Brenner Fissell

Villanova University, Law School

299 N. Spring Mill Road

Villanova, PA 19085

United States

U.S. Naval Academy

207 Claude St.

Annapolis, MD 21401

United States

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1.

Police-Made Law

108 Minnesota Law Review 2561 (2024)
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 17 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 21 May 2024
Brenner Fissell
Villanova University, Law School
Downloads 290 (203,792)

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police, local government, misdemeanors, legislation

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Abstract Risk and the Politics of the Criminal Law

American Criminal Law Review, 2014 Forthcoming
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 10 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2020
Brenner Fissell
Villanova University, Law School
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risk; criminal law; criminalization; public choice; legislative deliberation

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When Agencies Make Criminal Law

10 U.C. Irvine Law Review 855 (2020), Hofstra Univ. Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2018-18
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 24 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 09 Apr 2020
Brenner Fissell
Villanova University, Law School
Downloads 237 (249,326)

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nondelegation, criminal law

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Plato's Theory of Democratic Decline

28 POLIS 216
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 04 Aug 2012
Brenner Fissell
Villanova University, Law School
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Taxpayers as Victims: Taxpayer Harm & Criminalization

7 NYU Journal of Law & Liberty 126
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 04 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 19 Mar 2013
Brenner Fissell
Villanova University, Law School
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The Justification of Positive Law in Plato

56 American Journal of Jurisprudence 89, 2011
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 04 Aug 2012
Brenner Fissell
Villanova University, Law School
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Against Criminal Law Localism

81 Maryland Law Review 1119 (2022)
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 07 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 19 Sep 2023
Brenner Fissell
Villanova University, Law School
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localism, criminal law, criminal justice, local government law

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Unusual: The Death Penalty for Inadvertent Killing

93 Indiana Law Journal 549 (2018), University at Buffalo School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2018-012
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 31 Jan 2019
Guyora Binder, Brenner Fissell and Robert Weisberg
University at Buffalo Law School, Villanova University, Law School and Stanford Law School
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Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, Death Penalty, Punishment, Eighth Amendment

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Modern Critiques of Judicial Empathy: A Revised Intellectual History

Michigan State Law Review, Vol. 2016, No. 817, 2017
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 03 Feb 2017
Brenner Fissell
Villanova University, Law School
Downloads 140 (396,998)

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legal theory, realism, formalism, langdell

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Capital Punishment of Unintentional Felony Murder

Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 92, p. 1141, 2017, University at Buffalo School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2016-045, Stanford Public Law Working Paper
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 22 Apr 2017
Guyora Binder, Robert Weisberg and Brenner Fissell
University at Buffalo Law School, Stanford Law School and Villanova University, Law School
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criminal law, death penalty, constitutional law, legal theory, homicide

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Federalism and Constitutional Criminal Law

Hofstra Law Review, Vol. 46, No. 489, 2018, Hofstra Univ. Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2018-09
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 16 May 2018 Last Revised: 04 Oct 2018
Brenner Fissell
Villanova University, Law School
Downloads 134 (410,832)

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Criminal Law, Federalism

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Local Offenses

Fordham Law Review, Forthcoming (2021)
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 05 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 19 Sep 2023
Brenner Fissell
Villanova University, Law School
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criminal law, local government law, home rule, model penal code

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Equal Supreme Court Access For Military Personnel: An Overdue Reform

131 Yale Law Journal Forum __, Forthcoming, Hofstra Univ. Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 18 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 01 Jun 2021
Eugene Fidell, Brenner Fissell and Philip D. Cave
Yale Law SchoolNYU Law School, Villanova University, Law School and National Institute of Military Justice
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courts-martial, federal courts, supreme court

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Jury Nullification and the Rule of Law

19 Legal Theory 217 (2013)
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 14 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 09 Aug 2016
Brenner Fissell
Villanova University, Law School
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jury nullification, rule of law, jurisprudence, criminal law

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Sanctions and Efficacy in Analytic Jurisprudence

Rutgers Law Review, Vol. 69, No. 1627, 2018, Hofstra Univ. Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2018-11
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 15 May 2018 Last Revised: 04 Oct 2018
Brenner Fissell
Villanova University, Law School
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jurisprudence, philosophy of law, sanctions

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A Political Interpretation of Vagueness Doctrine

University of Illinois Law Review, 2019
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 04 Oct 2019
Guyora Binder and Brenner Fissell
University at Buffalo Law School and Villanova University, Law School
Downloads 65 (656,020)

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criminal law, constitutional law, vagueness, void-for-vagueness

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Rightsizing Local Legislatures

2023 Utah Law Review 393 (2023)
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 01 Apr 2022 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2023
Brenner Fissell
Villanova University, Law School
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local government, preemption, representation, democracy

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The Dual Standard of Review in Contracts Clause Jurisprudence

101 Georgetown Law Journal 1089 (2013)
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 04 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2013
Brenner Fissell
Villanova University, Law School
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The Military's Constitutional Role

103 North Carolina Law Review __ (Forthcoming, 2025)
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 12 Jul 2024
Brenner Fissell
Villanova University, Law School
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Pretext, Deception and Entrapment in Criminal Investigations

Core Concepts in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Volume III (CUP)
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 17 Apr 2024
Paul Roberts, Dominik Brodowski and Brenner Fissell
University of Nottingham, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) - Faculty of Law and Villanova University, Law School
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Tort Remedies in Military Prisons and Brigs

Journal of National Security Law and Policy (2022)
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 18 May 2022
Brenner Fissell and Max Jesse Goldberg
Villanova University, Law School and U.S. Marine Corps (Reserve)
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Categorical Declinations & Democracy

Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology (Forthcoming 2025)

Number of pages: 11
Brenner Fissell
Villanova University, Law School
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prosecutors, declination, local government, democratic theory