Michael Cahill

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law

250 Joralemon Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(718) 780-7943 |  Email  | CV
Areas of Expertise
Criminal Law
Sentencing Law and Policy
Criminal-Code Drafting
Criminal Juries
Attempts and Endangerment Offenses
Education
B.A., Yale University
M.P.P., University of Michigan School of Public Policy
J.D., University of Michigan Law School

Articles

  • Defining Inchoate Crime: An Incomplete Attempt, 9 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 751 (2012)​
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  • Politics and Punishment: Reactions to Markel’s Political Retributivism, 1 Virginia Journal of Criminal Law (2011 forthcoming)
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  • Competing Theories of Blackmail: An Empirical Research Critique of Criminal Law Theory, 89 Texas Law Review 291 (2010) (with P. Robinson & D. Bartels)
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  • Attempt by Omission, 94 Iowa Law Review 1207 (2009)
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  • Grading Arson, 3 Criminal Law and Philosophy 79 (2009)
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  • Retributive Justice in the Real World, 85 Washington University Law Review 815 (2007)
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  • Criminal Law’s "Mediating Rules": Balancing, Harmonization, or Accident?, 93 Virginia Law Review In Brief 199 (2007)
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  • Attempt, Reckless Homicide, and the Design of Criminal Law, 78 University of Colorado Law Review 879 (2007)
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  • Punishment Decisions at Conviction: Recognizing the Jury as Fault-Finder, 2005 University of Chicago Legal Forum 91 (2005)
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  • The Accelerating Degradation of American Criminal Codes, 56 Hastings Law Journal 633 (2005) (with P. Robinson)
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  • Introduction: Three Perspectives on Criminal Justice, 13 Journal of Law and Policy 181 (2005)
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  • Offense Grading and Multiple Liability: New Challenges for a Model Penal Code Second, 1 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 599 (2004)
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  • Can a Model Penal Code Second Save the States from Themselves?, 1 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 169 (2003) (with P. Robinson)
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  • Pegram’s Regress: A Missed Chance for Sensible Judicial Review of Managed Care Decisions, 27 American Journal of Law and Medicine 421 (2001) (with P. Jacobson)
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  • Applying Fiduciary Responsibilities in the Managed Care Context, 26 American Journal of Law and Medicine 155 (2000) (with P. Jacobson)
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  • The Five Worst (and Five Best) American Criminal Codes, 95 Northwestern University Law Review 1 (2000) (with P. Robinson & U. Mohammad)
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  • Book Review, 96 Michigan Law Review 1884 (1998) (reviewing Robin West, Caring for Justice (1999))
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