Laura Appleman

Books

• Defending the Jury: Crime, Community, and the Constitution. (Cambridge University Press, 2015).

Chapters of Books or Articles Within Books

• "Gothic Stories, Mens Rea, and Nineteenth-Century American Criminal Law" in The Ashgate Research Companion to Law and Humanities in Nineteenth-Century America. (Ashgate Press, 2017).

Law Review Articles and Essays

• The Secret History of the Carceral State, 84 MD L. REV.  (forthcoming 2025).
• Big Capital and the Carceral State, 75 UC LAW S.F. (HASTINGS) L.J. 101 (forthcoming 2024).
• Bloody Lucre: Carceral Labor & Prison Profit, 2022 Wisc. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2022).
• The False Promise of Criminal Justice Expertise, 90 Fordham L. Rev. Online 168 (2021).
• Hiding in Plain Sight: Public Health, Eugenics, & COVID-19, 30 Harv. Pub. Health Rev. (2021).
• Pandemic Eugenics: Discrimination, Disability, & Detainment During COVID-19, 67 Loyola L. Rev. 329 (2021).
• The Treatment-Industrial Complex: Alternative Corrections, Private Prison Companies, & Criminal Justice Debt, 55 Harv. C.R-C.L. L. Rev. 1 (2020)
• The Captive Lab Rat: Human Medical Incarceration and the Carceral State, 61 B.C. L. Rev. 1 (2020).
• Opioids, Addiction Treatment, and the Long Tail of Eugenics, 80 Ohio St. L.J. 84 (2019) (symposium).
• Deviancy, Dependency, and Disability: The Forgotten History of Eugenics and Mass Incarceration, 68 Duke L. J. 417 (2018).
  •  Reviewed by Jonathan Simon, The Long Tail of Eugenics, Jotwell, Nov. 5, 2019
• Cashing in on Convicts: Privatization, Punishment, and the People, 2017 UTAH L. Rev. (forthcoming 2018).
• Local Democracy, Community Adjudication, and Criminal Justice, 111 NW. U. L. Rev. 1413 (2017).
• Nickel and Dimed into Incarceration: Cash-Register Justice in the Criminal System 57 B.C. L. Rev. 1483 (2016).
• A Tragedy of Errors: Blackstone, Procedural Asymmetry, and Criminal Justice, 128 Harv. L. Rev. F. 91 (2015).
• Justice in the Shadowlands: Pretrial Detention, Punishment, & the Sixth Amendment 69 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1297 (2012).
• The Community Right to Counsel, 17 Berkeley J. Crim. L. 1 (2012).
• Oscar Wilde's Long Tail: Framing Sexual Identity in the Law 70 MD. L. Rev. 985 (2011).
• The Plea Jury 85 Ind. L. J. 731 (2010).
• The Lost Meaning of the Jury Trial Right 84 Ind. L. J. 397 (2009).
• "Towards a Common Law of Sentencing: Gall, Kimbrough and the Search for Reasonableness", in 21 Federal Sentencing Reporter 3-6 (2008).
• Retributive Justice and Hidden Sentencing, 68 Ohio St. L. J. 1307 (2007).
• Reports of Batson's Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated: How the Batson Procedure Enforces a Normative Framework for Legal Ethics, 78 Temple L. Rev. 101 (2005).
• The Rise of the Moden American Law School: How Professionalization, German Scholarship and Legal Reform Shaped Our System of Legal Education, 39 New Eng. L. Rev. 251 (2005).

Shorter Works

• White Paper of Democratic Criminal Justice, 111 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1693 (2017, with Joshua Kleinfeld, Richard Bierschbach, et al.).
• Gothic Stories, Mens Rea, and Nineteenth-Century American Criminal Law, in Law and Humanities in Nineteenth-Century America (Ashgate Press, 2017).
• Who Watches the Watchers? Judges, Guilty Pleas, and Outsider Review, 67 Fla. L. Rev. F. 44 (2015).
• Sentencing, Empirical Desert and Restorative Justice, in Paul H. Robinson, Stephen Garvey & Kimberly Kessler Ferzan, Eds., Criminal Law Conversations (Oxford, 2009).
• Splitting the Baby: The Danger of Distinguishing Between Offense and Offender Characteristics, in Paul H. Robinson, Stephen Garvey & Kimberly Kessler Ferzan, Eds., Criminal Law Conversations (Oxford, 2009).
• Towards a Common Law of Sentencing: Gall, Kimbrough and the Search for Reasonableness, 21 Fed. Sent. Rep. 3-6 (2008).
• Rethinking Retribution: Understanding Punishment Theory After Blakely, 18 Fed. Sent. Rep. 247-249 (2006).
• Please Don't Squeeze the Client, Legal Times, Vol. XXIX, No. 42 (October 16, 2006).
• The Ethics of Indigent Criminal Defense Representation: Has New York Failed the Promise of Gideon?, 16.4 Prof. Lawyer (2005).

Verse

• A Theory of Law, Amended & Mended, in A Micro-Symposium for Orin Kerr's "A Theory of Law," Part II, 2 J. of J. 490 (2013) (poem).
• The Great Write, 9 Green Bag 2d 93 (2005) (poem).
• The Appellate Lawyer's Lament, 8 Green Bag 2d 210 (2005) (poem).

Other Print and Electronic Media

• A Theory of Law, Amended & Mended, in A Micro-Symposium for Orin Kerr’s “A Theory of Law,” Part II, in 2 Journal of Law 490 (2013). (poem)
• "Sentencing, Empirical Desert & Restorative Justice" in Criminal Law Conversations (Robinson, Garvey and Ferzan, eds.) (Oxford University Press, 2009).
• "Splitting the Baby: The Danger of Distinguishing Between Offense and Offender Characteristics" in Criminal Law Conversations (Robinson, Garvey and Ferzan, eds.) (Oxford University Press 2009).
• Please Don't Squeeze the Client in XXIX Legal Times (October 16, 2006).
• The Ethics of Indigent Criminal Defense Representation: Has New York Failed the Promise of Gideon? in 16.4 Professional Lawyer (2005).
• The Great Writ, in 9 Green Bag 2d 93 (2005). (poem)
• The Appellate Lawyer's Lament, in 8 Green Bag 2d 210 (2005). (poem)

Selected Media and Presentations

• New York Law Eliminating Cash Bail Draws Backlash From Prosecutors and Police, NPR, All Things Considered (January 27, 2020). 
• Return Criminal Justice to the Community, Al-Jazeera America (September 19, 2015).
• Let Boston Decide Tsarnaev's Fate, The New York Times (January 7, 2015).
• No Deal: Should Prosecutors Be Forced to Have Their Deals Approved By Plea Juries?, Slate (April 7, 2015) (article by Leon Nefakh about scholarship).