SSRN University of San Francisco School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series

1.

Police-Induced Confessions: Risk Factors and Recommendations

Law and Human Behavior, 2009, Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2010-13

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 07 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Saul M. Kassin, Steven A. Drizin, Thomas Grisso, Gisli H. Gudjonsson, Richard A. Leo and Allison D. Redlich

John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Northwestern University - School of Law, Bluhm Legal Clinic, University of Massachusetts Worcester - University of Massachusetts Medical School, King's College London, University of San Francisco - School of Law and State University of New York (SUNY) - School of Criminal Justice

Downloads 3,040

2.

The Three Errors: Pathways to False Confession and Wrongful Conviction

G. Daniel Lassiter & Christian Meissner, eds., Police Interrogations and False Confessions: Current Research, Practice, and Policy Recommendations (American Psychological Association, 2010), Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2012-04

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 27 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 04 Sep 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Richard A. Leo and Steven A. Drizin

University of San Francisco - School of Law and Northwestern University - School of Law, Bluhm Legal Clinic

Downloads 2,700

3.

Does WestlawNext Really Change Everything: The Implications of WestlawNext on Legal Research

Law Library Journal, Vol. 103, No. 3, p. 359, 2011, Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2011-09

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 02 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2012

Accepted Paper Series

Ronald E. Wheeler Jr.

Boston University School of Law

Downloads 2,047

4.

Chivalry is Not Dead: Murder, Gender, and the Death Penalty

Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2011-08, Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice, Vol. 27, No. 1, 2012

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 23 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 15 Feb 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Steven F. Shatz and Naomi R. Shatz

University of San Francisco - School of Law and Zalkind Duncan and Bernstein LLP

Downloads 1,895

5.

The Problem of False Confessions in the Post-DNA World

North Carolina Law Review, Vol. 82, 2004

Number of pages: 117 Posted: 16 May 2008

Accepted Paper Series

Richard A. Leo and Steven A. Drizin

University of San Francisco - School of Law and Northwestern University - School of Law, Bluhm Legal Clinic

Downloads 1,890

6.

False Confessions: Causes, Consequences and Implications

The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 2009, Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2009-11

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 16 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 18 Oct 2009

Accepted Paper Series

Richard A. Leo

University of San Francisco - School of Law

Downloads 1,462

7.

Benefits from Private Antitrust Enforcement: An Analysis of Forty Cases

University of San Francisco Law Review, Vol. 42, p. 879, 2008, Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2010-07

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 11 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Robert H. Lande and Joshua P. Davis

University of Baltimore - School of Law and University of San Francisco - School of Law

Downloads 1,406

8.

The Social Psychology of Police Interrogation: The Theory and Classification of True and False Confessions

Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, Vol. 16, 1997

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 10 Jun 2008

Accepted Paper Series

Richard A. Leo and Richard J. Ofshe

University of San Francisco - School of Law and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Sociology

Downloads 1,326

9.

From False Confession to Wrongful Conviction: Seven Psychological Processes

Journal of Psychiatry and Law, 2009, Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2009-28

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 16 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 09 Sep 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Richard A. Leo and Deborah Davis

University of San Francisco - School of Law and University of Nevada, Reno

Downloads 1,250

10.

Sentencing Our Children to Die in Prison: Global Law and Practice

University of San Francisco Law Review, Vol. 42, No. 4, 2008, Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2008-01

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 06 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 22 Oct 2008

Accepted Paper Series

Constance de la Vega and Michelle T. Leighton

University of San Francisco School of Law and American University of Central Asia

Downloads 1,213

11.

One Hundred Years Later: Wrongful Convictions After a Century of Research

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 100, No. 3, 2010, Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2010-28

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 27 May 2010 Last Revised: 22 Feb 2011

Accepted Paper Series

Jon B. Gould and Richard A. Leo

affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of San Francisco - School of Law

Downloads 1,203

12.

Studying Wrongful Convictions: Learning from Social Science

Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, Vol. 7, 2009, Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2010-11

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 06 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Richard A. Leo and Jon B. Gould

University of San Francisco - School of Law and affiliation not provided to SSRN

Downloads 1,175

13.

The Decision to Confess Falsely: Rational Choice and Irrational Action

Denver University Law Review, Vol. 74, No. #, 1997

Number of pages: 144 Posted: 19 May 2008

Accepted Paper Series

Richard A. Leo and Richard J. Ofshe

University of San Francisco - School of Law and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Sociology

Downloads 1,021

14.

Strategies for Preventing False Confessions and Their Consequences

PRACTICAL PSYCHOLOGY FOR FORENSIC INVESTIGATIONS AND PROSECUTIONS, Mark R. Kebbell and Graham M. Davies, eds., Wiley & Sons, 2006, Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2011-20

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 17 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 02 Aug 2011

Accepted Paper Series

Deborah Davis and Richard A. Leo

University of Nevada, Reno and University of San Francisco - School of Law

Downloads 948

15.

Bringing Reliability Back in: False Confessions and Legal Safeguards in the Twenty-First Century

Wisconsin Law Review, 2006, Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2009-04

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 21 May 2008 Last Revised: 11 Sep 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Richard A. Leo, Steven A. Drizin, Peter J. Neufeld, Bradley R. Hall and Amy Vatner

University of San Francisco - School of Law, Northwestern University - School of Law, Bluhm Legal Clinic, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law - Innocence Project, Federal Defender Office, Detroit and Harvard College

Downloads 876

16.

The Global Shale Gas Initiative: Will the United States Be the Role Model for the Development of Shale Gas Around the World?

Houston Journal of International Law, Vol. 33, No. 2, p. 369, 2011, Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2011-27

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 16 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 12 Apr 2015

Accepted Paper Series

Susan L. Sakmar

University of San Francisco - School of Law

Downloads 859

17.

Environmental Justice and Domestic Climate Change Policy

Environmental Law Reporter, May 2008

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 24 Dec 2007 Last Revised: 24 Jun 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Alice Kaswan

University of San Francisco - School of Law

Downloads 827

18.

Inside the Interrogation Room

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 86, 1996

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 16 May 2008

Accepted Paper Series

Richard A. Leo

University of San Francisco - School of Law

Downloads 799

19.

The Ethics of Deceptive Interrogation

Vol. 11, Criminal Justice Ethics, 1992

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 10 Jun 2008

Accepted Paper Series

Richard A. Leo and Jerome H. Skolnick

University of San Francisco - School of Law and New York University School of Law

Downloads 759

20.

The Consequences of False Confessions: Deprivations of Liberty and Miscarriages of Justice in the Age of Psychological Interrogation

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 88, 1998

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 16 May 2008

Accepted Paper Series

Richard A. Leo and Richard J. Ofshe

University of San Francisco - School of Law and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Sociology

Downloads 716

21.

Trademarks as Search Engine Keywords: Much Ado About Something?

Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, Vol. 26, Number 2, 2013, Illinois Program in Law, Behavior and Social Science Paper No. LBSS12-15 , Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2012-20, 7th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 07 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 28 Jan 2014

Accepted Paper Series

David J. Franklyn and David A. Hyman

University of San Francisco School of Law and Georgetown University

Downloads 695

22.

Comparative Deterrence from Private Enforcement and Criminal Enforcement of the U.S. Antitrust Laws

Brigham Young University Law Review, 2011, Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2010-17, University of Baltimore School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2010-09

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 07 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 14 Oct 2010

Working Paper Series

Robert H. Lande and Joshua P. Davis

University of Baltimore - School of Law and University of San Francisco - School of Law

Downloads 683

23.

Psychological and Cultural Aspects of Interrogations and False Confessions: Using Research to Inform Legal Decision-Making

PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPERTISE IN COURT: PSYCHOLOGY IN THE COURTROOM, Daniel A. Krauss, Joes D. Lieberman, eds., Ashgate, 2009 , Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2011-06

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 18 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 25 Mar 2011

Accepted Paper Series

Richard A. Leo, Mark Costanzo and Netta Shaked-Schroer

University of San Francisco - School of Law, Claremont McKenna College and Claremont Colleges - Claremont Graduate University

Downloads 664

24.

Benefits from Private Antitrust Enforcement: Forty Individual Case Studies

Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2011-22

Number of pages: 244 Posted: 14 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 10 Oct 2011

Working Paper Series

Robert H. Lande and Joshua P. Davis

University of Baltimore - School of Law and University of San Francisco - School of Law

Downloads 661

25.

The Effects of Miranda v. Arizona: Embedded in Our National Culture?

Crime and Justice: A Review of Research, Vol. 29, 2002

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 06 Jun 2008

Accepted Paper Series

Richard A. Leo and George C. Thomas III

University of San Francisco - School of Law and Rutgers Law School

Downloads 651

26.

The Evolution and Revolution of Napster

University of San Francisco Law Review, Vol. 36, p. 473, 2002

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 03 Nov 2005

Accepted Paper Series

Peter Jan Honigsberg

University of San Francisco - School of Law

Downloads 639

27.

Jurors Believe Interrogation Tactics are Not Likely to Elicit False Confessions: Will Expert Witness Testimony Inform Them Otherwise?

Psychology, Crime & Law, (Online), pp. 1-22, 2010, Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2011-05

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 16 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 25 Mar 2011

Accepted Paper Series

Iris Blandon-Gitlin, Kathryn Sperry and Richard A. Leo

affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of San Francisco - School of Law

Downloads 627

28.

Police Interrogation and Social Control

Vol. 3, Social and Legal Studies, 1994

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 10 Jun 2008

Accepted Paper Series

Richard A. Leo

University of San Francisco - School of Law

Downloads 598

29.

Uncertain Privacy: Communication Attributes After The Digital Telephony Act

Number of pages: 83 Posted: 07 Mar 1997

Working Paper Series

Susan Freiwald

University of San Francisco School of Law

Downloads 587

30.

Conscious Parallelism Revisited

San Diego Law Review, Vol. 47, No. 3, 2010, Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2011-17

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 04 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 16 Jul 2011

Accepted Paper Series

Reza Dibadj

University of San Francisco - School of Law

Downloads 525

31.

Educating Lawyers to Meditate?

University of Missouri-Kansas City Law Review, Forthcoming, Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2011-14

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 09 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 16 Dec 2012

Accepted Paper Series

Rhonda V. Magee

University of San Francisco

Downloads 515

32.

From Coercion to Deception: The Changing Nature of Police Interrogation in America

Crime, Law, and Social Change, Vol. 18, 1992

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 06 Jun 2008

Accepted Paper Series

Richard A. Leo

University of San Francisco - School of Law

Downloads 503

33.

Chasing 'Enemy Combatants' and Circumventing International Law: A License for Sanctioned Abuse

UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs, Vol. 12, No. 1, Spring 2007, Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2009-02

Number of pages: 75 Posted: 03 Nov 2006 Last Revised: 18 Dec 2008

Accepted Paper Series

Peter Jan Honigsberg

University of San Francisco - School of Law

Downloads 485

34.

The Irrational Woman: Informed Consent and Abortion Decision-Making

Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy, Vol. 16, p. 223, 2009

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 22 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 18 Mar 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Maya Manian

University of San Francisco School of Law

Downloads 485

35.

Police Interviewing and Interrogation: A Self-Report Survey of Police Practices and Beliefs

Law and Human Behavior, Vol. 31, 2007, Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2010-12

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 07 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Richard A. Leo, Saul M. Kassin, Christian A. Meissner, Kimberly D. Richman, Lori H. Colwell, Amy Leach and Dana La Fon

University of San Francisco - School of Law, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, National Science Foundation - Law & Social Sciences Program Director, University of San Francisco - College of Arts & Sciences, Connecticut Valley Hospital, Queen's University and Loyola College in Maryland

Downloads 471

36.

Miranda's Revenge: Police Interrogation as a Confidence Game

Law and Society Review, Vol. 30, 1996

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 16 May 2008

Accepted Paper Series

Richard A. Leo

University of San Francisco - School of Law

Downloads 468

37.

Search Bias and the Limits of Antitrust: An Empirical Perspective on Remedies

Illinois Program in Law, Behavior and Social Science Paper No. LE13-24, Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2013-15

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 09 May 2013 Last Revised: 30 Jul 2015

Working Paper Series

David A. Hyman and David J. Franklyn

Georgetown University and University of San Francisco School of Law

Downloads 458

38.

The Problem of Interrogation-Induced False Confession: Sources of Failure in Prevention and Detection

In Stephen Morewitz & Mark Goldstein, eds., The Handbook of Forensic Sociology and Psychology (Springer, 2013 Forthcoming), Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2012-28

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 16 May 2012 Last Revised: 11 Sep 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Deborah Davis and Richard A. Leo

University of Nevada, Reno and University of San Francisco - School of Law

Downloads 455

39.

What Do Potential Jurors Know about Police Interrogation Techniques and False Confessions?

Behavioral Sciences and the Law, April 2009, Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2009-17

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 14 May 2009 Last Revised: 07 Oct 2009

Accepted Paper Series

Richard A. Leo and Brittany Liu

University of San Francisco - School of Law and University of California, Irvine

Downloads 454

40.

Lashing Back at the ADA Backlash: How the Americans with Disabilities Act Benefits Americans without Disabilities

Tennessee Law Review, Vol. 76, Winter 2009, Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2008-03

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 25 May 2008 Last Revised: 22 Oct 2008

Accepted Paper Series

Michelle A. Travis

University of San Francisco - School of Law

Downloads 451

41.

The Path to Exoneration

Albany Law Review, 2016 Forthcoming, American University School of Public Affairs Research Paper No. 2016-02, Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2016-03

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 24 Nov 2015 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2016

Accepted Paper Series

Jon B Gould and Richard A. Leo

American University - School of Public Affairs and University of San Francisco - School of Law

Downloads 449

42.

Online Surveillance: Remembering the Lessons of the Wiretap Act

Alabama Law Review, Vol. 56, No. 9, 2004

Number of pages: 76 Posted: 23 Aug 2005

Accepted Paper Series

Susan Freiwald

University of San Francisco School of Law

Downloads 447

43.

The Truth About False Confessions and Advocacy Scholarship

Vol. 37, Criminal Law Bulletin, 2001

Number of pages: 78 Posted: 10 Jun 2008

Accepted Paper Series

Richard A. Leo and Richard J. Ofshe

University of San Francisco - School of Law and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Sociology

Downloads 441

44.

Disputed Interrogation Techniques in America: True and False Confessions and the Estimation and Valuation of Type I and II Errors

in Sarah Cooper, ed., Controversies in Innocence Cases in America (Ashgate Publishing 2014)., Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2013-27

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 02 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Deborah Davis, Richard A. Leo and Michael J. Williams

University of Nevada, Reno, University of San Francisco - School of Law and Georgia State University

Downloads 428

45.

Cell Phone Location Data and the Fourth Amendment: A Question of Law, Not Fact

Maryland Law Review, Vol. 70, p. 677, 2011, Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2011-10

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 17 May 2011 Last Revised: 24 May 2011

Accepted Paper Series

Susan Freiwald

University of San Francisco School of Law

Downloads 412

46.

Interrogations and Confessions

in Jay Albanese, ed., THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CRIMINOLOGY & CRIMINAL JUSTICE (John Wiley & Sons 2014)., Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 12 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 24 Jun 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Deborah Davis and Richard A. Leo

University of Nevada, Reno and University of San Francisco - School of Law

Downloads 405

47.

Environmental Justice: Bridging the Gap between Environmental Laws and 'Justice'

American University Law Review, Vol. 47, No. 2, 1997

Number of pages: 81 Posted: 06 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 24 Jun 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Alice Kaswan

University of San Francisco - School of Law

Downloads 401

48.

Rethinking the Study of Miscarriages of Justice: Developing a Criminology of Wrongful Conviction

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 201-223, 2005

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 24 May 2008 Last Revised: 14 Oct 2009

Accepted Paper Series

Richard A. Leo

University of San Francisco - School of Law

Downloads 400

49.

Alternative Dispute Resolution: An Empirical Analysis

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 46, p. 1487, 1994

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 20 Mar 2008

Accepted Paper Series

H. Jay Folberg and Joshua D. Rosenberg

University of San Francisco - School of Law and University of San Francisco School of Law

Downloads 398

50.

Promoting Accuracy in the Use of Confession Evidence: An Argument for Pretrial Reliability Assessments to Prevent Wrongful Convictions

85 Temple Law Review 759 (2013), Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2013-12, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 13-03

Number of pages: 81 Posted: 12 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 02 Nov 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Richard A. Leo, Peter J. Neufeld, Steven A. Drizin and Andrew E. Taslitz

University of San Francisco - School of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law - Innocence Project, Northwestern University - School of Law, Bluhm Legal Clinic and American University - Washington College of Law

Downloads 395

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