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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 is one of the world’s leading criminal law scholars.
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Paul Robinson is one of the world’s leading criminal law scholars. A former federal prosecutor and counsel for the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Criminal Laws and Procedures, he was the lone dissenter when the U.S. Sentencing Commission promulgated the current federal sentencing guidelines. Among his books are the standard lawyer’s reference on criminal law defenses, two Oxford monographs on criminal law theory, a highly regarded criminal law treatise, and an innovative case studies course book.
He is the lead editor of Criminal Law Conversations (Oxford, 2009), based on a 10-month online debate by more than 100 scholars from around the world, and author of Distributive Principles of Criminal Law: Who Should Be Punished How Much? (Oxford, 2008; also appearing in Spanish and Chinese). Robinson recently completed two criminal code reform projects in the United States and the first modern Islamic penal code under the auspices of the U.N. Development Program. He also writes for general audiences, including popular books such as Would You Convict? Seventeen Cases that Challenged the Law (NYU, 1999)and Law without Justice: Why Criminal Law Doesn’t Give People What They Deserve (Oxford, 2005).
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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
CRIMINAL LAW CONVERSATIONS (editor, with Steve Garvey & Kim Ferzan) (Oxford 2009)
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DISTRIBUTIVE PRINCIPLES OF CRIMINAL LAW: WHO SHOULD BE PUNISHED HOW
MUCH? (Oxford 2008), also appearing in Spanish and Chinese.
Concordance & Conflict in Intuitions of Justice, 91 MINN. L. REV. 1829 (2007) (with Robert Kurzban).
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Intuitions of Justice: Implications for Criminal Law and Justice Policy, 81 S. CAL. L. REV. 1 (2007) (with John Darley).
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Codifying Shari'a: International Norms, Legality & the Freedom to Invent New Forms, 2 J. COMP. L. (British) 1 (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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Current & Recent Research
Current Working Papers
A Right to Bear Firearms But Not to Use Them? Defensive Force Rules and the Increasing Effectiveness of Non-Lethal Weapons, 89 B.U. L. REV. 251 (2009).
Competing Conceptions of Modern Desert: Vengeful, Deontological, and Empirical, 67 CAMBRIDGE L.J. 145 (2008).
The Origins of Shared Intuitions of Justice (with Robert Kurzban and Owen Jones), 60 VAND. L. REV. 1633 (2007).
The Role of Moral Philosophers in the Competition Between Philosophical and Empirical Desert, Symposium Issue, 48 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1831 (2007).
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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