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Tel: 215.746.2297
Email: sbibas@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
- Law and Criminal Justice
- Law and Social Sciences
- Legal Process and Dispute Resolution
Bio
Stephanos Bibas explores how procedural rules written for jury trials have unintended consequences when 95 percent of defendants plead guilty.
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Stephanos Bibas explores how procedural rules written for jury trials have unintended consequences when 95 percent of defendants plead guilty. He studies the powers, incentives, information, and psychology that shape how prosecutors, defense counsel, defendants, and judges behave. 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. He is writing a book (Assembly-Line Criminal Justice, Oxford, forthcoming 2011) on how criminal justice should do more to encourage acceptance of responsibility, remorse, apology, and forgiveness.
As a federal prosecutor, Bibas successfully prosecuted the world’s leading expert in Tiffany stained glass, J. Alastair Duncan, for hiring a grave robber to steal priceless Tiffany windows from cemeteries. His work played a central role in the Supreme Court’s landmark case of Blakely v. Washington. As director of Penn's Supreme Court Clinic, he litigates a wide range of appellate cases under consideration by the Supreme Court of the United States. He received the Robert A. Gorman Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2008.
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Representative Professional Positions
Visiting Associate Professor – University of Chicago (winter/spring 2006), Penn Law (fall 2005)
Law Clerk to Justice Anthony Kennedy, Supreme Court of the United States (1997-98)
Yale Law School – Research Fellow (2000-01)
Penn Law – Professor (2006- )
United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York – Assistant U.S. Attorney (1998-2000)
University of Iowa – Associate Professor (2001-06)
Representative Publications
ASSEMBLY-LINE CRIMINAL JUSTICE (under contract with Oxford Univ. Press,
forthcoming 2011).
Prosecutorial Regulation Versus Prosecutorial Accountability, 157 U. PA. L. REV. (forthcoming 2009).
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Policing Politics at Sentencing, 103 NW. U. L. REV. (forthcoming spring 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. forthcoming 2009).
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Political versus Administrative Justice, in CRIMINAL LAW CONVERSATIONS (Paul H. Robinson,
Kimberly Ferzan, & Stephen P. Garvey eds. forthcoming 2009).
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Invasions of Conscience and Faked Apologies, in CRIMINAL LAW CONVERSATIONS (forthcoming Oxford Univ. Press 2009).
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Policing Politics at Sentencing, 103 NW. U. L. REV. (forthcoming spring 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 (Paul H. Robinson, Kimberly Ferzan, & Stephen P. Garvey eds.,
forthcoming 2009) (with Douglas A. Berman).
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Rewarding Prosecutors for Performance, 6 OHIO ST. J. CRIM. L. (forthcoming 2009) (symposium
essay).
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Exacerbating Injustice, Response, 157 U. PA. L. REV. PENNUMBRA 53 (2009).
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Judicial Fact-Finding at Sentencing, in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES (forthcoming Dec. 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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White-Collar Plea Bargaining and Sentencing After Booker, 47 WM. & MARY L. REV. 721 (2005).
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Regulating Local Variations in Federal Sentencing, 58 STAN. L. REV. 137 (2005).
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Originalism and Formalism in Criminal Procedure: The Triumph of Justice Scalia, the Unlikely Friend of Criminal Defendants?, 94 GEO. L.J. 183 (2005).
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Brady v. Maryland: From Adversarial Gamesmanship Toward the Search for Innocence?, in CRIMINAL PROCEDURE STORIES (Carol Steiker ed., 2005)
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Integrating Remorse and Apology into Criminal Procedure (with Richard A. Bierschbach) 114 YALE L.J. 85 (2004).
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Plea Bargaining Outside the Shadow of Trial, 117 HARV. L. REV. 2463 (2004).
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Current & Recent Research
Current Working Papers
International Idealism Meets Domestic-Criminal-Procedure Realism (work in progress, coauthored
with William W. Burke-White).
Representative Professional Activities
Testimony before the United States Sentencing Commission, The Future of Federal Sentencing Guidelines after Blakely v. Washington.
(11/16/2004)
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