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September 17, 2012
Alexander on Tadros on Self Defense as a Justification for Punishment
Larry Alexander (University of San Diego School of Law) has posted Can Self-Defense Justify Punishment? (Law and Philosophy, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
This piece is a review essay on Victor Tadros’s The Ends of Harm. Tadros rejects retributive desert but believes punishment can be justified instrumentally without succumbing to the problems of thoroughgoing consequentialism and endorsing using people as means. He believes he can achieve these results through extension of the right of self-defense. I argue that Tadros fails in this endeavor: he has a defective account of the means principle; his rejection of desert leads to gross mismatches of punishment and culpability; and he cannot account for punishment of inchoate crimes.
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September 16, 2012
Top-Ten Recent SSRN Downloads
in criminal law and procedure ejournals are here. The usual disclaimers apply.
| Rank | Downloads | Paper Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 464 | Jay-Z’s 99 Problems, Verse 2: A Close Reading with Fourth Amendment Guidance for Cops and Perps Caleb E. Mason, Southwestern Law School, Date posted to database: August 13, 2012 |
| 2 | 412 | Preventing Sex-Offender Recidivism Through Therapeutic Jurisprudence Approaches and Specialized Community Integration Heather Cucolo, Michael L. Perlin, New York Law School, New York Law School, Date posted to database: July 26, 2012 |
| 3 | 333 | Jay-Z’s 99 Problems, Verse 2: The Canadian Response to Professor Mason Emir Crowne, University of Windsor - Faculty of Law, Date posted to database: July 13, 2012 |
| 4 | 328 | The Unexonerated: Factually Innocent Defendants Who Plead Guilty John H. Blume, Rebecca K. Helm, Cornell Law School, Unaffiliated Authors - affiliation not provided to SSRN, Date posted to database: July 11, 2012 |
| 5 | 237 | Crime, Weather, and Climate Change Matthew Ranson, Abt Associates, Inc., Date posted to database: July 18, 2012 (new to top ten) |
| 6 | 170 | Foreign Affairs and Enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Stephen J. Choi, Kevin E. Davis, New York University (NYU) - School of Law, New York University (NYU) - School of Law, Date posted to database: July 24, 2012 (new to top ten) |
| 7 | 163 | A Technology-Centered Approach to Quantitative Privacy David C. Gray, Danielle Keats Citron, University of Maryland-Francis King Carey School of Law, University of Maryland - Francis King Carey School of Law, Date posted to database: August 15, 2012 (10th last week) |
| 8 | 162 | The Mandatory Meaning of Miller William W. Berry, University of Mississippi School of Law, Date posted to database: July 19, 2012 |
| 9 | 158 | The International Commission of Inquiry on Libya: A Critical Analysis Kevin Jon Heller, Melbourne Law School, Date posted to database: August 5, 2012 |
| 10 | 153 | Does Corruption Pay in Indonesia? If so, Who are Benefited the Most? Rimawan Pradiptyo, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Date posted to database: July 16, 2012 (7th last week) |
September 16, 2012 | Permalink | Comments (0)
