Sentencing & Punishment

Christopher Lewis, Unlocking Lex Talionis (Harvard Public Law Working Paper 25-24, 2025).

Steven Shavell, Economic Analysis of the General Structure of the Law (Nat’l Bureau Econ. Res. Working Paper No. w9699, Harv. L. & Econ. Discussion Paper…

Alexandra Natapoff, Snitching and the Use of Criminal Informants, in Oxford Bibliographies in Criminology (Beth M. Huebner ed., 2012).

Cass R. Sunstein, Moral Heuristics, 28 Behav. & Brain Sci. 531 (2005).

Emma Harrington, William Murdock, III, & Hannah Shaffer, Prediction Errors, Incarceration, and Violent Crime, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (forthcoming).

Stephen Breyer, Federal Sentencing Guidelines Revisited, 36 Fed. Sent’g Rep. 244 (2024).

Stephen Breyer, The Federal Sentencing Guidelines and the Key Compromises Upon Which They Rest, 17 Hofstra L. Rev. 1 (1988).

Stephen G. Breyer, The Problem of the Honest Monopolist, 44 Antitrust L.J. 194 (1975).

Stephen Breyer, The Federal Sentencing Guidelines: A Dialogue, 26 Crim. L. Bull. 5 (1990).

Stephen Breyer, Justice Breyer: Federal Sentencing Guidelines Revisited, 14 CRIM. Just. 28 (1999).

Stephen Breyer, Federal Sentencing Guidelines Revisited, 11 Fed. Sent’g Rep. 180 (1999).

Stephen Breyer, Federal Sentencing Guidelines Revisited, 29 Fed. Sent’g Rep. 194 (2017).

Stephen G. Breyer, The Original U. S. Sentencing Guidelines and Suggestions for a Fairer Future, 46 Hofstra L. Rev. 799 (2018).

Stephen Breyer, Against the Death Penalty (John Bessler ed., 2016)…

Christopher Lewis & Adaner Usmani, Abolition of What?, 114 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 525 (2024).

Christopher Lewis, Risk-Based Sentencing and the Principles of Punishment, 112 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 213 (2022).

Christopher Lewis, Inequality, Incentives, Criminality & Blame, 22 Legal Theory 153 (2016).

Christopher Lewis, The Paradox of Recidivism, 70 Emory L.J. 1209 (2021).