Recent Publications
Recent books, book chapters, and journal articles published by the University of Minnesota Law School faculty.
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– Rethinking Unthinkable Punishment Policies in America, 46 UCLA Law Review 1751-91 (1999)
– Building Better Policies on Better Knowledge, in The Challenge of Crime in a Free Society: Looking Back, Looking Forward: Symposium on the 30th Anniversary of the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice (U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, 1998)
– A Comparative Perspective on Minority Groups, Crime, and Criminal Justice, 6 European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law, and Criminal Justice 60-73 (1998)
– The Decision to File Federal Criminal Charges: A Quantitative Study of Prosecutorial Discretion, 47 University of Chicago Law Review 246 (1980)
– Main-streaming Comparative Criminal Justice: How to Incorporate Comparative and International Concepts and Materials into Basic Criminal Law and Procedure Courses, 100 West Virginia Law Review 773 (1998)
– The Search for the Whole Truth About American and European Criminal Justice, 3 Buffalo Criminal Law Review 785-849 (2000) (reviewing William T. Pizzi, Trials Without Truth: Why Our System of Criminal Trials Has Become an Expensive Failure and What We Need To Do To Rebuild It (New York University Press, 2000)) (review essay)
– Sentencing in Germany and the United States: Comparing Apfel with Apples (Edition Iuscrim, 2001) (Research in brief series)
– Sentencing Reform in Minnesota, Ten Years After: Reflections on Dale G. Parent's Structuring Criminal Sentences: The Evolution of Minnesota's Sentencing Guidelines, 75 Minnesota Law Review 727 (1991)
– What Were They Thinking? Fourth Amendment Unreasonableness in Atwater v. City of Lago Vista, 71 Fordham Law Review 329-421 (2002), reprinted as How Can a Clearly Unreasonable Arrest be a "Reasonable" Seizure?, in 30 Search and Seizure Law Report 85-92 (2003)
– Sentencing Guidelines in Minnesota, Other States, and the Federal Courts: A Twenty-Year Retrospective, 12 Federal Sentencing Reporter 69-82 (1999)
– Lessons of State Guideline Reforms, 8 Federal Sentencing Reporter 39 (1995)
– Defendant Amenability to Treatment or Probation as a Basis for Departure Under the Minnesota and Federal Sentencing Guidelines, 3 Federal Sentencing Reporter 328 (1991)
– Sentencing Laws & Practices in France, 7 Federal Sentencing Reporter 275 (1995)
– Sentencing Guidelines in the States: Lessons for State and Federal Reformers, 6 Federal Sentencing Reporter 123 (1993) (Guest Editor's Observations), reprinted in 10 Federal Sentencing Reporter 46 (1997)
– Implementing Commission-Based Sentencing Guidelines: The Lessons of the First Ten Years in Minnesota, 2 Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy 279 (1993)
– Sentencing Principles in Theory and Practice, 22 Crime and Justice 363 (1997)
– The Role of the Legislature, the Sentencing Commission, and Other Officials under the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines, 28 Wake Forest Law Review 345 (1993)
– The Uncertain Future of Sentencing Guidelines, 12 Law & Inequality 1 (1993)
– Criminal Procedure in a Conservative Age: A Time to Rediscover the Critical Nonconstitutional Issues, 36 Journal of Legal Education 79 (1986)
– Comparative Criminal Justice as a Guide to American Law Reform: How Do the French Do it, How Can We Find Out, and Why Should We Care?, 78 California Law Review 539 (1990)
– Defining the Limits of Crime Control and Due Process, 73 California Law Review 212 (1985) (reviewing Hans Zeisel, The Limits of Law Enforcement (University of Chicago Press, 1982)) (review essay)
– A County-Level Comparison of the Propensity to Sentence Felons to Prison, 1 International Journal of Comparative Criminology 1 (2001)
– Sentencing Guidelines in Minnesota and Other American States: A Progress Report, in The Politics of Sentencing Reform 169-198 ( Chris Clarkson & Rod Morgan, eds., Clarendon Press, 1995)
– International Perspectives on Sentencing Policy and Research, in Sentencing and Sanctions in Western Countries (Michael Tonry & Richard S. Frase, eds., Oxford University Press, 2001)
– Fair Trial Standards in the United States of America, in The Right to a Fair Trial 31-83 (David Weissbrodt & Rudiger Wolfrum, eds., Springer, 1997)
– Criminal Punishments, in The Oxford Companion to American Law 197-202 (Kermit Hall, editor in chief, Oxford University Press, 2002)
– Comparative Criminal Justice Policy, in Theory and in Practice, in Les systèmes comparés de justice pénale: de la diversité au rapprochement = Comparative Criminal Justice Systems: From Diversity to Rapprochement 109-121 (Editions Erès, 1998)
– Jails, in The Handbook of Crime & Punishment 474-506 (Michael Tonry, ed., Oxford University Press, 1998)
– State Sentencing Guidelines: Still Going Strong, 78 Judicature 173 (1995)
– German Criminal Justice as a Guide to American Law Reform: Similar Problems, Better Solutions?, 18 Boston College International and Comparative Law Review 317 (1995)