Stephen P. Garvey

Cornell Law School

Professor of Law

Myron Taylor Hall

Cornell University

Ithaca, NY 14853-4901

United States

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1.

Knockin' on Heaven's Door: Rethinking the Role of Religion in Death Penalty Cases

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 16 Jan 2001
Gary J. Simson, Gary J. Simson and Stephen P. Garvey
Cornell University - Law SchoolMercer University - Walter F. George School of Law and Cornell Law School
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religion, death penalty, capital punishment, peremptory challenge, Establishment Clause, Free Exercise Clause

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What's Wrong with Involuntary Manslaughter?

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 06-028, Texas Law Review, Vol. 85, 2006
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 13 Sep 2006
Stephen P. Garvey
Cornell Law School
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voluntary manslaughter, negligent homicide

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Is it Wrong to Commute Death Row? Retribution, Atonement and Mercy

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 14 Dec 2004
Stephen P. Garvey
Cornell Law School
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retribution, atonement, mercy, death penalty

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Correcting Deadly Confusion: Responding to Jury Inquiries in Capital Cases

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Correcting Deadly Confusion: Responding to Jury Inquiries in Capital Cases

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 05 Jan 2000
Stephen P. Garvey, Sheri Lynn Johnson and Paul Marcus
Cornell Law School, Cornell Law School and William & Mary Law School
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Correcting Deadly Confusion: Responding to Jury Inquiries in Capital Cases

Cornell Law Review, Vol. 85, No. 3, 1999-2000, William & Mary Law School Research Paper No. 09-81
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 04 Mar 2011
Paul Marcus, Stephen P. Garvey and Sheri Lynn Johnson
William & Mary Law School, Cornell Law School and Cornell Law School
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Weeks, Angelone, capital, sentencing, jury, death, aggravating, fators, penality, mitigating, evidence, and instruction

Correcting Deadly Confusion: Responding to Jury Inquiries in Capital Cases

Cornell Law Review, Vol. 85, March 2000
Posted: 14 Apr 2000
Stephen P. Garvey, Sheri Lynn Johnson and Paul Marcus
Cornell Law School, Cornell Law School and William & Mary Law School

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Forecasting Life and Death

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 05 Oct 2000
Theodore Eisenberg, Stephen P. Garvey and Martin T. Wells
Cornell University, Law School (Deceased), Cornell Law School and Cornell University - Law School
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Juror First Votes in Criminal Trials

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 23 Jun 2004
Stephen P. Garvey, Paula Hannaford-Agor, Valerie P. Hans, Nicole L. Mott, G. Thomas Munsterman and Martin T. Wells
Cornell Law School, National Center for State Courts, Cornell University - School of Law, National Center for State Courts, National Center for State Courts (NCSC) and Cornell University - Law School
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Authority, Ignorance, and the Guilty Mind

Southern Methodist University Law Review, Forthcoming, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 14-20
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 01 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 16 Jul 2014
Stephen P. Garvey
Cornell Law School
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criminal law, mens rea, guilty mind, ignorance of law

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Passion's Puzzle

Number of pages: 94 Posted: 18 Feb 2005
Stephen P. Garvey
Cornell Law School
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Aquinas, Punishment, and the Common Good

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 21-38
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 01 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 31 Jan 2023
Stephen P. Garvey
Cornell Law School
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history, authority, hobbes, hegel, kant, betham, thomas Aquinas, punishment, criminal law,

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When Should a Mistake of Fact Excuse

Texas Tech Law Review, 2009, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-018
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 29 May 2009
Stephen P. Garvey
Cornell Law School
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excuses, mistake of fact, mistake of law

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Self-Defense and the Mistaken Racist

New Criminal Law Review, Vol. 11, 2008
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 06 Feb 2007
Stephen P. Garvey
Cornell Law School
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self-defense, reasonable person

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Two Kinds of Criminal Wrongs

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 21 Dec 2001
Stephen P. Garvey
Cornell Law School
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punishment, penance, wickedness, virtue and vice, religion

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The Emotional Economy of Capital Sentencing

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The Emotional Economy of Capital Sentencing

Number of pages: 71 Posted: 22 Oct 1999
Stephen P. Garvey
Cornell Law School
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The Emotional Economy of Capital Sentencing

Posted: 22 Oct 1999
Stephen P. Garvey
Cornell Law School

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The Deadly Paradox of Capital Jurors

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The Deadly Paradox of Capital Jurors

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 05 Oct 2000
Theodore Eisenberg, Stephen P. Garvey and Martin T. Wells
Cornell University, Law School (Deceased), Cornell Law School and Cornell University - Law School
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The Deadly Paradox of Capital Jurors

Posted: 03 Oct 2000
Theodore Eisenberg, Stephen P. Garvey and Martin T. Wells
Cornell University, Law School (Deceased), Cornell Law School and Cornell University - Law School

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Injustice, Authority, and the Criminal Law

Sarat, Austin, ed. The Punitive Imagination: Law, Justice, and Responsibility. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2014.
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 18 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 19 Oct 2014
Stephen P. Garvey
Cornell Law School
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Authority, Rotten Social Background

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Agency and Insanity

Buffalo Law Review Vol. 66, 2018, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 18-28
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 26 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 24 Apr 2018
Stephen P. Garvey
Cornell Law School
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Insanity

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Authority, Freedom, and the Guilty Mind

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-7
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 10 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2016
Stephen P. Garvey
Cornell Law School
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authority, freedom, mens rea, guilty mind

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Implicit Racial Attitudes and Self-Defense

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy, Vol. 37, 2022
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 23 Dec 2020 Last Revised: 30 Jan 2023
Stephen P. Garvey
Cornell Law School
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self-defense, implicit attitudes

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Reading Rosemond

Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 27 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 29 Jul 2014
Stephen P. Garvey
Cornell Law School
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Accomplice liability, complicity

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Are Virginia Capital Jurors Any Different from the Rest?

William and Mary Law Review, Vol. 44, April 2003
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 14 Nov 2002
Stephen P. Garvey and Paul Marcus
Cornell Law School and William & Mary Law School
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Are Attempts Like Treason?

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 23 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 22 Jan 2010
Stephen P. Garvey
Cornell Law School
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criminal law, attempts

22.

Versari Crimes

Arizona State Law Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 06 Dec 2020 Last Revised: 09 Dec 2020
Stephen P. Garvey
Cornell Law School
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Provocation, Perception, Passion

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 21 Aug 2023
Stephen P. Garvey
Cornell Law School
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Provocation, Heat of Passion, Voluntary Manslaughter

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Insanity

Palgrave Handbook of Applied Ethics and the Criminal Law (Larry Alexander & Kim Kessler Ferzan eds, 2019), Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 20-08
Posted: 13 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 15 Feb 2020
Stephen P. Garvey
Cornell Law School

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Insanity

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Was Ellen Wronged?

Journal of Criminal Law & Philosophy, August 2012, DOI: 10.1007/s11572-012-9182-9, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-58
Posted: 01 Sep 2012
Stephen P. Garvey
Cornell Law School

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Criminalization, authority

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Forecasting Life and Death: Juror Race, Religion, and Attitude Toward the Death Penalty

Posted: 05 Nov 2001
Theodore Eisenberg, Stephen P. Garvey and Martin T. Wells
Cornell University, Law School (Deceased), Cornell Law School and Cornell University - Law School

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Can Shaming Punishments Educate?

In the University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 65, No. 4, 1998.
Posted: 19 Oct 1998
Stephen P. Garvey
Cornell Law School

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