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Tel: 215.898.1017
Email: phr@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
- Criminal Code Reform
- Criminal Law
- Criminal Law Theory
- Criminal Sentencing
Bio
Paul Robinson, one of the world’s leading scholars on criminal law, joined the Penn Law faculty in Spring 2003, coming from Northwestern.
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Paul Robinson, one of the world’s leading scholars on criminal law, joined the Penn Law faculty in Spring 2003, coming from Northwestern. He served as a federal prosecutor, as counsel for the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Criminal Laws and Procedures, and as one of the original commissioners of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, where he was the lone dissenter to promulgation of what are the current federal sentencing guidelines. Among his dozen books are the standard lawyer’s reference book on criminal law defenses, an internationally-known Oxford monograph on criminal law theory, a highly-regarded criminal law treatise, a popular innovative case studies course book, and a ground-breaking empirical study of the conflict between criminal law rules and lay intuitions of justice. He also has published scholarly articles in nearly every top law review. In addition to Robinson’s many books, he has authored scholarly articles for most top law reviews, including California, University of Chicago, Columbia, Georgetown, Harvard, Northwestern, Oxford, University of Pennsylvania, Texas, Stanford, Virginia, and Yale. Robinson, who has given scholarly lectures and assisted in criminal code reform around the world, recently completed two criminal code reform projects in the United States and the first modern Islamic penal code under sponsorship of the United Nations Development Program. He also writes for general audiences, including publications in The Atlantic Monthly, Public Interest, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Chicago Tribune, as well as popular books such as Would You Convict? and Law Without Justice.
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Representative Professional Positions
Penn Law - Colin S. Diver Professor of Law (2003-)
Northwestern - Edna & Ednyfed Williams Professor (1998-2002); Professor (1993-98); Visiting Professor (1992-93)
Rutgers - Acting Dean (1989-90); Distinguished Professor (1985-93); Professor (1980-85); Assistant Professor (1977-80)
University of Michigan - Visiting Professor (1998-99)
Georgetown - Adjunct Professor (1986-88)
Representative Publications
Concordance & Conflict in Intuitions of Justice, MINN. L. REV. (forthcoming 2007) (with Robert Kurzban).
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Intuitions of Justice: Implications for Criminal Law and Justice Policy, 81 S. CAL. L. REV. 1 (forthcoming 2007).
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Codifying Shari'a: International Norms, Legality & the Freedom to Invent New Forms, J. COMP. L. (British) (forthcoming 2007) (with 11 present and former students in my Criminal Law Research Group, regarding our work in drafting an Islamic Penal Code for the Maldives under U.N.D.P. sponsorship).
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FINAL REPORT OF THE MALDIVES PENAL LAW & SENTENCING CODIFICATION PROJECT (Republic of Maldives 2006) (two volumes) (with University of Pennsylvania Law School's Criminal Law Research Group).
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LAW WITHOUT JUSTICE: WHY CRIMINAL LAW DOESN’T GIVE PEOPLE WHAT THEY DESERVE
(with Michael Cahill) (Oxford Univ. Press 2005).
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Fair Notice and Fair Adjudication: Two Kinds of Legality, 154 U. PA. L. REV. 335 (2005).
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Does Criminal Law Deter? A Behavioral Science Investigation, 24 OXFORD J. LEGAL STUD. 173 (2004) (with John Darley). [Appendix]
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The Role of Deterrence in the Formulation of Criminal Law Rules: At Its Worst When Doing Its Best, 91 GEO. L.J. 949 (2003) (with John Darley).
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FINAL REPORT OF THE ILLINOIS CRIMINAL CODE REWRITE AND REFORM COMMISSION (State of Illinois 2003) (two volumes) (with staff).
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Punishing Dangerousness: Cloaking Preventive Detention as Criminal Justice, 114 HARV. L. REV. 1429 (2001).
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WOULD YOU CONVICT? 17 CASES THAT CHALLENGED THE LAW (NYU Press 1999).
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Objectivist vs. Subjectivist Views of Criminality: A Study in the Role of Role of Science in Criminal Law Theory, 18 OXFORD J. LEGAL STUD. 409 (1998) (with John Darley).
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STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION IN CRIMINAL LAW (Clarendon, Oxford 1997), Chinese translation, China Procuratorial Press (2005).
CRIMINAL LAW (Aspen 1997).
The Utility of Desert, 91 NW. U. L. REV. 453 (1997) (with John Darley).
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Competing Theories of Justification: Deeds vs. Reasons, in A.T.H. Smith & A. Simester, eds., HARM AND CULPABILITY 45-70 (Oxford 1996).
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JUSTICE, LIABILITY, AND BLAME: COMMUNITY VIEWS AND THE CRIMINAL LAW, (Westview 1995) (with John Darley).
The Role of Harm and Evil in Criminal Law: A Study in Legislative Deception?, 5 J. CONTEMP. LEGAL ISSUES 299 (1994).
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A Functional Analysis of Criminal Law, 88 Nw. U. L. REV. 857 (1994).
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Rules of Conduct and Principles of Adjudication, 57 U. CHI. L. REV. 729 (1990).
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Hybrid Principles for the Distribution of Criminal Sanctions, 82 NW. U. L. REV. 19 (1987).
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Causing the Conditions of One's Own Defense: A Study in the Limits of Theory in Criminal Law Doctrine, 71 VA. L. REV. 1 (1985).
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Imputed Criminal Liability, 93 YALE L.J. 609 (1984); reprinted in A CRIMINAL LAW ANTHOLOGY, A. Loewy, ed., (1992).
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Element Analysis in Defining Criminal Liability: The Model Penal Code and Beyond, 35 STAN. L. REV. 681 (1983) (with Jane Grall).
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Criminal Law Defenses: A Systematic Analysis, 82 COLUM. L. REV. 199 (1982).
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Current & Recent Research
Representative Professional Activities
Director, University of Pennsylvania Law School Criminal Law Research Group.
Director, Maldivian Penal Code Reform Project.
Director, Illinois Criminal Code Rewrite & Reform Commission.
Director, Kentucky Penal Code Revision Project.
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