Donald A. Dripps

Publications

• “Beat My Teeth Out and Then Kick Me in the Stomach for Mumbling”—Denying Compensation to the Innocent Who Pleaded Guilty
  49 SETON HALL J. LEGIS. & PUB. POL'Y (2025) · Seton Hall Journal of Legislation and Public Policy · 2025
• Eavesdropping, the Fourth Amendment, and the Common Law (of Eavesdropping)
  32 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 721 (2024) · William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal · 2024
• Due Process Overbreadth? The Void for Vagueness Doctrine, Fundamental Rights, and the Brewing Storm over Undefined Consent in Sexual Assault Statutes
  73 OKLA. L. REV. 121 (2020) · Oklahoma Law Review · 2020

• Why Rape Should Be a Federal Crime
  60 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1685 (2019) · William & Mary Law Review · 2019
• Guilt, Innocence, and Due Process of Plea Bargaining
  57 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1343 (2016) · William & Mary Law Review · 2016
• Perspectives on the Fourth Amendment Forty Years Later: Toward the Realization of an Inclusive Regulatory Model
  100 MINN. L. REV. 1885 (2016) · Minnesota Law Review · 2016
• Race and Crime Sixty Years After Brown v. Board of Education
  52 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 899 (2015) · San Diego Law Review · 2015
• Why Gideon Failed: Politics and Feedback Loops in the Reform of Criminal Justice
  70 WASH. & LEE L. REV. 883 (2013) · Washington and Lee Law Review · 2013
• "Dearest Property": Digital Evidence and the History of Private "Papers" as Special Objects of Search and Seizure
  103 J. CRIM. L. & CRIMINOLOGY 49 (2013) · Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology · 2013
• On Reach and Grasp in Criminal Procedure: Crawford in California
  37 N. C. J. INT'L L. 349 (2011) · North Carolina Journal of International Law · 2011
• The 'New' Exclusionary Rule Debate: From 'Still Preoccupied with 1985' to 'Virtual Deterrence'
  37 FORDHAM URB. L.J. 743 (2010) · Fordham Urban Law Journal · 2010

• Recreational Drug Regulation: A Plea for Responsibility
  2009 UTAH L. REV. (2009) · Utah Law Review · 2009
• The Fourth Amendment, the Exclusionary Rule, and the Roberts Court: Normative and Empirical Dimensions of the Over-Deterrence Hypothesis
  85 CHI.-KENT. L. REV. 209 (2009) · Chicago-Kent Law Review · 2009
• After Rape Law: Will the Turn to Consent Normalize the Prosecution of Sexual Assault?
  41 AKRON L. REV. (2008) · Akron Law Review · 2008
• Reconstruction and the Police: Two Ships Passing in the Night?
  24 CONST. COMMENT. 533 (2007) · Constitutional Commentary · 2007
• Is the Privilege of Private Discrimination an Artifact of an Icon?
  43 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 1063 (2006) · San Diego Law Review · 2006
• Overcriminalization, Discretion, Waiver: A Survey of Possible Exit Strategies
  109 PENN ST. L. REV. 1155 (2005) · Penn State Law Review (2003 - Present) · 2005
• Overcriminalization, Discretion, Waiver: A Survey of Possible Exit Strategies
  109 DICK. L. REV. 1155 (2005) · Dickinson Law Review (1908-2003) · 2005
• Three Tensions and One Omission, In the Case for the Federal Marriage Amendment
  42 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 935 (2005) · San Diego Law Review · 2005
• Fundamental Retribution Error: Criminal Justice and the Social Psychology of Blame
  56 VAND. L. REV. 1383 (2003) · Vanderbilt Law Review · 2003
• On the Costs of Uniformity and the Prospects of Dualism in Constitutional Criminal Procedure
  45 ST. LOUIS U. L.J. (2001) · Saint Louis University Law Journal · 2001
• Constitutional Theory for Criminal Procedure: Dickerson, Miranda, and the Continuing Quest for Broad-but-shallow
  43 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1 (2001) · William & Mary Law Review · 2001
• Is the Miranda Caselaw Really Inconsistent? A Proposed of Fifth Amendment Synthesis
  17 CONST. COMMENT. 19 (2000) · Constitutional Commentary · 2000

• The Variola Variation
  16 CONST. COMMENT. 511 (1999) · Constitutional Commentary · 1999
• Ineffective Assistance of Counsel: The Case for an Ex Ante Parity Standard
  88 J. CRIM. L. & CRIMINOLOGY 242 (1997) · Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology · 1997
• Police, Plus Perjury, Equals Polygraphy
  86 J. CRIM. L. & CRIMINOLOGY 693 (1996) · Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology · 1996
• Akhil Amar on Criminal Procedure and Constitutional Law: Here I Go Down That Wrong Road Again
  74 N. C. L. REV. 1559 (1996) · North Carolina Law Review · 1996
• Men, Women and Rape
  63 FORDHAM L. REV. 125 (1994) · Fordham Law Review · 1994
• Precommitment, Prohibition, and the Problem of Dissent
  22 J. LEGAL STUD. (1993) · Journal of Legal Studies · 1993
• Beyond the Warren Court and Its Conservative Critics: Toward a Unified Theory of Constitutional Criminal Procedure
  23 U. MICH. J. L. REFORM 591 (1990) · University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform · 1990

• Delegation and Due Process
  37 DUKE L.J. 657 (1988) · Duke Law Journal · 1988
• Against Police Interrogation--And the Privilege against Self-Incrimination
  78 J. CRIM. L. & CRIMINOLOGY 699 (1988) · Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology · 1988
• The Constitutional Status of the Reasonable Doubt Rule
  75 CAL. L. REV. 1665 (1987) · California Law Review · 1987
• More on Search Warrants, Good Faith, and Probable Cause
  95 YALE L.J. 1424 (1986) · Yale Law Journal · 1986
• Living With Leon
  95 YALE L.J. 906 (1986) · Yale Law Journal · 1986