Dan Markel Prawfsblawg.blogs.com markel@post.harvard.edu

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Scholarship:

• Retributive Damages, 94 CORNELL L. REV. (forthcoming January 2009).
• Punishing Family Status, 88 B.U. L. REV. (forthcoming December 2008; draft on SSRN) (with responses by Roderick Hills and Michael O'Hear, and a reply) (with Ethan J. Leib and Jennifer M. Collins).
• Wrong Turns on the Road to Alternative Sanctions: Reflections on the Future of Shaming Punishments and Restorative Justice, 85 TEX. L. REV. 1385 (2007).
• Criminal Justice and the Challenge of Family Ties, 2007 U. ILL. L. REV. 1147 (with Jennifer M. Collins and Ethan J. Leib).
• Connectedness and Its Discontents: The Difficulties of Federalism and Criminal Law, 4 OHIO ST. J. CRIM. L. 573 (2007) (peer-reviewed); an earlier draft appeared at 155 U. PA. L. REV. P. 38 (2006).
• State, Be Not Proud: A Retributivist Defense of the Commutation of Death Row and the Abolition of the Death Penalty, 40 HARV. CR-CL L. REV. 407 (2005).
• Against Mercy, 88 MINN. L. REV. 1421 (2004).
• Are Shaming Punishments Beautifully Retributive? Retributivism and the Implications for the Alternative Sanctions Debate, 54 VANDBERBILT L. REV. 2157 (2001).
• The Justice of Amnesty? Towards A Theory of Retributivism in Recovering States, 49 U. TORONTO L.J. 389 (1999) (peer-reviewed journal).
• Note, Can Intellectual Property Law Regulate Behavior? A 'Modest Proposal' for Weakening Unclean Hands, 113 HARV. L. REV. 1503 (2000).
• Recent Case, United States v. DeZarn, 112 HARV. L. REV. 1783 (1999).
• Review Essay, Ethics and Authority in International Law, 10 EUROPEAN J. INT'L L. 200 (1999) (peer-reviewed journal).

Popular Writing:

• Review, The Indispensable Berman on Booker, PrawfsBlawg, June 26, 2006.
  • Cited as persuasive authority in United States v. Kandirakis, 441 F. Supp. 2d 282 (D. Mass. 2006).
• Essay, Redemption-Based Clemency for Stanley "Tookie" Williams: The Right Action for the Wrong Reason, Findlaw, Dec. 9, 2005.
• Essay, Innocents Lost: Who Needs David Gale When You've Got Ruben Cantu, Slate, Nov. 29, 2005, reprinted in part in Dallas Morning News, Dec. 4, 2005.
• Book Review, Summers's Hailstorm (Richard Bradley, Harvard Rules, and Ross Gregory Douthat, Privilege), The Jerusalem Post, Sept. 8, 2005.
• Book Review, A Woman of Valor (Deborah E. Lipstadt's History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving), The Jerusalem Post, Mar. 18, 2005.
• Book Review, The Dying Art of Advocacy (Joel Seidemann's In the Interest of Justice: Great Opening and Closing Arguments of the Last 100 Years), The Jerusalem Post, Jan. 23, 2005.
• Humiliation is simply wrong, USA Today, Opposing Editorial, Sept. 1, 2004
• Essay, Dirty Shame: The Ninth Circuit's dangerous endorsement of shaming punishments, The New Republic, Aug. 17, 2004.
• Essay, Granting Patents Can Foster Crime, National Law Journal, Sept. 25, 2000.
• Review, The Impertinence of Being Earnest, THE GLOBE AND MAIL, Oct. 2, 1999.

Legal Briefs:

• Amici Curiae Brief of Law Professors in Petition For Rehearing Of Ninth Circuit Shaming Punishments Case

Media Appearances:

• Joe Lawlor, What's a Parent to Do? Escaped Convict Case Raises Questions, The Flint Journal, June 11, 2008.
• Shame and the Law, Weekday on NPR (audiofile), Feb. 20, 2008.
• John Faherty, Offenders' mugs posted to deter DUI, Arizona Republic, Dec. 3, 2007.
• Joana Dalila Santos, Humilhacoes, Sabado (Portugal newsweekly), June 28, 2007.
• Reymer Kluver, Schandlaufen vorm Supermarkt Wie US-Richter Straft?ter an den Pranger stellen, Sueddeutsche Zeitung (Germany), May 16, 2007, page 3.
• The Anthony Mazarelli Show, CBS Radio, May 8, 2007.
• Irina Peris, Alternative Sanctions, BBC Russia, October 27, 2006.
• Erica Grieder, Ingenious Punishments: Their Object All Sublime, The Economist, October 12, 2006.
• Howard J. Bashman, The Battle Over the Soul of Law Professor Blogs, The Legal Intelligencer, May 8, 2006.
• Jeremy Hay, Williams' Fate in Governor's Hands, The Press Democrat, December 4, 2005.
• Adam Liptak, After 24 Years on Death Row, Clemency Is Killer's Final Appeal, New York Times, A1, December 2, 2005.
• Darren Everson, No More Horsing Around, Slate, September 8, 2005.
• Jeff Stryker, Using Shame As Punishment: Have sex, get infamous, The San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday, March 13, 2005.
• Interview with Heidi Collins, American Morning, CNN, October 6, 2004.
• Interview with Bax & O?Brien, WAQY Radio, Springfield, MA, September 15, 2004.
• Jane Eisner, Bring back the stigma that made misbehaving a no-no, The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 21, 2004.
• Richard Louv, Welcome to the Era of the Global Pillory, The San-Diego Union-Tribune, September 29, 2002.

Education:

A.B. Harvard College; Dorot-Harvard Fellow in Jerusalem; M.Phil., U. of Cambridge; J.D., Harvard Law School.