Weekly Top 5 Crim Papers

The top 5 crim papers for this week, with number of recent downloads, on SSRN are:

(1)	187	Killing in Good Conscience: Comments on Sunstein and Vermeule's Lesser Evil Argument for Capital Punishment and other Human Rights Violations Eric D. Blumenson, Suffolk University - Law School, Date posted to database: April 25, 2006 Last Revised: July 5, 2006
(2)	175	Internal Separation of Powers: Checking Today's Most Dangerous Branch from Within Neal Kumar Katyal, Georgetown University Law Center, Date posted to database: May 8, 2006 Last Revised: July 10, 2006
(3)	175	Defending the Right to Self Representation: An Empirical Look at the Pro Se Felony Defendant Erica J. Hashimoto, University of Georgia - School of Law, Date posted to database: May 17, 2006 Last Revised: June 1, 2006
(4)	162	Child Sexual Abuse and the State: Applying Critical Outsider Methodologies to Legislative Policymaking Ruby P. Andrew, Southern University Law Center, Date posted to database: May 24, 2006 Last Revised: May 25, 2006
(5)	93	Looking Deathworthy: Perceived Stereotypicality of Black Defendants Predicts Capital-Sentencing Outcomes Sheri Lynn Johnson, Jennifer L. Eberhardt, Paul G. Davies, Valerie J. Purdie-Vaughns, Cornell Law School, Stanford University, University of California, Los Angeles Department of Psychology, Yale University, Department of Psychology, Date posted to database: May 10, 2006 Last Revised: May 10, 2006