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Shawn Fields
Researcher at Campbell University
Publications - 11
Citations - 22
Shawn Fields is an academic researcher from Campbell University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Separation of powers & Constitutional law. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 9 publications receiving 18 citations.
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Private Crimes and Public Forgiveness: Towards a Refined Restorative Justice Amnesty Regime
TL;DR: In this article, a modified version of restorative justice is proposed, which takes into account the private needs of individual victims and their families while also offering the public forgiveness desired by certain communities in post-conflict zones.
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Weaponized Racial Fear
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the first comprehensive discussion of civilian manipulation of the criminal justice system to enforce racial bias and the state's acquiescence to this bias-motivated abuse.
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The Unreviewable Executive? National Security and the Limits of Plenary Power
TL;DR: The authors explores the weakened foundations of plenary power as a coherent doctrine in immigration and asserts that a continued if limited role for the doctrine exists in the national security context, and calls for a two-tiered level of review of challenged immigration action: a searching evidentiary inquiry regarding the central motivation behind the action, and a more deferential inquiry into the action's constitutionality when the action was driven primarily by national security interests.
Private Crimes and Public Forgiveness: Towards a Refined Restorative Justice Amnesty Regime
TL;DR: In this paper, a modified version of restorative justice is proposed, which takes into account the private needs of individual victims and their families while also offering the public forgiveness desired by certain communities in post-conflict zones.
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Is it Bad Law to Believe a Politician? Campaign Speech and Discriminatory Intent
TL;DR: This paper examined the five primary arguments against considering campaign statements as evidence of subjective animus, and illustrated why none of these arguments justify such a bright-line evidentiary bar, and concluded that traditional claims that campaign statements are of limited probative value address their evidentiary weight rather than their admissibility and fail to account for a court's ability to discount the evidence as necessary.