Alafair S. Burke
		Professor of Law
		B.A., Reed College J.D., Stanford University
		Phone:  (516) 463-4243 Fax:  (516) 463-4962 E-mail:  lawasb@hofstra.edu

Publications

Articles
Domestic Violence Misdemeanor Prosecutions and the New Policing, in CRIMINAL LAW CONVERSATIONS (Robinson, Ferzan, and Garvey eds.) (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2009)

Revisiting Prosecutorial Disclosure, 84 INDIANA LAW J. ___ (forthcoming 2009).

Comment, Brady’s Brainteaser: The Accidental Prosecutor and Cognitive Bias 57 CASE W. RES. L. REV. 575 (2007) (symposium).

Prosecutorial Passion, Cognitive Bias, and Plea Bargaining, 91 MARQUETTE L. REV. 183 (2007) (symposium).

Neutralizing Cognitive Bias: An Invitation to Prosecutors, 2 N.Y.U. LAW & LIBERTY 512 (2007) (symposium).

Domestic Violence as a Crime of Pattern and Intent: An Alternative Reconceptualization, 75 GEORGE WASHINGTON L. REV. 552 (2007).

Celebrity Justice: What We (and Our Students) Learn from Hollywood Star’s Run-ins with the Law, FINDLAW’S WRIT, AUG. 20, 2007 (with Joanna Grossman).

Lawless Neptune, in NEPTUNE NOIR (Rob Thomas, ed., 2007) (discussing the depiction of law in the popular television show Veronica Mars).

Improving Prosecutorial Decision Making: Some Lessons of Cognitive Science, 47 WILLIAM & MARY L. REV. 1587 (2006).

“Administrative Searches,” “Arrest Without Warrant,” and “Board of Education v. Earls,”, in THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES (2006).

Review: Murder and the Reasonable Man: Passion and Fear in the Criminal Courtroom, 103 MICH. L. REV. 1043 (2005).

Unpacking New Policing: Confessions of a Former Neighborhood District Attorney, 78 WASH. L. REV. 985 (2003).

The New, New Federalism? A Supreme Court Case to be Decided this Term Tests Whether Congress Can Use the Spending Power to Create a Broad Federal Crime, FINDLAW’S WRIT, Dec. 11, 2003.

An Alternative Way to Secure Iraq: Lessons from Community Policing, FINDLAW’S WRIT, Nov. 6, 2003.

Rational Actors, Self-Defense, and Duress: Making Sense, Not Syndromes, Out of the Battered Woman, 81 N.C. L. REV. 211 (2002).

A Few Straight Men: Homosexuals in the Military and Equal Protection, 6 STAN. LAW & POL. REV. 109 (1994).

Note, Reconciling Professional Ethics and Prosecutorial Power: The No Contact Rule Debate, 46 STAN. L. REV. 1635 (1994).

Remembering Emotional Events, 20 MEMORY & COGNITION 277 (1992) (with co-authors F. Heuer & D. Reisberg).

NOVELS
ANGEL’S TIP (HarperCollins, 2008).
DEAD CONNECTION (Henry Holt, 2007).
CLOSE CASE (Henry Holt, 2005).
MISSING JUSTICE (Henry Holt, 2004).
JUDGMENT CALLS (Henry Holt, 2003).