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In memoriam: Professor Bill Stuntz

By Douglas A. Berman

I am saddened to learn from this post by Orin Kerr that Harvard Law Professor Bill Stuntz, whom Orin describes as "the leading criminal procedure scholar of his generation," passed away earlier this week after a long battle with cancer. I always learned a lot and re-thought a lot whenever reading Bill's extraordinary scholarship, and both the legal academy and those interested in criminal justice reform have lost a distinctive and important voice. Here are just a few of the many important pieces by Bill that I consider must-reads for sentencing law and policy fans (and should remain so for quite some time): Unequal Justice, 121 Harv. L. Rev. 1969 (2008) Plea Bargaining and Criminal Law?s Disappearing Shadow, 117 Harv. L. Rev. 2548 (2004) The Pathological Politics of Criminal Law, 100 Mich...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 16, 2011 (boomark / email).