Op Eds and Selected Blog Posts

• Time to pardon people as well as turkeys, Mr. President
  Washington Post, Op-Ed, November 12, 2010
  
  
• The Quality of Mercy in New York: A Different Kind of State Challenge to Federal Immigration Policy
  ACSblog, October 28, 2010
  
  
• Looking for the President's Pardon Power? Try the Supreme Court.
  ACSblog, April 14, 2010
  
  
• Goodbye to Willie Horton
  The National Law Journal, January 11, 2010
  
  
• Crime, Politics, and The 24-Hour News Cycle
  The Crime Report, December 24, 2009
  
  
• Final Report Card on Pardoning by George W. Bush
  January 27, 2009 (rev. March 13, 2009)
  
  
• Reinvigorate The Power
  The National Law Journal, February 23, 2009 (with John Stanish)
  
  
• On Pardon Transparency and Access
  National Law Review, Interview, November 26, 2008
  
  
• In Defense Of Lame Duck Pardons
  Washington Post, Op-Ed, November 18, 2007
  
  
• Begging Bush's Pardon
  Los Angeles Times, Op-Ed, June 7, 2007
  
  
• The Quality of the President's Mercy
  New York Times, Op-Ed, December 19, 2004

• A Place for Pardons
  Washington Post, Op-Ed, December 21, 1998
  
  
• Rescuing The Pardon Power
  Washington Post, Op-Ed, January 25, 2001

• Testimony on Clinton Pardons:
  http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/love1.htm (2001 Senate testimony) http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/love2.htm (2001 House testimony)

• Testimony before the United States Sentencing Commission on Reduction in Term of Imprisonment under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c/)(1)(A)(i)

• Relief from the Collateral Consequences of a Criminal Conviction: State by State Resource Guide (W.S. Hein 2006)
  Updated State-by-State Profiles and Charts
  Order form for State-by-State Resource Guide

Articles on Pardon

• The Twilight of the Pardon Power,
  Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology ( 2010)
  
  
• Sentence Reduction Mechanisms in a Determinate Sentencing System: Report of the Second Look Roundtable
  22 Federal Sentencing Reporter 211 (2009)

• Taking a Serious Look at "Second Look" Sentencing Reforms
  22 Federal Sentencing Reporter 149 (2009)

• Reinventing the President's Pardon Power
  20 Fed. Sent. Reptr 5 ( 2007)

• Reviving the Benign Prerogative of Pardoning
  Litigation Magazine (Winter 2005 - 2006)

• Mandatory Sentences and Presidential Mercy: The Role of Judges in Pardon Cases, 1790–1850
  Federal Sentencing Reporter, February 2004 (with George Lardner)

• The Pardon Paradox: Lessons of Clinton's Last Pardons,
  Capitol Law Review 185 (2002)

• Pardon Power and Sentencing Policy
  Federal Sentencing Reporter (June 2001)

• Of Pardons, Politics and Collar Buttons: Reflections on the President's Duty to Be Merciful,
  27 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1483 (2000).

Articles on Collateral Consequences

• “Paying Their Debt to Society: Forgiveness, Redemption, and the Uniform Collateral Consequences of Conviction Act”, 54 Howard L. J. (2011)(forthcoming)
  
  
• “ABA Criminal Justice Standards on the Treatment of Prisoners”, Criminal Justice Magazine,, (Summer 2010)
  
  
• “Padilla v. Kentucky: The Right to Counsel and the Collateral Consequences of Conviction”, (with Gabriel J. Chin) (Fall, 2010)
  
  
• Status as Punishment: A Critical Guide to Padilla v. Kentucky,
  The Champion ,(May 2010)
  

• “A New Look at a Very Old Subject: The Uniform Collateral Consequences of Conviction Act”, Prison Legal News, (March 2010)

• “Alternatives to Conviction: Deferred Adjudication as a Way of Avoiding Collateral Consequences”, Federal Sentencing Reporter, (October 2009)

• “Certificates of Rehabilitation and Other Forms of Relief from the Collateral Consequences of Conviction: A Survey of State Laws” (with April Frazier) (October 2006)

• “The Debt that Can Never Be Paid: Report Card on the Collateral Consequences of Conviction,” 21 Criminal Justice 16 (Fall 2006)

• “Relief from the Collateral Consequences of Conviction,” National HIRE Network Newsletter (2005-2006).

• Starting Over With a Clean Slate: In Praise of a Forgotten Section of the Model Penal Code, 30 Fordham Urban Law Journal 101 (2003).

Articles on Ethics

• The Revised ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct: Summary of the Work of Ethics 2000, 15 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 441(2002)

Reports

• ABA Standards on the Treatment of Prisoners
  
  
• ABA Standards on Collateral Sanctions and Discretionary Disqualification of Convicted Person
  
  
• Uniform Collateral Consequences of Conviction Act
  
  
• Internal Exile: Survey of the Collateral Consequences of Conviction Under Federal Law, ABA Commission on Effective Criminal Sanctions and District of Columbia Public Defender Service,(with Kelly Salzmann) (2008)
  
  
• Second Chances in the Criminal Justice System: Alternatives to Incarceration and Reentry Strategies ABA Commission on Effective Criminal Sanctions (2008)


• Report of the American Bar Association Justice Kennedy Commission (2004)(with Stephen A. Saltzburg and Angela Jordan Davis)
  
  

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