Criminal Law Conversations [Paperback]

Criminal Law Conversationsprovides an authoritative overview of contemporary criminal law debates in the United States. This collection of high caliber scholarly papers was assembled using an innovative and interactive method of nominations and commentary by the nation's top legal scholars. Virtually every leading scholar in the field has participated, resulting in a volume of interest to those both in and outside of the community.Criminal Law Conversationsshowcases the most captivating of these essays, and provides insight into the most fundamental and provocative questions of modern criminal law.

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
Lu?s 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