Sentencing & Punishment

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).

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, 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, 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).