The political heart of criminal procedure: essays on themes of William J. Stuntz

Part I. The Political Economy of Substantive Criminal Law

Political dysfunction and the machinery of capital punishment / Joseph L. Hoffmann

Bill Stuntz and the principal-agent problem in American criminal law / Richard H. McAdams

Overcriminalization for lack of better options / Daniel Richman

Stealing Bill Stuntz / David Alan Sklansky

Part II. Police Investigation

The accidental feminist / Anne Coughlin

The distribution of dignity and the Fourth Amendment / Tracey Meares

Why courts should not quantify probable cause / Orin Kerr

DNA and the Fifth Amendment / Erin Murphy

Part III. Emotion, Discretion, and the Judicial Role

Two conceptions of two conceptions of emotion in criminal law : an essay inspired by Bill Stuntz / Dan Kahan

Patrolling the fence line : how the court only sometimes cares about preserving its role in criminal cases / Andrew Leipold

Three puzzles in the work of Bill Stuntz / Louis Michael Seidman

The mercy seat : discretion, justice, and mercy in the American criminal justice system / Carol Steiker

Epilogue : three underrated explanations for the punitive turn / Bill Stuntz.