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William W. Berry

University of Mississippi School of Law

Associate Professor

481 Chucky Mullins Drive

P.O. Box 1848

University, MS 38677

United States

  • University of Mississippi School of Law

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Scholarly Papers (36)

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1.

Extraordinary and Compelling: A Re-Examination of the Justifications for Compassionate Release

Maryland Law Review, Vol. 68, No. 4, 2009
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 22 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 28 May 2010
William W. Berry
University of Mississippi School of Law
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sentencing, compassionate release, extraordinary, bureau of prisons, punishment, parole, sentencing commission

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More Different than Life, Less Different than Death

Ohio State Law Journal, Vol. 71, No. 6, 2010
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 25 May 2010 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2015
William W. Berry
University of Mississippi School of Law
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Graham, Eighth Amendment, life without parole, death penalty, death is different

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American Procedural Exceptionalism: A Deterrent or Catalyst for Death Penalty Abolition?

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 17, No. 3, 2008
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 17 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2010
William W. Berry
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 598 (38,352)

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Discretion Without Guidance: The Need to Give Meaning to 3553 after Booker and its Progeny

Connecticut Law Review, Vol. 40, No. 3, 2008
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 17 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 10 Aug 2009
William W. Berry
University of Mississippi School of Law
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Sentencing, Commission, Booker, Rita, Kimbrough, Gall, discretion

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Ending Death by Dangerousness

Arizona Law Review, Vol. 52, p. 889, 2010
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 12 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2015
William W. Berry
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 549 (35,421)

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Incapacitation, Future Dangerousness, Death Penalty, Capital Punishment, Eighth Amendment

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Repudiating Death

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 101, No. 2, 2011
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 03 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 07 Jun 2011
William W. Berry
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 492 (39,413)

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Powell, Blackmun, Stevens, Capital Punishment, Death Penalty, Eighth Amendment, Judicial Restraint, Pandora's Box

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The Mandate of Miller

American Criminal Law Review, Vol. 51, No. 1, 2013
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 19 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2015
William W. Berry
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 422 (40,503)

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Miller v. Alabama, LWOP, juveniles, mandatory, death, evolving standards, parole, Graham, Woodson, Lockett

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Following the Yellow Brick Road of Evolving Standards of Decency: The Ironic Consequences of 'Death-is-Different' Jurisprudence

Pace Law Review, Vol. 28, No. 1, 2007
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 17 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 10 Aug 2009
William W. Berry
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 422 (59,821)

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Death Penalty, Supreme Court, Atkins, Roper, evolving standards

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Promulgating Proportionality

Georgia Law Review, Vol. 46, p. 69, 2011
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 25 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2015
William W. Berry
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 390 (42,394)

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Eighth Amendment, Proportionality, Death Penalty, Capital Punishment, Walton

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Book Review - The European Prescription for Ending the Death Penalty

2011 Wisconsin Law Review, Vol. 2011, p. 1103, 2011
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 09 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2015
William W. Berry
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 382 (43,306)

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Practicing Proportionality

Florida Law Review, Vol. 64, p. 687, 2012
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 03 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2015
William W. Berry
University of Mississippi School of Law
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Life-with-Hope Sentencing: The Argument for Replacing Life-Without-Parole Sentences with Presumptive Life Sentences

76 Ohio State Law Journal 1051 (2015)
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 22 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 03 Aug 2017
William W. Berry
University of Mississippi School of Law
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Eighth Amendment Presumptions: A Constitutional Framework for Curbing Mass Incarceration

89 Southern California Law Review 67 (2015)
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 22 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 03 Aug 2017
William W. Berry
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 166 (155,274)

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Eighth Amendment, presumptions, Miller, Graham, Death Penalty, LWOP, mandatory sentences, Sentencing, Parole

14.

Implementing Just Mercy

94 Texas Law Review 331 (2015)
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 25 May 2015 Last Revised: 03 Aug 2017
William W. Berry
University of Mississippi School of Law
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justice, mercy, Eighth Amendment, LWOP, death penalty, parole

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Separating Retribution from Proportionality: A Response to Stinneford

Virginia Law Review In Brief, Vol. 97, No. 61, 2011
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 03 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2015
William W. Berry
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 130 (127,486)

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Procedural Proportionality

George Mason Law Review, Vol. 22, No. 2, 2015
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 14 Feb 2015
William W. Berry
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 125 (98,299)

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Eighth Amendment, Miller, Graham, death penalty, LWOP, procedural due process, proportionality

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Ending the Death Lottery

Ohio State Law Journal, Vol. 76, No. 1, 2015
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 04 Apr 2015
William W. Berry
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 109 (213,975)

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death penalty, eighth amendment, proportionality review, Pulley, Ohio, capital punishment, disproportionate

18.

Eighth Amendment Differentness

78 Missouri Law Review 1053 (2013) (Symposium)
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 02 May 2013 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2015
William W. Berry
University of Mississippi School of Law
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Miller, Graham, Eighth Amendment, Different, Juvenile, JLWOP, LWOP, parole, sentencing

19.

Criminal Constitutional Avoidance

104 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 105 (2014).
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 26 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2015
William W. Berry
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 103 (158,562)

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Skilling, avoidance, canon, vagueness, ambiguity, statutory interpretation, white collar, fraud, honest services

20.

Educating Athletes

81 Tennessee Law Review 795 (2014).
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 25 May 2014 Last Revised: 03 Aug 2017
William W. Berry
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 100 (112,256)

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NCAA, student-athlete, amateurism, intercollegiate athletics, football, basketball, college sports

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Right About Wrongs? A Review of Fried & Fried's Because It Is Wrong and the Implications of Their Arguments on the Use of Capital Punishment

Connecticut Law Review, Vol. 44, No. 5, July 2012
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 02 May 2012 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2015
William W. Berry
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 60 (218,167)

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war on terror, torture, death penalty, privacy, surveillance, Bush

22.

Foreword

Mississippi Sports Law Review, Vol. 1, Issue 2, p. 245, 2012
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 01 May 2012 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2015
William W. Berry
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 54 (282,479)

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Sports

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Writing (and Re-Writing) Federal Criminal Law -- In the Classroom

Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2014
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 25 May 2014 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2015
William W. Berry
University of Mississippi School of Law
Downloads 21 (286,786)

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teaching, pedagogy, white collar, federal criminal law, legal writing

24.

Magnifying Miranda

50 Texas Tech L. Rev. 97 (2017) (symposium)
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 29 Mar 2018
William W. Berry
University of Mississippi School of Law
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Miranda, policing, sentencing, prophylactic rules, under enforced rights

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Enhancing ‘Education’

Louisiana Law Review, Vol. 78, No. 1, 2017
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 08 Mar 2018
William W. Berry
University of Mississippi School of Law
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NCAA, college sports, presidents, education, student-athlete

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Sixth Amendment Sentencing after Hurst

UCLA Law Review, Vol. 66, 2018 Forthcoming, UNC Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 07 Mar 2018
Carissa Byrne Hessick and William W. Berry
University of North Carolina School of Law and University of Mississippi School of Law
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jury trial, sentencing, Sixth Amendment, Apprendi, Supreme Court

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Cruel Techniques, Unusual Secrets

Ohio State Law Journal, Vol. 78, 2017, SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 350
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 04 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 15 Apr 2017
William W. Berry and Meghan J. Ryan
University of Mississippi School of Law and Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law
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Glossip, Death Penalty, Execution Methods, Eighth Amendment, Dignity, Torture, Capital Punishment, Lethal Injection

28.

Unusual Deference

Florida Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 27 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2017
William W. Berry
University of Mississippi School of Law
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Eighth Amendment, cruel and unusual, deference, McCleskey, Pulley, Harmelin, mass incarceration, death penalty, LWOP

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Evolved Standards, Evolving Justices?

Washington University Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 24 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 13 Mar 2018
William W. Berry
University of Mississippi School of Law
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Cruel and Unusual, Eighth Amendment, Evolving Standards, Countermajoritarian Difficulty, JLWOP, Death Penalty

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Employee-Athletes, Antitrust, and the Future of College Sports

28 Stanford Law & Policy Review 245 (2017).
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 16 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 03 Aug 2017
William W. Berry
University of Mississippi School of Law
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Antitrust, O'Bannon, Jenkins, NCAA, athletes, employees, student-athlete, football, basketball, sports

31.

Normative Retroactivity

19 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 485 (2016).
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 27 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 03 Aug 2017
William W. Berry
University of Mississippi School of Law
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retroactivity, teague v. lane, montgomery, welch, procedure, substance, habeas, new constitutional rule, collateral appeal

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Voices on Innocence

Florida Law Review, Forthcoming, WVU Law Research Paper No. 2016-6
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 15 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 04 Apr 2018
Lucian E. Dervan, Richard A. Leo, Meghan J. Ryan, Valena Elizabeth Beety, Gregory M. Gilchrist and William W. Berry
Belmont University School of Law, University of San Francisco - School of Law, Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law, West Virginia University - College of Law, University of Toledo College of Law and University of Mississippi School of Law
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innocence, plea bargain, factual innocence, exoneration, wrongful conviction, evidence, experts, prosecutors, accountability, punishment, restorative justice

33.

Amending Amateurism

68 Alabama Law Review 551 (2016).
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 05 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 03 Aug 2017
William W. Berry
University of Mississippi School of Law
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NCAA, amateurism, college, sports, student-athlete, antitrust, O'Bannon, Northwestern

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Remembering Furman's Comparative Proportionality: A Response to Smith and Staihar

101 Iowa Law Review Online 65 (2016)
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 18 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2016
William W. Berry
University of Mississippi School of Law
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The Retroactivity Roadmap

10 NYU Journal of Law & Liberty 179 (2016) (Symposium)
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 31 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 03 Aug 2017
William W. Berry
University of Mississippi School of Law
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LWOP, retroactivity, Miller, Montgomery, juveniles, parole, Eighth Amendment

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Playoff Profits for Academic Programs

5 Mississippi Sports Law Review 1 (2016)(Symposium).
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 28 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 03 Aug 2017
William W. Berry
University of Mississippi School of Law
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NCAA, sports, student-athlete, amateurism, pay for play, intercollegiate athletics

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Total Downloads: 12    Citations: 0
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Book Review of Forgotten Men

Rutgers Criminal Books and Criminal Justice Reviews
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 06 Dec 2015
William W. Berry
University of Mississippi School of Law
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LWOP, parole, prison, book review