Sentencing & Punishment

Steven Shavell, The Optimal Use of Nonmonetary Sanctions as a Deterrent, 77 Am. Econ. Rev. 584 (1987).

Steven Shavell, Criminal Law and the Optimal use of Nonmonetary Sanctions as a Deterrent, 85 Colum. L. Rev. 1232 (1985).

Steven Shavell, A Model of Optimal Incapacitation, 77 Am. Econ. Rev. 107 (1987).

A. Mitchell Polinsky & Steven Shavell, The Theory of Public Enforcement of Law, in 1 Handbook of Law and Economics 403 (A. Mitchell Polinsky &…

A. Mitchell Polinsky & Steven M. Shavell, Public Enforcement of Law, in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (Steven N. Durlauf & Lawrence E. Blume…

Steven Shavell, A Simple Model of Optimal Deterrence and Incapacitation, 42 Int’l Rev. L. & Econ. 13 (2015).

Ronald Sullivan, Rittenhouse Verdict Flies in the Face of Legal Standards for Self-Defense, The Conversation (Nov. 19, 2021).

Randall L. Kennedy, A Response to Professor Cole’s “Paradox of Race and Crime”, 83 Geo. L.J. 2573 (1995).

Randall Kennedy, A Response to Professor Cole’s “Paradox of Race and Crime”, 83 Geo. L.J. 2573 (1995).

Randall L. Kennedy, Homicide, Race and Capital Punishment, in Philosophical Problems in the Law (David M. Adams ed., 3rd ed. 2000).

Randall L. Kennedy, Racial Trends in the Administration of Criminal Justice, in America Becoming: Racial Trends and Their Consequences, vol. II (Neil J. Smelser, William…

Noah R. Feldman, Not the Case, N.Y. Times Mag., Jan. 7, 2007, at 13.

Michael J. Klarman, The Racial Origins of Modern Criminal Procedure, 99 Mich. L. Rev. 48 (2000).

Michael J. Klarman, Is the Supreme Court Sometimes Irrelevant? Race and the Southern Criminal Justice System in the 1940s, 89 J. Am. Hist. 119 (2002).

Mark Tushnet, La Procéduralisation de la Peine de Mort en Droit Américain, in La Peine de Mort: Droit, Histoire, Anthropologie, Philosophie 70 (Ioannis S. Papadopoulos…

Laurence Tribe & Dennis Aftergut, Trump’s rally in Texas can ignore his fake electors scandal. The Jan. 6 committee won’t., NBC News (Jan. 29, 2022).

Louis Kaplow & Steven Shavell, Fairness versus Welfare, 114 Harv. L. Rev. 961 (2001).

Steven Shavell & Louis Kaplow, Principles of Fairness Versus Human Welfare: On the Evaluation of Legal Policy (Harv. L. Sch. L. & Econ. Res. Paper…

Louis Kaplow, The Optimal Probability and Magnitude of Fines for Acts that Definitely are Undesirable, 12 Int’l Rev. L. & Econ. 3 (1992).

Louis Kaplow & Steven Shavell, Accuracy in the Determination of Liability, 37 J.L. & Econ. 1 (1994).

Louis Kaplow, Optimal Deterrence, Uninformed Individuals, and Acquiring Information About Whether Acts are Subject to Sanctions, 6 J.L. Econ. & Org. 93 (1990).