U Penn JCL symposium on Eighth Amendment litigation

I just noticed that a terrific issue of the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, which follows-up on its symposium on “Litigating Under the Eighth Amendment,” is fully available on-line here. 

The pieces in the issue, all authored by leading scholars in the field, cover a wide array of topics ranging from the death penalty, to prison reform litigation, to how excessive prison punishments should be assessed under the Eighth Amendment.  Especially with many of these issues on the Supreme Court’s docket for the coming Term, this JCL issue is a must-read for constitutional law fans as well and criminal law folks.