Russell Christopher

Publications

Articles and other contributions to periodicals

  • (2012) The Paradox of Statutory Rape, 87 IND. L. J. 505 (2012) (co-authored with Kathryn Christopher). available at HeinOnline, LexisNexis, Westlaw.

  • (2009) A Political Theory of Blackmail: A Reply to Professor Dripps, 3 CRIM. L. & PHIL. 261 (2009).

  • (2008) Should Being a Victim of a Crime Be a Defense to the Same or a Different Crime?, 28 PACE L. REV. 783 (2008). available at HeinOnline, LexisNexis, Westlaw.

  • (2007) Adult Impersonation: Rape by Fraud as a Defense to Statutory Rape, 101 NW. U. L. REV. 75 (2007) (co-authored with Kathryn Christopher). available at HeinOnline, LexisNexis, Westlaw.

  • (2007) Tripartite Structures of Criminal Law in Germany and Other Civil Law Jurisdictions, 28 CARDOZO L. REV. 2675 (2007) (Symposium: George P. Fletcher's The Grammar of Criminal Law). available at HeinOnline, LexisNexis, Westlaw.

  • (2006) The Trilemma of Meta-Blackmail: Is Conditionally Threatening Blackmail Worse, the Same, or Better than Blackmail Itself?, 94 GEO. L. J. 813 (Surreply, 2006). available at HeinOnline, LexisNexis, Westlaw.

  • (2006) Meta-Blackmail, 94 GEO. L. J. 739 (2006). available at HeinOnline, LexisNexis, Westlaw.

  • (2005) Time and Punishment, 66 OHIO ST. L. J. 269 (Fall 2005). available at HeinOnline, LexisNexis, Westlaw.

  • (2004) Symposium Foreword, (Symposium: Twenty-Five Years of George Fletcher's Rethinking Criminal Law), 39 TULSA L. REV. 737 (2004). available at HeinOnline, LexisNexis, Westlaw.

  • (2004) Does Attempted Murder Deserve Greater Punishment than Murder? Moral Luck and the Duty to Prevent Harm, (Symposium on Criminal Punishment), 18 NOTRE DAME J. L. ETHICS & PUP. POL'Y 419 (2004). available at HeinOnline, LexisNexis, Westlaw.

  • (2003) The Prosecutor's Dilemma: Bargains and Punishments, 72 FORDHAM L. REV. 93 (2003). available at HeinOnline, LexisNexis, Westlaw

  • (2002) Deterring Retributivism: The Injustice of 'Just' Punishment, 96 NW. U. L. REV. 843 (2002). available at HeinOnline, LexisNexis, Westlaw

  • (1998) Self-Defense and Defense of Others, 27 PHIL. & PUB. AFFAIRS 123 (Spring 1998).

  • (1998) Self-Defense and Objectivity: A Reply to Judith Jarvis Thomson, 1 BUFF. CRIM. L. REV. 537 (1998). available at HeinOnline, LexisNexis, Westlaw.

  • (1995) Unknowing Justification and the Logical Necessity of the Dadson Principle in Private Defence, 15 OXFORD J. LEG. STUD. 229 (1995). available at HeinOnline.

  • (1994) Mistake of Fact in the Objective Theory of Justification: Do Two Rights Make Two Wrongs Make Two Rights...?, 85 J. CRIM. L. & CRIMINOLOGY 295 (1994). available at HeinOnline, LexisNexis, Westlaw.

  • (1994) Control and Desert: A Comment on Moore's View of Attempts, 5 J. CONTEMP. LEG. ISSUES 111 (1994). available at HeinOnline.

Books authored

  • (2012) Fletcher's Essays on Criminal Law, (Editor, Oxford Univ. Press, 2012).

  • (2011) Criminal Law: Model Problems and Outstanding Answers, co-authored with Kathryn Christopher (Oxford Univ. Press 2011).

Chapters and other contributions to collective works

  • (2012) Introduction, in Fletcher's Essays on Criminal Law, (Editor, Oxford Univ. Press, 2012).

  • (2012) Imminence in Justified Targeted Killings, in Targeted Killings: Law and Morality in an Asymetrical World, 253-284 (Clair Finkelstein. Jens Ohlin, and Andrew Altman eds., Oxford Univ. Press, 2012).

  • (2006) Martin v. Ohio; Patterson v. New York; Self-Defense; Ulster County, New York v. Allen, in Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties (Paul Finkelman ed., 2006).

  • (2001) Justification: Self-Defense, in The Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice (Joshua Dressler ed., 2d ed., Macmillan and Free Press: New York, 2001).

  • (2000) Self-Defense and Security, in The Encyclopedia of Violence in the United States (Ronald Gottesman ed., Charles Scribner's Sons: New York, 2000).

  • (1999) Ignorance and Mistake, in The Philosophy of Law: An Encyclopedia (Christopher B. Gray ed., Garland Publishing: New York, 1999).

  • (1999) Self-Defense, in The Philosophy of Law: An Encyclopedia (Christopher B. Gray ed., Garland Publishing: New York, 1999).

Works in Progress

  • (2012) The Contrived Defense and Deterrent Threat Doctrines, 6 CRIM. L. & PHIL. _____ (forthcoming 2012)(Symposium: Acto Libera in Causa).