Buffalo Criminal Law Center

Buffalo Criminal Law Review

Mission

The Buffalo Criminal Law Review, a peer-edited journal published semi-annually by the Buffalo Criminal Law Center at SUNY Buffalo School of Law, was founded in 1997 to advance the Buffalo Criminal Law Center's comprehensive program for the reform of American criminal law teaching, scholarship, and practice by pursuing two interrelated objectives:
• to integrate the study of criminal law by serving as an interdisciplinary and international forum for innovative scholarship on crime and punishment, and

• to bridge the gap between criminal law scholarship and criminal justice policy by providing legislators, judges, and other criminal justice professionals with in-depth analyses of topical issues in criminal law.

"Reforming American Penal Law," a detailed discussion of the Criminal Law Center's program, is available on-line, with hyperlinks (in Word) and without (in pdf).  It also has been published at 90 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 49 (1999) (click here for a reprint).

New Criminal Law Review

Beginning with vol. 10 no. 1 (Jan. 2007), the BCLR will be relaunched as a quarterly peer-reviewed journal under the name New Criminal Law Review.  The NCLR will be published by the University of California Press and co-edited by Markus D. Dubber (SUNY Buffalo) and Lindsay Farmer (University of Glasgow).  More information on the NCLR is available here. 


Past Issues of the Buffalo Criminal Law Review

Volume 1, Number 2 (New Voices in Criminal Theory)

This issue kicked off a new series of Buffalo Criminal Law Review special issues. In each special issue, a distinguished criminal law scholar showcases recent work in a field of his or her choice. Guest edited by Professor George Fletcher, Cardozo Professor of Jurisprudence at the Columbia University School of Law and a member of the Review's editorial advisory board, "New Voices in Criminal Theory" features articles on a wide range of topics in criminal theory by contributors from several countries, including the United Kingdom, Israel, Germany, Venezuela, and the United States.
Volume 2, Number 1 (Toward a New Federal Criminal Code)

This issue features papers presented at Toward a New Federal Criminal Code, the second conference on federal criminal code reform hosted by the Buffalo Criminal Law Center, on November 8, 1997, plus a comprehensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources on federal criminal code reform.
Volume 2, Number 2 (A New Agenda for Criminal Procedure)

"A New Agenda for Criminal Procedure," the second entry in the BCLR's special issues series is guest edited by Professor Robert Weisberg of Stanford Law School and features innovative papers related to constitutional and non-constitutional criminal procedure, along with an article by Richard Singer and Douglas Husak on constitutional criminal law and a book review essay by Walter Weyrauch.  Contributors include:
Volume 3, Number 1 (Victims and the Criminal Law: American and German Perspectives)

The BCLR's third conference issue will include papers presented at Victims and the Criminal Law, a German-American symposium sponsored by the German-American Academic Council and held at the Buffalo Criminal Law Center on Sept. 12-13, 1998, as well as a comparative bibliography on the role of victims in German and American criminal law.  Among the contributors are:
Volume 3, Number 2

This issue inaugurates the BCLR's forum feature.  A major article by David Bryden on rape law reform is our first forum article, published along with commentaries and a response by Professor Bryden.  The issue also features pieces by other distinguished scholars from the United States and Germany, plus a number of review essays on recent books related to criminal law.
Volume 4, Number 1 (The Model Penal Code Revisited)

In the fourth issue in the BCLR's symposium series, you will find papers presented at the Buffalo Criminal Law Center's Model Penal Code Conference, held on Oct. 29-31, 1999.  The issue features articles by scholars from the U.S., Canada, Germany, and Israel, as well as a selected bibliography on the Model Penal Code:
Volume 4, Number 2 (Feminism and the Criminal Law)

Guest edited by Lynne Henderson, the special issue on "Feminism and Criminal Law" explores feminist perspectives on a wide range of issues in criminal law doctrine and theory.
Volume 5, Number 1 (The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law)

This special issue, under the guest editorship of Stuart Green, is dedicated to a careful reconsideration of Joel Feinberg's pathbreaking four-volume study on "The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law" by philosophers and legal scholars from several countries, including:
Volume 5, Number 2 (Democracy and Punishment)
Political philosopher Pablo de Greiff has assembled an exciting international and interdisciplinary cast of contributors to this special issue on the much understudied relationship between political theory and criminal law.
Volume 6, Number 1 (The New Culpability: Motive, Character, and Emotion in Criminal Law)
Recent developments in the theory of mens rea are featured in this pathbreaking collection of essays, edited by Guyora Binder. Also included is the blueprint for the American Law Institute's new "Model Penal Code: Sentencing" project.
Volume 6, Number 2
Gerald Leonard, Towards a Legal History of American Criminal Theory: Culture and Doctrine from Blackstone to the Model Penal Code [.pdf]
Peter Westen & James Mangiafico, The Criminal Defense of Duress: A Justification, Not an Excuse--And Why It Matters [.pdf]
Theodore Y. Blumoff, A Jurisprudence for Punishing Attempts Asymmetrically [.pdf]
William Wilson, Impaired Voluntariness: The Variable Standards [.pdf]
Aaron J. Rappaport, Unprincipled Punishment: The U.S. Sentencing Commission's Troubling Silence About the Purposes of Punishment [.pdf]
Craig Bradley, The Middle Class Fourth Amendment [.pdf]
Rinat Kitai, Protecting the Guilty [.pdf]
Pragati Bhatt Patrick & Thomas Bak, Firearms Prosecutions in the Federal Courts: Trends in the Use of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) [.pdf]

Volume 7, Number 1 (Model Penal Code: Sentencing)
Paul H. Robinson, The A.L.I.'s Proposed Distributive Principle of "Limiting Retributivism": Does It Mean in Practice Anything Other than Pure Desert? [.pdf]
Edward Rubin, Just Say No to Retribution [.pdf]
James Q. Whitman, A Plea against Retributivism [.pdf]
Cornelius Nestler, Sentencing in Germany [.pdf]
Anthony N. Doob & Cheryl Marie Webster, Looking at the Model Penal Code Sentencing Provisions through Canadian Lenses [.pdf]
Wayne A. Logan, The Importance of Purpose in Probation Decision Making [.pdf]
Bernd Schünemann, Some Comments on Parts III And IV of the Model Penal Code from a German Perspective: Fundamentals of the Statutory Regulation of Correctional Practice in Germany [.pdf]
Jonathan Simon, Wechsler's Century and Ours: Reforming Criminal Law in a Time of Shifting Rationalities of Government [.pdf]
Sarah Armstrong, Bureaucracy, Private Prisons, and the Future of Penal Reform [.pdf]

Volume 7, Number 2
Forum:
Articles:

Günther Jakobs, Imputation in Criminal Law and the Conditions for Norm Validity [.pdf]
Manuel Cancio Meliá, Victim Behavior and Offender Liability: A European Perspective [.pdf]
Bernd Schünemann, The System of Criminal Wrongs: The Concept of Legal Goods and Victim-based Jurisprudence as a Bridge between the General and Special Parts of the Criminal Code [.pdf]
Stefan Cassella, The Forfeiture of Property Involved in Money Laundering Offenses [.pdf]

Volume 8, Number 1 (White Collar Criminal Law in Comparative Perspective: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
Stuart P. Green, The Concept of White Collar Crime in Law and Legal Theory [.pdf]
Bernd Schünemann, The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: A German Perspective [.pdf]
Roland Hefendehl, Enron, WorldCom, and the Consequences: Business Criminal Law Between Doctrinal Requirements and the Hopes of Crime Policy [.pdf]
Sara Sun Beale & Adam G. Safwat, What Developments in Western Europe Tell Us about American Critiques of Corporate Criminal Liability [.pdf]
Geraldine Szott Moohr, Prosecutorial Power in an Adversarial System: Lessons from Current White Collar Cases and the Inquisitorial Model [.pdf]
Katheen F. Brickey, Enron's Legacy [.pdf]
Pamela H. Bucy, "Carrots and Sticks": Post-Enron Regulatory Initiatives [.pdf]
Peter J. Henning, Sarbanes-Oxley Act § 307 and Corporate Counsel: Who Better to Prevent Corporate Crime? [.pdf]

Volume 8, Number 2
Volume 9, Number 1
Book Review:
Tatjana Hörnle, A Clash of Penal Cultures?
Volume 9, Number 2

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