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Most jurisdictions in the United States of America maintain the felony murder rule. [1] In essence, the felony murder rule states that when an offender kills (regardless of intent to kill) in the commission of a dangerous or enumerated crime (called a felony in some jurisdictions), the offender, and also the offender's accomplices or co-conspirators, may be found guilty of murder.
A law review or law journal is a scholarly journal or publication that focuses on legal issues. [1] A law review is a type of legal periodical. [2] Law reviews are a source of research, imbedded with analyzed and referenced legal topics; they also provide a scholarly analysis of emerging legal concepts from various topics.
According to Black's Law Dictionary justifiable homicide applies to the blameless killing of a person, such as in self-defense. [1]The term "legal intervention" is a classification incorporated into the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, and does not denote the lawfulness or legality of the circumstances surrounding a death caused by law enforcement. [2]
The List of law schools in the United States includes additional schools which may publish a law review or other legal journal. There are several different ways by which law reviews are ranked against one another, but the most commonly cited ranking is the Washington & Lee Law Journal Ranking .
The Yale Law Journal (YLJ) is a student-run law review affiliated with the Yale Law School. Published continuously since 1891, it is the most widely known of the eight law reviews published by students at Yale Law School.
The New Criminal Law Review (ISSN 1933-4192) is a quarterly peer-reviewed law journal published by University of California Press. It was established in 1997 as the Buffalo Criminal Law Review , but changed names in 2007 after the University of California Press took responsibility for publishing the journal.
This list of law journals includes notable academic periodicals on law. The law reviews are grouped by jurisdiction or country and then into subject areas. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
ACLR adopts a mix of symposia, articles, and notes. [1] The journal is the most cited criminal law journal by courts, with fifty-seven case cites from 2005 to 2012 (the 38th most of any American law review), [2] and the second most cited criminal law journal by other law reviews, with 1,217 cites from 2005 to 2012.