SCHR - Articles and reports

SCHR: Lectures, articles and reports

SPEECHES AND LECTURES

WILL THE DEATH PENALTY REMAIN ALIVE
IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY?: International
norms, discrimination, arbitrariness and the risk
of executing the innocent

by Stephen B. Bright, Southern Center for Human Rights -
32 pages The 12th Thomas E. Fairchild Lecture, University of
Wisconsin Law School, October 27, 2000, Wisconsin Law
Review Volume 2001

PDF - 123 KB

THE DEATH PENALTY: Casualties and costs of the War on Crime

THE DEATH PENALTY: Casualties and Costs of the War on Crime
by Stephen B. Bright, Southern Center for Human Rights - 7 pages
The City Club of Cleveland, November 7, 1997

PDF - 24 KB

Stephen Bright giving the 1999 Yale Law School commencement address.

Keep the Dream of Equal Justice Alive
by Stephen B. Bright, Southern Center for Human Rights - 11 pages
Yale Law School Commencement Address, New Haven, Connecticut, May 24, 1999

PDF - 34 KB

Drum Majors for Justice
by Stephen B. Bright, Southern Center for Human Rights
Yale Law School Commencement Address, New Haven, Connecticut, May 23, 1994

PDF - 26 KB

Is Fairness Irrelevant? The Evisceration of Federal Habeas Corpus Review and Limits on the Ability of State Courts to Protect Fundamental Rights
by Stephen B. Bright, Southern Center for Human Rights - John Randolph Tucker Lecture, Washington and Lee College of Law, Published in Volume 54 Washington and Lee Law Review, page 1 (Winter 1997)

PDF - 112 KB

The Electric Chair and the Chain Gang: Choices and Challenges for America's Future
by Stephen B. Bright - 15 pages
February 1996

PDF version 3.0 - 44 KB

The Politics of Crime and the Death Penalty: Not "Soft on Crime," But Hard on the Bill of Rights
by Stephen B. Bright - 24 pages
Winter 1995

PDF version 3.0 - 57 KB

Capital Punishment and the Criminal Justice System: Courts of Vengeance or Courts of Justice?
Keynote address by Stephen B. Bright presented at a conference - 23 pages
March 1995

PDF version 3.0 - 48 KB

ARTICLES

THE RIGHT TO COUNSEL, INDIGENT DEFENSE

	Turning Celebrated Principles into Reality by Stephen B. Bright, Southern Center for Human Rights - The Champion, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, January/February, 2003 HTML Document

	"If you cannot afford a lawyer ...": A report on Georgia's failed indigent defense system This report supplements our November 2000 report, Promises to Keep (see below), and adds to the growing body of information collected by the Chief Justice's Commission on Indigent Defense, the media, a consulting group, and other sources about the distance between the representation required to have a just and reliable adversary system, and the representation actually provided. by the Southern Center for Human Rights - 69 pages January 2003 PDF - 378 KB
	Promises to Keep: Achieving Fairness and Equal Justice for the Poor in Criminal Cases A preliminary report on Georgia's compliance with the Constitutions of Georgia and the United States in providing representation to poor people accused of crimes. by the Southern Center for Human Rights - 22 pages November 2000 PDF - 75 KB

Death in Texas
by Stephen B. Bright, Southern Center for Human Rights - The Champion, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, July, 1999

PDF 1,698 KB

Counsel for the Poor: The Death Sentence Not for the Worst Crime but for the Worst Lawyer
by Stephen B. Bright - 48 pages
May 1994

PDF - 209 KB

Neither Equal Nor Just: The Rationing and Denial of Legal Services to the Poor When Life and Liberty Are at Stake
by Stephen B. Bright, Southern Center for Human Rights - New York University School of Law Annual Survey of American Law, Volume 1997, page 783 (published in 1999)

PDF - 206 KB

RACIAL DISCRIMINATION

Discrimination, Death and Denial: The Tolerance of Racial Discrimination in Infliction of the Death Penalty
by Stephen B. Bright - 50 pages
1995

PDF - 105 KB

JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE

Judges and the Politics of Death: Deciding Between the Bill of Rights and the Next Election in Capital Cases
by Stephen B. Bright / Patrick J. Keenan - 76 pages
May 1995

PDF - 209 KB

Political Attacks on the Judiciary: Can Justice Be Done amid Efforts to Intimidate and Remove Judges from Office for Unpopular Decisions?
by Stephen B. Bright - Volume 72, New York University Law Review, Page 308 (May 1997)

PDF - 402 KB

Georgia State University Law Review cover

Can Judicial Independence be Attained in the South? Overcoming History, Elections, and Misperceptions About the Role of the Judiciary
by Stephen B. Bright - Volume 14, Georgia State University Law Review, Page 817 (July 1998)

PDF - 143 KB

Elected Judges and the Death Penalty in Texas: Why Full Habeas Corpus Review by Independent Federal Judges Is Indispensable to Protecting Constitutional Rights
by Stephen B. Bright, Southern Center for Human Rights - Texas Law Review, Vol. 78, page 1806, (published in 2000) - 77 pages

PDF - 166 KB

REPORTS AND OTHER INFORMATION

An Assessment of Access to Counsel and Quality of Representation in Delinquency Proceedings
by the American Bar Association and the Southern Center for Human Rights - 57 pages
July 2001

PDF - 6,229 KB

Capital Punishment on the 25th Anniversary of Furman v. Georgia
by Southern Center for Human Rights - 35 pages
June 1997

PDF - 66 KB

A Preference for Vengeance: The death penalty and the treatment of prisoners in Georgia
by Southern Center for Human Rights - 26 pages
June 1996

PDF - 64 KB

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