 27 Jul 2017
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
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licensing, occupational licensing

54.

Reorganizing the Federal Clemency Process

The Heritage Foundation, No. 206, May 2017
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 25 Aug 2017
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
Downloads 9 (612,111)

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Clemency, Clemency Power, Pardons, Pardon Clause, Pardon Power

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Reconsidering Federal Marijuana Regulation

Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 37
Paul J. Larkin, Jr.
The Heritage Foundation
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