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Retributive Constraints on the Concept of Competency: The Required Role of ‘Patently False Beliefs’ in Understanding Competency to be Executed (in press at Behavioral Sciences and the Law).
Publication Year:
2023
USC Gould Author
Elyn Saks
Orrin B. Evans Distinguished Professor of Law, and Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences
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