Specialty Areas

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).

Sacrificing Quantity for Quality: Better Focusing Prosecutors' Scarce Resources, 106 NW. U. L. REV. COLLOQUY 138 (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).

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

Paul Heaton, Sandra Mayson & Megan Stevenson, THE DOWNSTREAM CONSEQUENCES OF MISDEMEANOR PRETRIAL DETENTION (July 14, 2016)

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 Guilty Pleas Through Exoneree Compensations, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 14-34 (Sept. 1, 2014) (with Murat C. Mungan).

Discounting and Criminals' Implied Risk Preferences, 11 L. REV. & 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. AND 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).

Sara Mayeux

What Gideon Did, 116 COLUM. L. REV. 15 (2016)

Federalism Anew, 56 AM. J. LEG. HIST. 128 (2016)

Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Before Powell v. Alabama: Lessons from History for the Future of the Right to Counsel, 99 IOWA L. REV. 2161 (2014)

The Origins of Back-end Sentencing in California, 22 STAN. L. & POL'Y REV. 529 (2011)

The Case of the Black-Gloved Rapist: Defining the Public Defender in the California Courts, 1913-1948, 5 CALIF. LEGAL HIST. 217 (2010)

Sandra Mayson

The Downstream Consequences of Misdemeanor Pretrial Detention (July 14, 2016), U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 16-18; 69 STAN. L. REV. __ (2017) (with Paul Heaton and Megan Stevenson).

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).

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

Stephen Morse

Addiction, Choice and Criminal Law (Dec. 14, 2015), U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 15-37; in ADDICTION AND CHOICE: RETHINKING THE RELATIONSHIP (Nick Heather & Gabriel Segal eds., Oxford U.P. forthcoming).

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

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).

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).

Evaluation of Criminal Responsibility, in HANDBOOK OF PSYCHOLOGY VOLUME 11: FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY 440 (Irving B. Weiner & Randy K. Otto, eds., 2012) (with Alan M. Goldstein and Ira K. Packer).

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).

Genetics and Criminal Responsibility, 15 TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES 378 (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

Punishment: Drop City and the Utopian Communes, in PIRATES, PRISONERS, AND LEPERS: LESSONS FROM LIFE OUTSIDE THE LAW (Potomac Books, forthcoming 2015); U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 14-13 (with Sarah M. Robinson).

Justice: 1850s San Francisco and the California Gold Rush (March 20, 2014), in PIRATES, PRISONERS, AND LEPERS: LESSONS FROM LIFE OUTSIDE THE LAW (Potomac Books, forthcoming 2015); U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 14-14 (with Sarah M. 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 (University of Wisconsin Press forthcoming 2017) (with Sarah M. Robinson).

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

Tasers Help Police Avoid Fatal Mistakes, BALT. SUN, Jan, 21, 2016, p.17.

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).

How the Black Lives Matter Movement Can Improve the Justice System, PHILA. INQ., Dec. 15, 2015, at A14.

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).

Empirical Desert, Individual Prevention, and Limiting Retributivism: A Reply, 17 NEW CRIM. L. REV. 312 (2014) (with Joshua Samuel Barton & Matthew J. Lister).

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

Natural Law and Lawlessness: Modern Lessons from Pirates, Lepers, Eskimos, and Survivors, 2013 U. ILL. L. REV. 433.

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).

Comments on [Israeli] Proposal for Structuring Judicial Discretion in Sentencing, HUKIM – Israeli Journal on Legislation.

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).

POLICE MISCONDUCT: LAW AND LITIGATION (3d ed., Clark Boardman Co. 2012) (with Michael Avery and Karen Blum).

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. 2009).