Ken M. Levy

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge - Paul M. Hebert Law Center

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420 Law Center Building

Baton Rouge, LA 70803

United States

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Dangerous Psychopaths: Criminally Responsible but Not Morally Responsible, Subject to Criminal Punishment and to Preventive Detention

San Diego Law Review, Vol. 48, p. 1299, 2011
Number of pages: 97 Posted: 02 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2015
Ken M. Levy
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge - Paul M. Hebert Law Center
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psychopath, antisocial personality disorder, PCL-R, moral responsibility, criminal responsibility, control, insane, insanity defense, mental illness, punishment, preventive detention, commitment

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Insanity Defenses

OXFORD HANDBOOK ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE CRIMINAL LAW, p. 299, John Deigh & David Dolinko, eds., Oxford University Press, 2011
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 30 Nov 2011 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2015
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Ken M. Levy
Dartmouth College and Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge - Paul M. Hebert Law Center
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insanity defense, M'Naghten, Model Penal Code, Durham, Product test, Parsons rule, irresistible impulse, loss of control, wrongfulness, irrationality, mental disease, mental illness, deific decree delusion

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The Solution to the Surprise Exam Paradox

Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 47, pp. 131-58, 2009
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 18 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2015
Ken M. Levy
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge - Paul M. Hebert Law Center
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surprise, paradox, rationality, knowledge, justified belief, certainty, intuition, backward induction, liar paradox, moore's paradox, logical circle, blindspot

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Why Retributivism Needs Consequentialism: The Rightful Place of Revenge in the Criminal Justice System

66 Rutgers Law Review 629 (2014)
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 01 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 05 Mar 2015
Ken M. Levy
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge - Paul M. Hebert Law Center
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revenge, vengeance, retributivism, consequentialism, expressivism, desert, responsibility, criminal punishment, harmless, harmful, forgiveness, mercy

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Killing, Letting Die, and the Case for Mildly Punishing Bad Samaritanism

Georgia Law Review, Vol. 44, p. 607, Spring 2010
Number of pages: 89 Posted: 14 May 2009 Last Revised: 31 Jan 2015
Ken M. Levy
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge - Paul M. Hebert Law Center
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killing, letting die, action, omission, actus reus, bad samaritanism, criminalization, punishment, proportionality, causation, morality, psychology

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Why the Late Justice Scalia Was Wrong: The Fallacies of Constitutional Textualism

21 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 45 (2017)
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 19 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 16 Oct 2020
Ken M. Levy
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge - Paul M. Hebert Law Center
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Justice Scalia, constitutional interpretation, Textualism, Originalism, Fourteenth Amendment, substantive due process, right to privacy, Roe v. Wade, Griswold v. Connecticut, Living Constitution

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Randomization in Criminal Justice: A Criminal Law Conversation

CRIMINAL LAW CONVERSATIONS, Robinson, Ferzan and Garvey, eds., Oxford University Press, 2009, U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 471, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 267, Marquette Law School Legal Studies Paper No. 09-26
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 02 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 15 Apr 2015
Bernard E. Harcourt, Alon Harel, Ken M. Levy, Michael M. O'Hear and Alice Ristroph
Columbia University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge - Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Marquette University - Law School and Brooklyn Law School
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punishment, punishment theory, randomization, randomness, chance, luck, lottery, penal lottery, detection lotteries, incapacitation, deterrence, just punishment, moral luck, attempt liability, criminal law, criminal justice, critical theory

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On the Rationalist Solution to Gregory Kavka's Toxin Puzzle

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 90, pp. 267-289, 2009
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 30 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2015
Ken M. Levy
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge - Paul M. Hebert Law Center
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toxin puzzle, intention, action, reasons, course of action, rule-utilitarianism, rationality, rational irrationality, self-interest, self-promise, Kavka, Gauthier

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Does Situationism Excuse? The Implications of Situationism for Moral Responsibility and Criminal Responsibility

68 Arkansas Law Review 731 (2015)
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 03 May 2015 Last Revised: 22 Jan 2016
Ken M. Levy
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge - Paul M. Hebert Law Center
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moral responsibility, criminal responsibility, wrongdoing, excuse, situationism, punishment, sympathy, cruelty, genocide, Milgram shock experiment, Stanford Prison Experiment, Stephen Morse

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Gonzales v. Oregon and Physician-Assisted Suicide: Ethical and Policy Issues

Tulsa Law Review, Vol. 42, p. 699, 2007
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 27 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2015
Ken M. Levy
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge - Paul M. Hebert Law Center
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euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, legitimate medical purpose act/omissions distinction, killing/letting die distinction, due process, withdrawal of life support, Hippocratic Oath, alleviate suffering, Cruzan, Washington v. Glucksberg, Vacco v. Quill

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The Solution to the Real Blackmail Paradox: The Common Link between Blackmail and Other Criminal Threats

Connecticut Law Review, Vol. 39, No. 3, 2007
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 06 Mar 2006 Last Revised: 18 Sep 2015
Ken M. Levy
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge - Paul M. Hebert Law Center
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blackmail, paradox, reputation, criminal, threats, extortion, emotional well-being, freedom of speech

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Commentary on Szmukler: Mental Illness, Dangerousness, and Involuntary Civil Commitment

Philosophy and Psychiatry: Problems, Intersections, and New Perspectives, ed. Daniel D. Moseley and Gary J. Gala (Routledge, 2016), pp. 147-60.
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 09 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 11 Dec 2015
Ken M. Levy and Alex Cohen
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge - Paul M. Hebert Law Center and Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
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George Szmukler, mental illness, DSM-V, dangerousness, involuntary civil commitment, involuntary outpatient treatment, criminal punishment, liberty, public health, suicide, homicide, retributivism, consequentialism, expressivism

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Prosecutors Can Abuse Discretion to Seek Charges. We Propose Some Fixes

Chicago Tribune (Apr. 6, 2022)
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 09 Apr 2022
Zachary D. Kaufman and Ken M. Levy
University of Florida Levin College of Law and Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge - Paul M. Hebert Law Center
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bystanders, upstanders, prosecutors, prosecute, reform, criminal law, criminal justice, criminal justice reform, Bad Samaritan laws, duty to report, white collar crime, Ahmaud Arbery, Jackie Johnson, American Bar Association, state bar associations

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It's Not Too Difficult: A Plea to Resurrect the Impossibility Defense

New Mexico Law Review, Vol. 45, No. 1, 2014
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 23 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2015
Ken M. Levy
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge - Paul M. Hebert Law Center
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Impossibility defense, attempt, mistake of fact, mistake of law, legality principle, factual impossibility, legal impossibility, hybrid impossibility, intrinsic impossibility, Model Penal Code, voodoo

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Normative Ignorance: A Critical Connection Between the Insanity and Mistake of Law Defenses

Florida State University Law Review, Vol. 47, pp. 411-443 (2020)
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 12 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 04 Nov 2020
Ken M. Levy
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge - Paul M. Hebert Law Center
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Delling v. Idaho, Kahler v. Kansas, due process, cruel and unusual punishment, diminished capacity, normative ignorance, excuse, defense, mistake of law, insanity defense

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The Solution to the Problem of Outcome Luck: Why Harm Is Just as Punishable as the Wrongful Action that Causes It

Law and Philosophy, Vol. 24, 2005
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 30 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2015
Ken M. Levy
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge - Paul M. Hebert Law Center
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outcome luck, assumption of risk, punishment, blame, blameworthiness, attempt, desert, control, intentional killing, unintentional killing, gambling

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The Main Problem with USC Libertarianism

Philosophical Studies 105: 107-127, 2001
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 20 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2015
Ken M. Levy
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge - Paul M. Hebert Law Center
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determinism, indeterminism, source incompatibilism, ultimate self-causation, USC libertarianism, responsibility, Robert Kane

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Is Descartes a Temporal Atomist?

British Journal for the History of Philosophy 13(4) 2005: 627-74
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 13 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 13 Dec 2015
Ken M. Levy
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge - Paul M. Hebert Law Center
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Descartes, temporal atomism, Second Causal Proof, weak discontinuity, strong discontinuity, infinitely divisible

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On Three Arguments Against Metaphysical Libertarianism

Review of Metaphysics 76(4), 725-48 (June 2023)
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 05 Jul 2023 Last Revised: 06 Jul 2023
Ken M. Levy
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge - Paul M. Hebert Law Center
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constitutive luck, control, determinism, free will, indeterminism, metaphysical libertarianism, physicalism, randomness, responsibility, self-determinism

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Baumann on the Monty Hall Problem and Single-Case Probabilities

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 13 Jan 2015
Ken M. Levy
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge - Paul M. Hebert Law Center
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Monty Hall, probability, rigidity, causal structure, Peter Baumann

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Criminal Responsibility

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Criminal Responsibility

SAGE Encyclopedia of Criminal Psychology (Sage Publishing, 2019), pp. 269-72
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 28 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2019
Ken M. Levy
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge - Paul M. Hebert Law Center
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criminal responsibility, moral responsibility, causal responsibility, responsibility skepticism, blame, murder, manslaughter, excuse, justification, mitigation, justice, fairness, social causation, behavioral explanation, determinism, indeterminism

Criminal Responsibility

A Companion to Free Will, eds. Joseph Campbell, Kristin M. Mickelson, and V. Alan White (Wiley Blackwell, 2023), pp. 406-413 https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119210177.ch25
Posted: 04 Oct 2023
Ken M. Levy
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge - Paul M. Hebert Law Center

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civil negligence, criminal defense, criminal responsibility, insanity defense, moral responsibility, punishment, tort liability

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Hume, the New Hume, and Causal Connections

Hume Studies, vol. XXVI, Number 1, April 2000, pp. 41-75
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 15 Jan 2015
Ken M. Levy
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge - Paul M. Hebert Law Center
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David Hume, causal connections, necessary connections, New Hume, skeptical realism, positivism

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Why It is Sometimes Fair to Blame Agents for Unavoidable Actions and Omissions

American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol 42, No 2, April 2005
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 20 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2015
Ken M. Levy
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge - Paul M. Hebert Law Center
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Frankfurt, PAP, responsibility, blameworthy, ought implies can, power to choose otherwise

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Sophistry at the Supreme Court

The Hill (May 6, 2022), https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3479023-sophistry-at-the-supreme-court/
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 10 May 2022
Ken M. Levy and Jody Lynee Madeira
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge - Paul M. Hebert Law Center and Indiana University Maurer School of Law-Bloomington
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abortion, Alito, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, contraception, Fourteenth Amendment, Griswold v. Connecticut, right to privacy, Roe v. Wade, substantive due process, Supreme Court

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Blocking Blockage

Philosophia 44(2), 565-583 (2016)
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 14 May 2016 Last Revised: 16 Aug 2016
Ken M. Levy
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge - Paul M. Hebert Law Center
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moral responsibility, Harry Frankfurt, Principle of Alternative Possibilities, Blockage Argument, John Martin Fischer, Flicker-of-Freedom Strategy, ability to do otherwise, alternative possibilities, determinism, indeterminism, compatibilism, incompatibilism

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The First Amendment in Education: May Public Schools Discipline Faculty for Political Hate Speech?

Forthcoming, William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, Vol. 33, No. 1, 2024
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 12 Apr 2024 Last Revised: 22 Apr 2024
Ken M. Levy
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge - Paul M. Hebert Law Center
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dehumanizing, egalitarianism, First Amendment, free speech, hate speech, hostile learning environment, indoctrination, public schools, Trumpism, viewpoint discrimination, white supremacy

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Let's Not Do Responsibility Skepticism

Journal of Applied Philosophy 40(3), 458-73 (July 2023)
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 20 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 13 Jul 2023
Ken M. Levy
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge - Paul M. Hebert Law Center
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actus reus, criminal justice reform, dangerousness, dignity, excuse, free will, illusionism, injustice, mass incarceration, mens rea, punishment, responsibility realism, responsibility skepticism, retributivism, strict liability, values

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Erratum to 'Blocking Blockage'

Philosophia 44:583 (2016)
Posted: 27 Jul 2023
Ken M. Levy
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge - Paul M. Hebert Law Center

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Trying to Make Sense of Criminal Attempts

Jurisprudence
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 15 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 03 Oct 2022
Ken M. Levy
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge - Paul M. Hebert Law Center
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attempt, attempted murder, attempted rape, actus reus, intent, reckless, outcome luck, blameworthy, rehabilitation, impossibility defense, voodoo