Publications

Scholarly

“Leo M. Frank,” in YALE BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN LAW (Yale University Press, forthcoming 2008).

“Articles of Confederation,” in OXFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LEGAL HISTORY (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2009).

Reconstructing Journalists’ Privilege, 29 Cardozo L.R. 1381 (2008), reprinted in PRIVILEGES IN EVIDENCE LAW (Amicus Books, forthcoming 2009).

“The Effects of AEDPA on Justice,” in THE FUTURE OF AMERICA’S DEATH PENALTY: AN AGENDA FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT RESEARH (North Carolina Academic Press, 2009) (with David R. Dow).

Re-stating the Standard of Practice for Death Penalty Counsel: The Supplementary Guidelines for the Mitigation Function of Defense Teams in Death Penalty Cases, 36 Hof. L.R.663 (2008).

Who’s Afraid of the Criminal Law Paradigm in the “War on Terror”?, 10 N.Y.C. L.R. 323 (2007).

Fewer Risks, More Benefits: What Governments Gain by Acknowledging the Right to Competent Counsel on State Post-Conviction Review in Capital Cases, 4 Ohio St. J. Cr. L. 183 (2006).

Giarratano is a Scarecrow: The Right to Counsel in State Capital Post-conviction Proceedings, 91 Cornell L. R. 1079 (2006).

Mend It or End It?: The Revised ABA Capital Defense Representation Guidelines as an Opportunity to Reconsider the Death Penalty, 2 Ohio St. J. Cr. L. 663 (2005).

A Rational Constitutional Faith (remarks on installation as Distinguished Professor), 33 Hof.L.R. 417 (2004).

The Revised ABA Guidelines and The Duties of Lawyers and Judges in Capital Postconviction Proceedings, 5 J. App. Prac. & Proc. 325 (2003).

Add Resources and Apply Them Systemically: Governments’ Responsibilities Under theRevised ABA Capital Defense Representation Guidelines Hof. L.R. 1097 (2003).

Federal Habeas Corpus in Capital Cases,” in AMERICA’S EXPERIMENT WITH CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: REFLECTIONS ON THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF HE ULTIMATE PENAL SANCTION (North Carolina Academic Press, 2d ed. 2003 & 1st ed.1998) (James Acker et al., eds.).

“Habeas Corpus,”in DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN HISTORY (Charles Scribner’s Sons,2003).

Digitized Pornography Meets the First Amendment, 23 Cardozo L.R. 2011 (2002).

HABEAS CORPUS: RETHINKING THE GREAT WRIT OF LIBERTY (New York University Press, 2002; published in paperback 2003).

Earl Washington’s Ordeal, 29 Hof. L.R. 1089 (2001).

Just Because John Marshall Said it, Doesn't Make it So: Ex Parte Bollman and the Illusory Prohibition on the Federal Writ of Habeas Corpus for State Prisoners in the Judiciary Act of 1789, 51 Alabama L.R. 1467 (2000).

Leo Frank Lives: Untangling the Historical Roots of Meaningful Federal Habeas Corpus Review of State Convictions, 51 Alabama L.R. 1467 (2000).

Brown v. Allen:The Habeas Corpus Revolution That Wasn't, 51 Alabama L.R. 1541 (2000).

Book Review of Christopher N. May’s PRESIDENTIAL DEFIANCE OF “UNCONSTITUTIONAL” LAWS, 44 Am. J. Legal Hist. 226 (2000).

On Protecting Accountability, 27 Hof. L.R. 677 (1999), an updated version of The Law as King and the King as Law: Is a President Immune from Criminal Prosecution Before Impeachment?, 20 Hastings Const. L.Q. 7 (1992) .

Remarks at Symposium on the Future of Legal Services, 25 Fordham Urb. L.J. 345 (1998).

“Open Legal Questions Remaining After Iran-Contra,” in PRESIDENT REAGAN AND THE WORLD (Greenwood Press, 1997) (Eric J. Schmertz et al., eds.).

Book Review of David Thomas Konig's DEVISING LIBERTY, 16 Am. J. Legal Hist. 130 (1997).

A Lot More Comes into Focus When You Remove the Lens Cap: Why Proliferating New Technologies Make it Particularly Urgent for the Supreme Court to Abandon its Inside-Out Approach to Freedom of Speech, and Bring Obscenity, Fighting Words, and Group Libel Withinthe First Amendment, 81 Iowa L.R. 883 (1996), partially reprinted as “The Old Problem of NewCommunications Technologies: Can We do Better This Time?”, in LAW AND THE ARTS (Greenwood Press, 1999) (Susan Tiefenbrun, ed.) and as “History and Decency: Overcoming theThreat of an Inside-Out Approach,” in REAL LAW@VIRTUAL SPACE: COMMUNICATION REGULATION IN CYBERSPACE (Hampton Press, 1998; revised for 2d ed. 2005) (Susan J. Drucker and Gary Gumpert, eds.).

The Suspension Clause in the Ratification Debates, 44 Buff. L.R. 451 (1996).

GROUP DEFAMATION AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND VIOLENCE (Greenwood Press, 1995) (edited with Monroe H. Freedman).

Why Constitutional Lawyers and Historians Should Take a Fresh Look at the Emergence of the Constitution from the Confederation Period: The Case of the Drafting of the Articles of Confederation, 60 Tenn. L.R. 783 (1993).

Challenging Law Students Through the Pretrial Litigation Course: Integrating Learning by Taking a Simulation Approach, and Letting the Campus Computer Network Help (National Institute for Trial Advocacy, 1992) (with Andrew Schepard).

Innocence, Federalism, and the Capital Jury , 18 N.Y.U. Rev. Law & Soc. Change 315 (1990-91).

Freedom of Information and the First Amendment in a Bureaucratic Age, 49 Brooklyn L.R. 829 (1983).

American Libel Law 1825 - 1896: A Qualified Privilege for Public Affairs?, 30 Chitty's L.J. 113 (1982).

Libel Law and the Preservation of the Republic 1787 – 1825, 30 Chitty's L.J. 176 (1982).

Book Review of John Hart Ely's DEMOCRACY AND DISTRUST, 48 Brooklyn L.R. 391(1982).

Note, The United States and the Articles of Confederation: Drifting Toward Anarchy or Inching Toward Commonwealth?, 88 Yale L.J. 142 (1978). Complementarity versus Sibarmilarity of Traits Operating in the Choice of Marriage and Dating Partners, 105 J. Social. Psyc. 147 (1978) (with Amnon Till).