Recent Publications
Recent books, book chapters, and journal articles published by the University of Minnesota Law School faculty.
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– Prosecutors and Politics in Comparative Perspective, in Prosecutors and Politics in Comparative Perspective (Michael Tonry, ed., University of Chicago Press, 2012)
– The Future of Sentencing and Its Control, in The Future of Criminology (Rolf Loeber & Brandon C. Welsh, eds., Oxford University Press, 2012)
– Dividing Lines: East Versus West in Minneapolis Suburbs, in The Resegregation of Suburban Schools: A Hidden Crisis in American Education (Erica Frankenberg & Gary Orfield, eds., Harvard Education Press, 2012)
– Women in the Post-Conflict Process: Reviewing the Impact of Recent UN Actions in Achieving Gender Centrality, 11 Santa Clara Journal of International Law 189 (2012)
– Recommendations for Nanomedicine Human Subjects Research Oversight: An Evolutionary Approach for an Emerging Field, 40 Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 716 (2012)
– Guiding Commitments and Criminal Liability for Attempts, 6 Criminal Law and Philosophy 411-427 (2012)
– The Promise and the Reality of U.S. Tax Administration, in The Delicate Balance: Tax, Discretion and the Rule of Law 39 (Chris Evans, Judith Freedman & Richard Krever, eds., IBFD, 2011)
– Introduction: The Constitution of the Criminal Law, in The Constitution of the Criminal Law 1-11 (R.A. Duff, Lindsay Farmer, S.E. Marshall, Massimo Renzo & Victor Tadros, eds., Oxford University Press, 2013)
– Research on Race and Sentencing: Goals, Methods, and Topics, 30 Justice Quarterly 262-269 (2013)
– Just Sentencing: Principles and Procedures for a Workable System (Oxford University Press, 2013)
– An Economic Analysis of Patent Law's Inequitable Conduct Doctrine, 53 Arizona Law Review 735 (2011)
– The Search for Rapists' "Real" Motives, 101 Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology 171 (2011)
– Responsabilidad Extracontractual: Elementos Basicos para una Aplicacion en Paises en Desarrollo, 58 Themis: Revista de Derecho 313-319 (2010)
– Incentive Effects of Class Actions and Punitive Damages Under Alternative Procedural Regimes, 32 European Journal of Law and Economics 229-240 (2011)
– Customary International Law, in Production of Legal Rules 293-308 (Francesco Parisi, ed., Edward Elgar, 2011)
– Countervailing Norms, in Production of Legal Rules 185-204 (Francesco Parisi, ed., Edward Elgar, 2011)
– Rules versus Standards, in Production of Legal Rules 43-53 (Francesco Parisi, ed., Edward Elgar, 2011)
– Separating Complements: The Effects of Competition and Quality Leadership, 103 Journal of Economics 107-131 (2011)
– Subsidiarity for a Changing Union, in Research Handbook on the Economics of European Union Law 95-110 (Thomas Eger & Hans-Bernd Schafer, eds., Edward Elgar, 2012)
– Robert Alexy, Radbruch's Formula, and the Nature of Legal Theory, 37 Rechtstheorie 139 (2006), translated into Portuguese, 2:12 Panoptica 70 (Mar. 2008) and Spanish, in Derecho, argumentación y ponderación : Ensayos en honor a Robert Alexy 39 (Gonzalo Villa Rosas, Claudia Toledo, Alejandro Nava Tovar & Arnulfo D. Mateos Durán, eds., Universidad Externado de Colombia, 2023)
– Joseph Raz and Conceptual Analysis, 06(2) American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Law 1 (Spr. 2007)
– Contract Rights and Remedies, and the Divergence Between Law and Morality, 21 Ratio Juris 194 (2008)
– Law and Language: How Words Mislead Us, 1 Jurisprudence 25 (2010)
– Some Reflections on Contract Law Theory, 1 Problema 143 (2007)
– Lenguaje, Teoria y Derecho (Universidad Externado de Colombia, 2008) (collection of previously published essays, translated into Spanish, with a new introduction)
– Legal Philosophy in America, in The Oxford Handbook of American Philosophy 551-577 (Cheryl Misak, ed., Oxford University Press, 2008)
– Universal Theory in Family Law, in Family Law: Balancing Interests and Pursuing Priorities 28-34 (Lynn D. Wardle & Camille S. Williams, eds., William S. Hein & Co., 2007)
– The Role of Legal Theory in Law and Justice (in English and translated into Turkish), in Ankara Barosu Uluslarasrasi Hukuk Kurultayi, vol. 1, 82-99 (Ankara Barosu Baskanligi, 2009)
– The Problem of Persuasion: A Comment on Linda McClain's The Place of Families, in Family Law: Balancing Interests and Pursuing Priorities 20-27 (Lynn D. Wardle & Camille S. Williams, eds., William S. Hein & Co., 2007)