Paul H. Robinson

Publications

• Is It Possible To Draft A Universal Criminal Code?
  40 AM. U. INT'L L. REV. (2025) · American University International Law Review · 2025
• Don’t Black Lives Matter? Confronting the Problem of Disproportionate Black Victimization
  53 FORDHAM URB. L.J. 449 (2025) · Fordham Urban Law Journal · 2025
• Our Troubling Failures in Solving Crimes: Rethinking Legal Limits on Crime Investigation
  74 CASE W. RES. L. REV. 693 (2024) · Case Western Reserve Law Review · 2024
• Rethinking the Balance of Interests in Non-Exculpatory Defenses
  114 J. CRIM. L. & CRIMINOLOGY (2024) · Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology · 2024
• Electronic Prison: A Just Path to Decarceration
  58 UIC L. REV. (2024) · UIC Law Review · 2024
• Standing Back and Standing Down: Citizen Non-Cooperation and Police Non-Intervention as Causes of Justice Failures and Crime
  51 HOFSTRA L. REV. (2023) · Hofstra Law Review · 2023
• Individualizing Criminial Law's Justice Judgments: Shortcomings in the Doctrines of Culpability, Mitigation, and Excuse
  67 VILL. L. REV. 273 (2022) · Villanova Law Review (1956 - ) · 2022
• Indoctrination and Social Influence as a Defense to Crime: Are We Responsible for Who We Are?
  85 MO. L. REV. (2020) · Missouri Law Review · 2020

• White Paper of Democratic Criminal Justice
  111 NW. U. L. REV. 1693 (2017) · Northwestern University Law Review · 2017
• Democratizing Criminal Law: Feasibility, Utility, and the Challenge of Social Change
  111 NW. U. L. REV. 1565 (2017) · Northwestern University Law Review · 2017
• Extralegal Punishment Factors: A Study of Forgiveness, Hardship, Good Deeds, Apology, Remorse, and Other Such Discretionary Factors in Assessing Criminal Punishment
  65 VAND. L. REV. 737 (2012) · Vanderbilt Law Review · 2012
• LEED Project
  Environmental Law · 2011
• The Modern Irrationalities of American Criminal Codes: An Empirical Study of Offense Grading
  100 J. CRIM. L. & CRIMINOLOGY 709 (2010) · Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology · 2010
• Some Realism about Punishment Naturalism (with Responses)
  77 U. CHI. L. REV. (2010) · University of Chicago Law Review · 2010

• The Origins of Shared Intuitions of Justice
  60 VAND. L. REV. 1633 (2007) · Vanderbilt Law Review · 2007
• The Role of Moral Philosophers in the Competition Between Deontological and Empirical Desert
  48 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1831 (2007) · William & Mary Law Review · 2007
• Concordance and Conflict in Intuitions of Justice
  91 MINN. L. REV. 1829 (2007) · Minnesota Law Review · 2007
• Fair Notice and Fair Adjudication: Two Kinds of Legality
  154 U. PENN. L. REV. 335 (2006) · University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 2006
• The Accelerating Degradation of American Criminal Codes
  56 UC L.J. 633 (2005) · UC Law Journal · 2005
• The Virtues of Restorative Processes, the Vices of "Restorative Justice"
  2003 UTAH L. REV. (2003) · Utah Law Review · 2003
• Testing Lay Intuitions of Justice: How and Why?
  28 HOFSTRA L. REV. (2000) · Hofstra Law Review · 2000
• Some Doubts about Argument by Hypothetical
  88 CAL. L. REV. 813 (2000) · California Law Review · 2000
• Why Does the Criminal Law Care What the Layperson Thinks Is Just? Coercive versus Normative Crime Control
  86 VA. L. REV. 1839 (2000) · Virginia Law Review · 2000

• Testing Competing Theories of Justification
  76 N. C. L. REV. 1095 (1998) · North Carolina Law Review · 1998
• Making Criminal Codes Functional: A Code of Conduct and a Code of Adjudication
  86 J. CRIM. L. & CRIMINOLOGY 304 (1996) · Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology · 1996
• The Criminal-Civil Distinction and Dangerous Blameless Offenders
  83 J. CRIM. L. & CRIMINOLOGY 693 (1993) · Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology · 1993
• Rules of Conduct and Principles of Adjudication
  57 U. CHI. L. REV. (1990) · University of Chicago Law Review · 1990

• Dissent from the United States Sentencing Commission's Proposed Guidelines
  77 J. CRIM. L. & CRIMINOLOGY 1112 (1987) · Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology · 1987
• Causing the Conditions of One's Own Defense: A Study in the Limits of Theory in Criminal Law Doctrine
  71 VA. L. REV. 1 (1985) · Virginia Law Review · 1985
• Criminal Liability For Omissions: A Brief Summary and Critique of the Law in the United States
  29 N.Y.L. SCH. L. REV. 101 (1984) · NYLS Law Review · 1984
• Imputed Criminal Liability
  93 YALE L.J. 609 (1984) · Yale Law Journal · 1984
• Criminal Law Defenses: A Systematic Analysis
  82 COLUM. L. REV. 199 (1982) · Columbia Law Review · 1982
• A Brief History of Distinctions in Criminal Culpability
  31 UC L.J. 815 (1980) · UC Law Journal · 1980

• A Proposal For Limiting The Duty Of The Trial Judge To Instruct The Jury Sua Sponte
  11 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 325 (1974) · San Diego Law Review · 1974