Eugene has kindly invited me to blog a bit this week about a new book I've written on the law of restitution - a little-studied area of law that every litigator should understand, because it can lead ...

The modern incarnation of criminal forfeiture traces its roots back to 1970, when Congress passed the RICO Act and the Controlled Substances Act, which allowed law enforcement to seize property ...

On the one hand, restitution is imposed by a court as part of sentencing and adds to a defendant’s post-conviction obligations, which certainly sounds punitive. But the primary purpose of restitution ...