Criminal Law & Procedure

Gabriella Blum & Philip B. Heymann, Law and Policy of Targeted Killing, 1 Harv. Nat’l Security L.J. 145 (2010).

Alexandra Natapoff, Misdemeanors, 11 Ann. Rev. L. & Soc. Sci. 255 (2015).

Alexandra Natapoff, The High Stakes of Low-Level Criminal Justice, 128 Yale L.J. 1648 (2019) (reviewing Issa Kohler-Haussmann, Misdemeanorland: Criminal Courts and Social Control in an…

Anna Lvovsky, The Judicial Presumption of Police Expertise, 130 Harv. L. Rev. 1995 (2017).

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

Christopher Lewis, The Weight of Police Violence, SSRN (Aug. 12, 2025).

J. Mark Ramseyer, Privatizing Police: On Privatizing Police, with Examples from Japan, in The Cambridge Handbook on Privatization (Avihay Dorfman & Alon Harel eds., 2021).

J. Mark Ramseyer & Eric Bennett Rasmusen, Ostracism in Japan, 19 Asian Journal of Comparative Law 326 (2024).

J. Mark Ramseyer & Eric B. Rasmusen, Suing over Ostracism in Japan: The Informational Logic (Aug. 29, 2020).

J. Mark Ramseyer, Foreword, 5 UCLA Pac. Basin L.J., Spring & Fall 1986, at viii.

J. Mark Ramseyer, Who Hangs Whom for What? The Death Penalty in Japan, 4 J. Legal Analysis 365 (2012).

J. Mark Ramseyer & Eric Bennett Rasmusen, Outcaste Politics and Organized Crime in Japan: The Effect of Terminating Ethnic Subsidies, 15 J. Empirical Legal Stud.

J. Mark Ramseyer, Nuclear Power and the Mob: Extortion in Japan, 13 J. Empirical Legal Stud. 487 (2016).

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

J. Mark Ramseyer, Book Review, 108 Am. Hist. Rev. 811 (2003) (Reviewing Richard H. Mitchell, Justice in Japan: the Notorious Teijin Scandal (2002)).

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

Eric Rasmusen, Manu Raghav & J. Mark Ramseyer, Convictions versus Conviction Rates: The Prosecutor’s Choice, 11 Am. L. & Econ. Rev. 47 (2009).

Henry E. Smith, The Modern Privilege: Its Nineteenth-Century Origins, in The Privilege Against Self-Incrimination: Its Origins and Development (R.H. Helmholz et al., 1997).