Browsing Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Works by Author "Mayeux, Sara"

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    • Debating the Past's Authority in Alabama 
      Mayeux, Sara (Stanford Law Review, 2018)
      In 2015, the city council of Birmingham, Alabama enacted an ordinance establishing a local minimum wage of $10.10 an hour-a significant raise for the city's low-income workers from the federal floor of $7.25. The ordinance ...
    • Federalism Anew 
      Mayeux, Sara; Tani, Karen (American Journal of Legal History, 2016)
      One of the most remarked-upon events of the recent past is the August 2014 death of a black teenager, Michael Brown, at the hands of a white police officer, Darren Wilson, in Ferguson, Missouri. Attention initially focused ...
    • The Idea of "The Criminal Justice System" 
      Mayeux, Sara (American Journal of Criminal Law, 2018)
      The phrase “the criminal justice system” is ubiquitous in discussions of criminal law, policy, and punishment in the United States — so ubiquitous that almost no one thinks to question the phrase. However, this way of ...
    • The Idea of the Criminal Justice System 
      Mayeux, Sara (American Journal of Criminal Law, 2018)
      The phrase "the criminal justice system " is ubiquitous in discussions of criminal law, policy, and punishment in the United States-so ubiquitous that, at least in colloquial use, almost no one thinks to question the ...
    • Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Before "Powell v. Alabama" 
      Mayeux, Sara (Iowa Law Review, 2014)
      Isabella Nitti-the first woman sentenced to death in Illinois-was national news in her time. Today she is remembered (if at all) as one of the notorious "husband killers" who inspired the Broadway play Chicago. Less well ...
    • What Gideon Did 
      Mayeux, Sara (Columbia Law Review, 2016)
      Many accounts of Gideon v Wainwright s legacy focus on what Gideon did not do--its doctrinal and practical limits. For constitutional theorists, Gideon imposed a preexisting national consensus upon a few "outlier" states, ...