Statutory Remedies For The Wrongfully Convicted

Adele Bernhard, Associate Professor of Law at the Pace University School of Law, has recently published A Short Overview of the Statutory Remedies for the Wrongly Convicted: What Works, What Doesn't and Why, in the Boston University Public Interest Law Journal.

Since the first wrongful conviction was overturned by DNA evidence, more than 230 wrongly convicted individuals have been exonerated. For most, the long awaited and hard won exoneration is the beginning of a new struggle. Exonerees face insuperable hurdles upon release. Lacking recent employment history or experience, work is difficult to secure. Without education or funds, most can’t access necessary counseling or relevant training. Often without family, they live alone and lonely.2 Money alone can never repair damage done by an undeserved prison sentence or fully compensate for pain and suffering. A monetary award, however, does provide a springboard from which to begin life again.

Adele Bernhard, A Short Overview of the Statutory Remedies for the Wrongly Convicted: What Works, What Doesn't and Why, 18 B. U. PUB. INT. L. J. 403 (2009).

Pace Environmental Law Review Announces Shift to Peer Review

Via Feminist Law Professors Blog, by Bridget Crawford, Pace Environmental Law Review announced it will shift to peer review.

As of August 1, 2009, Pace Environmental Law Review (PELR) will use a new Peer Review process to select articles for publication. Submissions will be reviewed internally and then forwarded to a select group of Peer Reviewers – academics, practitioners, and experts in the field, including members of Pace Law School’s world-renowned environmental law faculty. The Peer Review process will offer new and distinctive opportunities to foster continued debate and reflection upon some of the most pressing topics within the field of environmental law. Articles selected for publication will benefit from:

• Expedited editorial processing of 8 to 10 weeks from acceptance
• Single-article hard copy publication
• Inclusion in a bound volume distributed to PELR’s wide-ranging list of subscribers
• All articles submitted to PELR must be original scholarship and not previously published.

Established in 1982, PELR was one of the first scholarly environmental law journals. We invite authors to submit articles either via ExpressO or directly in either MSWord or PDF format to the PELR Development & Acquisitions Editor at pelracq@law.pace.edu.