Criminal Law Conversations

i. Principles ; Chapter 1. Decision Rules and Conduct Rules: On Acoustic Separation in Criminal Law ; Meir Dan-Cohen ; Comments: ; Kyron Huigens-Duress Is Never a Conduct Rule ; Samuel W. Buell-Decision Rule as Notice: The Case of Fraud ; Anne M. Coughlin-Of Decision Rules and Conduct Rules, or Doing the Police in Different Voices ; Luis Duarte d'Almeida-Separation, But Not of Rules ; Adil Ahmad Haque-The Constitutive Function of Criminal Law ; Eric J. Miller-Are There Two Types of Decision Rule? ; Malcolm Thorburn-A Liberal Criminal Law Cannot Be Reduced to These Two Types of Rules ; Reply: ; Meir Dan-Cohen ; Chapter 2. Empirical Desert ; Paul H. Robinson ; Comments: ; Mary Sigler-The False Promise of Empirical Desert ; Adam J. Kolber-Compliance-Promoting Intuitions ; Michael T. Cahill-A Fertile Desert? ; Alice Ristroph-The New Desert ; Youngjae Lee-Keeping Desert Honest ; Matthew Lister-Desert: Empirical, Not Metaphysical ; Alice Ristroph-Response to Lee and Lister ; Joseph E. Kennedy-Empirical Desert and the Endpoints of Punishment ; Andrew E. Taslitz-Empirical Desert: The Yin and Yang of Criminal Justice ; Adil Ahmad Haque-Legitimacy as Strategy ; Laura I. Appleman-Sentencing, Empirical Desert, and Restorative Justice ; Reply: ; Paul H. Robinson ; Chapter 3. Defending Preventive Detention ; Christopher Slobogin ; Comments: ; Michael Louis Corrado-Slobogin on Dehumanization ; Michael Marcus-Don't Abandon Sentencing Reform to Defend Preventive Detention ; Rinat Kitai-Sangero-The Presumption of Innocence versus Preventive Detention ; Matt Matravers-Unreliability, Innocence, and Preventive Detention ; Joseph E. Kennedy-The Dangers of Dangerousness as a Basis of Incarceration ; Reply: ; Christopher Slobogin ; Chapter 4. The Economics of Crime Control ; Doron Teichman ; Comments: ; Russell D. Covey-The Limits of the Economic Model: Becker's Crime and Punishment ; Alon Harel-The Economic Analysis of Crime Control: A Friendly Critique ; Keith N. Hylton-Effi cient Deterrence and Crime Control ; Morris B. Hoffman-Law, Economics, and Neuroethical Realism ; Reply: ; Doron Teichman ; Chapter 5. The Difficulties of Deterrence as a Distributive Principle ; Paul H. Robinson ; Comments: ; Russell D. Covey-Deterrence's Complexity ; Douglas A. Berman-Making Deterrence Work Better ; Doron Teichman-In Defense of Deterrence ; Jonathan S. Masur, Richard H. McAdams, and Thomas J. Miles-For General Deterrence ; Reply: ; Paul H. Robinson ; Chapter 6. Why only the State may Inflict Criminal Sanctions: The Case Against Privately Inflicted Sanctions ; Alon Harel ; Comments: ; Miriam Baer-Eliminating the Divide Between the State and Its Citizens ; Doron Teichman-Why the State May Delegate the Infliction of Criminal Sanctions ; Malcolm Thorburn-Why Only the State May Decide when Sanctions Are Appropriate ; Stuart P. Green-Why Do Privately Inflicted Criminal Sanctions Matter? ; Reply: ; Alon Harel ; Chapter 7. Results Don't Matter ; Larry Alexander and Kimberly Kessler Ferzan ; Comments: ; Gerald Leonard-Some Reasons Why Criminal Harms Matter ; Peter Westen-Why Criminal Harms Matter ; Thomas Morawetz-Results Don't Matter, But ... ; Jeremy Horder-On the Reducibility of Crimes ; Reply: ; Larry Alexander and Kimberly Kessler Ferzan ; Chapter 8. Post-Modern Meditations on Punishment: On the Limits of Reason and the Virtue of Randomization Bernard E. Harcourt ; Comments: ; Alice Ristroph-Games Punishers Play ; Michael M. O'Hear-Chance's Domain ; Alon Harel-The Lure of Ambivalent Skepticism ; Ken Levy-Punishment Must Be Justified Or Not at All ; Reply: ; Bernard E. Harcourt ; Chapter 9. Remorse, Apology, and Mercy ; Jeffrie G. Murphy ; Comments: ; Sherry F. Colb-Retaining Remorse ; Stephanos Bibas-Invasions of Conscience and Faked Apologies ; Susan Bandes-Evaluation of Remorse Is Here to Stay: We Should Focus on Improving Its Dynamics ; Lisa Kern Griffin-Insincere and Involuntary Public Apologies ; Janet Ainsworth-The Social Meaning of Apology ; Reply: ; Jeffrie G. Murphy ; Chapter 10. Interpretive Construction in the Substantive Criminal Law ; Mark Kelman ; Comments: ; Paul Litton-Unexplained, False Assumptions Underlie Kelman's Skepticism ; John Mikhail-Unconscious Choices in Legal Analysis ; Margaret Raymond-Interpretive Constructions and the Exercise of Bias ; Alice Ristroph-Interpretive Construction and Defensive Punishment Theory ; Reply: ; Mark Kelman ; Chapter 11. Criminalization and Sharing Wrongs ; S.E. Marshall and R.A. Duff ; Comments: ; Stuart P. Green-Sharing Wrongs Between Criminal and Civil Sanctions ; Shlomit Wallerstein-Victim, Beware! On the Dangers of Sharing Wrongs with Society ; Adil Ahmad Haque-Sharing the Burdens of Justice ; Matthew Lister-Contractualism and the Sharing of Wrongs ; Michelle Madden Dempsey-Sharing Reasons for Criminalization? No Thanks ... Already Got 'Em! ; Andrew E. Taslitz-Public versus Private Retribution and Delegated Revenge ; Reply: ; S.E. Marshall and R.A. Duff ; Chapter 12. Monstrous Offenders and the Search for Solidarity Through Modern Punishment ; Joseph E. Kennedy ; Comments: ; Marianne Wesson-Domesticated Monsters ; Janet Ainsworth-<"We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us>": Cognitive Bias and Perceptions of Threats ; Douglas A. Berman-Have Good Intentions Also Fueled the Severity Revolution? ; Reply: ; Joseph E. Kennedy ; ii. Doctrine ; Chapter 13. Against Negligence Liability ; Larry Alexander and Kimberly Kessler Ferzan ; Comments: ; Leo Zaibert-For Negligence Liability ; Michelle Madden Dempsey-The Object of Criminal Responsibility ; Alan Brudner-Is Negligence Blameless? ; Stephen P. Garvey-Fatally Circular? Not! ; Andrew E. Taslitz-Cognitive Science and Contextual Negligence Liability ; Kenneth W. Simons-The Distinction Between Negligence and Recklessness Is Unstable ; Reply: ; Larry Alexander and Kimberly Kessler Ferzan ; Chapter 14. Rape Law Reform Based on Negotiation: Beyond the No and Yes Models ; Michelle J. Anderson ; Comments: ; Andrew E. Taslitz-Self-Deception and Rape Law Reform ; Kimberly Kessler Ferzan-Sex as Contract ; Robin Charlow-Negotiating Sex: Would It Work? ; Sherry F. Colb-Conversation Before Penetration? ; Marianne Wesson-You Can't Get Away from Consent ; Reply: ; Michelle J. Anderson ; Chapter 15. Provocation: Explaining and Justifying the Defense in Partial Excuse, Loss of Self-Control Terms ; Joshua Dressler ; Comments: ; Susan D. Rozelle-He Had It Coming: Provocation as a Partial Justification ; Vera Bergelson-Provocation: Not Just a Partial Excuse ; Marcia Baron-Reframing the Issues: Differing Views of Justification and the Feminist Critique of Provocation ; Joan H. Krause-Tolerating the Loss of Self-Control ; Kenneth Simons-Excuse Doctrine Should Eschew Both the Reasonable and the Ordinary Person ; Stephen P. Garvey-Get Rid of Adequate Provocation! ; Marianne Wesson-Enforcing Virtue with the Law of Homicide ; Reply: ; Joshua Dressler ; Chapter 16. Objective Versus Subjective Justifi cation: A Case Study in Function and Form in Constructing a System of Criminal Law Theory ; Paul H. Robinson ; Comments: ; Peter Westen-A Platonic Justification for <"Unknowing Justification>" ; Shlomit Wallerstein-The Third, Combined, Theory for Justifications ; Mitchell N. Berman-In Defense of Subjective Justifications ; John Mikhail-Constraining the Necessity Defense ; Reply: ; Paul H. Robinson 361 ; Chapter 17. Self-Defense and the Psychotic Aggressor ; George P. Fletcher and Luis E. Chiesa ; Comments: ; Boaz Sangero-<"Self-Defense and the Psychotic Aggressor>": What About Proportionality? ; John Mikhail-Self-Defense Against Wrongful Attack: The Case of the Psychotic Aggressor ; Sherry F. Colb-Justifying Homicide Against Innocent Aggressors Without Denying Their Innocence ; Shlomit Wallerstein-Two Flaws in the Autonomy-Based Justification for Self-Defense ; Whitley R.P. Kaufman-Problems for the Autonomy Theory of Self-Defense ; Reply: ; George P. Fletcher and Luis E. Chiesa ; Chapter 18. Self-Defense Against Morally Innocent Threats ; Jeff McMahan ; Comments: ; Adil Ahmad Haque-Rights and Liabilities at War ; Shlomit Wallerstein-Why Causal Responsibility Matters ; Kimberly Kessler Ferzan-Can't Sue; Can't Kill ; Whitley R.P. Kaufman-Can <"Moral Responsibility>" Explain Self-Defense? ; Victor Tadros-Doubts About the Responsibility Principle ; Reply: ; Jeff McMahan ; Chapter 19. Self- Defense, Imminence, and the Battered Woman ; Whitley R.P. Kaufman ; Comments: ; Gideon Yaffe-The Real Link Between Imminence and Necessity ; Marcia Baron-In Defense of the Proxy Thesis ; Kimberly Kessler Ferzan-The Values and Costs of Imminence ; Joan H. Krause-Imminence Reconsidered: Are Battered Women Different? ; Jeremy Horder-The <"Imminence>" Requirement, Battered Women, and the Authority to Strike Back ; Reply: ; Whitley Kaufman ; Chapter 20. Reasonable Provocation and Self-Defense: Recognizing the Distinction Between Act Reasonableness and Emotion Reasonableness ; Cynthia Lee ; Comments: ; Susan D. Rozelle-Making Waves: Radicalizing Act Reasonableness ; Carissa Byrne Hessick-Is an Act Reasonableness Inquiry Necessary? ; Terry A. Maroney-Differentiating Cognitive and Volitional Aspects of Emotion in Self-Defense and Provocation ; Caroline Forell-Norms, Proportionality, Provocation, and Imperfect Self-Defense ; Jeremy Horder-Different Ways to Manifest Reasonableness ; Kenneth W. Simons-Requiring Reasonable Beliefs About Self-Defense Ensures that Acts Conforming to Those Beliefs Are Reasonable ; Reply: ; Cynthia Lee ; Chapter 21. Against Control Tests for Criminal Responsibility ; Stephen J. Morse ; Comments: ; Stephen P. Garvey-The Folk Psychology of Self-Control ; Michael Louis Corrado-Morse on Control Tests ; Susan D. Rozelle-Sometimes a Control Test Is Just a Control Test ; Terry A. Maroney-Why Is a Folk-Psychological Account of Loss of Control Necessary (And What Precisely Is It)? ; Robert F. Schopp-Cognition, Rationality, and Responsibility ; Reply: ; Stephen J. Morse ; Chapter 22. Abolition of the Insanity Defense ; Christopher Slobogin ; Comments: ; Susan D. Rozelle-No Excuse for You ; Sherry F. Colb-Not By Cognition Alone ; Paul Litton-Against Integrationism ; Matt Matravers-Justifying Defenses ; Reply: ; Christopher Slobogin ; Chapter 23. Entrapment and the <"Free Market>" for Crime ; Louis Michael Seidman ; Comments: ; Sherry F. Colb-Making Sense of Entrapment Law After the Death of Lochner ; Miriam Baer-Entrapment and the Quandary of the Undercover Investigation ; Bruce Hay-An Enforcement Policy Perspective on Entrapment ; Richard H. McAdams-The Entrapment Defense Defended ; Reply: ; Louis Michael Seidman ; iii. Administration ; Chapter 24. The Political Economy of Criminal Law and Procedure: The Pessimists' View ; Richard H. McAdams ; Comments: ; Darryl K. Brown-The Enduring Pattern of Broad Criminal Codes and a Path for Structural Change ; Samuel W. Buell-The Sources of Overbreadth ; Joseph E. Kennedy-Why Here and Why Now? Bringing History and Sociology to Bear on Punitive Pathology ; Andrew E. Taslitz-The Political Economy of Prosecutorial Indiscretion ; Rachel E. Barkow-An Ounce of Prevention: Realistic Treatment for Our Pathological Politics ; Ronald F. Wright-Prosecutor Elections and Overdepth in Criminal Codes ; Reply: ; Richard H. McAdams ; Chapter 25. Against Jury Nullification ; Andrew D. Leipold ; Comments: ; Richard H. McAdams-Jury Nullification Checks Prosecutorial Power ; Carol S. Steiker-Sculpting the Shape of Nullification Through Jury Information and Instruction ; Sherry F. Colb-Jury Nullification and Erroneous Acquittals: Getting the Causation Backwards ; Josh Bowers-Accuracy and Legitimacy ; Reply: ; Andrew D. Leipold ; Chapter 26. Race-Based Jury Nullification: Black Power in the Criminal Justice System ; Paul Butler ; Comments: ; Lawrence Rosenthal-Confusing Cause and Effect ; Robin Charlow-The Effect of Race-Based Jury Nullification on Baston ; LaJuana Davis-The Pernicious Myth of Racial Jury Nullification ; Sherry F. Colb-Rejecting Racial Jury Nullification ; Bennett Capers-On Racially Based Jury Nullification ; Josh Bowers-Grand-Jury Nullification: Black Power in the Charging Decision ; Reply: ; Paul Butler ; Chapter 27. In Support of Restorative Justice ; Erik Luna ; Comments: ; Stephanos Bibas-Restoration, But Also More Justice ; David Donlinko-Restorative Caveats ; Margareth Etienne-Restoring Justice Through Individualized Processes ; Joseph E. Kennedy-Restore to What? Supplementing Restorative Justice ; Michael M. O'Hear-Dangers of the Big Tent ; Robert Weisberg-Luna-Inspired Speculations on Restorative Justice ; Reply: ; Erik Luna ; Chapter 28. The Virtues of Offense/Offender Distinctions ; Douglas A. Berman ; Comments: ; Richard E. Myers II-From Each According to His Ability ; Adam J. Kolber-Characteristics Related to Punishment Experience ; Nancy Gertner-Offense/Offender Distinction and Competence ; Laura I. Appleman-Splitting the Baby: The Danger of Distinguishing Between Offense and Offender Characteristics ; Joseph E. Kennedy- Blakely, Booker, Accountability, and Intelligibility ; Margareth Etienne-In Need of a Theory of Mitigation ; Reply: ; Douglas A. Berman ; Chapter 29. The Heart has its Reasons: Examining the Strange Persistence of the American Death Penalty ; Susan A. Bandes ; Comments: ; Douglas A. Berman and Stephanos Bibas-The Heart Has Its Value: The Death Penalty's Justifi able Persistence ; Mary Sigler-Emotions, Retributivism and the Death Penalty ; Jeffrie G. Murphy-When Clearly Understood, Retributive Theory Has Much To Offer ; Robert F. Schopp-Reason and Emotion in Capital Sentencing ; Joseph E. Kennedy-Outrage versus Anger and Hatred ; Carol S. Steiker-Will Empathy Kill the Death Penalty, or Vice Versa? ; LaJuana Davis-Overriding Emotion ; Terry A. Maroney-Can the Theory and Practice of Capital Punishment Be More Emotionally Intelligent? ; Reply: ; Susan A. Bandes ; Chapter 30. Mercy's Decline and Administrative Law's Ascendance ; Rachel E. Barkow ; Comments: ; Ronald F. Wright and Marc L. Miller-Subjective and Objective Discretion of Prosecutors ; Douglas A. Berman-Mercy's Disguise, Prosecutorial Power, and Equality's Modern Construction ; Stephanos Bibas-Political versus Administrative Justice ; Andrew E. Taslitz-The Decline of Criminal Law Representative Populism ; Reply: ; Rachel E. Barkow ; Chapter 31. Criminal Law Comes Home ; Jeannie Suk ; Comments: ; Melissa Murray-The Private Life of Criminal Law ; Laura A. Rosenbury-Whose Privacy? ; Aya Gruber-From Neoliberalism to Libertarianism: Why Neither Criminalization Nor Privacy Is the ; Answer for Battered Women ; Jennifer Collins-Criminal Law Comes Home to a Family ; Cheryl Hanna-Because Breaking Up Is Hard To Do ; Emily J. Sack-The Crime of Domestic Violence ; Deborah Tuerkheimer-Domesticating Criminal Law: A Normative Defense ; Alafair Burke-Domestic Violence Misdemeanor Prosecutions and the New Policing ; Reply: ; Jeannie Suk