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Tel: 215.746.2297
Email: sbibas@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
- Criminal Law
- Criminal Law Theory
- Criminal Sentencing
- Law and Criminal Justice
- Social Science and the Law
- Legal Process and Dispute Resolution
Bio
Stephanos Bibas studies the powers and incentives that shape how prosecutors, defense counsel, defendants, and judges behave in the real world of guilty pleas.
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Stephanos Bibas studies the powers and incentives that shape how prosecutors, defense counsel, defendants, and judges behave in the real world of guilty pleas. His 2004 paper, “Plea Bargaining Outside the Shadow of Trial” (Harvard Law Review), explored the agency costs, structural forces, and psychological biases that cause plea bargaining to deviate from expected trial outcomes. He also studies the divorce between criminal procedure’s focus on efficiency and criminal
law’s interest in healing victims, defendants, and communities. His new book (The Machinery of
Criminal Justice, Oxford 2012) explains how criminal justice should do more to encourage
acceptance of responsibility, remorse, apology, and forgiveness.
As director of Penn’s Supreme Court Clinic, Bibas litigates a wide range of Supreme Court cases. He and his co-counsel won a landmark victory in Padilla v. Kentucky in 2010, persuading the Court to recognize the right of noncitizen defendants to accurate information about deportation before they plead guilty. His academic work played a central role in the Supreme Court’s landmark case of Blakely v. Washington.
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Representative Professional Positions
Penn Law – Professor of Law (2006- ) and Criminology (2009- ); Director, Supreme Court Clinic (2009- )
Visiting Associate Professor – University of Chicago (winter/spring 2006), Penn Law (fall 2005)
University of Iowa – Associate Professor (2001-06)
United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York – Assistant U.S. Attorney (1998-2000)
Law Clerk to Justice Anthony Kennedy, Supreme Court of the United States (1997-98)
Law Clerk to Judge Patrick Higginbotham, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (1994-95)
Representative Publications
Triaging Appointed-Counsel Funding and Pro Se Access to Justice, 160 U. PA. L. REV. 967 (2012) (with Benjamin H. Barton).
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Neuroprediction, Violence, and the Law: Setting the Stage, 5 NEUROETHICS 67 (2012) (with Thomas Nadelhoffer, Scott Grafton, Kent A. Kiehl, Andrew Mansfield, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong & Michael Gazzaniga).
THE MACHINERY OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE (Oxford Univ. Press 2012)
Regulating the Plea-Bargaining Market: From Caveat Emptor to Consumer Protection, 99 CALIF. L. REV. 1117 (2011).
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Sacrificing Quantity for Quality: Better Focusing Prosecutors' Scarce Resources, 106 NW. U. L. REV. COLLOQUY 138 (2011).
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The Pitfalls of Professionalized Prosecution: A Response to Josh Bowers's "Legal Guilt, Normative Innocence, and the Equitable Decision Not to Prosecute," 111 COLUM. L. REV. SIDEBAR 14 (2011)
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Two Cheers, Not Three, For Sixth Amendment Originalism, 34 HARV. J.L. & PUB. POL'Y 45 (2011).
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International Idealism Meets Domestic-Criminal-Procedure Realism, 59 DUKE L.J. 637 (2010) (with William W. Burke-White).
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The Need for Prosecutorial Discretion, 19 TEMP. POL. & CIV. RTS. L REV. 369 (2010).
Prosecutorial Regulation Versus Prosecutorial Accountability, 157 U. PA. L. REV. 959 (2009).
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Policing Politics at Sentencing, 103 NW. U. L. REV. 1371 (2009) (coauthored with
Max M. Schanzenbach and Emerson H. Tiller).
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Restoration, But Also More Justice, in CRIMINAL LAW CONVERSATIONS 595 (Paul H. Robinson,
Kimberly Ferzan, & Stephen P. Garvey eds. 2009).
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Political versus Administrative Justice, in CRIMINAL LAW CONVERSATIONS 677 (Paul H. Robinson,
Kimberly Ferzan, & Stephen P. Garvey eds. 2009).
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Invasions of Conscience and Faked Apologies, in CRIMINAL LAW CONVERSATIONS 196 (Oxford Univ. Press 2009).
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Policing Politics at Sentencing, 103 NW. U. L. REV. 1371 (2009) (with Max M. Schanzenbach and Emerson H. Tiller).
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The Heart Has Its Value: The Justifiable Persistence of the American Death Penalty, in CRIMINAL LAW CONVERSATIONS 643 (Paul H. Robinson, Kimberly Ferzan, & Stephen P. Garvey eds., 2009) (with Douglas A. Berman).
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Rewarding Prosecutors for Performance, 6 OHIO ST. J. CRIM. L. 441 (2009) (symposium
essay).
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Judicial Fact-Finding at Sentencing, in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (2008).
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Engaging Capital Emotions (with Douglas A. Berman) 102 NW. U. L. REV. COLLOQUY 355 (2008).
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The Sixth Amendment and Criminal Sentencing (with Susan R. Klein), 30 CARDOZO L. REV. 775 (2008) (with Susan R. Klein).
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Rita v. United States Leaves More Open Than it Answers, 20 FED. SENTENCING REPORTER 28 (2007).
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Forgiveness in Criminal Procedure, 4 OHIO ST. J. CRIM. L. 329 (2007).
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Making Sentencing Sensible, 4 OHIO ST. J. CRIM. L. 37 (2006) (with Douglas A. Berman), cited with approval in Cunningham v. California, 127 S. Ct. 856, 873 (2007) (Kennedy, J., dissenting).
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The Rehnquist Court's Fifth Amendment Incrementalism, 74 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 1078 (2006).
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Transparency and Participation in Criminal Procedure, 81 N.Y.U. L. REV. (June 2006), cited with approval in Kansas v. Marsh, 126 S. Ct. 2516, 2532 n.3 (2006) (Scalia, J., dissenting).
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For additional publications, please consult
Current & Recent Research
Current Working Papers
The Myth of the Fully Informed Rational Actor, 31. ST. LOUIS U. PUB. L. REV. __ (2011). (forthcoming 2011)
Representative Professional Activities
Merits Brief for Petitioner and Reply Brief and Oral Argument, Vartelas v. Holder, No. 10-1211 (U.S. 2012)
(11/16/2004)
Merits Brief Amicus Curiae Invited by the Court and Oral Argument, Tapia v. United States, No. 10-5400 (U.S. 2011)
Brief in Opposition to Certiorari and Merits Brief for Respondent, Turner v. Rogers, No. 10-10 (U.S. 2011)
2011 Jack Wasserman Memorial Award by the American Immigration Lawyers' Association for our successful work on Padilla v. Kentucky
(07/03/1905)
Member, Philadelphia Mayor’s Advisory Task Force on Ethics and Campaign Finance
Reform, 2008-09
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