The Ex Post Facto Clause: Its History and Role in a Punitive Society (STUDIES CRIME AMD PUBLIC POLICY SERIES)

Logan, Wayne A.

ISBN 10: 019005350X / ISBN 13: 9780190053505

Published by Oxford University Press, 2022

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Ex Post Facto Clause: Its History and Role in a Punitive Society (STUDIES CRIME AMD PUBLIC POLICY SERIES)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019005350X
• ISBN 13: 9780190053505
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

The Ex Post Facto Clause, one of the few civil liberty protections found in the body of the US Constitution, reflects the Framers' acute concern over the tendency of legislatures to enact burdensome retroactive laws targeting unpopular individuals. In The Ex Post Facto Clause, Wayne A. Logan provides the first book-length examination of the history of the Clause and its potential for tempering the punitive impulses of modern American legislatures. Drawing on Framing Era history, seminal Supreme Court decisions, and the global embrace of the values underlying the Ex Post Facto Clause, Logan provides a blueprint for how the Clause can play a reinvigorated and more robust role in guarding against the penal populism besetting modern American legislatures.

About the Author

Wayne A. Logan is the Steven M. Goldstein Professor of Law at Florida State University. He is the author or co-author of several books and almost a hundred book chapters and law review articles, with work appearing in such publications as the Georgetown Law Journal, the Michigan Law Review, the Pennsylvania Law Review, and the Texas Law Review. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and a past chair of the Criminal Justice Section of the Association of American Law Schools.