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On Northern Kentucky University Week:  How well do you know your Constitutional Amendments? Michael Mannheimer, professor of law, looks into an interpretation of two in the U.S. Mike Mannheimer is the author of The Fourth Amendment: Original Understandings and Modern Policing (University of Michigan Press forthcoming 2023). He has been teaching at NKU-Chase College of […]

Michael Mannheimer, Northern Kentucky University – The Original Understandings of the Fourth Amendment

In this episode, Michael Mannheimer, Professor of Law at the Northern Kentucky University Chase College of Law, discusses his article “Vagueness as Impossibility,” forthcoming in the Texas Law Review. Prof. Mannheimer begins by giving an overview and history of the void for vagueness doctrine, focusing on the two traditional rationales for its existence: 1) requiring that statutes, both criminal and civil, give notice of what conduct is illegal, and 2) preventing the delegation of legislative power to those who should not wield it, such as prosecutors or police. He then describes and contrasts differing positions that Supreme Court justice has taken on the doctrine, particularly between Justices Thomas and Gorsuch. Prof. Mannheimer explains the difference between ambiguous and vague statutes, and highlights some of the problems with the current void for vagueness doctrine, including its underinclusivity, and its inherent contradictions. He closes by discussing a potential reframing of vagueness as impossibility, taking the doctrine in a much more practical direction. Mannheimer's scholarship is available on SSRN.This episode was hosted by Maybell Romero, Assistant Professor of Law at Northern Illinois University College of Law. Prof. Romero is on Twitter at @maybellromero. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, <a href="https://chaselaw.nku.edu/faculty/full-time-faculty-bios/MichaelJZMannheimer.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Michael Mannheimer</a>, Professor of Law at the Northern Kentucky University Chase College of Law, discusses his article “<a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3329088" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Vagueness as Impossibility</a>,” forthcoming in the Texas Law Review. Prof. Mannheimer begins by giving an overview and history of the void for vagueness doctrine, focusing on the two traditional rationales for its existence: 1) requiring that statutes, both criminal and civil, give notice of what conduct is illegal, and 2) preventing the delegation of legislative power to those who should not wield it, such as prosecutors or police. He then describes and contrasts differing positions that Supreme Court justice has taken on the doctrine, particularly between Justices Thomas and Gorsuch. Prof. Mannheimer explains the difference between ambiguous and vague statutes, and highlights some of the problems with the current void for vagueness doctrine, including its underinclusivity, and its inherent contradictions. He closes by discussing a potential reframing of vagueness as impossibility, taking the doctrine in a much more practical direction. Mannheimer's scholarship is available on <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=510939" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SSRN</a>.This episode was hosted by <a href="https://www.niu.edu/law/about/directory/romero.shtml" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Maybell Romero</a>, Assistant Professor of Law at Northern Illinois University College of Law. Prof. Romero is on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/MaybellRomero" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@maybellromero</a>. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Michael Mannheimer on Vagueness