Scott E. Sundby

Publications

SSRN Publications

Books, including monographs and treatises

A LIFE AND DEATH DECISION: A JURY WEIGHS THE DEATH PENALTY(Palgrave Macmillan 2005). (2006 Finalist For ABA Silver Gavel Award.)

Book Chapters

Capital Punishment in the 21st Century, Forthcoming 2008, (Invited Book Chapter). (with Scott E. Sudby and William Bowers)

Law Review Articles and other scholarly publications

Scott Sundby and Lucy Ricca, Exclusionary Rule Creation Stories, 43 Tex. Tech L. Rev. 391 (2010)(Fourth Amendment Search & Seizure Symposium)   

War and Peace in the Jury Room: How Capital Juries Reach Unanimity, 62 Hastings L.J.103 (2010).  

Mapp v. Ohio's Unsung Hero: The Supression Hearing as Morality Play,  85 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 255 (2010).

Oyendo Al Jurado A Traves de La Puerta: Una Perspectiva de La Aplicacion de la Pena de Muerte en America, 15 Revista de Derecho Procesal (2008) ("Listening at the Jury Room Door: Understanding America and the Death Penalty"). (with Scott E. Sudby and Professor Maria Angeles Cebadera Perez)

Caminando Sobre La Cuerda Floja Constitucional: La USA PATRIOT Act y La "Guerra Contra El Terror," 15 Revista General de Derecho Procesal (2008) ("Walking the Constitutional Tightrope: The USA PATRIOT Act and the 'War Against Terror'")  (with Scott E. Sudby and Professor Maria Angeles Cebadera Perez)

Competent Capital Representation: The Necessity of Knowing and Heeding What Jurors Tell Us About Mitigation, 36 Hofstra Law Review 1035 (2008) (Invited Paper for Symposium on "Guidelines for Mitigation in Death Penalty Cases"). (with Scott E. Sudby, John Blume and Sheri Lynn Johnson)

The Death Penalty's Future: Charting the Crosscurrents of Declining Death Sentences and The McVeigh Factor, 84 Texas L.R. 1929(2006) (Symposium: "Punishment Law and Policy"). (Available at: Lexis ; Westlaw)

Moral Accuracy and "Wobble" in Capital Sentencing, 80 Ind. L.J. 56(2005)(Symposium: "Toward a Model Death-Penalty Code: The Massachusetts Governor's Council Report").

Protecting the Citizen"Whilst He is Quiet": Suspicionless Searches, "Special Needs" and General Warrants, 74 Miss. L.J. 501 (2004) (Symposium: "Tools to Interpret the Fourth Amendment"). (Available at: Westlaw)

The Capital Jury and Empathy: The Problem of Worthy and Unworthy Victims, 88 Cornell L. Rev. 343 (2003) (Symposium: Victims and the Death Penalty: Inside and Outside the Courtroom). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Fallen Superheroes and Constitutional Mirages: The Tale of Brady v. Maryland, 33 McGeorge L. Rev. 643 (2002). (Essay based on Lecture given as part of Distinguished Lecture Series, McGeorge School of Law.) (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Burden of Proof, in 1 Encyclopedia of Crime & Justice, 2d ed. 111 (Joshua Dressler, editor in chief, Macmillan Reference 2002). (with Scott E. Sudby and Barbara D. Underwood)

An Ode to Probable Cause: A Response to Professors Amar and Slobogin, 72 St. John's L. Rev. 1133 (1998). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

The Capital Jury and Absolution: The Intersection of Trial Strategy, Remorse, and the Death Penalty, 83 Cornell L. Rev. 1557 (1998) (Symposium: How the Death Penalty Works: Empirical Studies of the Modern Capital Sentencing System). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

The Jury as Critic: An Empirical Look at How Capital Juries Perceive Expert and Lay Testimony, 83 Va. L. Rev. 1109 (1997). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

The Education of a Law Professor (The Revolving Door Part II), 44 Va. Law., April 1996, at 24.

"Everyman"'s Fourth Amendment: Privacy or Mutual Trust Between Government and Citizen?, 94 Colum. L. Rev. 1751 (1994). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

The Lockett Paradox: Reconciling Guided Discretion and Unguided Mitigation in Capital Sentencing, 38 UCLA L. Rev. 1147 (1991). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

The Virtues of a Procedural View of Innocence -- A Response to Professor Schwartz, 41 Hastings L.J. 161 (1989). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

The Reasonable Doubt Rule and the Meaning of Innocence, 40 Hastings L.J. 457 (1989). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Is Abandoning State Action Asking Too Much of the Constitution?, 17 Hastings Const. L.Q. 139 (1989). (Available at: Hein-Online)

A Return to Fourth Amendment Basics: Undoing the Mischief of Camara and Terry, 72 Minn. L. Rev. 383 (1988). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

The Felony-Murder Rule: A Doctrine at Constitutional Crossroads, 70 Cornell L. Rev. 446 (1985). (with Scott E. Sudby and Nelson E. Roth) (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Book Reviews

Book Review, 570 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 202 (2000) (reviewing Amitai Etzioni, The Limits of Privacy (1999)). (Available at: Lexis; Westlaw)

Book Review, 35 Trial, September 1999, at 95 (reviewing Edward Humes, Mean Justice: A Town's Terror, a Prosecutor's Power, a Betrayal of Innocence (1999)). (Available at: ProQuest; Westlaw)