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