Luis E. Chiesa

State University of New York at Buffalo Law School

Professor of Law and Director of the Buffalo Criminal Law Center

715 O'Brian Hall

Buffalo, NY 14260-1100

United States

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Spanish Criminal Law

THE HANDBOOK OF COMPARATIVE CRIMINAL LAW, Kevin Jon Heller, Markus Dirk Dubber, eds., Stanford University Press, 2009
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 18 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 24 Dec 2008
Luis E. Chiesa and Carlos Gómez-Jara
State University of New York at Buffalo Law School and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
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Criminal law, Spain, substantive, procedural

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Punishing Without Free Will

Utah Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 88 Posted: 07 Apr 2011
Luis E. Chiesa
State University of New York at Buffalo Law School
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free will, criminal law, determinism, causal determinism, libertarianism, compatibilism, incompatibilism, hard determinism, quarantine, punishment, freedom and responsibility, voluntariness

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Self-Defense and the Psychotic Aggressor

CRIMINAL LAW CONVERSATIONS, Robinson, Ferzan, Garvey, eds., 2008
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 10 Jul 2008
George P. Fletcher and Luis E. Chiesa
Columbia Law School and State University of New York at Buffalo Law School
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self-defense, justification, psychotic aggressor, wrongfulness, excuse, aggression, defensive force, necessity, passive necessity, defensive necessity

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Duress, Demanding Heroism and Proportionality: The Erdemovic Case and Beyond

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 06 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 16 Oct 2007
Luis E. Chiesa
State University of New York at Buffalo Law School
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duress, erdemovic, ICTY, Cassese, criminal law, justification, excuse, demanding heroism, crminal law theory, international criminal law, rome statute, icc

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Why is it a Crime to Stomp on a Goldfish? - Harm, Victimhood and the Structure of Anti-Cruelty Offenses

Number of pages: 85 Posted: 10 Mar 2008
Luis E. Chiesa
State University of New York at Buffalo Law School
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anti cruelty, animal cruelty, animal abuse, animal law, animal law scholars, offense, justification, justification defense, personhood, victimhood, harm principle, harm, regrettable harm, regret, animals as property, animals as persons

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Comparative Criminal Law

Markus Dubber & Tatjana Hörnle, Oxford Handbook of Criminal Law, 2014, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 30 Jan 2014
Luis E. Chiesa
State University of New York at Buffalo Law School
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criminal law, comparative law, comparative criminal law, Anglo-American criminal law, continental criminal law, common law, civil law, criminal attempts, attempts, mens rea, culpability, principle of legality, necessity, lesser evils

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Of Persons and the Criminal Law: (Second Tier) Personhood as a Prerequisite for Victimhood

Pace Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 16 Jul 2008
Luis E. Chiesa
State University of New York at Buffalo Law School
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Michael Vick, victimhood, criminal law, criminal theory, personhood, humanhood, roe v. wade, fetuses, abortion, sentience, peter singer, restitution, victims

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Beyond Torture: The Nemo Tenetur Principle in Borderline Cases

Boston College Third World Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 10 May 2009
Luis E. Chiesa
State University of New York at Buffalo Law School
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Self Incrimination, Self-Incrimination, Privilege Against Self-Incrimination, Nemo Tenetur, Coercion, Coerced Confessions, Due Process, Confessions, Interrogation, Miranda, Miranda v. Arizona, Right to Counsel, Sixth Amendment, Voluntariness, Neuroscience, Benjamin Libet, Free Will, Aristotle

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Outsiders Looking in: The American Legal Discourse of Exclusion

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 06 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 16 Oct 2007
Luis E. Chiesa
State University of New York at Buffalo Law School
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enemy race, enemy aliens, aliens, immigration, discrimination, security fence act, 9/11, outsiders, discourse of exclusion

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Beyond War: Bin Laden, Escobar, and the Justification of Targeted Killing

Washington and Lee Law Review, Vol. 69, p. 1371, 2012
Number of pages: 101 Posted: 12 Jan 2013
Luis E. Chiesa and Alexander K. A. Greenawalt
State University of New York at Buffalo Law School and Pace University Elisabeth Haub School of Law
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Targeted Killing, Bin Laden

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Consent is Not a Defense to Battery: A Reply to Professor Bergelson

Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, Vol. 9, No. 1, Fall 2011
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 09 Jul 2010
Luis E. Chiesa
State University of New York at Buffalo Law School
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consent, criminal law, substantive criminal law, battery, consensual boxing, consent to sporting activities, offense, justification, elements of the offense, offense modification defense, defenses, criminal law defenses, assault, socially adequate conduct as a defense

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Animal Rights Unraveled: Why Abolitionism Collapses into Welfarism and What It Means for Animal Ethics

Georgetown Environmental Law Review, Vol 28, No. 557, 2016
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 27 Jan 2017
Luis E. Chiesa
State University of New York at Buffalo Law School
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Animal Rights, Animal Ethics, Abolitionism, Welfarism, Francione, Singer, Animal Cruelty, Anti Cruelty, Animal Welfare, Environmental Law, Ethics, Environmental Ethics, Nonhuman Animals

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Solving the Riddle of Rape-by-Deception

Yale Law & Policy Review, Vol. 35, No. 407, 2017
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 12 Oct 2017
Luis E. Chiesa
State University of New York at Buffalo Law School
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rape-by-deception, rape, feminism, autonomy, consent, Jed Rubenfeld

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The Puzzle of Inciting Suicide

56 American Criminal Law Review 65 (2019), University at Buffalo School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2017-025
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 06 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 31 Jan 2019
Guyora Binder and Luis E. Chiesa
University at Buffalo Law School and State University of New York at Buffalo Law School
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Criminal Law, Suicide, Causation, Complicity, Legal Theory

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Actmissions

West Virginia Law Review, Vol. 116, No. 581, 2014
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 27 Jan 2014
Luis E. Chiesa
State University of New York at Buffalo Law School
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act, omission, criminal law, act requirement, criminal law theory, killing, letting die, act requirement, euthanasia, passive euthanasia, active euthanasia, duty to rescue, cutting the rope, necessity, consent, criminal theory, philosophy, philosophy of criminal law