Sentencing & Punishment

Louis Kaplow, A Note on the Optimal Use of Nonmonetary Sanctions, 42 J. Pub. Econ. 245 (1990).

Lucian A. Bebchuk & Louis Kaplow, Optimal Sanctions When Individuals are Imperfectly Informed about the Probability of Apprehension, 21 J. Legal Stud. 365 (1992).

Claudia M. Landeo & Kathryn E. Spier, Optimal Law Enforcement with Ordered Leniency, 63 J.L. & Econ. 71 (2020).

Jeannie Suk Gersen, The Case Against the Oath Keepers, NewYorker.com (Jan. 21, 2022).

Jeannie Suk, Doing Hard Time, N.Y. Times, Feb. 21, 2016, at BR23 (reviewing Baz Dreisinger, Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the…

John C.P. Goldberg, Rights and Wrongs, 97 Mich. L. Rev. 1828 (1999) (reviewing Arthur Ripstein, Equality, Responsibility, and the Law (1999)).

J. Mark Ramseyer & Minoru Nakazato, Japanese Law: An Economic Approach (Univ. of Chi. Press 1999).

J. Mark Ramseyer & Eric B. Rasmusen, Why is the Japanese Conviction Rate so High?, 30 J. Legal Stud. 53 (2001).

Holger Spamann et al., Judges in the Lab: No Precedent Effects, No Common/Civil Law Differences, 13 J. Legal Analysis 110 (2021).

Holger Spamann, No, Judges Are Not Influenced by Outdoor Temperature (Or Other Weather): Comment (Harv. L. Sch. John M. Olin Ctr. Discussion Paper No. 1036,…

Holger Spamann, Are Sleepy Punishers Really Harsh Punishers? Comment on Cho, Barnes, and Guanara (2017), 29 Psychol. Sci. 1006 (2018).

Holger Spamann, The US Crime Puzzle: A Comparative Perspective on US Crime & Punishment, 18 Am. L. & Econ. Rev. 33 (2016) (the replication code…

Elizabeth Papp Kamali, Felony and the Guilty Mind in Medieval England (2019).

Elizabeth Papp Kamali, From England to France: Felony and Exile in the High Middle Ages (by William Chester Jordan), 6 Mediaeval J. 146 (2016)(book review).

Eli Ben-Michael, D. James Greiner, Melody Huang et al., Does AI help humans make better decisions? A methodological framework for experimental evaluation, arXiv (Mar. 20,…

Carol S. Steiker & Jordan M. Steiker, Graham Lets the Sun Shine In: The Supreme Court Opens a Window between the Formerly Walled-Off Approaches to…

Carol S. Steiker & Jordan M. Steiker, Capital Punishment at a Constitutional Crossroads, 23 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 125 (2026).

Carol S. Steiker, Lessons from Two Failures: Sentencing for Cocaine and Child Pornography under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines in the United States, 76 Law &…

Carol S. Steiker & Jordan M. Steiker, The Death Penalty and Mass Incarceration: Convergences and Divergences Mass Incarceration and the Death Penalty, 41 American Journal…

Carol S. Steiker, Justice vs. Mercy in the Law of Homicide: The Contest between Rule-of-Law Values and Discretionary Leniency from Common Law to Codification to…

Carol S. Steiker, Criminalization and the Criminal Process: Prudential Mercy as a Limit on Penal Sanctions in an Era of Mass Incarceration, in The Boundaries…