Ira P. Robbins

American University - Washington College of Law

Barnard T. Welsh Scholar and Professor of Law and Justice, Co-Director, Criminal Justice Practice & Policy Institute

4300 Nebraska Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20016

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1.

Digitus Impudicus: The Middle Finger and the Law

UC Davis Law Review, Vol. 41, 2008, American University, WCL Research Paper No. 08-05
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 26 Apr 2007 Last Revised: 13 Jul 2008
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law
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middle finger, fuck, fuck finger, flipping the bird, digitus impudicus, constitutional law, first amendment, pornography, obscenity, disorderly conduct, overcriminalization, obscene gestures, the bird, one-finger salute, police training, offensive conduct, free expression, phallic symbol

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Last Words: A Survey and Analysis of Federal Judges' Views on Allocution in Sentencing

Alabama Law Review, Vol. 65, No. 3, 2014, American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2014-9
Number of pages: 80 Posted: 13 Mar 2014
Mark W. Bennett and Ira P. Robbins
U.S. District Court (Northern District of Iowa) and American University - Washington College of Law
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allocution, sentencing, federal courts, criminal procedure, crime, remorse, litigation, empirical study, defendants, Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, attorney preparation, sentencing guidelines, white collar crime, child pornography, drug trafficking, immigration

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'And/Or' and the Proper Use of Legal Language

Maryland Law Review, Forthcoming, American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2017-10
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 07 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 04 Apr 2018
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law
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and/or, legal language, jury instructions, jury verdict, pleadings, contracts, statutes, patents, search warrants, certainty, flexibility, ambiguity, efficiency, grammar

4.

Hiding Behind the Cloak of Invisibility: The Supreme Court and Per Curiam Opinions

Tulane Law Review, Vol. 86, 2012, American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2012-24
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 29 May 2012
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law
Downloads 1,056 (36,871)
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per curiam opinions, Supreme Court, judicial accountability, judicial lawmaking, development of the law, fidelity to the law, courts of last resort, appellate courts

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The Importance of the Secret Ballot in Law Faculty Personnel Decisions: Promoting Candor and Collegiality in the Academy

Number of pages: 72 Posted: 17 Jun 2006
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law
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voting rights, employment, academic freedom, political correctness, secret ballot, Australian ballot, law school administration, legal education, faculty governance

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Semiotics, Analogical Legal Reasoning, and the Cf. Citation: Getting Our Signals Uncrossed

Duke Law Journal, Vol. 48, p. 1043, 1999
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 31 Jan 2007
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law
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Semiotics, Signal, Legal Reasoning, Bluebook, Common Law, Introductory Signals, Legal Citation

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Lessons from Hurricane Katrina: Prison Emergency Preparedness as a Constitutional Imperative

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, Vol. 42, No. 1, 2008, American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2008-68
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 17 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 17 Dec 2008
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law
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Hurricane Katrina, prison emergency, natural disaster, man-made disaster, Sixth Amendment, effective assistance of counsel, Eighth Amendment, cruel and unusual punishment, deliberate indifference, emergency preparedness, emergency plan, Orleans Parish Prison, international human rights

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Ghostwriting: Filling in the Gaps of Pro Se Prisoners' Access to the Courts

Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 271-321, 2010, American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2010-17
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 04 Jun 2010 Last Revised: 23 Aug 2010
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law
Downloads 410 (124,633)
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Ghostwriting, Prisoners, Pleading, Pro Se Litigation, Access to the Courts, Legal Ethics, Unbundled Legal Services, Unauthorized Practice of Law, Attorney of Record, Limited-Scope Representation

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Vilifying the Vigilante: A Narrowed Scope of Citizen's Arrest

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 25, No. 3, 2016, American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2016-24
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 19 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 01 Jul 2016
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law
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citizen's arrest, false imprisonment, breach of peace, misdemeanor, felony, special conservators of the police, private police, shopkeeper's privilege, Guardian Angels, neighborhood watch groups, defense of property, defense of others, self-defense, vigilantism

10.

Explaining Florida Man

Florida State University Law Review, Forthcoming, American University, WCL Research Paper 2022-07
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 19 May 2022 Last Revised: 23 Nov 2022
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law
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Florida Man, internet, popular culture, incident reports, mugshots, arrest records, public records laws, open records laws

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Guilty Without Charge: Assessing the Due Process Rights of Unindicted Co-Conspirators

Federal Courts Law Review No. 1, 2004
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 31 Jan 2007
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law
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Grand Jury, Co-Conspirator, Unindicted Co-Conspirator, 5th Amendment, Due Process, Miscarriage of Justice, Fundamental Fairness

12.

Justice by the Numbers: The Supreme Court and the Rule of Four - or is it Five?

Suffolk University Law Review, Vol. 36, No. 1, 2002
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 31 Jan 2007
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law
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Supreme Court, Supreme Court Internal Rules, Internal Rules, Procedural Rules, Robert Lee Tarver, In Re Tarver, Habeas Corpus, Death Penalty, Certioriari, Stay of Execution

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Magistrate Judges, Article Iii, and the Power to Preside Over Federal Prisoner Section 2255 Proceedings

Federal Courts Law Review No. 2, 2002
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 31 Jan 2007
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law
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Magistrate Judges, Article III, Federal Prisoners, Section 2255, 18 USC 2255, United States v. Johnson

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Exploring the Concept of Post-Tenure Review in Law Schools

Stanford Law and Policy Review, Vol. 9, No. 2, p. 387, 1998
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 31 Jan 2007
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law
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Legal Education, Law Professor, Scholarship, Teaching, Faculty, Tenure, Professional Development

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The Ostrich Instruction: Deliberate Ignorance as a Criminal Mens Rea

81 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 191 (1990).
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 27 May 2016
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law
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criminal law, willful blindness, Model Penal Code

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Citizen's Arrest and Race

Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2022, American University, WCL Research Paper 2023-05
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 11 Apr 2023 Last Revised: 02 Dec 2023
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law
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citizen's arrest, race, civil rights, Fugitive Slave Acts, slave patrols, Emancipation Proclamation, Ahmaud Arbery, Civil War, enslavement, abolition, secession, lynching

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Best Practices on ‘Best Practices’: Legal Education and Beyond

Clinical Law Review, Vol. 16, p. 269, 2009, American University, WCL Research Paper No. 09-38, NYLS Clinical Research Institute Paper No. 09/10 #9
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 14 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2009
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law
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best practices, benchmarking, minimum standards, baselines, legal education, legal education reform, industry, competitive advantage, administrative regulation, corporate governance, Carnegie Report, MacCrate Report, goals of legal education, case method, clinical legal education, law reform

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Concurring in Result Without Written Opinion: A Condemnable Practice

Judicature, Vol. 84, No. 3, p. 118, 2000
Number of pages: 2 Posted: 31 Jan 2007
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law
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Judges, Opinion, Concurring, Due Process, Fundamental Fairness

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The Obsolescence of Blue Laws in the 21st Century

Stanford Law & Policy Review, Vol. 33, No. 2, 2022, American University, WCL Research Paper 2022-21
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 18 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 22 Nov 2022
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law
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Blue Laws, Sunday Closing Laws, Lord's Act, desuetude, Title VII, Establishment Clause, preemption, Commerce Clause, First Amendment, Second Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, Twenty-First Amendment, Commerce Clause, equal protection, due process, discriminatory enforcement

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What Is the Meaning of 'Like'?: The First Amendment Implications of Social-Media Expression

2013 Federal Courts Law Review 127, American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2013-14
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 21 Jun 2013
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law
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Facebook, social networking, First Amendment, Like, Liking, freedeom of speech, pure speech, symbolic speech, strict scrutiny, political speech, employee speech, Internet communication, matters of public concern

21.

Privatization of Corrections: Defining the Issues

40 Vanderbilt Law Review 813, (1987)
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 06 Jun 2016
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law
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prison privatization

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Kidnapping Incorporated: The Unregulated Youth-Transportation Industry and the Potential for Abuse

American Criminal Law Review, Vol. 51, No. 3, 2014, American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2014-32
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 14 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2014
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law
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best interests of the child, juvenile law, kidnapping, private prisons, child abuse, behavior modification, false imprisonment, youth transport, due process, power of attorney, parens patriae, in loco parentis, parental-immunity doctrine, Child Abuse Prevention & Treatment Act

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Double Inchoate Crimes

26 Harvard Journal on Legislation 1 (1989).
Number of pages: 116 Posted: 03 Jun 2016
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law
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criminal law, inchoate crimes

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Writings on the Wall: The Need for an Authorship-Centric Approach to the Authentication of Social-Networking Evidence

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2011, American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2011-31
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 27 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 14 Mar 2012
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law
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Authentication, Evidence, Social-Networking, Authorship-Centric, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Hacking

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Privatization of Corrections: A Violation of U.S. Domestic Law, International Human Rights, and Good Sense

Privatisation and Human Rights in the Age of Globalisation, pp. 57-89, 2005 , Human Rights Brief, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 12-16, 2006
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 09 Jun 2016
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law
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Prisons, Privatization

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Regulating Gun Rentals

64 UCLA Law Review 414 (2017), American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2017-01
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 30 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 01 Mar 2017
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law
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Second Amendment, Gun Rental, Gun Ownership, Gun Possession, NICS Background Check, Constitutional Analysis, Rational Basis, Intermediate Scrutiny, Strict Scrutiny, Right to Keep and Bear Arms

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'Bad Juror' Lists and the Prosecutor's Duty to Disclose

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 22, No. 1, 2012, American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2012-43
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 09 Nov 2012
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law
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jury, jury selection, jury dossiers, bad juror lists, FOIA, open-records acts, freedom of information, work-product doctrine, discovery, fundamental-fairness doctrine, prosecutors, disclosure, exemptions to disclosure, Batson analysis, criminal law, death penalty

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Perjury by Omission

Washington University Law Review, Vol. 97, 2019, American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2019-30
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 22 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 23 Oct 2019
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law
Downloads 198 (262,627)
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perjury, false statements, obstruction of justice, literal truth, questioner's acuity, ethics, model statute, juries, jury instructions, defendant, declarant, witness, deponent, white collar crime

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Guns N’ Ganja: How Federalism Criminalizes the Lawful Use of Marijuana

UC Davis Law Review, Vol. 51, No. 5, 2018, American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2018-09
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 10 Jul 2018
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law
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18 U.S.C. 922(G)(3), Schedule I Drug, Controlled Substances Act, Federalism, Second Amendment, Marijuana, Gun Ownership, Constitutional Law

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Book Review: Doing Justice: The Choice of Punishments

77 Columbia Law Review 153 (1977).
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 02 Jul 2016
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law
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crime, justice, deterrence, retribution, punishment

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‘Best Practices’: What's the Point?

Clinical Law Review, Vol. 16, p. 321, 2009, American University, WCL Research Paper No. 09-39, NYLS Clinical Research Institute Paper No. 09/10 #10
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 14 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2009
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law
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best practices, benchmarking, minimum standards, baselines, legal education, legal education reform, industry, competitive advantage, administrative regulation, corporate governance, Carnegie Report, MacCrate Report, goals of legal education, case method, clinical legal education, law reform

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A Deadly Pair: Conflicts of Interest Between Death Investigators and Prosecutors

79 Ohio State Law Journal 901 (2018), American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2019-06
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 14 Feb 2019 Last Revised: 17 Apr 2019
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law
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prosecutor, coroner, medical examiner, death investigation, conflict of interest, ethics

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Attempting the Impossible: The Emerging Consensus

23 Harvard Journal on Legislation 377 (1986).
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 03 Jun 2016
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law
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criminal law, attempted crimes, intent

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The Price Is Wrong: Reimbursement of Expenses for Acquitted Criminal Defendants

Michigan State Law Review, Vol. 2014, No. 5, 2015, American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2015-2
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 25 Apr 2015
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law
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reimbursement of expenses, acquittal, dismissal, nolle prosse, mistrial, malicious prosecution, court costs and fees, presumption of innocence, model statute

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Solipsism and Criminal Liability

25 American Journal of Jurisprudence 75 (1980).
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 03 Jun 2016
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law
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criminal law, solipsism

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Sham Subpoenas and Prosecutorial Ethics

American Criminal Law Review, Vol. 58, No. 1, 2021, American University, WCL Research Paper 2021-05
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 13 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 12 Mar 2021
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law
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prosecutors, ethics, subpoenas, Model Rules of Professional Responsibility, no-contact rule, grand jury, prosecutorial misconduct, informants

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Review of J. Gorecki, A Theory of Criminal Justice (Book Review)

94 Harvard Law Review 918 (1981)
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 13 Jun 2016
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law
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criminal law, legal theory, book review

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Punitive Conditions of Prison Confinement: An Analysis of Pugh V. Locke and Federal Court Supervision of State Penal Administration Under the Eighth Amendment

29 Stanford Law Review 893 (1977).
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 10 Jun 2016
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law
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prisons, Eighth Amendment

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The Impact of the Delegation Doctrine on Prison Privatization

35 UCLA Law Review 911 (1988).
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 10 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 01 Jul 2016
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law
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prisons, privatization, delegation doctrine

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Sunshine Laws Behind the Clouds: Limited Transparency in a Time of National Emergency

UC Davis Law Review, Vol. 56, No. 1, 2022
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 30 Nov 2022
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law
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public records, public meetings, sunshine laws, pandemic, COVID-19, executive orders, public health crisis, gubernatorial powers, emergency powers

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Jurisprudence 'Under-Mind'?: The Case of the Atheistic Solipsist

28 Buffalo Law Review 143, (1979)
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 03 Jun 2016
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law
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criminal law, legal theory, Lon Fuller

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The Revitalization of the Common-Law Writ of Audita Querela as a Post-Conviction Remedy in Criminal Cases: The Immigration Context and Beyond

6 Georgetown Immigration Law Review 643 (1992).
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 26 May 2016
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law
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post-conviction relief, immigration law

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Beyond Freedom and Dignity: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and the American Gulag

78 Michigan Law Review 763 (1980).
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 02 Jul 2016
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law
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Pro Se Litigation: Litigating Without Counsel: Faretta or for Worse

42 Brooklyn Law Review 629 (1976).
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 08 Jun 2016
Ira P. Robbins and Susan N. Herman
American University - Washington College of Law and Brooklyn Law School
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criminal law, constiturional law, pro se defendants

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Legal Aspects of Prison Riots

16 Harvard Civil Rights- Civil Liberties Law Review 735 (1982).
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 03 Jun 2016
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law
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prisons, riots

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Interjurisdictional Certification and Choice of Law

41 Vanderbilt Law Review 411, (1988)
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 06 Jun 2016
John (Bernie) Corr and Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law and American University - Washington College of Law
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conflict of laws, certification, choice of law

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Brothers of Gulag: The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Book Review)

62 Virginia Law Review 462 (1976)
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 02 Jul 2016
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law
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prisons, book review

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A Constitutional Analysis of the Prohibition Against Collateral Attack in the Mexican-American Prisoner Exchange Treaty

26 UCLA Law Review 1 (1978).
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 10 Jun 2016
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law
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constitutional law, prisoner exchange treaty

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Teaching Perspectives on Prisoners' Rights (Book Review)

50 New York University Law Review 724 (1975).
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 02 Jul 2016
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law
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prisoners' rights, corrections law, book review

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The Cry of Wolfish in the Federal Courts: The Future of Federal Judicial Intervention in Prison Administration

71 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 211 (1980).
Posted: 08 Jun 2016
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law

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constitutional law, prisons

51.

Anthrax Hoaxes

American University Law Review, Vol. 54, pp. 1-74, October 2004
Posted: 10 May 2005 Last Revised: 01 Jul 2016
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law

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Anthrax, hoax, hoaxes, mens rea, actus reus, terrorism, false reports, false reporting, weapons of mass destruction

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Managed Health Care in Prisons as Cruel and Unusual Punishment

Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology, Vol. 90, No. 1, 1999
Posted: 21 Jan 2000 Last Revised: 01 Jul 2016
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law

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George Bush's America Meets Dante's Inferno: The Americans with Disabilities Act in Prison

Yale Law and Policy Review, Vol. 13, No. 2 (1997).
Posted: 10 Feb 1997
Ira P. Robbins
American University - Washington College of Law

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