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Jim Fleissner

Publications & Symposia


Partisanship and the Attorney General of the United States: Timely Lessons from Edward Levi and Griffin Bell about Repairing a Politicized Department of Justice, 72 Mercer L. Rev. 732 (2021) (with Patrick Longan).

Foreword: Defining and Enforcing the Federal Prosecutor’s Duty to Disclose Exculpatory Evidence, 64 Mercer L. Rev. 635 (2013) (with Patrick Longan)

“A Rescue Plan for the Justice Department, 92 Judicature 144 (2009)(written on behalf of the Editorial Board of Judicature)

“August 11, 1938: A Day in the Life of Senator Walter F. George,” 9 Journal of Southern Legal History 55 (2001)

Constitutional Criminal Procedure, Annual 11th Circuit Survey, 52 Mercer L. Rev. 1305 (2001) (with Sarah B. Mabery and Jeanne L. Wiggins)

“You Are History: Address to the Mercer Law School Class of 2000,” 8 Journal of Southern Legal History 201 (2000)

Constitutional Criminal Procedure, Annual 11th Circuit Survey, 51 Mercer L. Rev. 1089 (2000) (with Amy C. Reeder)

Constitutional Criminal Procedure: A Two-Year Survey, Annual 11th Circuit Survey, 50 Mercer L. Rev. 921 (1999) (with Jeffrey R. Harris)

“The Future of the Independent Counsel Statute: Confronting the Dilemma of Allocating the Power of Prosecutorial Discretion,” 49 Mercer Law Review 427 (1998)

“The Case Against the Potential Expansion of the Good Faith Exception to Warrantless Searches and Seizures,” Vol. 24, No. 10, Search and Seizure Law Report ( November 1997)

Glide Path to an "Inclusionary Rule": How Expansion of the Good Faith Exception Threatens to Fundamentally Change the Exclusionary Rule, 48 Mercer L. Rev.1023 (1997)

“Mastering Trial Objections: The Spin Control Method,” 20 American Journal of Trial Advocacy 591 (1997)

Constitutional Criminal Procedure, Annual 11th Circuit Survey, 48 Mercer L. Rev. 1485 (1997).

“Bomb Trial Ploy Could Self-Destruct,” The National Law Journal, April 7, 1997, at A17.

“Sentencing Illegal Aliens Convicted of Reentry After Deportation: A Proposal for Simplified and Principled Sentencing,” 8 Federal Sentencing
Reporter 264 (1996) (with James A. Shapiro)

Criminal Law and Procedure: A Two Year Survey, Annual Survey of Georgia Law, 48 Mercer L. Rev. 219 (1996).

“Together and Apart: Two Juries, One Trial,” The National Law Journal, October 28, 1996, at A21

Constitutional Criminal Procedure, Annual 11th Circuit Survey, 47 Mercer L. Rev. 765 (1996).

Testimony before the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives concerning the Comprehensive Antiterrorism Act of 1995 (June 12, 1995), Published in “International Terrorism: Threats and Responses,” Hearings on H.R. 1710 before Committee on the Judiciary, 104th Cong. 1st Sess. (1995)

“Federal Sentences for Aliens Convicted of Illegal Reentry Following Deportation: Who Needs the Aggravation?” 9 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 451 (1995) (with James A. Shapiro)

“Prosecuting Public Officials Under the Hobbs Act: Inducement as an Element of Extortion Under Color of Official Right,” 52 University of Chicago Law Review 1066 (1985)

SYMPOSIA

Co-organizer of 2012 Mercer Law Review Symposium entitled “Defining and Enforcing the Federal Prosecutor’s Duty to Disclose Exculpatory Evidence.” [Published in Volume 64, Mercer Law Review (2013)]

Moderator of panel discussion at 1999 Mercer Law Review Symposium entitled“A Proposed Code of Ethics for Legal Commentators: A Symposium.” Panelists included Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr., Barry C. Scheck, Erwin Chemerinsky, and Laurie Levenson. [Published in Volume 50, Mercer Law Review (1999)]

Organizer of “The Independent Counsel Statute: A Symposium” and Moderator of Roundtable Discussion on the Independent Counsel Statute between former Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, former Iran/Contra Independent Counsel Lawrence E. Walsh, former Attorney General GriffinB. Bell, and former White House Counsel Lloyd N. Cutler. [Mercer Law Review Symposium, October 27, 1997, published in Volume 49, Mercer Law Review (1998)]

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