Sentencing & Punishment

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…

Carol S. Steiker & Jordan M. Steiker, Capital Clemency in the Age of Constitutional Regulation: Reversing the Unwarranted Decline, 102 Tev. L. Rev. 1449 (2024).

Carol S. Steiker & Jordan M. Steiker, Little Furmans Everywhere: State Court Intervention and the Decline of the American Death Penalty, 107 Cornell L. Rev.

Carol S. Steiker, Keeping Hope Alive: Criminal Justice Reform during Cycles of Political Retrenchment, 71 Fla. L. Rev. 1363 (2019).

Carol S. Steiker & Jordan M. Steiker, The American Death Penalty: Alternative Model for Ordinary Criminal Justice or Exception that Justifies the Rule?, 22 New…

Carol S. Steiker & Jordan M. Steiker, Let God Sort Them Out? Refining the Individualization Requirement in Capital Sentencing, 102 Yale L.J. 835 (1992) (reviewing…

Carol S. Steiker, Proposed Instruction, 3 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 276 (2001).

Carol S. Steiker, Why We’re So Tough On Crime, 28 Bos. Rev. 43 (2003) (reviewing James Whitman, Harsh Justice: Criminal Punishment and the Widening Divide…

Carol S. Steiker, Darrow’s Defense of Leopold and Loeb: The Seminal Sentencing of the Century, in Trial Stories 117 (Michael E. Tigar & Angela J.

Carol Steiker, ‘To See a World in a Grain of Sand’: Dignity and Indignity in American Criminal Justice, in The Punitive Imagination: Law, Justice, and…

Carol S. Steiker, The Marshall Hypothesis Revisited, 52 How. L.J. 525 (2009).

Carol S. Steiker & Jordan M. Steiker, Opening a Window or Building a Wall? The Effect of Death Penalty Law and Advocacy on Criminal Justice…

Carol Steiker & Jordan M. Steiker, Entrenchment and/or Destabilization? Reflections on (Another) Two Decades of Constitutional Regulation of Capital Punishment, 30 Law & Ineq. 211…

Carol S. Steiker, Tempering or Tampering? Mercy and the Administration of Criminal Justice, in Forgiveness, Mercy and Clemency (Austin Sarat & Nasser Hussain eds., Stanford…

Sanford H. Kadish, Stephen Schulhofer, Carol S. Steiker & Rachel E. Barkow, Criminal Law and Its Processes: Cases and Materials (Aspen 9th ed. 2012).