The Hofstra Law Review, under the guidance of Professor Eric Freedman, is at the forefront of developing scholarship supporting the ongoing work of the capital trial, appeal, postconviction, and habeas community. When the ABA has updated or supplemented its Guidelines for the Appointment and Performance of Defense Counsel in Death Penalty Cases, the Hofstra Law Review assembles the best of the best litigators and scholars to help the capital defense community implement these standards in their practice.
Hofstra Law Review marked the 15th Anniversary on the revised ABA Guidelines with a Symposium entitled “Effective Capital Defense Representation, The ABA Guidelines, and the Twilight of the Death Penalty” (Volume 46, Issue 4, 2018) https://www.hofstralawreview.org/archive/volume-46-issue-4-summer-2018/
The Hofstra Law Review marked the Tenth Anniversary of the ABA Guidelines for the Appointment and Performance of Defense Counsel in Death Penalty Cases with a symposium issue, “The Tenth Anniversary of the ABA Capital Defense Guidelines: The Road Traveled and the Road to Be Traveled,” in two parts:
Part One, Volume 41, Issue 3 (2013) https://scholarlycommons.law.hofstra.edu/hlr/vol41/iss3/
Part Two, Volume 42, Issue 2 (2013) https://scholarlycommons.law.hofstra.edu/hlr/vol42/iss2/
The ABA Death Penalty Representation Project asked Prof. Sean O’Brien and National Mitigation Coordinator Russell Stetler to research and publish standards that focused on the use of a diverse, multidisciplinary defense teams to develop and integrate mitigating evidence into the capital defense effort. Scholarship by expert litigators, mitigation specialists, mental health experts, and judges explaining the importance of this work is published in the Hofstra Law Review Symposium issue, “Supplementary Guidelines for the Mitigation Function of Defense Teams in Death Penalty Cases” (Vol. 36, Issue 3, 2008) https://scholarlycommons.law.hofstra.edu/hlr/vol36/iss3/
The ABA House of Delegates in 2003 approved revised Guidelines for the Appointment and Performance of Defense Counsel in Death Penalty Cases. Those Guidelines are published along with scholarship by expert litigators, mitigation specialists, mental health experts, and judges in the Hofstra Law Review Symposium issue, “The Guiding Hand of Counsel: ABA Guidelines for the Appointment and Performance of Defense Counsel in Death Penalty Cases” (Vol. 31, Issue 4, 2003) https://scholarlycommons.law.hofstra.edu/hlr/vol31/iss4/