Mark Osler

Publications

• American Mercy: The Case for Clemency
  59 AKRON L. REV. (2026) · Akron Law Review · 2026
• The Trump Clemencies: Celebrities, Chaos, and Lost Opportunity
  31 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 487 (2022) · William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal · 2022
• The Seven (At Least) Lessons of The Myon Burrell Case
  47 MITCHELL HAMLINE L. REV. (2021) · Mitchell Hamline Law Review · 2021

• Designed to Fail: The President’s Deference to the Department of Justice in Advancing Criminal Justice Reform
  59 WM. & MARY L. REV. 387 (2017) · William & Mary Law Review · 2017
• A "Holocaust in Slow Motion?": America's Mass Incarceration and the Role of Discretion
  7 DEPAUL J. FOR SOC. JUST. 117 (2016) · DePaul Journal for Social Justice · 2016
• Prosecutors and Victims: Why Wrongful Convictions Matter
  105 J. CRIM. L. & CRIMINOLOGY (2015) · Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology · 2015
• Restructuring Clemency: The Cost of Ignoring Clemency and a Plan for Renewal
  82 U. CHI. L. REV. (2015) · University of Chicago Law Review · 2015
• The Promise of Trailing-Edge Sentencing Guidelines to Resolve the Conflict between Uniformity and Judicial Discretion
  14 N. C. J. L. & TECH. 203 (2012) · North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology · 2012
• What Would It Look Like If We Cared About Narcotics Trafficking? An Argument To Attack Narcotics Capital Rather Than Labor
  15 U. D. C. L. REV. 113 (2011) · University of the District of Columbia Law Review · 2011

• Policy, Uniformity, Discretion, and Congress’s Sentencing Acid Trip
  2009 BYU L. REV. 293 (2009) · BYU Law Review · 2009
• Crazy Eyes: The Discernment of Competence by a Federal Magistrate Judge
  67 LA. L. REV. (2007) · Louisiana Law Review · 2007
• The Lawyer's Humble Walk
  32 PEPP. L. REV. (2005) · Pepperdine Law Review · 2005
• Must Have Got Lost: Traditional Sentencing Goals, the False Trail of Uniformity and Process, and the Way Back Home
  54 S. C. L. REV. (2003) · South Carolina Law Review · 2003