Books
Sexual Predators: Society, Risk and the Law. New York: Routledge, 2015. With R. Prentky and H. Barbaree.
Failure to Protect: America’s Sexual Predator Laws and the Rise of the Preventive State. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006.
Sexually Coercive Behavior: Understanding and Management. New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 2003. With R. Prentky and M. Seto.
Law & Mental Health Professionals: Minnesota. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, 1994. With R. Mickelsen and S. Sanders.
Civil Commitment in Minnesota, 2nd ed. St. Paul, Minn.: Butterworth Legal Publishers, 1991.
Book Chapters
Preventive Detention and the “Psychopath”: US and International Perspectives; The Wiley International Handbook on Psychopathic Disorders and the Law, 2nd Edition. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2021. Ed. by A. Felthous and H. Saß.
Holding Our Sex Offender Policy Accountable; Sexual Violence: Evidence Based Policy and Prevention. Cham: Springer, 2016. Ed. E. Jeglic and C. Calkins.
Sexual Violence, Gender Politics and Outsider Jurisprudence: Lessons Learned from the American Experience; Dangerous People: Policy, Prediction, and Practice (International Perspectives on Forensic Mental Health). New York: Routledge, 2011. Ed. B. McSherry and P. Keyzer.
The Preventive State: When is Prevention of Harm Harmful? Handbook of Public Protection. Abingdon, NY: Willan, 2010. Ed. M. Nash and A. Williams.
Legislative Responses to Sexual Violence: An Overview; Sexually Coercive Behavior: Understanding and Management. NY: New York Academy of Sciences, 2003. Ed. with R. Prentky, and M. Seto.
Treatment and the Civil Commitment of Sex Offenders; Protecting Society from Sexually Dangerous Offenders: Law, Justice, and Therapy. Washington, DC: APA, 2003. Ed. B. Winick and J. LaFond.
Sexual Predators; Encyclopedia of Crime & Justice, Vol. 4, 2d ed. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2002. Ed. J. Dressler.
Sex Offender Commitments and the “Inability to Control”: Developing Legal Standards and a Behavioral Vocabulary for an Elusive Concept; The Sexual Predator: Legal Issues, Clinical Issues, Special Situations. Kingston, NJ: Civic Research Institute, 2001. Ed. A. Schlank.
Civil Commitment as Social Control: Managing the Risk of Sexual Violence; Dangerous Offenders: Punishment and Social Order. London; New York: Routledge, 2000. Ed. M. Brown and J. Pratt.
Defending Sex Offender Commitment Cases; The Sexual Predator: Law, Policy, Evaluation, and Treatment. Kingston, NJ: Civic Research Institute, 1999. With L. Nudell. Ed. A. Schlank and F. Cohen.
Articles
“The Worst Idea Ever”: Lessons from One Law School’s Embrace of Online Learning, 70 Syracuse Law Review 13 (2020).
Syracuse Law Review
Preventing Sexual Violence: Alternatives To Worrying About Recidivism, 103 Marquette Law Review 819 (2020).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
Beyond Strict Scrutiny: Forbidden Purpose and the “Civil Commitment” Power, 21 New Criminal Law Review 345 (2018).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
Karsjens v. Jesson: Challenging the Un-Civil Commitment of Civil Rights, Access to Justice, July 2, 2015. With J. Brandt.
William Mitchell College of Law’s Hybrid Program for J.D. Study: Answering the Call for Innovation, The Bar Examiner, Sept. 2014, at 28. With G. Duhl and S. Canick.
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
Tribute to Justice Rosalie E. Wahl, 40 William Mitchell Law Review [xv] (2014).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access
A Tribute to the Honorable Helen Meyer, 39 William Mitchell Law Review 1689 (2013).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access
Preventive Detention of Sex Offenders: The American Experience Versus International Human Rights Norms, 31 Behavioral Sciences & the Law 328 (2013).
EBSCO
Sex Offender Commitments Found Wanting under the European Convention on Human Rights, 14 Sex Offender Law Report 1 (2013).
M. v. Germany: The European Court of Human Rights Takes a Critical Look at Preventive Detention, 29 Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law 605 (2012). With S. Alexander and L. Graf.
SSRN | Hein
Rationalizing Discovery of Metadata, 81 United States Law Week 393 (2012). With T. Tinkham.
Beyond Myth: Designing Better Sexual Violence Prevention, 34 International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 135 (2011). With J. Douard.
Exploring Recent Developments in the Minnesota Sex Offender Program, 12 Sex Offender Law Report 81 (2011). With L. Graf.
Plausible Answers and Affirmative Defenses, 79 United States Law Week 2271 (2011). With T. Tinkham.
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
A Crooked Picture: Re-Framing the Problem of Child Sexual Abuse, 36 William Mitchell Law Review 142 (2009). With E. Polachek.
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
Sexual Predator Laws: A Two-Decade Retrospective, 21 Federal Sentencing Reporter 90 (2008). With R. Prentky.
SSRN | Hein
An End-Game for Sexually Violent Predator Laws: As-Applied Invalidation, 6 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 25 (2008). With B. Bolin.
SSRN | Hein
Forward, Recent Developments in Minnesota Law, 34 William Mitchell Law Review 1243 (2008).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
Don’t Think of a Predator: Changing Frames for Better Sexual Violence Prevention, 8 Sex Offender Law Report 81 (2007).
SSRN
Sexually Violent Predators in the Courtroom: Science on Trial, 12 Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 357 (2006). With R. Prentky, et al.
SSRN | Westlaw
Sexually Violent Predator Laws: Psychiatry in Service to a Morally Dubious Enterprise, 364 The Lancet 50 (2004).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access
The Preventive State, Terrorists and Sexual Predators: Countering the Threat of a New Outsider Jurisprudence, 40 Criminal Law Bulletin 576 (2004).
SSRN | Westlaw
Closing Pandora’s Box: Sexual Predators and the Politics of Sexual Violence, 34 Seton Hall Law Review 1233 (2004).
SSRN | Hein
Forensic Use of Actuarial Risk Assessment: How a Developing Science Can Enhance Accuracy and Accountability, 16 Federal Sentencing Reporter 176 (2004). With R. Prentky.
SSRN | Hein
Establishing a Law and Psychiatry Clinic, 14 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 209 (2004). With M. Hackett.
Hein
Forensic Use of Actuarial Risk Assessment with Sex Offenders: Accuracy, Admissibility and Accountability, 40 American Criminal Law Review 1443 (2003). With R. Prentky.
SSRN | Hein
Clinical Teaching at William Mitchell College of Law: Values, Pedagogy, and Perspective, 30 William Mitchell Law Review 73 (2003).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
Substantive Due Process and the Involuntary Confinement of Sexually Violent Predators, 35 Connecticut Law Review 319 (2003). With W. Logan.
SSRN | Hein
Minnesota’s Sex Offender Commitment Program: Would an Empirically-Based Prevention Policy be more Effective? 29 William Mitchell Law Review 1083 (2003).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
…Writers in the First Person, Remarks of the Honorable Albie Sachs, 28 William Mitchell Law Review 3 (2001).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access
An Empirical Study of Minnesota’s Sex Offender Commitment Program, 1 Sex Offender Law Report 49 (2000).
Sex Offender Commitments in Minnesota: A Descriptive Study of Second Generation Commitments,18 Behavioral Sciences and the Law 343 (2000).
With N. Walbek.
EBSCO
Sexual Predator Commitment Laws: Lessons for Law and the Behavioral Sciences, 18 Behavioral Sciences and the Law 5 (2000).
EBSCO
Sex Predator Commitment Laws: Constitutional But Unwise, 30 Psychiatric Annals 411 (2000).
After Hendricks, Some Thoughts on the Future Use of Sex Offender Commitment Laws, 1 Sex Offender Law Report 9 (1999-2000).
Foreshadowing the Future of Kansas v. Hendricks: Lessons from Minnesota’s Sex Offender Commitment Litigation, 92 Northwestern University Law Review 1279 (1998).
SSRN | Hein
Hendricks and the Moral Terrain of Police Power Civil Commitment, 4 Psychology, Public Policy & Law 297 (1998).
Westlaw
Hendricks and the Future of Sex Offender Commitment Laws, 18 Developments in Mental Health Law 1 (1998).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
The Use of Social Science and Medicine in Sex Offender Commitment, 23 New England Journal on Criminal and Civil Confinement 347 (1997).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
Toward a Conceptual Framework for Assessing Police Power Commitment Legislation, 76 Nebraska Law Review 1 (1997).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access
Sex Offender Commitments: Debunking the Official Narrative and Revealing the Rules-in-Use, 8 Stanford Law and Policy Review 71 (1997).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
Assessing the Legal Standard for Predictions of Dangerousness in Sex Offender Commitment Proceedings, 3 Psychology, Public Policy and Law 33 (1997). With P. Meehl.
Westlaw
Preventing Sexual Violence: Setting Principled Constitutional Boundaries on Sex Offender Commitments, 72 Indiana Law Journal 157 (1996).
SSRN | Hein
Megan’s Law Symposium: Critical Perspectives on Megan’s Law: Protection vs. Privacy, 13 New York Law School Journal of Human Rights 111 (1996).
Hein
Diversity Work: Risky and Rewarding, SALT Equalizer, Dec. 1994, at 5. With C. Chomsky.
SSRN
Minnesota Supreme Court Explores the Limits of Police Power Commitments, 3 Expert Evidence 75 (1994).
The Role of Legal Education in Instilling an Ethos of Public Service Among Law Students: Towards a Collaboration Between the Profession and the Academy on Professional Values, 13 Law & Inequality 1 (1994). With S. Befort.
Hein
Skills for Diversity: Description, Evaluation and Recommendations (1992).
SSRN
A Memorial to Bernie Becker, 17 William Mitchell Law Review 409 (1991).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
Clinics and “Contextual Integration”: Helping Law Students Put the Pieces Back Together Again, 16 William Mitchell Law Review 463 (1990).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
A Shot in the Dark: Illuminating the Doctrinal Foundations for Forced Mental Health Treatment, Hennepin Lawyer, Nov.-Dec. 1990, at 8.
AIDS and the Law: Setting and Evaluating Threshold Standards for Coercive Public Health Intervention,14 William Mitchell Law Review 503 (1988).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
Minnesota’s Coercive Public Health Legislation: Quarantine in the Age of AIDS, Hennepin Lawyer, Mar.-Apr. 1988, at 10.
The Minnesota Commitment Act of 1982: Summary and Analysis, 6 Hamline Law Review 41 (1983). With R. Wolfson.
Mitchell Hamline Open Access
Other Publications
Evaluation of Judicial Stage Curriculum in Light of International Standards for Pre-Induction Judicial Training; with Recommendations, USAID Afghanistan, Assistance for the Development of Afghan Legal Access and Transparency (ADALAT), 2018. With N. Aziz.
The Rise of the Preventive State, Cato Unbound, June 5, 2015.
Read the Article
What is at Stake in the President’s “Two is Enough” Suggestion? Minnesota Lawyer (September 12, 2013).
minnlawyer.com
Skills for Diversity: Description, Evaluation and Recommendations. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1993.
eric.ed.gov
Minnesota Vulnerable Adult Protection Act: Analysis. Minnesota Department of Human Services, Rev. 1991.
mnvac.pbworks.com
Presentations
Confronting MN Sex Offense Civil Commitment: Moving Away From Fear-based Policies, Minnesota Justice Research Center. November 17, 2023
Available on YouTube
Sex Offense Civil Commitment: An LGBTQ and Racial Justice Issue, the Williams Institute, UCLA. February 9, 2021.
Available on YouTube
Keynote Address, Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Law. June 14, 2019.
Available on YouTube
Keynote, Connecticut Sentencing Commission Symposium on Sex Offender Registries, University of Connecticut School of Law, November 2018.
Available on Vimeo