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Current & Recent Research at Penn Law

The Penn Law faculty are engaged in a wide array of scholarship in traditional, cross-disciplinary and cutting-edge areas of inquiry. This newly created section of our website, which we will continue to populate in the months ahead, gives you access and the ability to search current and earlier work.

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A Contractarian Approach to Punishment, BLACKWELL SERIES ON PHILOSOPHY OF LAW (Martin Golding & William Edmundson eds., 2004).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Claire Finkelstein
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice, Law and History
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Legal Philosophy, Philosophy, Social Welfare

A Contractarian Argument Against the Death Penalty, 81 N.Y.U. L. REV. 1283 (2006).
Date Posted: May 04, 2006
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Claire Finkelstein
Subjects: Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence
Keywords: Law and Society, Legal Philosophy, Moral and Political Philosophy, Philosophy

A Puzzle About Hobbes on Self-Defense, 82 PACIFIC PHIL. Q. 332 (2001).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Claire Finkelstein
Subjects: Law and History
Keywords: Legal Philosophy, Moral and Political Philosophy, Philosophy

AN A PRIORI ARGUMENT AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY (U. Pa. Pub. L. & Leg. Theory Research, Paper No. 15, 2002).
Date Posted: March 23, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Claire Finkelstein
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice, Law and History
Keywords: Criminal Sentencing, Legal Philosophy, Moral and Political Philosophy, Philosophy

Acting on an Intention, in REASON, INTENTION AND MORALITY (Gijs Van Donselaar & Bruno Verbeek eds., Ashgate Publishing, 2008).
Date Posted: June 28, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Claire Finkelstein

Contrived Defenses and Deterrent Threats: Two Facets of One Problem (co-authored with Leo Katz), 5 OHIO. J. CRIM. L. 479 (2008).
Date Posted: January 15, 2009
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Claire Finkelstein
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing

Death and Retribution, CRIM. JUST. ETHICS (2002).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Claire Finkelstein
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice, Law and History
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Legal Ethics, Legal Philosophy, Moral and Political Philosophy, Philosophy

Excuses and Dispositions in Criminal Law, 6 BUFF. CRIM. L. REV. 317 (2002).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Claire Finkelstein
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Moral and Political Philosophy, Philosophy, Social Science and the Law

HOBBES ON LAW, editor of volume for Ashgate Publishing (2005).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Claire Finkelstein
Subjects: Law and History
Keywords: Law and Society, Legal History, Legal Philosophy, Philosophy

HOBBES’ LEGAL THEORY (work-in-progress).
Date Posted: July 28, 2006
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Claire Finkelstein
Subjects: Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence
Keywords: Jurisprudence, Legal Philosophy

Involuntary Crimes, Voluntarily Committed in CRIMINAL LAW THEORY: DOCTORINES OF THE GENERAL PART (Stephen Shute & A.P. Simester eds., Oxford Univ. Press 2002).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Claire Finkelstein
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice, Law and History
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Legal Studies, Moral and Political Philosophy, Philosophy

Is Risk a Harm?, 151 U. PA. L. REV. 963 (2003).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Claire Finkelstein
Subjects: Law and Social Sciences
Keywords: Risk, Social Science and the Law, Torts

Legal Theory and the Rational Actor, in OXFORD HANDBOOK OF RATIONALITY (Al Mele ed., Oxford Univ. Press, 2003).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Claire Finkelstein
Subjects: Law and History
Keywords: Law and Society, Legal Philosophy, Philosophy

Merger and Felony Murder, in DEFINING CRIMES: ESSAYS ON THE CRIMINAL LAW’S “SPECIAL PORT” (Antony Duff & Stuart Green eds., Oxford Univ. Press 2005).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Claire Finkelstein
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Law Enforcement and Corrections, Social Science and the Law

On the Obligation of the State to Extend a Right of Self-Defense to its Citizens, 147 U. PA. L. REV. 1361 (1999).
Date Posted: July 28, 2006
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Claire Finkelstein
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice, Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Legal Philosophy

Positivism and the Notion of an Offense, 88 CAL. L. REV. 335 (2000).
Date Posted: July 28, 2006
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Claire Finkelstein
Subjects: Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence
Keywords: Jurisprudence, Legal Philosophy, Philosophy

Preferences and Rational Choice: Introduction, 151 U. PA. L. REV. 707 (2003) (with Claire Finkelstein and Peter Huang).
Date Posted: March 07, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Authors: Matthew Adler, Claire Finkelstein, and Peter Huang
Subjects: Law and Economics
Keywords: Economics, Rational Choice Theory

Rational Temptation, in PRACTICAL RATIONALITY AND PREFERENCE: ESSAYS FOR DAVID GAUTHIER (Christopher W. Morris & Arthur Ripstein eds., Oxford Univ. Press 2001).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Claire Finkelstein
Subjects: Law and History
Keywords: Legal Philosophy, Moral and Political Philosophy, Philosophy

Report for British Law Commission on American Murder Law, Completed September, 2005 (available upon request), published in British Law Commission CP177 (December 20, 2005).
Date Posted: July 28, 2006
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Claire Finkelstein
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing

Responsibility for Unintended Consequences, 2 OHIO ST. J. CRIM. L. 579 (2005).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Claire Finkelstein
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Law and Society, Social Science and the Law, Social Welfare

The Inefficiency of Mens Rea, 88 CAL. L. REV. 895 (2000).
Date Posted: July 28, 2006
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Claire Finkelstein
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice, Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Jurisprudence, Legal Philosophy, Mental Health Law

Threats and Pre-emptive Practices, 5 LEGAL THEORY 311 (1999).
Date Posted: July 28, 2006
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Claire Finkelstein
Subjects: Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence
Keywords: Jurisprudence, Legal Philosophy

Two Men on a Plank, 7 LEGAL THEORY 279 (2001).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Claire Finkelstein
Subjects: Human Rights Law, Law and History
Keywords: Human Rights Law, Legal Ethics, Legal Philosophy, Moral and Political Philosophy, Philosophy

When the Rule Swallows the Exception, in RULES AND REASONING: ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF FREDERICK SCHAUER (Hart Publishing Company 1999; reprinted in 19 QUINN. L. REV. 505 2000).
Date Posted: July 28, 2006
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Claire Finkelstein
Subjects: Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence
Keywords: Jurisprudence, Legal Philosophy