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.

The Saga of Pennsylvania’s “Willie Horton” and the Commutation of Life Sentences in the Commonwealth, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 20-10

“Second Looks, Second Chances”: Collaborating with Lifers Inc. on a Video about Commutation of LWOP Sentences, 22 U. PA. J. L. & SOC. CHANGE 71 (2019).

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).

Bocar Ba

The Effect of Police Oversight on Crime and Allegations of Misconduct: Evidence from Chicago (October 19, 2019). U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 19-42 (with Roman G. Rivera).

Spillover Effects in Police Use of Force (December 19, 2019). U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 20-03 (with Justin E. Holz and Roman G. Rivera).

In-group Bias and the Police: Evidence from Award Nominations (October 13, 2019). U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 20-02 (with Nayoung Rim & Roman G. Rivera).

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).

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

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

Stephanos Bibas

Rationing Criminal Justice, 116 MICH. L. REV. 187 (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

How Judges Think About Racial Disparities: Situational Decision-Making In The Criminal Justice System, 54 CRIMINOLOGY 332 (2016) (with Alix S. Winter).

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).

Kimberly Ferzan

The Reach of the Realm (May 6, 2020), Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2020-40; CRIM. L. & PHIL. (forthcoming).

#BelieveWomen and the Presumption of Innocence: Clarifying the Questions for Law and Life (May 4, 2020), Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2020-39; NOMOS (forthcoming).

Consent and Coercion, 50 ARIZ. ST. L.J. 951 (2018).

Patty Hearst Reconsidered: Personal Identity in the Criminal Law, 15 OHIO ST. J. CRIM. L. 367 (2018).

Defense and Desert: When Reasons Don't Share, 55 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 265 (2018).

Defending Honor and Beyond: Reconsidering the Relationship between Seemingly Futile Defense and Permissible Harming, 15 J. MORAL PHIL. 683 (2018).

Probing the Depths of the Responsible Corporate Officer’s Duty, 12 CRIM. L. & PHIL. 455 (2018).

REFLECTIONS ON CRIME AND CULPABILITY: PROBLEMS AND PUZZLES (Cambridge University Press, 2018) (with Larry Alexander).

How to Think (Like a Lawyer) About Rape, 11 CRIM. L. & PHIL. 759 (2017) (with Peter Westen).

Consent, Culpability, and the Law of Rape, 13 OHIO ST. J. CRIM. L. 397 (2016)

LEGAL, MORAL, AND METAPHYSICAL TRUTHS: THE PHILOSOPHY OF MICHAEL S. MOORE (Oxford 2016) (ed. with Stephen J. Morse).

Beyond the Special Part, in PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF CRIMINAL LAW (R.A. Duff & Stuart Green, eds., Oxford University Press 2011) (with Larry Alexander).

Justification and Excuse, in OXFORD HANDBOOK OF PHILOSOPHY OF CRIMINAL LAW (David Dolinko & John Deigh, eds., Oxford University Press 2011).

CRIME AND CULPABILITY: A THEORY OF CRIMINAL LAW (Cambridge University Press 2009) (co-authored with Larry Alexander & Stephen Morse).

CRIMINAL LAW CONVERSATIONS (Oxford University Press 2009) (co-edited with Paul Robinson & Stephen Garvey).

Claire Finkelstein

Moral Reasoning and the Death Penalty, in PHILOSOPHY AND PUBLIC POLICY (Andrew Cohen ed., Rowman & Littlefield 2018).

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).

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

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).

Sarah Gordon

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

Paul Heaton

The Expansive Reach of Pretrial Detention, 98 N.C. L. REV. 369 (2020).

The Effects of Holistic Defense on Criminal Justice Outcomes, 132 HARV. L. REV. 819 (2019) (with James Anderson and Maya Buenaventura).

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

Charles Hintz

A Formulaic Recitation Will Not Do: Why, as a Matter of Law, Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 7(c) Should Be Interpreted to Be at Least as Stringent as Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8(a) (April 24, 2020), U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 20-16.

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).

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, Attempts, 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)

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).

Sandra Mayson

Dangerous Defendants (August 15, 2016), U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 16-30.

n Dangerous Men (with Megan Stevenson) (work in progress).

Bail Reform: New Directions for Pretrial Detention and Release (March 23, 2017), U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 17-18 (with Megan Stevenson).

The Downstream Consequences of Misdemeanor Pretrial Detention, 69 STAN. L. REV. 711 (2017) (with Paul Heaton and Megan Stevenson).

Collateral Consequences and the Preventive State, 91 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 301 (2015).

Stephen Morse

Against the Received Wisdom: Why Should the Criminal Justice System Give Kids a Break? (July 2, 2019), U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 19-29; CRIM. L. & PHIL. (forthcoming).

Neurohype and the Law: A Cautionary Tale, in CASTING LIGHT ON THE DARK SIDE OF BRAIN IMAGING (Amir Raz & Robert Thibault eds., Elsevier 2019).

Criminal Law and Addiction, in THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE OF ADDICTION 540-53 (Hanna Pickard and Serge H. Ahmed eds., 2019).

Involuntary Competence in United States Criminal Law, in FITNESS TO PLEAD: INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES (Ronnie Mackay & Warren Brookbanks eds., Oxford 2018).

Mental Disorder and Criminal Justice, in REFORMING CRIMINAL JUSTICE: A REPORT OF THE ACADEMY FOR JUSTICE BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN SCHOLARSHIP AND REFORM (Erik Luna ed., Academy for Justice 2018).

The Promise of Neuroscience for Law: Hope or Hype?, in THE PALGRAVE HANDBOOK OF PHILOSOPHY AND PUBLIC POLICY 77-96 (David Boonin ed., 2018).

The Neuroscientific Non-Challenge to Meaning, Morals, and Purpose, in NEUROEXISTENTIALISM: MEANING, MORALS, AND PURPOSE IN THE AGE OF NEUROSCIENCE 333-357 (Gregg D. Caruso and Owen Flanagan eds., 2018).

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

Law, Responsibility, and the Sciences of the Brain/Mind, in OXFORD HANDBOOK OF LAW, REGULATION, AND TECHNOLOGY (Roger Brownsword, Eloise Scotford, & Karen Yeung ed., Oxford 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).

Brief of Amici Curiae of 11 Addiction Experts in Support of Appellee, Commonwealth v. Eldred, Commonwealth of Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (September 2017) (No. SJC-12279) (with Gene M. Heyman, Scott O. Lilienfeld, & Sally L. Satel).

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)

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

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).

Mark Nevitt

Military Justice: A Very Short Introduction (Book Review), 10 J. NAT'L SECURITY L. & POL'Y __ (forthcoming 2018).

Shaun Ossei-Owusu

The Welfarist Right to Counsel, 68 UCLA L. REV. __ (2021).

Civil vs. Criminal Legal Aid, 95 S. CAL. L. REV. __(2020).

The Sixth Amendment Façade: The Racial Evolution of the Right to Counsel, 167 U. PA. L. REV. 1161 (2019).

Gideon Parchomovsky

The Reverse Agency Problem in the Age of Compliance (September 24, 2019), U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 19-38 (with Asaf Eckstein).

Dorothy Roberts

Digitizing the Carceral State, reviewing Virginia Eubanks, AUTOMATING INEQUALITY: HOW HIGH-TECH TOOLS PROFILE, POLICE, AND PUNISH THE POOR (St. Martin’s Press, 2017), 132 HARV. L. REV. 1695 (2019).

Democratizing Criminal Law as an Abolitionist Project, 111 NW. U. L. REV. 1597 (2017).

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

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

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).

Codifying a Sharia-based Criminal Law in Developing Muslim Countries (April 1, 2019). U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 19-15.

The Opposite of Punishment: Imagining a Path to Public Redemption (June 13, 2019). U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 19-27. (with Muhammad Sarahne).

After the Crime: Rewarding Offenders’ Positive Post-Offense Conduct (August 6, 2019). U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 19-30 (with Muhammad Sarahne).

How Criminal Code Drafting Form Can Restrain Prosecutorial and Legislative Excesses: Consolidated Offense Drafting (February 6, 2020), U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 20-01 (with Matthew Kussmaul & Muhammad Sarahne).

A Truce in the Criminal Law Distributive Principle Wars? (February 7, 2020). U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 20-04.

Indoctrination and Social Influence as a Defense to Crime: Are We Responsible for Who We Are? (May 12, 2020), U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 20-09 (with Lindsay Holcomb).

Mitigations: The Forgotten Side of the Proportionality Principle. 57 HARV. J. ON LEGIS. 219 (2020)

Speakeasies and Social Distancing, WALL ST. J., March 20, 2020, at A17.

Don’t abolish the police. It didn’t work for 1960s communes and it won’t work for us, USA TODAY, June 21, 2020.

Demonizing Police Costs Black Lives, NEWSWEEK, June 28, 2020.

Strict Liability's Criminogenic Effect, 12 CRIM. L. & PHIL. 411 (2018).

MAPPING AMERICAN CRIMINAL LAW: VARIATIONS ACROSS THE FIFTY STATES (Praeger 2018) (with Tyler Scot Williams).

SHADOW VIGILANTES: HOW DISTRUST IN THE JUSTICE SYSTEM BREEDS A NEW KIND OF LAWLESSNESS (Prometheus Books 2018) (with Sarah M. Robinson).

CRIMES THAT CHANGED OUR WORLD: TRAGEDY, OUTRAGE, AND REFORM (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018) (with Sarah M. Robinson).

Democratizing Criminal Law: Feasibility, Utility, and the Challenge of Social Change, 111 NW. U. L. REV. 1565 (2017).

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

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

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

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.

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).

David Rudovsky

Terry Stops and Frisks: The Troubling Use of Common Sense in a World of Empirical Data, 79 OHIO ST. L. J. 501 (2018) (with David A. Harris).

THE LAW OF ARREST, SEARCH AND SEIZURE IN PENNSYLVANIA (Pennsylvania Bar Institute, 8th ed. 2014; 9th ed. 2016; 10th ed. 2018).

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

Seizing Family Homes from the Innocent: Can the Eighth Amendment Protect Minorities and the Poor from Excessive Punishment in Civil Forfeiture?, 19 U. PA. J. CONST. L. 1111 (2017).

5 Things Lawyers Should Know When Defending Against Civil Forfeiture, 2 For The Defense 22 (Digital Publication of the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers) (2017)

Testimony, Pennsylvania Senate Judiciary Committee, Civil Forfeiture Reform (2015)

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

Natasha Sarin

The Cost of Doing Business: Corporate Crime and Punishment Post-Crisis (February 12, 2020). U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 20-13 (with Dorothy S. Lund).

Beth Simmons

Measuring Norms and Normative Contestation: The Case of International Criminal Law, 4 J. GLOBAL SECURITY STUD. 18 (2019 (with Hyeran Jo).

The Global Diffusion of Law: Transnational Crime and the Case of Human Trafficking, 72 INT'L ORG. 249 (Spring 2018) (with Paulette Lloyd and Brandon Stewart).

Assessing the International Criminal Court, in THE PERFORMANCE OF INTERNATIONAL COURTS AND TRIBUNALS 193-233 (Andreas Follesdal, Theresa Squatrito, & Geir Ulfstein eds., Cambridge Univ. Press 2018) (with Hyeran Jo and Mitchell Radtke).

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

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