Eric D. Blumenson

Suffolk University Law School

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1.

The Challenge of a Global Standard of Justice: Peace, Pluralism, and Punishment at the International Criminal Court

Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, Vol. 44, 2006
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 02 Nov 2005
Eric D. Blumenson
Suffolk University Law School
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amnesty, International Criminal Court, retribution, criminal law, deontology, consequentialism, truth commission, war crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity

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Policing for Profit: The Drug War's Hidden Economic Agenda

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 65, p. 35, 1998
Number of pages: 85 Posted: 29 Jan 2007
Eric D. Blumenson and Eva S. Nilsen
Suffolk University Law School and Boston University School of Law
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drug war, forfeiture, separation of powers, police corruption

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No Rational Basis: The Pragmatic Case for Marijuana Law Reform

Suffolk University Law School Research Paper No. 09-19, Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law, Vol. 17, 2009
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 23 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 01 Sep 2009
Eric D. Blumenson and Eva S. Nilsen
Suffolk University Law School and Boston University School of Law
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criminal law, drug war, marijuana, public health, ONDCP

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Liberty Lost: The Moral Case for Marijuana Law Reform

Suffolk University Law School Research Paper No. 09-20, Indiana Law Journal, Vol. 85, 2009
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 23 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 04 Sep 2009
Eric D. Blumenson and Eva S. Nilsen
Suffolk University Law School and Boston University School of Law
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criminal law, liberty, punishment, marijuana, drug war, civil liberties, retribution

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Killing in Good Conscience: What's Wrong With Sunstein and Vermeule's Lesser Evil Argument for Capital Punishment and Other Human Rights Violations?

Suffolk University Law School Research Paper No. 07-10, New Criminal Law Review, Vol. 10, p. 210, 2007
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 25 Apr 2006
Eric D. Blumenson
Suffolk University Law School
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Capital Punishment, Death Penalty, Deterrence, Sunstein, Vermeule, Deontology, Consequentialism, Punishment, Torture, Human Rights

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How to Construct an Underclass, or How the War on Drugs Became a War on Education

University of Iowa Journal of Gender, Race and Justice, Vol. 6, No. 61, 2002 Symposium
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 29 Jan 2007
Eric D. Blumenson and Eva S. Nilsen
Suffolk University Law School and Boston University School of Law
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drug war, zero tolerance, expulsion, suspension, delinquency

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One Strike and You're Out? Constitutional Constraints on Zero Tolerance in Public Education

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 27 Nov 2002
Eric D. Blumenson and Eva S. Nilsen
Suffolk University Law School and Boston University School of Law
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education, high school, zero tolerance, expulsion, suspension, equal protection, juvenile, right to education

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Cultural Relativism

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GLOBAL JUSTICE, Springer, October 2011, Suffolk University Law School Research Paper No. 12-56
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 22 Dec 2012
Eric D. Blumenson
Suffolk University Law School
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Four Challenges Confronting a Moral Conception of Universal Human Rights

George Washington International Law Review, Vol. 47, p. 327, 2015, Suffolk University Law School Research Paper No. 14-6
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 14 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 30 May 2015
Eric D. Blumenson
Suffolk University Law School
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National Amnesties and International Justice

Eyes on the ICC, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2005
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 06 Jun 2006
Eric D. Blumenson
Suffolk University Law School
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International Criminal Court, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, National Amnesty, International Justice

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Recovering from Drugs and the Drug War: A Viable Public Health Alternative

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 20 Dec 2002
Eric D. Blumenson
Suffolk University Law School
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Drugs, drug war, public health, harm reduction, forfeiture, treatment, illicit drugs, drug abuse, police, drug enforcement

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The Limits of Moral Argument: Reason and Conviction in Tadros’ Philosophy of Punishment

Suffolk University Law School Research Paper No. 13-38, Journal of Law, Ethics, and Philosophy 3:30 (2015)
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 10 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 17 Jul 2020
Eric D. Blumenson and Victor Tadros
Suffolk University Law School and University of Warwick - School of Law
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Punishment, Retributivism, Tadros, Blumenson, Prison, Criminal Justice

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Two Moral Mistakes in the American Criminal Justice System

Suffolk University Law School Research Paper No. 13-4
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 22 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 28 Feb 2014
Eric D. Blumenson
Suffolk University Law School
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Mapping the Limits of Skepticism in Law and Morals

Texas Law Review, Vol. 74, p. 523, 1996
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 29 Jan 2007
Eric D. Blumenson
Suffolk University Law School
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jurisprudence, anti-foundationalism, relativism, Rorty, postmodernism, perspectivism, critical legal studies, human rights

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Economic Rights as Group Rights

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change, Vol. 15, p. 87, 2011 , Suffolk University Law School Research Paper No. 11-48
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 20 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2011
Eric D. Blumenson
Suffolk University Law School
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human rights, law and economics, law and philosophy, moral philosophy, distributive justice, libertarianism, economic rights, social rights

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The Next Stage of Forfeiture Reform

Federal Sentencing Reporter, Vol. 14, p. 76, 2001 Symposium
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 29 Jan 2007
Eric D. Blumenson and Eva S. Nilsen
Suffolk University Law School and Boston University School of Law
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drug war, forfeiture, separation of powers, police corruption

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Constitutional Limitations on Prosecutorial Discovery

Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, Vol. 18, p. 123, 1983
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 29 Jan 2007
Eric D. Blumenson
Suffolk University Law School
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pretrial discovery, fifth amendment, self-incrimination, prosecutorial discovery, preclusion

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Retributivism

THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF CRIME & PUNISHMENT IN AMERICA: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA, Wilbur Miller, ed., Sage Reference, 2012, Suffolk University Law School Research Paper No. 12-55
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 22 Dec 2012
Eric D. Blumenson
Suffolk University Law School
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Constitutional Kabuki: Fidelity and Opportunism in the Foreign Law Debate

Suffolk University Law Review, Vol. 43, p. 136, 2009, Suffolk University Law School Research Paper No. 10-13
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 11 Mar 2010
Eric D. Blumenson
Suffolk University Law School
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Contesting the Government's Financial Interest in Drug Cases

Criminal Justice, Vol. 13, No. 4, p. 4, 1999, Suffolk University Law School Research Paper No. 12-57
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 22 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 25 Dec 2012
Eric D. Blumenson and Eva S. Nilsen
Suffolk University Law School and Boston University School of Law
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Who Counts Morally?

Journal of Law and Religion, Vol. 14
Posted: 19 Mar 2000
Eric D. Blumenson
Suffolk University Law School

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