Articles
Sense and Sentencing: Our
Imprisonment Epidemic, 25 Journal of Civil Rights and Economic
Development 153 (2010)
Prosecutorial Discretion in the Shadow of Advisory Guidelines
and Mandatory Minimums, 19 Temple Political and Civil Rights
Law Review 377 (2010)
Prosecutors as Punishment Theorists: Seeking Sentencing
Justice, 16 George Mason Law Review 303 (2009)
Born Again on Death Row: Retribution, Remorse, and
Religion, 43 Catholic Lawyer 311 (2004)
Retribution for Rats: Cooperation, Punishment, and
Atonement, 56 Vanderbilt Law Review 1 (2003)
Vicarious Snitching: Crime, Cooperation, and "Good Corporate
Citizenship," 76 St. John's Law Review 979
(2002)
Departing Ways: Uniformity, Disparity, and Cooperation in Federal
Drug Sentences, 47 Villanova Law Review 921 (2002)
Prosecutorial Discretion and Prosecution Guidelines: A Case Study
in Controlling Federalization, 75 N.Y.U. Law Review 893
(2000)
Other Publications
Catholic Teaching, Catholic Values, Catholic Voters: Reflections on
"Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship,"
47 Journal of Catholic Legal Studies 205(2008)
Talking Sense About Sentencing, NPR’s Talking Justice
Blog (January 2008)
A New Era for the Catholic Lawyer, 44 Journal of Catholic
Legal Studies (2005) (with Susan J. Stabile)
Perjury, in Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice (J.
Dressler ed., 2d ed. 2001)
Ray Exercised Proper Discretion with Clinton, Newsday,
Jan. 22, 2001, at A3 (with John Q. Barrett)
Student Speech - Free Press in High Schools: Hazelwood
School District v. Kuhlmeier, 102 Harvard Law Review 271
(1988)
A Radical Intent (Review of M. Curtis, No State Shall
Abridge: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Bill of Rights), 101
Harvard Law Review 869 (1988)
Paper Presentations and Selected Speaking
Engagements
Recent Developments in Criminal Evidence, New York State
Judicial Institute (Summer 2006, Winter 2007, Summer 2007,
Winter 2008)
Prosecutors as Punishment Theorists, Hofstra University
School of Law Faculty Workshop (January 2007)
Vincentian Chair of Social Justice Conference: The Just and
Moral Society, St. John's University, Vincentian Center for
Church & Society (October 2007)
Hon. Lawrence J. Finnegan, Jr. and Prof. Frank S. Polestino
Memorial Seminar, Queens County Judges (November 2006)
Religion and
Morality in the Public Square, St. John’s University, Journal
of Legal Commentary (Conference Co-Organizer) (March 2007)
The Jurisprudential Legacy of John Paul II, St. John’s
University, Journal of Catholic Legal Studies (Conference
Co-Organizer) (March 2006)
Vincentian Chair of Social Justice Conference: Hope:
Foundation of a Civilization of Love and Justice,
Immigration Workshop, St. John's University, Vincentian Center
for Church & Society (October 2005)
Seeking Justice at Sentencing: The Prosecutor’s Changed Role
Under Booker, St. John’s University School of Law Faculty
Colloquium (April 2005)
Seeking Justice: The Challenge of Prosecutorial Discretion
in an Age of Fixed Sentences, St. John's University School of
Law Faculty Colloquium (February 2004)
Vincentian Chair of Social Justice Conference: The Faces and
Facets of 21st Century Poverty: Criminal Justice Workshop, St.
John's University, Vincentian Center for Church & Society
(October 2003)
Post 9/11 Race and War: A Comparative Analysis of the Wars
on Poverty, Drugs and Terrorism, St. John's University School
of Law (February 2003)
Corporate Fraud in the 21st Century, Alexander Hamilton
Inn of Court (November 2002).
The Role of the Professional, Enron and Its Aftermath,
St. John's University School of Law (September 2002)
Departing Ways: Uniformity and Disparity in Federal Drug
Sentences, New Voices on the War on Drugs, Villanova Law
School (October 2001)
The Rules Are Changing: Federal Civil Practice Update,
Nassau Academy of Law, Nassau County Bar Association (January
2001)
Litigation Updates: Federal Rules of Evidence,
Association of the Bar of the City of New York (October 2000)
Experts in the Jury Room: Professional Jurors after People
v. Maragh, Theodore Roosevelt American Inn of Court (October
2000)
Updates in the Federal Rules of Evidence, Association
of the Bar of the City of New York (March 2000)