Richard A. Bierschbach

Wayne State University Law School

Dean and Professor of Law

471 Palmer

Detroit, MI 48202

United States

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Integrating Remorse and Apology into Criminal Procedure

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 114, p. 85, 2004, Cardozo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 89
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 15 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2009
Stephanos Bibas and Richard A. Bierschbach
University of Pennsylvania Law School and Wayne State University Law School
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Overenforcement

Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 93, No. 6, 2005, Cardozo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 148
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 14 Jun 2005
Richard A. Bierschbach and Alex Stein
Wayne State University Law School and Israel Supreme Court
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What's Wrong With Sentencing Equality?

Virginia Law Review, Vol. 102, P. 1447, 2016, Cardozo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 492, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 16-25
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 11 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 06 Oct 2016
Richard A. Bierschbach and Stephanos Bibas
Wayne State University Law School and University of Pennsylvania Law School
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Sentencing, punishment, equality, checks and balances, localism, criminal law, criminal procedure, restorative justice, Realignment, sentencing guidelines

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Proportionality and Parole

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 160, No. 5, Forthcoming 2012, Cardozo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 367
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 12 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 07 Oct 2012
Richard A. Bierschbach
Wayne State University Law School
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criminal law, criminal procedure, sentencing, proportionality, Eighth Amendment, parole, Graham v. Florida

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Rationing Criminal Justice

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 116, p. 187, 2017, Cardozo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 512, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 17-10
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 01 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 02 Nov 2017
Richard A. Bierschbach and Stephanos Bibas
Wayne State University Law School and University of Pennsylvania Law School
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Punishment, sentencing, policing, externalities, criminal justice, criminal law, criminal procedure, prosecutors, prisons, parole, regulation, regulatory budgets, state and local government, cost-benefit analysis, cap and trade, taxing, devolution, localism, distributive justice

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Constitutionally Tailoring Punishment

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 112, No. 3, 2013, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 13-17, Cardozo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 402
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 09 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 09 Jul 2014
Richard A. Bierschbach and Stephanos Bibas
Wayne State University Law School and University of Pennsylvania Law School
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Sixth Amendment, Eighth Amendment, sentencing, plea bargaining, punishment, individualization, parole, juries, prosecutorial discretion, proportionality, separation of powers, checks and balances, Graham, Miller, Apprendi, Woodson, Lockett, capital punishment

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Notice-and-Comment Sentencing

Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 97, No. 1, 2012, Cardozo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 373, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 12-41
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 08 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 29 Nov 2012
Richard A. Bierschbach and Stephanos Bibas
Wayne State University Law School and University of Pennsylvania Law School
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sentencing, plea bargaining, guidelines, participation, prosecutorial discretion, sentencing commissions, administrative law, notice and comment

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White Paper of Democratic Criminal Justice

Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 111, No. 6, 2017, Wayne State University Law School Research Paper No. 2017-39, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 17-18
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 02 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2017
Joshua Kleinfeld, Laura I. Appleman, Richard A. Bierschbach, Kenworthey Bilz, Josh Bowers, John Bradford Braithwaite, Robert P. Burns, R.A. Duff, Albert Dzur, Thomas F. Geraghty, Adriaan Lanni, Marah Stith McLeod, Janice Nadler, Anthony O'Rourke, Paul H. Robinson, Jonathan Steven Simon, Jocelyn Simonson, Tom Tyler and Ekow N. Yankah
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, Willamette University College of Law, Wayne State University Law School, University of Illinois College of Law, University of Virginia School of Law, Australian National University (ANU) - Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS), Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, University of Stirling, Bowling Green State University, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, Harvard Law School, Notre Dame Law School, Northwestern University - School of Law, University at Buffalo Law School, University of Pennsylvania Law School, University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall, School of Law, Brooklyn Law School, Yale University - Law School and Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Sentencing, Policing, Prosecutors, Criminal Justice Reform, Democracy, Democratic Criminal Justice

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Mediating Rules in Criminal Law

Cardozo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 203, Virginia Law Review, Vol. 93, No. 101, 2007
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 17 Sep 2007
Richard A. Bierschbach and Alex Stein
Wayne State University Law School and Israel Supreme Court
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criminal law, deterrrence, retribution

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Allocution and the Purposes of Victim Participation Under the CVRA

Cardozo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 186, Federal Sentencing Reporter, Vol. 19, No. 1, October 2006
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 28 Mar 2007
Richard A. Bierschbach
Wayne State University Law School
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Allocution, victim, crime

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Fragmentation and Democracy in the Constitutional Law of Punishment

Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 111, No. 6, 2017, Wayne State University Law School Research Paper No. 2017-34
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 20 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2017
Richard A. Bierschbach
Wayne State University Law School
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democratic criminal justice, democracy, checks and balances, punishment, sentencing, criminal justice, criminal procedure, federalism, policing

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Deterrence, Retributivism, and the Law of Evidence

Virginia Law Review In Brief, Vol. 93, pp. 189-198, September 2007
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 06 Jun 2012 Last Revised: 09 Jul 2014
Richard A. Bierschbach and Alex Stein
Wayne State University Law School and Israel Supreme Court
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criminal law, criminal procedure, deterrence, retribution, evidence, evidentiary procedure