Erik Luna

Publications

SSRN Publications

W&L Scholarly Commons (Available PDFs)

Books, including monographs and treatises

The Law of Terrorism (3rd ed. LexisNexis, forthcoming) (with Wayne McCormack).

The Prosecutor in Transnational Perspective (Oxford University Press 2012) (with Marianne Wade).

Drugs and Justice (Oxford University Press 2008) (with Margaret Battin et al.).

Book Chapters

Psychopathy and Sentencing in Handbook on Psychopathy and the Law (Kent Kiehl & Walter Sinnott-Armstrong eds.) (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

Robinson v. California: From Revolutionary Constitutional Doctrine to Model Ban On Status Crimes in Criminal Law Stories (Robert Weisberg & Donna Coker, eds.) (Foundation Press 2012).

In Support of Restorative Justice and Reply in Criminal Law Conversations (Paul Robinson, Stephen Garvey & Kimberly Ferzan, eds.) (Oxford University Press 2009).  

Hydraulic Pressures and Slight Deviations in Cato Supreme Court Review (9th ed.) (Cato Institute 2009).  

War on Drugs and related entries in Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties (Paul Finkelman, ed.) (Routledge Press 2006). 

La Justicia Restorativa: Un Modela de Penas Alternativas in La Implementacion de Penas Alternativas (Union Nacional de Juristas de Cuba 2006) 

Overextending the Criminal Law (ch.1) and Misguided Guidelines (ch.6)  in Go Directly to Jail: The Criminalization of Almost Everything (Gene Healy, ed.) (Cato Institute 2004).  

Law Review Articles and other scholarly publications

Spoiled Rotten Social Background, 2 Ala. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 23 (symposium on "rotten social background" in criminal law)

The Bin Laden Exception, 106 Nw. U.L. Rev. Colloquy (forthcoming). (colloquium on TSA)

Sense and Sensibility in Mandatory Minimum Sentencing, 23 Fed. Sent'g Rep. 219 (2011). 

Sense and Sensibility in Mandatory Minimum Sentencing, 23 Fed. Sent'g Rep. 219 (2011) (solicited for special issue on mandatory minimums)

Symposium Introduction, 68 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1285 (2010).

Judicial Discretion: A Look Back and a Look Forward Five Years After Booker, 22 Fed. Sent'g Rep. 297 (2010). (symposium transcript)

Mandatory Minimalism, 32 Cardoza L. Rev. 1 (2010). (with Paul Cassell)

Prosecutors as Judges, 68 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1413 (2010). (symposium on future of prosecution, with Marianne Wade)

Criminal Justice and the Public Imagination, 7 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 71 (2009). (symposium criminal law-criminology intersection)

The Curious Case of Coporate Criminality, 47 Am. Crim. L. 1507 (2009). (symposium on corporate criminal liability)

Cycles of Juvenile Justice: An Introduction to the Utah Criminal Justice Center Distinguished Lecture, 10 J. L. & Fam. Stud. 1 (2008). (juvenile justice symposium)

The Katz Jury, 40 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 839 (2008). (symposium on 40th anniversary of Katz decision)

Drug Détente, 20 Fed. Sent'g Rep. 304 (2008). (special election edition)

Traces of a Libertarian Theory of Punishment, 90 Marq. L. Rev. 263 (2007). (plea bargaining symposium)

Restorative Justice in Federal Sentencing: An Unexpected Benefit of Booker, 37 McGeorge L. Rev. 787 (2006). (sentencing symposium, with Barton Poulson)

Gridland: An Allegorical Critique of Federal Sentencing, 96 J. Crim L. & Criminology 25 (2005).

System Failure, 43 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 1201 (2005). (symposium on wrongful convictions)

The Overcriminalization Phenomenon, 54 Am. U. L. Rev. 703 (2005). (overcriminalization symposium)

"What Is Legal Is Not Necessarily Ethical": The Limits of Law and Drug Testing Programs, 4 Am. J. Bioethics 41 (2004). (solicited commentary on drug testing)

Foreword: The New Face of Racial Profiling, 2004 Utah L. Rev. 905. (racial profiling symposium)

Cuban Criminal Justice and the Ideal of Good Governance, 14 Transnat'l L. & Contemp. Probs. 529 (2004). (symposium on the future of Cuba symposium)

A Place for Comparative Criminal Procedure, 41 Brandeis L.J. 277 (2003-04). (criminal procedure symposium)

Introduction: The Utah Restorative Justice Conference, 2003 Utah L. Rev. 1. (restorative justice symposium)

Race, Crime, and Institutional Design, 66 Law & Contemp. Probs. 183 (2003). (symposium on minority over-representation in criminal justice)

Punishment Theory, Holism, and the Procedural Conception of Restorative Justice, 2003 Utah L. Rev. 205. (restorative justice symposium)

Drug Exceptionalism, 47 Vill. L. Rev. 753 (2002). (race and crime symposium)

The .22 Caliber Rorschach Test, 22 Hous. L. Rev. 53 (2002). (solicited commentary on the Frankel Lecture)

Constitutional Road Maps, 90 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 1125 (2000).

Principled Enforcement of Penal Codes, 4 Buff. Crim. L. Rev. 517 (2000). (MPC symposium)

Transparent Policing, 85 Iowa L. Rev. 1107 (2000).

Sovereignty and Suspicion, 48 Duke L.J. 389 (1999).

Beyond Beard, 17 Berkeley J. Int'l L. 147 (1999). (with Douglas Sylvester)