Jonathan Simon

Publications

• How Should the Law Treat Future AI Systems? Fictional Legal Personhood versus Legal Identity
  17 J. L. TECH. & INTERNET A3 (2026) · Journal of Law, Technology, & the Internet · 2026
• Waiting for Godot: Thinking About Criminal Law After Mass Incarceration
  78 VAND. L. REV. 2097 (2025) · Vanderbilt Law Review · 2025

• Explicit Bias: Why Criminal Justice Reform Requires us to Challenge Crime Control Strategies that are Anything but Race Blind
  54 TULSA L. REV. 331 (2019) · Tulsa Law Review · 2019
• Mass Incarceration
  20 BERKELEY J. AFR.-AM. L. & POL'Y 73 (2019) · Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy · 2019
• Racing Abnormality, Normalizing Race: The Origins of America's Peculiar Carceral State and Its Prospects for Democratic Transformation Today
  111 NW. U. L. REV. 1625 (2017) · Northwestern University Law Review · 2017
• White Paper of Democratic Criminal Justice
  111 NW. U. L. REV. 1693 (2017) · Northwestern University Law Review · 2017
• No Port, No Passport: Why Submerged States Can Have No Nationals
  26 WASH. INT'L L.J. 307 (2017) · Washington International Law Journal · 2017
• Amnesty Now! Ending Prison Overcrowding through a Categorical Use of the Pardon Power
  70 U. MIAMI L. REV. 444 (2016) · University of Miami Law Review · 2016
• The New Overcrowding Symposium Essay
  Connecticut Law Review · 2016
• Dignifying Madness: Rethinking Commitment Law in an Age of Mass Incarceration
  70 U. MIAMI L. REV. 1 (2015) · University of Miami Law Review · 2015
• "Unable to Return" in the 1951 Refugee Convention: Stateless Refugees and Climate Change
  26 FLA. J. INT'L L. (2014) · Florida Journal of International Law · 2014
• How Should We Punish Murder?
  94 MARQ. L. REV. 1241 (2011) · Marquette Law Review · 2011
• Consuming Obsessions: Housing, Homicide, and Mass Incarceration since 1950
  2010 U. CHI. LEGAL F. (2010) · University of Chicago Legal Forum · 2010

• Parrhesiastic Accountability: Investigatory Commissions and Executive Power in an Age of Terror
  114 YALE L.J. 1419 (2005) · Yale Law Journal · 2005
• Ely, DeLillo, and the Distrusted Moments of Our Democracy
  58 U. MIAMI L. REV. 985 (2004) · University of Miami Law Review · 2004
• Teaching Criminal Law in an Era of Governing Through Crime
  48 ST. LOUIS U. L.J. (2004) · Saint Louis University Law Journal · 2004
• Fearless Speech in the Killing State: The Power of Capital Crime Victim Speech
  82 N. C. L. REV. 1377 (2004) · North Carolina Law Review · 2004
• Gun Rights and the Constitutional Significance of Violent Crime
  12 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 335 (2004) · William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal · 2004
• Peace and Insurance: Recovering the Utopian Vision of Insurance in Royce's War and Insurance
  Connecticut Insurance Law Journal · 2003
• Governing Through Crime Metaphors
  67 BROOK. L. REV. 1035 (2002) · Brooklyn Law Review · 2002
• Beyond Legal Realism?: Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Situation of Legal Scholarship
  13 YALE J. L. & HUMAN. 3 (2002) · Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities · 2002
• Crime, Community, and Criminal Justice
  90 CAL. L. REV. 1415 (2002) · California Law Review · 2002
• Sanctioning Government: Explaining America's Severity Revolution
  56 U. MIAMI L. REV. 217 (2001) · University of Miami Law Review · 2001

• From a Tight Place: Crime, Punishment, and American Liberalism
  17 YALE L. & POL'Y REV. 853 (1999) · Yale Law & Policy Review · 1999
• Ghosts of the Disciplinary Machine: Lee Harvey Oswald, Life-History, and the Truth of Crime
  10 YALE J. L. & HUMAN. 75 (1999) · Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities · 1999
• Driving Governmentality: Automobile Accidents, Insurance, and the Challenge to Social Order in the Inter-War Years, 1919–1941
  Connecticut Insurance Law Journal · 1998
• Power without Parents: Juvenile Justice in a Postmodern Society
  16 CARDOZO L. REV. 1363 (1995) · Cardozo Law Review · 1995