Modern criminal justice systems rely on finality to maintain stability, efficiency, and public confidence. But when procedural closure replaces substantive accuracy, the system’s appearance of legitimacy can mask unresolved error. What remains is not justice, but an administrative endpoint that discourages correction rather than truth.

This work examines how institutional design, discretion, and incentive structures quietly prevent self-correction within the federal criminal justice system. The failure is not episodic or attributable to isolated misconduct. It is structural, embedded in how cases are charged, reviewed, affirmed, and ultimately closed.

Finality Is Not Justice exists to analyze these systemic dynamics and their consequences. The project engages courts, scholars, policymakers, and practitioners interested in constitutional enforcement, structural accountability, and the long-term integrity of adjudication.