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'Not Guilty' Isn't Always 'Innocent', CHICAGO TRIBUNE, OP-ED., Feb. 8, 1994, p. 18.
Date Posted: April 28, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Law and Society

A Brief History of Distinctions in Criminal Culpability, 31 HASTINGS L. J. 815 (1980).
Date Posted: April 27, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice, Law and History
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Legal History

A Functional Analysis of Criminal Law, 88 Nw. U. L. REV. 857 (1994).
Date Posted: April 27, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Code Reform, Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing

A PRACTICAL THEORY OF PUNISHMENT: HOW, WHY & WHO TO PUNISH (forthcoming 2006).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Law and Society, Moral and Political Philosophy, Social Welfare

A Proposal for Limiting the Duty of the Trial Judge to Instruct the Jury Sua Sponte, 11 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 325 (1974).
Date Posted: April 28, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence
Keywords: Jurisprudence, Jury Decision Making, Practice and Procedure

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).
Date Posted: August 28, 2009
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice, Public Law and the Constitution
Keywords: Constitutional Law, Criminal Law and Procedure, Law and Technology

A Sentencing System for the 21st Century?, 66 TEX. L. REV. 1 (1987).
Date Posted: April 28, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Code Reform, Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing

A Theory of Justification: Societal Harm as a Prerequisite for Criminal Liability, 23 UCLA L. REV. 266 (1975).
Date Posted: April 28, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Law and Society

Are Criminal Codes Irrelevant?, 68 S. CAL. L. REV. 159 (1994).
Date Posted: April 28, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Code Reform, Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing

Book Review: G. Fletcher, A Crime of Self-Defense: Bernhard Goetz and the Law on Trial, 74 A.B.A. JOURNAL 112 (Sept. 1, 1988).
Date Posted: April 28, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing

Brotherly Intervention, N.Y. TIMES, OP-ED., Nov. 29, 1997, A25.
Date Posted: April 28, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Law and Society, Moral and Political Philosophy

CRIMINAL LAW CASE STUDIES (3rd ed. West Group 2007) (2nd ed. 2002; 1st ed. 2000). TEACHER'S MANUAL FOR CRIMINAL LAW CASE STUDIES (3rd ed. West Group 2007) (2nd ed. 2002; 1st ed. 2000).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Code Reform, Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Law and Society, Moral and Political Philosophy, Social Welfare

CRIMINAL LAW CONVERSATIONS (editor, with Steve Garvey & Kim Ferzan) (Oxford 2009)
Date Posted: January 22, 2009
Publication Date: July 10, 2009
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Courts and the Administration of Justice, Law and Criminal Justice, Legal Process and Dispute Resolution
Keywords: Criminal Code Reform, Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing

CRIMINAL LAW DEFENSES, 2 vols. (West 1984)
Date Posted: April 27, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Legal Education, Practice and Procedure

CRIMINAL LAW: CASE STUDIES & CONTROVERSIES (2nd ed. forthcoming Aspen 2008) (1st ed. 2005); TEACHER'S MANUAL FOR CRIMINAL LAW: CASE STUDIES & CONTROVERSIES (2nd ed. forthcoming Aspen 2008) (1st ed. 2005).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Code Reform, Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Law and Society, Moral and Political Philosophy, Social Welfare

Can a Model Penal Code Second Save the States from Themselves?, 1 OHIO ST. J. CRIM. L. 169 (2003).
Date Posted: February 21, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Code Reform, Criminal Law and Procedure, Law and Society, Moral and Political Philosophy, State and Local Government Law

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).
Date Posted: April 28, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing

Codifying Criminal Law: Do Modern Codes Have It Right?, 5 CANTERBURY L. REV. 312 (1993).
Date Posted: April 28, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Code Reform, Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing

Community Standards of Criminal Liability and the Insanity Defense, 19 LAW & HUM. BEHAV. 425 (1995) (with Daniel Bails, John Darley and Tracy Waxman).
Date Posted: April 28, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Code Reform, Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Mental Health Law, Moral and Political Philosophy

Competing Conceptions of Modern Desert: Vengeful, Deontological, and Empirical 67 CAMBRIDGE L. J. 145-175 (2008)
Date Posted: August 18, 2006
Publication Date: August 17, 2006
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice, Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Jurisprudence, Legal Philosophy

Competing Conceptions of Modern Desert: Vengeful, Deontological, and Empirical, 67 CAMBRIDGE L.J. 145 (2008).
Date Posted: August 28, 2009
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Sentencing

Competing Theories of Justification: Deeds vs. Reasons, in A.T.H. Smith & A. Simester, eds., HARM AND CULPABILITY 45-70 (Oxford 1996).
Date Posted: April 27, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Code Reform, Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Legal Studies, Social Science and the Law

Concordance & Conflict in Intuitions of Justice, 91 MINN. L. REV. 1829 (2007) (with Robert Kurzban).
Date Posted: March 06, 2007
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing

Crime, Punishment and Prevention, 142 THE PUBLIC INTEREST 61-71 (Winter 2001).
Date Posted: April 23, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Law and Society

Criminal Justice in the Information Age: A Punishment Theory Paradox, 1 OHIO ST. J. CRIM. L. 683 (2004) (reprinted in LEGAL ASPECTS OF TECHNOLOGY (ICFAI: 2008)).
Date Posted: September 02, 2009
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice, Law, Technology and Communications
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Law and Society, Law and Technology

Criminal Law Scholarship: Three Illusions, 2 THEORETICAL INQUIRIES IN LAW 287 (2001).
Date Posted: April 23, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Code Reform, Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Legal Education, Moral and Political Philosophy

Criminal Law as an Instrument of Behavioral Control: Should Deterrence Have a Role in the Formulation of Criminal Law Rules? (2002).
Date Posted: April 28, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Code Reform, Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing

Criminal Liability for Omissions: A Brief Summary and Critique of the Law in the United States, 29 N.Y.L. SCH. L. REV. 101 (1984).
Date Posted: April 28, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Code Reform, Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing

DISTRIBUTIVE PRINCIPLES OF CRIMINAL LAW: WHO SHOULD BE PUNISHED HOW MUCH? (Oxford 2008), also appearing in Spanish and Chinese.
Date Posted: January 22, 2009
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Code Reform, Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing

Desert, Crime Control, Disparity, and Units of Punishment, in A. Duff, et al. eds., PENAL THEORY AND PRACTICE: TRADITION AND INNOVATION IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE 93-107 (Manchester Univ. Press 1994).
Date Posted: April 28, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Code Reform, Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing

Dissenting View of Commissioner Paul H. Robinson to the Promulgation of Sentencing Guidelines by the United States Sentencing Commission, 52 Fed. Reg. 18121-18132 (1987); reprinted in 41 CRIMINAL LAW REPORTER 3174 (1987).
Date Posted: April 28, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Code Reform, Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Federal Courts

Dissenting View of Commissioner Paul H. Robinson to the Proposed Sentencing Guidelines for United States Courts, 52 Fed. Reg. 3986-3988 (1987); reprinted in 77 J. CRIM. L. & CRIMINOLOGY 1112-1125 (1987).
Date Posted: April 28, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Code Reform, Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Federal Courts

Does Criminal Law Deter? A Behavioral Science Investigation, 24 OXFORD J. LEGAL STUD. 173 (2004) (with John Darley). [Appendix]
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice, Law and Social Sciences
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Law and Society, Moral and Political Philosophy, Social Science and the Law, Social Welfare

FINAL REPORT OF THE ILLINOIS CRIMINAL CODE REWRITE AND REFORM COMMISSION (State of Illinois 2003) (two volumes) (with staff).
Date Posted: March 06, 2007
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson

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).
Date Posted: March 06, 2007
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson

FUNDAMENTALS OF CRIMINAL LAW (Little, Brown & Co., 2nd ed., 1995) (1st ed. 1988).
Date Posted: April 27, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Code Reform, Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Legal Education

Fair Notice and Fair Adjudication: Two Kinds of Legality, 154 U. PA. L. REV. 335 (2005).
Date Posted: September 29, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Code Reform, Criminal Law and Procedure

Final Report of the Republic of Maldives Penal Code Reform Project, (2006).
Date Posted: December 09, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice, Law and the Global Community
Keywords: Comparative Law, Criminal Code Reform, Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing

Four Predictions for the Criminal Law of 2043, 19 RUTGERS L.J. 897 (1988).
Date Posted: April 28, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Code Reform, Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing

Hate Crimes: Crimes of Motive, Character, or Group Terror?, ANN. SURV. AM. L. 605 (1993).
Date Posted: April 28, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing

How Psychology Has Changed the Punishment Theory Debate, LAW & PSYCHOL. (forthcoming, July 2006).
Date Posted: February 20, 2006
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson

Hybrid Principles for the Distribution of Criminal Sanctions, 82 NW. U. L. REV. 19 (1987).
Date Posted: April 28, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing

Imputed Criminal Liability, 93 YALE L.J. 609 (1984); reprinted in A CRIMINAL LAW ANTHOLOGY, A. Loewy, ed., (1992).
Date Posted: April 28, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Code Reform, Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing

In Defense of the Model Penal Code: A Reply to Professor Fletcher, 2 BUFF. CRIM. L. REV. 25 (1998).
Date Posted: April 27, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Code Reform, Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing

Incapacitation and Just Deserts as Motives for Punishment, 24 LAW AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR 659 (2000) (with John Darley and Kevin Carlsmith).
Date Posted: April 23, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Law and Society, Moral and Political Philosophy

Intuitions of Justice: Implications for Criminal Law and Justice Policy, 81 S. CAL. L. REV. 1 (2007) (with John Darley).
Date Posted: July 23, 2007
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Code Reform, Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Social Science and the Law

JUSTICE, LIABILITY, AND BLAME: COMMUNITY VIEWS AND THE CRIMINAL LAW, (Westview 1995) (with John Darley).
Date Posted: April 27, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Law and Society, Moral and Political Philosophy

Justice Can Never Come Too Late, THE WASHINTON POST, OP-ED., May 3, 2000, A-23.
Date Posted: April 23, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing

Justification Defenses in Situations of Unavoidable Uncertainty: A Reply to Professor Ferzan, LAW & PHILOSOPHY (forthcoming 2005).
Date Posted: April 25, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice, Law and History
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Law and Society, Legal Philosophy

LAW WITHOUT JUSTICE: WHY CRIMINAL LAW DOESN’T GIVE PEOPLE WHAT THEY DESERVE (with Michael Cahill) (Oxford Univ. Press 2005).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Code Reform, Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Law and Society, Moral and Political Philosophy, Social Welfare

Legality and Discretion in the Distribution of Criminal Sanctions, 25 HARV. J. ON LEGIS. 393 (1988).
Date Posted: April 28, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing

Letter, Symposium on the Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Methods of Investigation of the General Security Service Regarding Hostile Terrorist Activity, 23 ISRAEL L. REV. 189 (1989).
Date Posted: April 28, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice, Law and the Global Community
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Moral and Political Philosophy, Terrorism and Democracy

Making Criminal Codes Functional: A Code of Conduct and a Code of Adjudication, 86 J. CRIM. L. & CRIMINOLOGY 304 (1996) (with Peter Greene & Natasha Goldstein).
Date Posted: April 28, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Code Reform, Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing

Mens Rea, in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CRIME AND JUSTICE 995 (2nd ed., 2002)
Date Posted: April 23, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Legal Philosophy

Moral Credibility and Crime, ATLANTIC MONTHLY 72-78 (March 1995).
Date Posted: April 28, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Code Reform, Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Moral and Political Philosophy

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).
Date Posted: April 27, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice, Law and Social Sciences
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Legal Studies, Social Science and the Law

One Perspective on Sentencing Reform in the United States, 8 CRIM. L.F. 1 (1997).
Date Posted: April 27, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Code Reform, Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing

Parole Holds: Their Effects on the Rights of the Parolee and the Operation of the Parole System, 19 UCLA L. REV. 759 (1972).
Date Posted: April 28, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Law Enforcement and Corrections

Prohibited Risks and Culpable Disregard or Inattentiveness: Challenge and Confusion in the Formulation of Risk-Creation Offenses, 4 THEORETICAL INQUIRIES IN LAW 367 (2003).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Code Reform, Criminal Law and Procedure, Moral and Political Philosophy, Risk

Proposal and Analysis of a Unitary System for Review of Criminal Judgments, 54 B.U. L. REV. 485 (1974).
Date Posted: April 28, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Code Reform, Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing

Punishing Dangerousness: Cloaking Preventive Detention as Criminal Justice, 114 HARV. L. REV. 1429 (2001).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Jurisprudence, Law and Society, Moral and Political Philosophy, Social Welfare

REPORT ON THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM OF THE REPUBLIC OF MALDIVES: PROPOSALS FOR REFORM, prepared at the Request of the Attorney General of the Maldives, for the United Nations Development Program, (August 2004).
Date Posted: April 25, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice, Law and the Global Community
Keywords: Comparative Law, Criminal Code Reform, Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Law and Society

Reforming the Federal Criminal Code: A Top Ten List, in Symposium: Rethinking Federal Criminal Law, 1 BUFF. CRIM. L. REV. 225 (1997).
Date Posted: April 27, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Keywords: Criminal Code Reform, Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing

Report of U.S. and U.K. Delegation on the Criminal Theory of Anglo-American Law (with Michael Cahill & Andrew Simester) (2006) (in Chinese).
Date Posted: February 20, 2006
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure

Restorative Processes & Doing Justice, 3 U. ST. THOMAS L. REV. 421 (2006).
Date Posted: September 02, 2009
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Law and Society, Moral and Political Philosophy

Riot Responsibility, 66 N.Y. ST. BAR J. 6 (Jan. 1994).
Date Posted: April 28, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Law and Society, Mental Health Law

Rules of Conduct and Principles of Adjudication, 57 U. CHI. L. REV. 729 (1990).
Date Posted: April 27, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice, Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Jurisprudence, Practice and Procedure

Sentencing Decisions: Matching the Decisionmaker to the Decision Nature, 105 COLUM. L. REV. 1124-1161 (2005) (with Barbara Spelman).
Date Posted: February 21, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Courts, Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Jurisprudence, Moral and Political Philosophy

Should the Criminal Law Abandon the Actus Reus - Mens Rea Distinction?, in S. Shute, J. Gardner & J. Horder, eds., CRIMINAL LAW: ACTION, VALUE AND STRUCTURE 187-211 (Oxford 1993).
Date Posted: April 27, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Code Reform, Criminal Law and Procedure

Some Doubts About Argument by Hypothetical, 88 CAL. L. REV. 813 (2000).
Date Posted: April 23, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice, Law and Social Sciences
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Legal Philosophy, Philosophy, Social Science and the Law

State's Weird Law Skewed Au Pair Case, NEWSDAY, Nov. 17, 1997,.
Date Posted: April 28, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Code Reform, Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, State and Local Government Law

Structuring Criminal Codes to Perform Their Function, in Symposium: The Model Penal Code Revisited, 4 BUFF. CRIM. L. REV. 1 (2000).
Date Posted: April 23, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Code Reform, Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing

Summary of the Structure of American Criminal Law, 23 TRIB. POL. SCI. & L. 98-111 (2005) in Chinese, translation by Prof. He Bing-song.
Date Posted: December 09, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure

Testing Competing Theories of Justification, 76 N.C. L. REV. 1095 (1998) (with John Darley).
Date Posted: April 27, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Moral and Political Philosophy

Testing Lay Intuitions of Justice: How and Why? in Symposium: Is Justice Just Us? A Symposium on the Use of Social Science to Inform the Substantive Criminal Law, 28 HOFSTRA LAW REVIEW 611 (2000).
Date Posted: April 23, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Law and Society, Moral and Political Philosophy

The A.L.I.'s Proposed Distributive Principle of "Limiting Retributivism": Does It Mean In Practice Anything Other Than Pure Desert?, 7 BUFF. CRIM. L. REV. 3 (2004).
Date Posted: September 02, 2009
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Law and Society

The Accelerating Degradation of American Criminal Codes, 56 HASTINGS L.J. 633 (2005) (with Michael T. Cahill).
Date Posted: February 21, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Code Reform, Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Law and Society, Moral and Political Philosophy, Social Welfare

The American Model Penal Code: A Brief Overview, 10 NEW CRIM. L. REV. 319 (2007) (with Marcus Dubber).
Date Posted: April 23, 2005
Publication Date: July 01, 2007
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Code Reform, Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing

The Bomb Thief and the Theory of Justification Defenses, 22(1) IYUNEI MISHPAT (law journal of the Tel Aviv University law faculty) (March 1998) (translated into Hebrew); reprinted in English 8 CRIM. L.F. 387 (1998).
Date Posted: April 27, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Legal Studies, Moral and Political Philosophy

The Criminal - Civil Distinction and Dangerous Blameless Offenders, 83 J. CRIM. L. & CRIMINOLOGY 693 (1993).
Date Posted: April 28, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Code Reform, Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Moral and Political Philosophy

The Criminal - Civil Distinction and the Utility of Desert, in Symposium: The Intersection of Crime and Tort, 76 B.U. L. REV. 201 (1996).
Date Posted: April 28, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Torts

The Danger of Defending the Denny Acquittals, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, OP-ED., October 27, 1993, A23.
Date Posted: April 28, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Law and Society

The Ex Ante Function of the Criminal Law, 35 LAW AND SOCIETY REVIEW 165 (2001) (with John Darley and Kevin Carlsmith).
Date Posted: April 23, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Law and Society

The Federal Sentencing Guidelines Ten Years Later: An Introduction and Comments, 91 NW. U. L. REV. 1231 (1997).
Date Posted: April 28, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Federal Courts

The Five Worst (and Five Best) American Criminal Codes, 95 NW. U. L. REV. 1 (2000) (with Michael Cahill and Usman Mohammad).
Date Posted: April 23, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Code Reform, Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, State and Local Government Law

The Modern General Part: Three Illusions, in Stephen Shute & Andrew Simester (eds.), CRIMINAL LAW THEORY: DOCTRINES OF THE GENERAL PART, 75-102 (Oxford University Press 2002).
Date Posted: April 25, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Legal Studies

The Origins of Shared Intuitions of Justice (with Robert Kurzban and Owen Jones), 60 VAND. L. REV. 1633 (2007).
Date Posted: September 02, 2009
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Law and Society, Moral and Political Philosophy, Social Science and the Law

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).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Code Reform, Criminal Law and Procedure, Jurisprudence, Moral and Political Philosophy

The Role of Harm and Evil in Criminal Law: A Study in Legislative Deception?, 5 J. CONTEMP. LEGAL ISSUES 299 (1994).
Date Posted: April 28, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Law and Society, Legislation, Politics

The Role of Moral Philosophers in the Competition Between Philosophical and Empirical Desert, Symposium Issue, 48 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1831 (2007).
Date Posted: September 02, 2009
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice, Law and Philosophy/Jurisprudence
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Law and Society, Legal Philosophy, Moral and Political Philosophy, Philosophy

The Severity of Intermediate Penal Sanctions: A Psychophysical Scaling Approach for Obtaining Community Perceptions, 11 J. QUANTITATIVE CRIMINOLOGY 71 (1995) (with Robert Harlow & John Darley).
Date Posted: April 28, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice, Law and Social Sciences
Keywords: Criminal Code Reform, Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Law and Society, Social Science and the Law

The Structure of American Criminal Law: A Brief Summary of Its Central Parts, in He Bingsong (ed.), RESEARCH ON CRIMINAL LAW THEORY SYSTEMS (forthcoming in 2004) (in Chinese).
Date Posted: April 25, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Legal Studies

The Utility of Desert, 91 NW. U. L. REV. 453 (1997) (with John Darley).
Date Posted: April 27, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice, Law and Social Sciences
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Legal Studies, Social Science and the Law

The Virtues of Restorative Processes, the Vices of "Restorative Justice", 1 UTAH L. REV. 375 (2003).
Date Posted: April 20, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Code Reform, Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Law and Society, Moral and Political Philosophy, Social Welfare

WOULD YOU CONVICT? 17 CASES THAT CHALLENGED THE LAW (NYU Press 1999).
Date Posted: February 18, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Law and Society, Moral and Political Philosophy

Why Do We Punish? Deterrence and Just Deserts as Motives for Punishment, 83 JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 284 (2002) (with Kevin Carlsmith and John Darley).
Date Posted: April 23, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Legal Philosophy, Moral and Political Philosophy

Why Does the Criminal Law Care What the Lay Person Thinks is Just? Coercive vs. Normative Crime Control, 86 VA. L. REV. 1839 (2000).
Date Posted: April 23, 2005
Publication Date: Forthcoming
Author: Paul H. Robinson
Subjects: Law and Criminal Justice
Keywords: Criminal Law and Procedure, Criminal Sentencing, Law and Society