Criminal law conversations

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Where to find it

Law Library — 3rd Floor Collection (3rd floor)

Call Number
K5018 .C753 2009 c. 2
Status
Available

Law Library — Special Collections (1st floor)

Call Number
K5018 .C753 2009
Status
In-Library Use Only

Summary

Criminal Law Conversations provides an authoritative overview of contemporary criminal law debates in the United States. This collection of high caliber scholarly papers was assembled using an innovative and interactive method of nominations and commentary by the nation's top legal scholars. Virtually every leading scholar in the field has participated, resulting in a volume of interest to those both in and outside of the community. Criminal Law Conversations showcases the most captivating of these essays, and provides insight into the most fundamental and provocative questions of modern criminal law.

Contents

Decision rules and conduct rules : on acoustic separation in criminal law / Meir Dan-Cohen -- Empirical desert / Paul H. Robinson -- Defending preventive detention / Christopher Slobogin -- The economics of crime control / Doron Teichman -- The difficulties of deterrence as a distributive principle / Paul H. Robinson -- Why only the state may inflict criminal sanctions : the case against privately inflicted sanctions / Alon Harel -- Results don't matter / Larry Alexander and Kimberly Kessler Ferzan -- Post-modern meditations on punishment : on the limits of reason and the virtue of randomization / Bernard E. Harcourt -- Remorse, apology, and mercy / Jeffrie G. Murphy -- Interpretive construction in the substantive criminal law / Mark Kelman -- Criminalization and sharing wrongs / S.E. Marshall and R.A. Duff -- Monstrous offenders and the search for solidarity through modern punishment / Joseph E. Kennedy -- Against negligence liability / Larry Alexander and Kimberly Kessler Ferzan -- Rape law reform based on negotiation : beyond the no and yes models / Michelle J. Anderson -- Provocation : explaining and justifying the defense in partial excuse, loss of self-control terms / Joshua Dressler -- Objective verses subjective justification : a case study in function and form in constructing a system of criminal law theory / Paul H. Robinson -- Self-defense and the psychotic aggressor / George P. Fletcher and Luis E. Chiesa -- Self-defense against morally innocent threats / Jeff McMahan -- Self-defense, imminence, and the battered woman / Whitley R.P. Kaufman -- Reasonable provocation and self-defense : recognizing the distinction between act reasonableness and emotion reasonableness / Cynthia Lee -- Against control tests for criminal responsibility / Stephen J. Morse -- Abolition of the insanity defense / Christopher Slobogin -- Entrapment and the "free market" for crime / Louis Michael Seidman -- The political economy of criminal law and procedure : the pessimists' view / Richard H. McAdams -- Against jury nullification / Andrew D. Leipold -- Race-based jury nullification : black power in the criminal justice system / Paul Butler -- In support of restorative justice / Erik Luna -- The virtues of offense/offender distinctions / Douglas A. Berman -- The heart has its reasons : examining the strange persistence of the American death penalty / Susan A. Bandes -- Mercy's decline and administrative law's ascendance / Rachel E. Barkow -- Criminal law comes home / Jeannie Suk.

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