John D. Bessler

Publications

• International Abolitionist Advocacy: The Rise of Global Networks to Advance Human Rights and the Promise of the Worldwise Campaign to Abolish Capital Punishment
  Minnesota Journal of International Law, Vols. 28:2 onward (2019-present) · 2025
• Mr. Antitrust: A Celebration of Professor Robert Lande’s Career
  53 U. BALT. L. REV. (2024) · University of Baltimore Law Review · 2024
• The Gross Injustices of Capital Punishment: A Torturous Practice and Justice Thurgood Marshall’s Astute Appraisal of the Death Penalty’s Cruelty, Discriminatory Use, and Unconstitutionality
  29 WASH. & LEE. J. C. R. & SOC. JUST. 65 (2023) · Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice · 2023
• The Rule of Law: A Necessary Pillar of Free and Democratic Societies for Protecting Human Rights
  61 SANTA CLARA L. REV. 467 (2021) · Santa Clara Law Review · 2021

• A Century in the Making: The Glorious Revolution, the American Revolution, and the Origins of the U.S. Constitution’s Eighth Amendment
  27 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 989 (2019) · William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal · 2019
• The Concept of “Unusual Punishments” in Anglo-American Law: The Death Penalty as Arbitrary, Discriminatory, and Cruel and Unusual
  13 NW. J. L. & SOC. POL'Y 307 (2018) · Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy · 2018
• The Long March Toward Abolition: From the Enlightment to the United Nations and the Death Penalty's Slow Demise
  29 U. FLA. J. L. & PUB. POL'Y (2018) · University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy · 2018
• The Abolitionist Movement Comes of Age: From Capital Punishment as a Lawful Sanction to a Peremptory, International Law Norm Barring Executions
  79 MONT. L. REV. (2018) · Montana Law Review · 2018
• What I Think About when I Think About the Death Penalty
  62 ST. LOUIS U. L.J. (2018) · Saint Louis University Law Journal · 2018
• The Inequality of America‘s Death Penalty: A Crossroads for Capital Punishment at the Intersection of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments
  73 WASH. & LEE L. REV. ONLINE 487 (2017) · Washington and Lee Law Review Online · 2017

• Revisiting Beccaria's Vision: The Enlightenment, America's Death Penalty, and the Abolition Movement
  4 NW. J. L. & SOC. POL'Y 195 (2009) · Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy · 2009
• In the Spirit of Ubuntur. Enforcing the Rights of Orphans and Vulnerable Children Affected by HIV/AIDS in South Africa
  31 UC L. SF INT'L L. REV. 33 (2008) · UC Law SF International Law Review · 2008

• The "Midnight Assassination Law" and Minnesota's Anti-Death Penalty Movement, 1849-1911
  22 WM. MITCHELL L. REV. (1996) · William Mitchell Law Review · 1996
• Defining "Co-Party" Within Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 13(g): Are Cross-Claims Between Original Defendants and Third-Party Defendants Allowable?
  66 IND. L.J. (1991) · Indiana Law Journal · 1991