Criminal Law Research

David Abrams

Building Criminal Capital vs. Specific Deterrence: The Effect of Incarceration Length on Recidivism

The Law and Economics of Stop-and-Frisk, 46 LOY. U. CHI. L. J. 369 (2014).

The Imprisoner's Dilemma: A Cost-Benefit Approach to Incarceration, 98 IOWA L. REV. 905 (2013).

Putting the Trial Penalty on Trial, 51 DUQUESNE L. REV. 777 (2013).

How Do We Decide How Long to Incarcerate?, in EMPIRICAL LEGAL ANALYSIS: ASSESSING THE PERFORMANCE OF LEGAL INSTITUTIONS (Yun-chien Chang, ed., Routledge 2013).

Estimating the Deterrent Effect of Incarceration using Sentencing Enhancements, 4 AM. ECON. J.: APPLIED ECON. 32 (2012).

Do Judges Vary in Their Treatment of Race?, 41 J. LEGAL STUD. 347 (2012) (with M. Bertrand and S. Mullainathan).

Optimal Bail and the Value of Freedom: Evidence from the Philadelphia Bail Experiment, 49 ECON. INQUIRY 750-770 (2011) (with C. Rohlfs).

Is Pleading Really a Bargain?, 8 J. EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUD. 200 (2011).

The Luck of the Draw: Using Random Case Assignment to Investigate Attorney Ability, 74 U. CHI. L. REV. 1145 (2007) (with A. Yoon).

Anita Allen

Veiled Women in the American Courtroom: Is the Niqab a Barrier to Justice? in THE RULE OF LAW AND THE RULE OF GOD (Simeon O. Ilesanmi, Win-Chiat Lee & J. Wilson Parker eds., Palgrave Macmillan 2014).

Atmospherics: Abortion Law and Philosophy, in ON PHILOSOPHY IN AMERICAN LAW (Francis J. Mootz III, ed., Cambridge U. Press, 2009).

Regina Austin

"Not Just a Common Criminal": The Case for Sentencing Mitigation Videos, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 14-19.

Documentation, Documentary, and the Law: What Should Be Made of Victim Impact Videos? 31 CARDOZO L. REV. 979 (2010).

"The Shame of It All": Stigma and the Political Disenfranchisement of Formerly Convicted and Incarcerated Persons, 36 COLUM. HUMAN RIGHTS L. REV. 173 (2004).

Race Statistics, Disparate Impact Analysis and the Economic Disenfranchisement of Minority Ex-Offenders, 4 RACE & SOC'Y 177 (2001).

Tom Baker

Predicting Securities Fraud Settlements and Amounts: A Hierarchical Bayesian Model of Federal Securities Class Action Lawsuits, 9 J. EMPIRICAL L. STUD. 482 (2012) (with Blakely McShane, Oliver Watson & Sean Griffith).

Mitchell Berman

Abuse of Property Right Without Political Foundations: A Response to Katz, 124 YALE L.J. F. 42 (2014).

Rehabilitating Retributivism, 32 LAW & PHIL. 83 (2013).

Introduction: Punishment and Culpability, 9 OHIO ST. J. CRIM. L. 441 (2012).

The Justification of Punishment, in THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO PHILOSOPHY OF LAW 141 (Andrei Marmor ed., Routledge 2012).

Attempts, in Language and in Law, 6 JERUSALEM REV. LEG. STUD. 1 (2012) (reviewing GIDEON YAFFE, ATTEMPTS (Oxford 2010)).

Two Kinds of Retributivism, in THE PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF CRIMINAL LAW 433 (R. A. Duff & Stuart Green eds., Oxford 2011).

Blackmail, in THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF PHILOSOPHY OF CRIMINAL LAW 37 (John Deigh & David Dolinko eds., Oxford 2011).

Provocation Manslaughter as Partial Justification and Partial Excuse, 52 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1027 (2011) (with Ian P. Farrell).

Replay, 99 CAL. L. REV. 1683 (2011).

Stephanos Bibas

Rationing Criminal Justice (March 1, 2017), U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 17-10; 116 MICH. L. REV. __ (forthcoming 2017) (with Richard A. Bierschbach).

Designing Plea Bargaining from the Ground Up: Accuracy and Fairness Without Trials as Backstops, 57 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1055 (2016).

What's Wrong With Sentencing Equality?, 102 VA. L. REV. 1447 (2016) (with Richard A. Bierschbach).

Justice Scalia's Originalism and Formalism: The Rule of Criminal Law as a Law of Rules, in THE LEGACY OF JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA: REMEMBERING A CONSERVATIVE LEGAL TITAN’S IMPACT ON THE LAW, HERITAGE FOUNDATION, SPECIAL REPORT NO. 186 (Elizabeth Slattery ed., 2016).

Plea Bargaining's Role in Wrongful Convictions, in EXAMINING WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS: STEPPING BACK, MOVING FORWARD (Allison D. Redlich et al. eds., Carolina Academic Press, 2014).

The Limits of Textualism in Interpreting the Confrontation Clause, 37 HARV. J. L. & PUB. POL'Y 737 (2014).

Observers as Participants: Letting the Public Monitor the Criminal Justice Bureaucracy, 127 HARV. L. REV. F. 342 (2014).

Justice Kennedy's Sixth Amendment Pragmatism, 44 MCGEORGE L. REV. 211 (2013)

Shrinking Gideon and Expanding Alternatives to Lawyers, 70 WASH. & LEE L. REV. 1287 (2013).

Criminal (In)Justice and Democracy in America, 122 HARV. L. REV. F. 134 (2013).

Bulk Misdemeanor Justice, 85 S. CAL. L. REV. POSTSCRIPT 101 (2013).

The Duties of Non-Judicial Actors in Ensuring Competent Negotiation, 51 DUQ. L. REV. 625 (2013)

Constitutionally Tailoring Punishment, 112 MICH. L. REV 397 (2013) (with Richard A. Bierschbach).

THE MACHINERY OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE (Oxford Univ. Press 2012)

Triaging Appointed-Counsel Funding and Pro Se Access to Justice, 160 U. PA. L. REV. 967 (2012) (with Benjamin H. Barton).

Incompetent Plea Bargaining and Extrajudicial Reforms, 126 HARV L. REV. 150 (2012).

Notice-and-Comment Sentencing, 96 MINN L. REV. 1 (2012) (with Richard A. Bierschbach).

Taming Negotiated Justice, 122 YALE L. J. ONLINE 35 (2012).

Two Cheers, Not Three, For Sixth Amendment Originalism, 34 HARV. J.L. & PUB. POL'Y 45 (2011).

Regulating the Plea-Bargaining Market: From Caveat Emptor to Consumer Protection, 99 CALIF. L. REV. 1117 (2011).

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)

International Idealism Meets Domestic-Criminal-Procedure Realism, 59 DUKE L.J. 637 (2010) (with William W. Burke-White).

Policing Politics at Sentencing, 103 NW. U. L. REV. 1371 (2009) (coauthored with Max M. Schanzenbach and Emerson H. Tiller).

Restoration, But Also More Justice, in CRIMINAL LAW CONVERSATIONS 595 (Paul H. Robinson, Kimberly Ferzan, & Stephen P. Garvey eds. 2009).

Prosecutorial Regulation Versus Prosecutorial Accountability, 157 U. PA. L. REV. 959 (2009).

John Bradley

Empowering Employees to Prevent Fraud in Nonprofit Organizations, 13 CARDOZO PUB. L. POL'Y & ETHICS J. 711 (2015)

William Burke-White

Reframing Positive Complementarity: Reflections on the First Decade and Insights from the US Federal Criminal Justice System, in THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT AND COMPLEMENTARITY: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE, (C. Stahn & M. Al Zeidy, eds., Oxford Univ. Press 2011).

International Idealism Meets Domestic-Criminal-Procedure Realism, 59 DUKE L.J. 637 (2010) (with Stephanos Bibas).

Proactive Complementarity: The International Criminal Court and National Courts in the Rome System of Justice, 49 HARV. INT’L L.J. 53 (2008).

Implementing a Policy of Positive Complementarity in the Rome System of Justice, 19 CRIM. L.F. 59 (2008).

The Domestic Influence of International Criminal Tribunals: The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the Creation of the State Court of Bosnia & Herzegovina, 46 COLUM. J. TRANSNAT’L L. 279 (2008).

Matthew Clair

Matthew Clair & Alix S. Winter, How Judges Think About Racial Disparities: Situational Decision-Making In The Criminal Justice System, 54 CRIMINOLOGY (2016).

Penny Ellison

Pennsylvania's Legislative Agenda for Animals for 2014, The Legal Intelligencer, March 24, 2014 at 5.

Is it Animal Cruelty To Have An "Outside Dog"? The Legal Intelligencer, August 27, 2013 (online edition).

What to Do When Property Seized in a Criminal Case Lives and Breathes, The Legal Intelligencer, May 15, 2013 (online edition).

Claire Finkelstein

Punishment as Contract, 8 OHIO ST. J. CRIM. L. 319 (2011).

Should Bush Administration Lawyers Be Prosectured for Authorizing Torture, 158 U. PA. L. REV. PENNumbra 195 (2010) (with Michael W. Lewis).

Vindicating the Rule of Law: Prosecuting Free Riders on Human Rights, in WHEN GOVERNMENTS BREAK THE LAW: THE RULE OF LAW AND THE PROSECUTION OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION (Austin Sarat and Nasser Hussein, eds. 2010).

Contrived Defenses and Deterrent Threats: Two Facets of One Problem , 5 OHIO ST. J. CRIM. L. 479 (2008) (with Leo Katz).

Two Models of Murder: Patterns of Criminalization in the United States, in HOMICIDE LAW IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE (Jeremy Horder and David Hughes, eds. 2007).

A Contractarian Argument Against the Death Penalty, 81 N.Y.U. L. REV. 1283 (2006).

Merger and Felony Murder, in DEFINING CRIMES: ESSAYS ON THE CRIMINAL LAW’S “SPECIAL PORT” (Antony Duff & Stuart Green eds., Oxford Univ. Press 2005).

Responsibility for Unintended Consequences, 2 OHIO ST. J. CRIM. L. 579 (2005).

Report for British Law Commission on American Murder Law, Completed September, 2005 (available upon request), published in British Law Commission CP177 (December 20, 2005).

A Contractarian Approach to Punishment, BLACKWELL SERIES ON PHILOSOPHY OF LAW (Martin Golding & William Edmundson eds., 2004).

Involuntary Crimes, Voluntarily Committed, in CRIMINAL LAW THEORY: DOCTORINES OF THE GENERAL PART (Stephen Shute & A.P. Simester eds., Oxford Univ. Press 2002).

Sarah Gordon

CONVICTIONS: MORMON POLYGAMY AND CRIMINAL LAW ENFORCEMENT IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY UTAH (with Kathryn Daynes, co-author, Univ. Illinois Press)

Paul Heaton

The Downstream Consequences of Misdemeanor Pretrial Detention, 69 STAN. L. REV. 711 (2017) (with Sandra Mayson & Megan Stevenson).

David Hoffman

A Core of Agreement, 77 U. CHI. L. REV. 1655 (2010) (with Donald Braman & Dan M. Kahan).

Some Realism About Punishment Naturalism, 77 U. CHI. L. REV. (2010) 1531 (with Donald Braman & Dan M. Kahan).

Leo Katz

Nine Takes on Indeterminacy, with Special Emphasis on the Criminal Law, 163 U. PA. L. REV. 1945 (2015).

WHY THE LAW IS SO PERVERSE (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2011).

Contrived Defenses and Deterrent Threats: Two Facets of One Problem, 5 OHIO ST. J. CRIM. L. 479 (2008) (with Claire Finkelstein).

Choice, Consent and Cycling:The Hidden Limitations of Consent, 104 MICH. L. REV. 627 (2006).

The Prerequisites of Responsibility: Comments on Antony Duff, 2 OHIO ST. J. CRIM. L. 463 (2005).

Justification and Harm in Negligence, 4 THEORETICAL INQUIRY L. 397 (2003).

Villainy and Felony: A Problem Concerning Criminalization, 6 BUFF. CRIM. L. REV. 451 (2003).

Duress, in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CRIME AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE (MacMillan Press 2002).

Villainy and Felony, 6 BUFF. CRIM. L. REV. 100, Symposium on "The New Culpability" (2002).

Why the Successful Assassin is More Wicked than the Unsuccessful One, 88 CAL. L. REV. 791 (2000).

Proximate Cause in Michael Moore's Act and Crime, 142 U. PA. L. REV. 1513 (1994).

Blackmail and Other Forms of Arm-Twisting, 141 U. PA. L. REV. 1567 (1993).

Jonathan Klick

The Effect of Privately Provided Police Services on Crime, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 12-36 (November 4, 2012) (with John MacDonald & Ben Grunwald).

Reducing False Guilty Pleas and Wrongful Convictions Through Exoneree Compensation, 59 J. L. & ECON. 173 (2016) (with Murat C. Mungan).

Discounting and Criminals' Implied Risk Preferences, 11 REV. L. & ECON. 19 (2015) (with Murat C. Mungan).

Forfeiture of Illegal Gains and Implied Risk Preferences, 43 J. LEGAL STUD. 137 (2014) (with Murat C. Mungan).

Police, Prisons, and Crime (with Alexander Tabarrok), in HANDBOOK ON THE ECONOMICS OF CRIME (Bruce l. Benson and Paul R. Zimmerman, eds., 2012).

Mobile Phones and Crime Deterrence: An Underappreciated Link, in RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON THE ECONOMICS OF CRIMINAL LAW 243 (Alon Harel & Keith N. Hylton eds., Elgar: 2012). (with John MacDonald & Thomas Stratman)

Differential Victimization: Efficiency and Fairness Justifications for the Felony Murder Rule, 4 REV. L. & ECON. 407 (2008)(with Nuno Garoupa).

Seth Kreimer

Truth Machines and Consequences: The Light and Dark Sides of 'Accuracy' in Criminal Justice, 60 N.Y.U. ANN. SURV. AM. L. 655 (2005).

Double Helix, Double Bind; Factual Innocence and Post Conviction DNA Testing, 151 U. PA. L. REV. 547 (with David Rudovsky) (2002).

Stephen Morse

Law and the Sciences of the Brain/Mind, in OXFORD HANDBOOK ON THE LAW AND REGULATION OF TECHNOLOGY (Roger Brownsword ed., Oxford forthcoming).

Involuntary Competence in United States Criminal Law (February 23, 2017), in FITNESS TO PLEAD: INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES (Ronnie Mackay & Warren Brookbanks eds., Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2018).; U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 17-20.

Mental Disorder and Criminal Justice (March 29, 2017), U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 17-22; in ACADEMY FOR JUSTICE, A REPORT ON SCHOLARSHIP AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM (Erik Luna ed., forthcoming 2017).

Addiction, Choice and Criminal Law, in ADDICTION AND CHOICE: RETHINKING THE RELATIONSHIP (Nick Heather & Gabriel Segal eds., Oxford U.P. 2017).

How Should Justice Policy Treat Young Offenders? (MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience, February 2017) (with B J. Casey, Richard J. Bonnie, Andre Davis, David L. Faigman, Morris B. Hoffman, Owen D. Jones, Read Montague, Marcus E. Raichle, Jennifer A. Richeson, Elizabeth S. Scott, Laurence Steinberg, Kim A. Taylor-Thompson, Anthony D. Wagner).

Moore on the Mind, in LEGAL, MORAL, AND METAPHYSICAL TRUTHS: THE PHILOSOPHY OF MICHAEL S. MOORE (Kimberly Kessler Ferzan & Stephen J. Morse eds., Oxford 2016)

Actions Speak Louder than Images: The Use of Neuroscientific Evidence in Criminal Cases, J. L. & BIOSCI. (2016).

Predicting the Knowledge-Recklessness Distinction in the Human Brain (February 9, 2017). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2016 (with Iris Vilares, Michael Wesley, Woo-Young Ahn, Richard J. Bonnie, Morris B. Hoffman, Owen D. Jones, Gideon Yaffe, Terry Lohrenz, Read Montague).

Neuroscience, Free Will, and Criminal Responsibility, in FREE WILL AND THE BRAIN: NEUROSCIENTIFIC, PHILOSOPHICAL, AND LEGAL PERSPECTIVES (Walter Glannon ed., Cambridge 2015).

Criminal Law and Common Sense: An Essay on the Perils and Promise of Neuroscience, 99 MARQ. L. REV. 39 (2015).

Neuroprediction: New Technology, Old Problems, 8 BIOETHICA FORUM 128 (2015).

Law and Neuroscience: Recommendations Submitted to the President's Bioethics Commission, 1 J. L. & BIOSCI. 224 (2014). (with Owen D. Jones, Richrd J. Bonnie, B. J. Casey, Andre Davis, David L. Faigman, Morris B. Hoffman, Read Montague, Marcus E. Raichie, Jennifer A. Richeson, Elizabeth S. Scott, Laurence Steinberg, Kim A. Taylor-Thompson, Anthony D. Wagner, Gideon Yaffe)

Commentary: Reflections on Remorse, 42 J. AM. ACAD. PSYCHIATRY & L. 49 (2014).

Common Criminal Law Compatibilism, in NEUROSCIENCE AND LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY (Nicole A. Vincent ed. 2013).

Abolition of the Insanity Defense Violates Due Process, 41 J. AM. ACAD. PSYCHIATRY & L. 488 (2013) (with Richard J. Bonnie).

Neuroimaging Evidence in Law: A Plea for Modesty and Relevance, in NEUROIMAGING IN FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY: FROM THE CLINIC TO THE COURTROOM 341 (Joseph R. Simpson ed., Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).

Mental Disorder and Criminal Law, 101 J. CRIM. L. & CRIMINOLOGY 885 (2011).

Lost in Translation?: An Essay on Law and Neuroscience, LAW AND NEUROSCIENCE, 13 CURRENT LEGAL ISSUES 529 (Michael Freeman, ed., 2011).

Gene-Environment Interactions, Criminal Responsibility, and Sentencing, in GENE INTERACTIONS IN DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY 207 (Kenneth A. Dodge & Michael Rutter, eds., Guilford Press, 2011).

Neuroscience and the Future of Personhood and Responsibility, in CONSTITUTION 3.0: FREEDOM AND TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE 113 (Jeffrey Rosen & Benjamin Wittes eds., Brookings Institution Press, 2011).

CRIME AND CULPABILITY: A THEORY OF CRIMINAL LAW (2009) (contributing author, with Larry Alexander & Kimberly Kessler Ferzan).

The Uneasy Entente Between Legal Insanity and Mens Rea: Beyond Clark v. Arizona, 97 J. CRIM. L. & CRIMINOLOGY 1071 (2007).

Brian Murray

A New Era for Expungement Law Reform? Recent Developments at the State and Federal Levels, 10 Harv. L. & Pol’y Rev. 361 (2016).

Prosecutorial Responsibility and Collateral Consequences, 12 Stan. J. C.R. & C.L. 213 (2016).

Beyond the Right to Counsel: Increasing Notice of Collateral Consequences, 49 U. Rich. L. Rev. 1139 (2015).

Dorothy Roberts

Prison, Foster Care, and the Systematic Punishment of Black Mothers, 59 UCLA L. REV. 1474 (2012).

Race, Gender, and the Conflation of Biological and Social Issues, 9 DUBOIS REV. 235 (2012) (book review).

The Social and Moral Cost of Mass Incarceration in African American Communities, 56 STAN. L. REV. 1271 (2004).

Punishing Drug Addicts Who Have Babies: Women of Color, Equality, and The Right of Privacy, 104 HARV. L. REV. 1419 (1991).

Paul Robinson

Shadow Vigilante Officials Manipulate and Distort to Force Justice from an Apparently Reluctant System, in THE VIGILANTE ECHO: THE VIRTUES AND VICES OF VIGILANTE ACTION (forthcoming 2017) (with Sarah M. Robinson).

How Being Right Can Risk Wrongs, in THE VIGILANTE ECHO: THE VIRTUES AND VICES OF VIGILANTE ACTION (forthcoming 2017) (with Sarah M. Robinson).

Democratizing Criminal Law: Feasibility, Utility, and the Challenge of Social Change (October 24, 2016), U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 16-41.

1911 – Triangle Factory Fire – Building Safety Codes, in TRAGEDY, OUTRAGE & REFORM: CRIMES THAT CHANGED OUR WORLD (Rowman & Littlefield, forthcoming, 2018) (with Sarah M. Robinson).

Strict Liability's Criminogenic Effect, 15 CRIM. L. & PHIL. (forthcoming 2017).

MAPPING AMERICAN CRIMINAL LAW Variations Across the 50 States: Ch. 20 Statutory Rape (January 2, 2017), U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 17-5; in PAUL H. ROBINSON & TYLER SCOT WILLIAMS, MAPPING AMERICAN CRIMINAL LAW: VARIATIONS ACROSS THE 50 STATES (forthcoming, Praeger 2018) (with Tyler Scot Williams).

MAPPING AMERICAN CRIMINAL LAW Variations Across the 50 States: Ch. 14 Insanity Defense (January 2, 2017), U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 17-4, in PAUL H. ROBINSON & TYLER SCOT WILLIAMS, MAPPING AMERICAN CRIMINAL LAW: VARIATIONS ACROSS THE 50 STATES (forthcoming, Praeger 2018) (with Tyler Scot Williams).

MAPPING AMERICAN CRIMINAL LAW Variations Across the 50 States: Ch. 5 Felony-Murder Rule (January 2, 2017), U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 17-3; in PAUL H. ROBINSON & TYLER SCOT WILLIAMS, MAPPING AMERICAN CRIMINAL LAW: VARIATIONS ACROSS THE 50 STATES (forthcoming, Praeger 2018) (with Tyler Scot Williams).

Trigger Crimes & Social Progress: The Tragedy-Outrage-Reform Dynamic in America (August 11, 2017), U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 17-12; in Paul H. Robinson and Sarah M. Robinson, TRAGEDY, OUTRAGE, & REFORM: CRIMES THAT CHANGED OUR WORLD (forthcoming 2018)

TRAGEDY, OUTRAGE & REFORM: Crimes That Changed Our World: 1983 – Thurman Beating - Domestic Violence (August 14, 2017), U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 17-34; in Paul H. Robinson & Sarah M. Robinson, TRAGEDY, OUTRAGE & REFORM: CRIMES THAT CHANGED OUR WORLD (forthcoming 2018) (with Sarah M. Robinson).

Draft Report of the Somali Criminal Law Recodification Initiative (March 10, 2017), U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 17-13 (with University of Pennsylvania Law School's Criminal Law Research Group).

REPORT OF THE DELAWARE CRIMINAL LAW RECODIFICATION PROJECT (with Matthew Kussmaul, Ilya Rudyak, and the University of Pennsylvania Criminal Law Research Group) (2 volumes, 2017)

The Legal Limits of “Yes Means Yes”, CHRON. HIGHER EDUC., Jan. 15, 2016, at A21.

The Model Penal Code's Conceptual Error on the Nature of Proximate Cause, and How to Fix It, 51 CRIM. L. BULL. 1311 (2015).

The Moral Vigilante and Her Cousins in the Shadows, 2015 U. ILL. L. REV. 401.

The American Criminal Code: General Defenses, 7 J. LEGAL ANALYSIS 37 (2015) (with Matthew Kussmaul, Camber Stoddard, Ilya Rudyak, and Andreas Kuersten).

The Rise and Fall and Resurrection of American Criminal Codes, 53 U. LOUISVILLE L. REV. 173 (2015).

CRIMINAL LAW CASE STUDIES (5th ed. West 2015).

The Proper Role of Community in Determining Criminal Liability and Punishment, in POPULAR PUNISHMENT: ON THE NORMATIVE SIGNIFICANCE OF PUBLIC OPINION (Jesper Ryberg and Julian A. Roberts eds., Oxford University Press 2014).

THE STRUCTURE AND LIMITS OF CRIMINAL LAW (Paul H. Robinson ed., Ashgate 2014).

INTUITIONS OF JUSTICE AND THE UTILITY OF DESERT (Oxford University Press, 2013).

CRIMINAL LAW (2d ed. Wolters Kluwer Law & Business 2012) (with Michael T. Cahill) (1st ed. Aspen 1997).

Realism, Punishment & Reform, 77 U. CHI. L. REV. 1611 (2010) (with Robert Kurzban, Penn Psych, and Owen Jones, Vanderbilt Law).

CRIMINAL LAW CONVERSATIONS (editor, with Steve Garvey & Kim Ferzan) (Oxford 2009)

FINAL REPORT OF THE PENNSYLVANIA CRIMINAL CODE GRADING STUDY (December 2009) (with University of Pennsylvania Law School's Criminal Law Research Group).

DISTRIBUTIVE PRINCIPLES OF CRIMINAL LAW: WHO SHOULD BE PUNISHED HOW MUCH? (Oxford 2008), also appearing in Spanish and Chinese.

Competing Conceptions of Modern Desert: Vengeful, Deontological, and Empirical, 67 CAMBRIDGE L.J. 145 (2008).

Intuitions of Justice: Implications for Criminal Law and Justice Policy, 81 S. CAL. L. REV. 1 (2007) (with John Darley).

The Origins of Shared Intuitions of Justice (with Robert Kurzban and Owen Jones), 60 VAND. L. REV. 1633 (2007).

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).

LAW WITHOUT JUSTICE: WHY CRIMINAL LAW DOESN’T GIVE PEOPLE WHAT THEY DESERVE (with Michael Cahill) (Oxford Univ. Press 2005).

FINAL REPORT OF THE ILLINOIS CRIMINAL CODE REWRITE AND REFORM COMMISSION (State of Illinois 2003) (two volumes) (with staff).

David Rudovsky

THE LAW OF ARREST, SEARCH AND SEIZURE IN PENNSYLVANIA (Pennsylvania Bar Institute, 8th ed. 2014).

Debate: The Constitutionality of Stop-and-Frisk in New York City, 162 U. PA. L. REV. ONLINE 117 (2013) (with Lawrence Rosenthal).

Saucier v. Katz: Qualified Immunity as a Doctrine of Dilution of Constitutional Rights, in WE DISSENT: TALKING BACK TO THE REHNQUIST COURT: EIGHT CASES THAT SUBVERTED CIVIL LIBERTIES AND CIVIL RIGHTS (Michael Avery, ed., NYU 2009).

A Closing Keynote: A Comment on Mass Incarceration in the United States, 11 U. PA. J. CONST. L. 207 (2008).

CRIMINAL LAW IN PENNSYLVANIA (West Publ. Co. 2007) (with Leonard Sosnov).

Litigating Civil Rights Cases to Reform Racially Biased Criminal Justice Practice, 39 COLUM. HUM. RTS. L. REV. 97 (2007).

Habeas Corpus, The Suspension Clause, and the Field Theory, A Response to Professor Vladeck, 80 TEMPLE L. REV. 441 (2007)

Running in Place: The Paradox of Expanding Rights and Restricted Remedies, 2005 U. ILL. L. REV. 1199.

POLICE MISCONDUCT: LAW AND LITIGATION (3rd ed., Thomson Reuters 2002- ) (with Michael Avery and Karen Blum).

Double Helix, Double Bind; Factual Innocence and Post Conviction DNA Testing, 151 U. PA. L. REV. 547 (with Seth Kreimer) (2002).

Law Enforcement by Stereotypes and Serenditpity, 3 U. PA. J. CONST. L. 296 (2001).

Louis Rulli

The Long Term Impact of CAFRA: Expanding Access to Counsel and Encouraging Greater Use of Criminal Forfeiture, 14 FED. SENTENCING REP. 87 (2001).

Beth Simmons

Can the International Criminal Court Deter Atrocity?, 70 INT'L ORG. 443 (2016) (with Hyeran Jo).

Framing for a New Transnational Legal Order: The Case of Human Trafficking, in TRANSNATIONAL LEGAL ORDERS (Terence C. Halliday & Gregory Shaffer eds., Cambridge 2015) (with Paulette Lloyd).

David Skeel

Introduction: Appreciating Bill Stuntz (with Michael J. Klarman & Carol S. Steiker), in THE POLITICAL HEART OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: ESSAYS ON THEMES OF WILLIAM J. STUNTZ, Cambridge University Press, 2012 (co-editor with Michael J. Klarman & Carol S. Steiker).

Megan Stevenson

The Downstream Consequences of Misdemeanor Pretrial Detention, 69 STAN. L. REV. 711 (2017) (with Paul Heaton & Sandra Mayson).

Distortion of Justice: How the Inability to Pay Bail Affects Case Outcomes

Breaking Bad: Mechanisms of Social Influence and the Path to Criminality in Juvenile Jails

Leo Strine Jr.

Criminal Justice and (a) Catholic Conscience, 56 SANTA CLARA L. REV. 631 (2016).

Duty & the Death Penalty, 21 WIDENER L. REV. 1 (2015).

Tess Wilkinson-Ryan

Comment, Admitting Mental Health Evidence to Impeach the Credibility of a Sexual Assault Complainant, 153 U. PA. L. REV. 1373 (2005).

Christopher Yoo

Cyber Espionage or Cyberwar?: International Law, Domestic Law, and Self-Protective Measures, in CYBERWAR: LETHICS FOR VIRTUAL CONFLICTS (Jens David Ohlin, Kevin Govern, & Claire Finkelstein eds., Oxford University Press 2015).

Rangita de Silva de Alwis

Domestic Violence Lawmaking in Asia: Some Innovative Trends in Feminist Lawmaking, 29 UCLA PAC. BASIN L. J. 176 (2012).