Basson unrepentant as drawn-out sentencing argument begins

Will Basson come out on top?

How Sentencing Commissions Turned out to Be a Good Idea

To Boalt Hall Readers: This draft is clearly –in-progress, not yet fully footnoted and awaiting further development of some key sections. In that regard, it is not a ceremonial formality to say that I look forward to guidance and criticism.

Basson's private ECG tutoring sets pulses racing.

Professionally disgraced apart heid-era architect of chemi cal and biological ‘dirty tricks’ weaponry Dr Wouter Basson continued to tutor Stellenbosch University medical students at a private medical hospital for 11 months after being convicted of unethical conduct. The maverick clinician’s involvement with young medical minds has drawn fire from top ethicists and the official campus student me...

The guilty mind and criminal sentencing: integrating legal and empirical inquiry as illustrated by capital sentencing.

We articulate an interpretation of mens rea that is broader than the traditional special sense but narrower than the traditional general sense. Mens rea in this intermediate sense addresses the guilty mind required by the sentencing criteria for specific criminal sentences for particular offenses. We advance an analytic structure for the integration of legal and empirical inquiry regarding stan...

Thermally drawn fibers as nerve guidance scaffolds.

Synthetic neural scaffolds hold promise to eventually replace nerve autografts for tissue repair following peripheral nerve injury. Despite substantial evidence for the influence of scaffold geometry and dimensions on the rate of axonal growth, systematic evaluation of these parameters remains a challenge due to limitations in materials processing. We have employed fiber drawing to engineer a w...