Model Penal Code Section 2.02(7) and Willful Blindness

Pathological Intoxication and the Model Penal Code

Revising the Model Penal Code: Keeping It Real

In deciding whether to reform or revise a document or institution, one must first address what the subject of the reform effort is. Before deciding whether the institution is serving its purposes well or badly, in other words, we must ask ourselves what purposes it is supposed to serve. The MPC is and does a number of things, though I suspect its predominantly academic audience of today is cons...

California penal code section 645: legislators practice medicine on child molesters.

Willful Blindness: The Inefficient Reward Structure in Academic Research

The only reward structure that provides authors an incentive to choose the most efficient sized research teams is strict proration of author credit. Nevertheless, survey evidence indicates that the reward structure used in Economics for at least the last thirty years only incompletely prorates authorship credit, which should lead to inefficiently high levels of coauthorship. A possible reason f...

The Model Penal Code Second: Might “Film Schools” Be in Need of a Remake?

In a galaxy far, far away—a typical law school classroom—the quality of discussion of criminal codes and doctrines might fairly be described as in disastrous condition. Indeed, it is probably overly generous to characterize the typical law school criminal law course as being about modern criminal codes and doctrines at all, at least if one assumes that, at a minimum, such a course should review...