WORKS in PROGRESS
On Executing Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenics: Identity and the Construction of “Synthetic” Competency, 52 CRIM. L. BULL. 308 (2016).
Rationality, Insanity, and the Insanity Defense: Reflections on the Limits of Reason, 39 L. & Psychol. Rev. 161 (2015).
How (Some) Criminals Are Made, in Michael Freeman, ed. 13 CURRENT LEGAL ISSUES: LAW AND NEUROSCIENCE Ch. 10 (OUP 2011). A 2009 version of this paper.
Forward: The Brain Sciences and Criminal Law Norms, 62 Mercer L. Rev. 705 (2011) (Introducing Mercer Law Review’s October, 2010 Symposium, “The Brain Sciences in the Courtroom”). A 2009 version of this paper.
The Neuropsychology of Justifications and Excuses: Some Cases from Self-Defense, Duress, and Provocation, 50 JURIMETRICS 391 (2010). A 2009 version of this paper.
The Problems with Blaming, in Michael Freeman and Oliver Goodenough, eds. LAW, MIND, AND BRAIN (London: Ashgate 2009).
On the Nature of the Action-Omission Network, 24 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 1003 (2008).
On the Nature of Forgiveness and Vengeance, (Posted June 20, 2006).
“On the Potential of Neuroscience: A Comment on Greene and Cohen’s ‘For the Law, Neuroscience Changes Nothing and Everything’” (Posted October 28, 2005).
Some Thoughts on the Aesthetics of Retribution, 17 CAN. J. L. & JURIS. 233 (2004).
A Jurisprudence for Punishing Attempts Asymmetrically, 6 BUFF. CRIM. L. REV. 951 (2003).
Book Review, What If Rational Justification Was NOT a Priori (at least for everyone)?, 16 J. LAW & RELIG 901 (Fall 2001) (RELIGIOUS COMMITMENT AND SECULAR REASON (by Robert Audi; Cambridge, 2000)).
Justifying Punishment, 14 CAN. J. L. & JURIS. 161 (2001).
“Comments on Kadish’s ‘Moral Excess,’” (posted Fall 2001 by Professor Kadish).
Introduction, 51 Mercer L. Rev. 817 (2000) (1999-2000 Oliver Wendell Holmes Symposium and Lectureship: The Marketplace of Ideas in Cyberspace)
An Essay on Liberalism and Public Theology, 14 J. LAW & RELIG. 229 (Winter 1999/2000).
Genesis, Gender and Community, 9 S. CAL. REV. L AND WOMEN’S STUDIES 5 (1999).
The New Religionists’ Newest Social Gospel: On the Rhetoric and Reality of Religions’ “Marginalization” in Public Life, 51 U. MIAMI L. REV. 1 (1996).
The Holocaust and Public Discourse, 11 J. L. & RELIG. 591 (1994-95) (anthologized in F. D. DeCoste and Bernard Schwartz. EDS., THE HOLOCAUST’S GHOSTS: WRITINGS ON ART, POLITICS, LAW AND EDUCATION (Edmonton: U. Alberta Press 2000)).
Some Moral Implications of Finding No State Action, 70 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 95 (1994).
Essay, Court Uses of History, in KERMIT HALL, ED., THE OXFORD COMPANION TO THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT (New York: OUP 1993).
Symposium Essay, Democracy in the Age of Television, 44 Mercer L. Rev. 653 (1993).
Reshaping Section 1983's Asymmetry, 140 U. PA. L. REV. 755 (1992) (with Harold S. Lewis, Jr.).
Judicial Review, Foreign Affairs and Legislative Standing, 25 GA. L. REV. 227 (1991).
Symposium essay, Disdain for the Lesson of History: Comments on Love and Power, 20 CAP. U.L. REV. 159 (1991) (review of Michael Perry, LOVE AND POWER: THE ROLE OF MORALITY AND RELIGION IN AMERICAN PUBLIC LIFE)
The Reagan Court and Title VII: A Common Law Outlook on a Statutory Task, 69 N. C. L. REV. 1 (1990) (with Harold S. Lewis, Jr.).
The Third Best Choice: An Essay on Law and History, 41 Hastings L.J. 537 (1990).
Illusions of Constitutional Decision making: Politics and the Tenure Powers in the Court, 73 IOWA L. REV. 1079 (1988).
Separation of Powers and the Origins of the Appointment Clause, 37 SYRACUSE L. REV. 1037 (1987).