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Books:

Romantics at War: Glory and Guilt in the Age of Terrorism (Princeton University Press, 2002)
Our Secret Constitution: How Lincoln Redefined American Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2001)
Basic Concepts of Criminal Law (Oxford University Press, 1998)
                                (Spanish
edition, 1997; Russian edition, 1998; Italian edition forthcoming)

Basic Concepts of Legal Thought (Oxford University Press, 1996)
With Justice for Some: Victims' Rights in Criminal Trials (Addison-Wesley,1995)
                                (paperback, 1996; Spanish edition, 1996)

Loyalty: An Essay on the Morality of Relationships (Oxford University Press, 1993; paperback, 1995)
                                (published as well in German and French translations)

Introduzione Elementare alla Scienza Giuridica (II. Cardozo Lectures in Law)
A Crime of Self-Defense: Bernhard Goetz and the Law on Trial (Free Press, July 1988)
                                (paperback University of Chicago Press, 1990) (published in Japanese,
German,                                         French, and Italian translations)

Justification and Excuse: Comparative Perspectives, Volumes I and II (ed. with A. Eser 1987)
Rethinking Criminal Law (Little, Brown 1978)
T. Taylor, Courts of Terror (Fletcher, Dershowitz et al. eds., Knopf 1976)


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Scholarly Articles and Essays:
2003
“Law in Searle,” in John Searle (Cambridge, ed. Barry Smith, forthcoming)
“God’s Image and Egalitarian Politics,” Social Philosophy & Policy, forthcoming
“Thinking About Eden: A Tribute to Herbert Morris,”
"Collective Crime," in Foundations and Limitations of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure--
                       
in Memory of Prof. Fu Tseng Hung (forthcoming)

2002
“Trois modèles de compétence universelle,” in Jurisdictions nationales et crimes internationaux
                        (Antonio Cassese and Mireille Delmas-Marty, eds)

“Civilizing War: Shall We Pursue Justice or War?”  Robert P. Kogod Annual Lecture
“Remembering Gary – and Tort Theory,” 50 UCLA L. Rev. 1 
“The Fault of Not Knowing,” 3 Theoretical Issues in Law 265
“What Common Lawyers can Learn from European Theorists of Criminal Law," 17 Bar-Ilan Studies in                                Law 91
“The Many Faces of Bush v. Gore,” in The Longest Night: Polemics and Perspectives on Election 2000
                        (A. Jacobson and M. Rosenfeld eds.)

“The Storrs Lectures: Liberals and Romantics at War: The Problem of Collective Guilt,”
                        111 Yale Law Journal 1499

“On Justice and War: Contradictions in the Proposed Military Tribunals,” 25 Harv. J. Law & Pub. Pol. 635

2001
“Perspectives” (in French), Les Actes des Primèrs Recontres de l’UMR de droit comparé (28.29 mai
                        2001)

“Adam and our Selves,” in Judaism and Modernity:The Religious Philosophy of David Hartman
                        (Jerusalem: Jonathon Malino ed.)

“Three Nearly Sacred Books in Western Law,” 54 Arkansas Law Review 1
“Criminal Theory in the Twentieth Century,” 2 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 265  
“Wokół Rozróżnienia ‘Ius’ i ‘Lex’,” Conference paper

2000
"Thinking Torts: Private Remedies for the Defamation of Political Leaders," in Freedom of Speech and
                    Incitement Against Democracy
(D. Kretzmer and
F.K. Hazan eds.)

"Material Poverty, Moral Poverty" in From Social Justice to Criminal Justice: Poverty and the
                    Administration of Criminal Law
(W. Heffernan and J. Kleinig, eds.)

"Staatsangehörigkeit als Verfassungsrechtsmerkmal," in Kritische Vierteljahresschrift für Gesetzgebung                    und Rechtswissenschaft, special issue in honor of Winfried Hassemer   
"Prologo" (in Spanish) in Terror y Justicia en La Argentina by Jaime Malamud-Goti       
“The Nature and Function of Criminal Theory," 88 California Law Review 687
“The Place of Victims in the Theory of Retribution,” 3 Buffalo Criminal Law Review 51
“Der Platz des Opfers (The Place of Victims) in einer Vergeltungstheorie,” in Die Stellung des Opfers in
                    Strafrechtssystem
(Carl Heymanns Verlag KG, ed. Bernd Schünemann & Markus Dirk
                    Dubber)  

"Strafrechtsdogmatik in ausländischer Sicht," in Die deutsche Strafrechtwissenschaft vor                          
                    Jahrtausendwende: Rückbesinnung und Ausblick
(Munich:A.Eser, W. Hassemer, B.
                    Burkhardt eds
.)

1999
“The Shape of Equality: Perspective in Law, Morality, and Religion,” 4 Ars Interpretandi: J. for Legal
                     Hermeneutics 327

"In God's Image: The Religious Imperative of Equality under Law,"  99 Columbia Law Review 1608
"A Trial in Germany," 18 Criminal Justice Ethics 3
"Disenfranchisement as Punishment: Reflections on the Racial Uses of Infamia,"  46 UCLA L. Rev. 1895

1998
"The Meaning of Innocence," 48 Univ. of Toronto L.J. 157
"Comparative Law as a Subversive Discipline," 46 American Journal of Comparative Law 683
“New Voices in Criminal Law Theory,” Buffalo Criminal Law Review
“The Meaning of Innocence,” 48 Univ. of Toronto L.J. 157
"Truth in Codification," 31 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 745
"Dogmas of the Model Penal Code,"  2 Buffalo Criminal Law Review 3
"The Fall and Rise of Criminal Theory," 1 Buffalo Criminal Law Review 275

1997
“The Philosopher's Brief,” New York Review of Books, 5/29
"Self-Defense of Battered Women, [in Hebrew]" 6 Israel Journal of Criminal Justice 65
"What Law is Like," 50 Southern Methodist Univ. Law Review 1599
"The Case for Linguistic Self Defense," in The Morality of Nationalism 324 (Robert McKim & Jeff
                  McMahon, eds.)


1996
"Domination in Wrongdoing," 76 Boston Univ. Law Review 347
"Domination in the Theory of Justification and Excuse," 57 Univ. of Pittsburgh Law Review 553
"Complicity," 30 Israel Law Review 140
"The Case for Tolerance," 13 Social Philosophy & Policy 229
"The Instability of Intolerance," in Toleration: An Elusive Virtue (David Heyd, etc.)
"Responsibility" and "Loyalty," in A Companion to Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory (Dennis
                   Patterson, ed.)


1995
"Is Conspiracy Unique to the Common Law" (Review of Elisabetta Grande, Accordo Criminoso E
                   Conspiracy), 43 American Journal of Comparative Law 171

"Democracy in Jury Selection," 3 Jahrbuch für Recht und Ethik 135
"Political Correctness in Jury Selection," 29 Suffolk Law Review 1

1994
"What Is Punishment Imposed For?" 5 Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues 101
"On the Moral Irrelevance of Bodily Movements," 142 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1443

1993
"Constitutional Identity," 14 Cardozo Law Review 757
"Punishment and Human Rights," The World and I, November, p. 413
"The Nature of Justification," in Action and Value in Criminal Law (S. Shute, J. Gardner & J. Horder eds.) 
"Blackmail: The Paradigmatic Crime," 141 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1617
"Corrective Justice for Moderns" (Review of Coleman, Risks & Wrongs), 106 Harvard Law Review 1658
"The Adventures of Eric Blair" (Review of Morris, The Brothel Boy and Other Parables of the Law),
                    91 Michigan Law Review 1422

"Is it Better to be Tried for a Crime in a Common Law or Civilian System?" in Transition to Democracy in
                    Latin America: The Role of the Judiciary
(I. Stotzky ed.)

"The Psychotic Aggressor -- A Generation Later," 27 Israel Law Review 227
"Sprache und Foederalismus" in Der Faktor Mensch im neuen Europa (M. McGuire ed.)
"Searching for the Rule of Law in the Wake of Communism" in Von Totalitärrem zu rechtsstaatlichen  
                   Strafrecht
(Max Planck Institut, ed. Albin Eser, Günther Kaiser, & Ewa Weigend)


1992
"Law as Discourse," 13 Cardozo Law Review 1631
"Searching for the Rule of Law in the Wake of Communism," 1992 Brigham Young U. Law Review 145
“After Los Angeles: Reforming the Jury System,” 2 Rights & Responsibilities 6
“An Ideal Law Curriculum for Eastern Europe,” ? p.48
“Editing Reason,” 2(1) S’Vara: A Journal of Law, Philosophy, and Judaism 1

1991
"Self-Defense as a Justification for Punishment," 12 Cardozo Law Review 859
"Talmudic Reflections on Self-Defense," in Crime, Punishment, and Deterrence: An American Jewish
                    Exploration
(Los Angeles: Wilstein Institute, D.Gordis, ed.), p. 61


1990
"Equality and the Rule of Law," in 10 Tel Aviv University Studies in Law 71
"Defensive Force as an Act of Rescue," 7(2) Social Philosophy and Policy 170, and in Crime,  
                   Culpability, & Remedy
(Basil Blackwell Ltd. (UK) ed. Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller Jr., &
                   Jeffrey Paul)

"Ho and Halakha," 1(1) S'vara: A Journal of Philosophy and Judaism 13

1989
"The Meaning of Morality," 64 Notre Dame Law Review 805
"Utilitarismus und Prinzipiendenken im Strafrecht," 101 Zeitschrift für die gesamte
                      Strafrechtswissenschaft 803

"Prezumptsia nevinovnosti" [Presumption of Innocence], 1989(11) Sovetskoe Gosurdarstvo u Pravo
                      [Soviet State & Law] 132

“Punishment and Self-Defense," 8 Law and Philosophy 201
“Introduction From a Common Law Scholar's Point of View," in Justification and Excuse: Comparative
                      Perspectives
(Eser and Fletcher eds.)


1987-88
 “Why Kant," 87 Columbia Law Review 421
"Law and Morality: A Kantian Perspective," 87 Columbia Law Review 533
"The Unmet Challenge of Criminal Theory," 33 Wayne Law  Review 1439
"The Universal and Particular in Legal Discourse," 1987 Brigham Young Law Review 335
"Mistake in the Model Penal Code: A False False Problem,"  19  Rutgers Camden Law Review 649

1986
"Constructing a Theory of Impossible Attempts," 4(1) Criminal Justice Ethics 53, reprinted in Crime,
                     Justice and Codification
(P. Fitzgerald ed. 1986)

 “Law Making as an Expression of Self," 13 Northern Kentucky Law Review 201

1985
"Criminal Theory as an International Discipline: Reflections on the 1984 Freiburg Workshop,"
                    4(1) Criminal Justice. Ethics 60

"The Right and the Reasonable," 98 Harvard Law Review 949
"A Transaction Theory of Crime?" 85 Columbia Law Review 921
"Paradoxes in Legal Thought," 85 Columbia Law Review 601

1984
“The Ongoing Soviet Debate about the Presumption of Innocence," 3(1) Criminal Justice Ethics 69
"Rights and Excuses", 3(2) Criminal Justice Ethics 17
"Human Dignity as a Constitutional Value," 22 University of Western Ontario Law Review 171
"Some Unwise Reflections About Discretion," 47 Law and Contemporary Problems 269

1983
"The Search for Synthesis in Tort Theory," 2 Law and Philosophy 63, reprinted in Justice, Rights and Tort
                    Law
(Bayles and Chapman eds. 1983)

"Excuse: Theory" and "Justification: Theory," articles appearing in Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice
                    (Kadish ed. 1983)

"The Watchdog of Neutrality" (Review of Ackerman, Social Justice and the Liberal State),
                    83 Columbia Law Review 2099


1982
"The Case for Treason," 41 Maryland Law Review 193

1981
"Two Modes of Legal Thought," 90 Yale Law Journal 970
"Punishment and Compensation," 14 Creighton Law Review 691
"Reflections on Felony Murder," 12 Southwestern University Law Review 413
"The Recidivist Premium," 1(2) Criminal Justice Ethics 54

1980
"Manifest Criminality, Criminality, Criminal Intent and the Metamorphosis of Lloyd Weinreb," 90 Yale Law
                     Journal 319

"Ordinary Language Philosophy und die Neubegründung der Strafrechtsdogmatik," in Abweichendes
                    Verhalten IV
(edited by Lüderssen & Sack) (written in German)

"Justice Thwarted: Shcharansky's Case," 1 Soviet Jewry Law Review 3

1979
"Legality as Privacy," in Cunningham, Liberty and the Rule of Law
"The Separation of Powers: A Critique of Some Utilitarian Justifications," in Pennock & Chapman,
                    Constitutionalism
(Nomos XX)

"Should Intolerable Prison Conditions Generate a Justification or an Excuse for Escape?" 26 UCLA Law
                    Review 1355

“The Right to Life,”13 Georgia Law Review 1371

1970-76
"The Metamorphosis of Larceny," 89 Harvard Law Review 269 (1976)
"Criminal Omissions: Some Perspectives," 24 American Journal of Comparative Law 203 (1976)
"The Right Deed for the Wrong Reason: A Reply to Mr. Robinson," 23 UCLA Law Review 293 (1975)
"Individualization of Excusing Conditions," 47 Southern California Law Review 1269 (1974)
"Proportionality and the Psychotic Aggressor: A Vignette in Comparative Criminal Theory," 8 Israel Law
                    Review 367 (1973); reprinted in Studies in Comparative Criminal Law 123 (E. Wise & G.
                    Mueller, eds. 1975)

"Fairness and Utility in Tort Theory," 85 Harvard Law Review 537 (1972)
"The Theory of Criminal Negligence: A Comparative Study," 19 Univ. of Pennsylvania Law Review 401
                    (1971)


1962-68
"The Presumption of Innocence in the Soviet Union," 15 UCLA Law Review 1203 (1968)
"Two Kinds of Legal Rules: A Comparative Study of Burden-of-Persuasion Practices in Criminal Cases,"
                    77 Yale Law Journal  880 (1968)

"Prolonging Life," 42 Univ. of Washington Law Review 999 (1967)
"The Concept of Punitive Legislation and the Sixth Amendment: A New Look at Kennedy v. Mendoza
                   Martinez," 32 Univ. of Chicago Law Review 290 (1965)

"Forum Non Conveniens, Injunctions Against Suit and Full Faith and Credit," 29 Univ. of Chicago Law
                   Review 740 (1962).





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Op-Ed and Shorter Articles for the General Public :
"Verdict Inconsistent But Fair," Jewish Week, May 23, 2003
"Join the International Criminal Court," Jerusalem Report, November 4, 2002
“Annan’s Reckless Language,” New York Times, March 21, 2002
“The End of Treason (or the Beginning),” January 2, 2002, published online at www.project-syndicate.org,
                    and then in translation in several newspapers around the world

“War and the Constitution,” American Prospect , January 1, 2002
“We Must Choose: Justice or War,” Washington Post , October 6, 2001
“Is This Really War?” October 16, 2001, published online at www.project-syndicate.org, and then in
                    translation in several newspapers around the world

“A Constitutional Test for Governor Bush,” Boston Globe , November 29, 2000
"Unsound Constitution," New Republic, June 23, 1997, page 14
"Civil Trials Give Justice a Second Chance," New York Newsday , February 11, 1997
“Let Victims Attend Bombing Trial and Testify,” New York Times , July 23, 1996
“Justice for All, Twice,” New York Times, April 24, 1996 
“Prayer Wasn’t Issue in Child’s Wrongful Death, New York Times , February 4, 1996
"Convicting the Victim," Baltimore Sun, March 2, 1994
“Outing the Jews,” Jerusalem Report, July 15, 1993, page 54
“Rodney, Yankel, and the Jury,” Jerusalem Report , March 25, 1993, page 54
"Against a False Reckoning," Jerusalem Report, August 13, 1992
“Defender of the Faith,” Jerusalem Report, June 27, 1991, page 41
"The Day Budapest Shut Down," 37(19) New York Review of Books 48 (1990)
"On Trial in Gorbachev's Courts," 36(8) New York Review of Books 13 (1989)
“Small Steps Toward Reform,” Newsday Magazine , July 16, 1989
“Blasting Houses on the West Bank: Israeli Soldiers as Police and Jurors,” L.A.Times, January 29,1989
“Breaking the Law for Larger Social Interest,” Los Angeles Times, May 22, 1988
"A Guide to the Goetz Case," 34(7) New York Review of Books 22 (1987)
"Good Guy Defender," L.A. Times Opinion Section, May 17, 1987, p. 1
"Who is Sick and Who is Bad?" (Book Review) New York Times Book Review, September 9, 1984
"Justice Requires More Than Outrage," L. A. Times, July 22, 1982, pt. 2, p. 12
"Shcharansky: Remembering to Remember," L.A. Times, March 14, 1980, pt. 2, p. 7

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Online Publications:
Findlaw.com
"If the President Orders an Attack of Iraq Without Security Council Approval,
Can Injured Iraqis Sue the President in U.S. Courts?," at

http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20020925_fletcher.html    


"How Would the Bush Administration’s Claims of Self-Defense, Used as Justifications for
War Against Iraq, Fare Under Domestic Rules of Self-Defense?," at

http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20020910_fletcher.html


"Did the Security Council’s Recent Iraq Resolution Violate the U.N. Charter by Authorizing
Unilateral Force? And If So, What Are the Consequences?," at

http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20021113_fletcher.html


"Should One Nation Be Able to Judge the Entire World? Belgium's Prosecution of Ariel Sharon,
and Other Invocations of 'Universal Jurisdiction,'" at

http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20030304_fletcher.html


"War Crimes Proceedings In Iraq? The Bush Administration's Dilemma," at
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20030404_fletcher.html


Project-Syndicate.org
"The Boundaries of Anti-Semitism," at
http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentaries/commentary_text.php4?id=927&lang=1

"The End of Treason (or the Beginning)," at
http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentaries/commentary_text.php4?id=753&lang=1


"Is This Really War?," at
http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentaries/commentary_text.php4?id=697&lang=1


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