“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

“Unwitting Justification”

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Impossibility Attempts: A Speculative Thesis”

Peter K. Westen
Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law
2008

“Individualizing the Reasonable Person in Criminal Law”

Peter K. Westen
Criminal Law and Philosophy
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

“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

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

Peter K. Westen
Harvard Law Review
1987

“The Rueful Rhetoric of ‘Rights’ ”

Peter K. Westen
UCLA Law Review
1986

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

Peter K. Westen
Philosophy and Public Affairs
1985

“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

“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

“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

“On ‘Confusing Ideas’: A Reply”

Peter K. Westen
Yale Law Journal
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

“Forfeiture by Guilty Plea—A Reply”

Peter K. Westen
Criminal Law Review
1980

“Is There Life for Erie after the Death of Diversity?”

Peter K. Westen
Michigan Law Review
1980

“After ‘Life for Erie’-A Reply”

Peter K. Westen
Michigan Law Review
1980

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

Peter K. Westen
Michigan Law Review
1980

“The Future of Confrontation”

Peter K. Westen
Michigan Law Review
1979

“Forfeiture by Guilty Plea—A Reply”

Peter K. Westen
Michigan Law Review
1978

“Confrontation and Compulsory Process: A Unified Theory of Evidence for Criminal Cases”

Peter K. Westen
Harvard Law Review
1978

“A Constitutional Law of Remedies for Broken Plea Bargains”

Peter K. Westen
California Law Review
1978

“Order of Proof: An Accused’s Right to Control the Timing and Sequence of Evidence in His Defense”

Peter K. Westen
California Law Review
1978

“Toward a General Theory of Double Jeopardy”

Peter K. Westen
Supreme Court Review
1978

“Away from Waiver: A Rationale for the Forfeiture of Constitutional Rights in Criminal Procedure”

Peter K. Westen
Michigan Law Review
1977

“Compulsory Process II”

Peter K. Westen
Michigan Law Review
1975

“You Know Where He Stands”

Peter K. Westen
Juris Doctor
1974