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Ursula Bentele
Professor of Law
250 Joralemon Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(718) 780-7990 |
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Areas of Expertise
Criminal Law
Capital Punishment
Public Interest Law
Education
B.A., Swarthmore College
J.D., University of Chicago Law School
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Multiple Defendant Cases: When the Death Penalty is Imposed on the Less Culpable Offender
, 38 Rutgers Law Record 1 (2011)
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The Not So Great Writ: Trapped in the Narrow Holdings of Supreme Court Precedents
, 14 Lewis & Clark Law Review 741 (2010)
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Mining for Gold:The Constitutional Court of South Africa's Experience with Comparative Constitutional Law
, 37 Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law 219 (2009)
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Does the Death Penalty, by Risking Execution of the Innocent, Violate Substantive Due Process?
, 40 Houston Law Review 1359 (2004)
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How Jurors Decide on Death: Guilt is Overwhelming; Aggravation Requires Death; and Mitigation is No Excuse
[Symposium: The Jury in the 21st Century: An Interdisciplinary Conference], 66 Brooklyn Law Review 1011 (2001) (with W.J. Bowers)
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Back to an International Perspective on the Death Penalty as a Cruel Punishment: The Example of South Africa
, 73 Tulane Law Review 251 (1998)
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Bill of Rights Redivivus: The Eighth Amendment Should be Interpreted to Stop Capital Punishment
, 19 The Champion 10 (1995)
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[Symposium: The Death Penalty in New York: Past, Present...Future? The Edward V. Sparer Public Interest Law Forum], Journal of Law and Policy 73 (1995)
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Race and Capital Punishment in the United States and South Africa
, 19 Brooklyn Journal of International Law 235 (1993)
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The False Promise of Discretionary Imposition of the Death Penalty in South Africa
, 9 South African Journal on Human Rights 255 (1993)
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Chief Justice Rehnquist, the Eighth Amendment, and the Role of Precedent
, 28 American Criminal Law Review 267 (1991)
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The Death Penalty in Georgia: Still Arbitrary
, 62 Washington University Law Quarterly 573 (1985)
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