“Cognitive Dissonance in the Antebellum South about the Lawfulness of Slavery”

Peter K. Westen
  • Race and the Law
  • Civil Rights
  • Legal History
Mississippi Law Journal
2024

“Intentionally Harming Others Without Benefit to Oneself”

Peter K. Westen
Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law
2023

“Blackmail: A Crime of Paradox and Irony”

Peter K. Westen
  • Criminal Law
The Palgrave Handbook of Applied Ethics and the Criminal Law
2019

“Does Duress Justify or Excuse? The Significance of Larry Alexander’s Ambivalence”

Peter K. Westen
Moral Puzzles and Legal Perplexities: Essays on the Influence of Larry Alexander
2019

“Poor Wesley Hohfeld”

Peter K. Westen
San Diego Law Review
2018

“Reflections on Joshua Dressler’s Understanding Criminal Law”

Peter K. Westen
  • Criminal Law
Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law
2018

“Unwitting Justification”

Peter K. Westen
  • Criminal Law
San Diego Law Review
2018

“How to Think (Like a Lawyer) About Rape”

Peter K. Westen
Criminal Law and Philosophy
2016

“Lex Mitior: Converse of Ex Post Facto and Window into Criminal Desert”

Peter K. Westen
  • Criminal Law
New Criminal Law Review
2015

“Reply: Fletcher on Subjective Justification”

Peter K. Westen
  • Criminal Law
Fletcher’s Essays on Criminal Law
2013

“The Significance of Transferred Intent”

Peter K. Westen
Criminal Law and Philosophy
2013

“Why the Paradox of Blackmail is So Hard to Resolve”

Peter K. Westen
  • Criminal Law
Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law
2012

“Is Intent Constitutive of Wrongdoing?”

Peter K. Westen
  • Criminal Law
Crime, Punishment, and Responsibility: The Jurisprudence of Antony Duff
2011

“The Ontological Problem of ‘Risk’ and ‘Endangerment’ in Criminal Law”

Peter K. Westen
  • Criminal Law
Philosophical Foundations of Criminal Law
2011

“Answer Self-Incriminating Questions or Be Fired”

Peter K. Westen
  • Criminal Law
American Journal of Criminal Law
2010

“How Not to Argue that Reasonable Provocation is an Excuse”

Peter K. Westen
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
2009

“Individualizing the Reasonable Person in Criminal Law”

Peter K. Westen
Criminal Law and Philosophy
2008

“Impossibility Attempts: A Speculative Thesis”

Peter K. Westen
Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law
2008

“Offences and Defences Again”

Peter K. Westen
Oxford Journal of Legal Studies
2008

“Reaching Agreement on When Jurors Must Agree”

Peter K. Westen
New Criminal Law Review
2007

“Why Criminal Harms Matter: Plato’s Abiding Insight in the Laws”

Peter K. Westen
Criminal Law and Philosophy
2007

“Two Rules of Legality in Criminal Law”

Peter K. Westen
Law and Philosophy
2007

“An Attitudinal Theory of Excuse”

Peter K. Westen
Law and Philosophy
2006

“The Supreme Court’s Bout with Insanity: Clark v. Arizona”

Peter K. Westen
Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law
2006

“Self-Incrimination’s Covert Federalism”

Peter K. Westen
Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law
2006

“Getting the Fly out of the Bottle: The False Problem of Free Will and Determinism”

Peter K. Westen
Buffalo Criminal Law Review
2005

The Logic of Consent: The Diversity and Deceptiveness of Consent as a Defense to Criminal Conduct

Peter K. Westen
2004

“Some Common Confusions about Consent in Rape Cases”

Peter K. Westen
Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law
2004

“The Criminal Defense of Duress: A Justification, Not an Excuse -- And Why It Matters”

Peter K. Westen
Buffalo Criminal Law Review
2003

“Egelhoff Again”

Peter K. Westen
American Criminal Law Review
1999

“Comment on Judith Schafer’s ‘Under the Present Mode of Trial, Improper Verdicts Are Very Often Given’: Criminal Procedure in the Trials of Slaves in Antebellum Louisiana”

Peter K. Westen
Cardozo Law Review
1996

Speaking of Equality: An Analysis of the Rhetorical Force of ‘Equality’ in Moral and Legal Discourse

Peter K. Westen
1990

“The Place of Foreign Treaties in the Courts of the United States: A Reply to Louis Henkin”

Peter K. Westen
Harvard Law Review
1987

“Hearsay Rule”

Peter K. Westen
Encyclopedia of the American Constitution
1986

“The Rueful Rhetoric of ‘Rights’ ”

Peter K. Westen
UCLA Law Review
1986

“Confrontation, Right of”

Peter K. Westen
  • Constitutional Law
Encyclopedia of the American Constitution
1986

“The Concept of Equal Opportunity”

Peter K. Westen
Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political and Legal Philosophy
1985

“ ‘Freedom’ and ‘Coercion’—Virtue Words and Vice Words”

Peter K. Westen
Duke Law Journal
1985

“Comment on Montague’s Rights and Duties of Compensation”

Peter K. Westen
Philosophy and Public Affairs
1985

“To Lure the Tarantula from Its Hole: A Response”

Peter K. Westen
Columbia Law Review
1983

“The Meaning of Equality in Law, Science, Math, and Morals: A Reply”

Peter K. Westen
Michigan Law Review
1983

“On ‘Confusing Ideas’: A Reply”

Peter K. Westen
Yale Law Journal
1982

“The Empty Idea of Equality”

Peter K. Westen
Harvard Law Review
1982

“To Talk, to Balk, or to Lie: The Emerging 5th Amendment Doctrine of the ‘Preferred Response’ ”

Peter K. Westen
American Criminal Law Review
1982

“Reflections on Alfred Hill’s ‘Testimonial Privilege and Fair Trial’ ”

Peter K. Westen
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
1981

“Death and Double Jeopardy”

Peter K. Westen
Law Quadrangle Notes
1981

“Incredible Dilemmas: Conditioning One Constitutional Right on the Forfeiture of Another”

Peter K. Westen
Iowa Law Review
1981

“The Three Faces of Double Jeopardy: Reflections on Government Appeals of Criminal Sentences”

Peter K. Westen
Michigan Law Review
1980

“Letting Prisoners Die”

Peter K. Westen
Ethics, Humanism, and Medicine
1980

“Forfeiture by Guilty Plea—A Reply”

Peter K. Westen
Criminal Law Review
1980