A personal sentencing year in review
In a future post, I will review the major sentencing highlights of 2006. Here I start my reflective blogging by reviewing my sentencing scholarship and related activities for the year (roughly in chronological order with links to posts with more information).
Major Articles
- Conceptualizing Booker
- Tweaking Booker: Advisory Guidelines in the Federal System
- Finding Bickel Gold in a Hill of Beans
- Making Sentencing Sensible (with Stephanos Bibas)
Major Commentaries
- Reasoning Through Reasonableness
- Perspectives on Booker‘s Potential
- Now What? The Post-Booker Challenge for Congress and the Sentencing Commission
- The Real (Sentencing) World: State Sentencing in the Post-Blakely Era (with Steve Chanenson)
Major Amicus Efforts
- Crack sentencing in many circuits
- Reasonableness review in the Ninth Circuit
- Reasonableness review of veteran’s variance
- Claiborne and Rita: Reasonableness review in the Supreme Court
Journal Issues
- FSR Issue 18.2: Defense Perspectives on the Post-Booker World
- FSR Issue 18.3: Taking Stock a Year after Booker
- FSR Issue 18.4: Sentencing at the Supreme Court
- FSR Issue 18.5: Toward Real Reform: Model Federal Sentencing Guidelines
- FSR Issue 19.1: Victims and Sentencing I
Of course, I have also done more posts than I can count on this blog and also started a new group blog, Law School Innovation. And, speaking of blogs, I also wrote this article, “Scholarship in Action: The Power, Possibilities, and Pitfalls for Law Professor Blogs,” as part of this year’s Harvard Law School symposium, “Bloggership: How Blogs are Transforming Legal Scholarship Conference.”