Rory Little - Bibliography

Publications

  • Books

  • CRIMINAL LAW; CASES AND MATERIALS (Carolina Academic Press 4th ed. 2017) (with Stephen A Saltzburg, John L Diamond, Kit Kinports & Thomas Morawetz).
  • CRIMINAL LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS (LexisNexis 3d ed. 2008) (with Stephen A. Saltzburg, John L. Diamond, Kit Kinports & Thomas H. Morawetz).
  • Journal Articles

  • Clerking for a Retired Supreme Court Justice—My Experience of Being “Shared” Among Five Justices in One Term, 88 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo 83 (2020). Link
  • Balanced Liberty: Justice Kennedy’s Work in Criminal Cases, 70 Hastings L.J. 1243 (2019). Link
  • Hating Hate Speech: Why Current First Amendment Doctrine Does Not Condemn a Careful Ban, 45 Hastings Const. L.Q. 577 (2018). Link, SSRN
  • Cross-Cultural Challenges, Consensus, and Opportunities for Advancing the Professional Ethical Integrity of Legal System Actors, 39 Hastings Int’l & Comp. L. Rev. 95 (2016) . Link
  • Guns Don’t Kill People, 3D Printing Does? Why the Technology is a Distraction from Effective Gun Controls, 65 Hastings L.J. 1505 (2014). Link
  • Speech: Perspectives on Criminal Litigation Ethics: James Cole & Jeffrey Adachi, 65 Hastings L.J. 1145 (2014). Link
  • Merit-Based Sentencing Reductions: Moving Forward on Specifics, and Some Critique of the New Model Penal Code, 66 Hastings L.J. 1535 (2014) . Link
  • The Role of Reporter for a Law Project, 38 Hastings Const. L.Q. 747 (2011) . Link
  • ABA’s Project to Revise the Criminal Justice Standards for the Prosecution and Defense Functions, 62 Hastings L.J. 1111 (2011) . Link
  • “It’s Not my Problem?” Wrong: Prosecutors Have an Important Ethical Role to Play, 7 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 685 (2010) . Link
  • Heller and Constitutional Interpretation: Originalism’s Last Gasp, 60 Hastings L.J. 1415 (2009) . Link
  • The Role of the Prosecution and Defense in Causing and Correcting Wrongful Convictions, 37 Sw. L. Rev. 943 (2008) (with Laurie Levenson and Dino Amoroso and Susan Gaertner and Kenneth Williams).
  • Addressing the Evidentiary Sources of Wrongful Convictions: Categorical Exclusion of Evidence in Capital Statutes, 37 Sw. L. Rev. 965 (2008) . Link, SSRN
  • ABA Files Amicus Brief in Actual Innocence Case, 20 Crim. Just. 18 (2006) . Link
  • Advice Authored, 8 Green Bag 2d 343 (2005) .
  • The Lost History of Apprendi and the Blakely Petition for Rehearing, 17 Fed. Sent. R. 69 (2004) (with Teresa Chen). Link
  • What Federal Prosecutors Really Think: The Puzzle of Statistical Race Disparity Versus Specific Guilt.and the Specter of Timothy McVeigh, 53 DePaul L. Rev. 1591 (2004) . Link
  • Why a Federal Death Penalty Moratorium?, 33 Conn. L. Rev. 791 (2001) . Link
  • Law Professors as Lawyers: Consultants.Of Counsel.and the Ethics of Self-Flagellation, 42 S. Tex. L. Rev. 345 (2001) . Link
  • Good Enough For Government Work? The Tension Between Uniformity and Differing Regional Values in Administering the Federal Death Penalty, 14 Fed. Sent. R. 7 (2001) . Link
  • Pledged to Public Service, 51 Hastings L.J. 781 (2000) . Link
  • From Watergate to Generation Next: Opening Remarks, 51 Hastings L.J. 599 (2000) . Link
  • The Future of the Federal Death Penalty, 26 Ohio N.U. L. Rev. 529 (2000) . Link, SSRN
  • Proportionality as an Ethical Precept For Prosecutors in Their Investigative Role, 68 Fordham L. Rev. 723 (1999) . Link, SSRN
  • The Federal Death Penalty: History and Some Thoughts About the Department of Justice’s Role, 26 Fordham Urb. L.J. 347 (1999) . Link, SSRN
  • Reading Justice Brennan: Is There a ‘Right’ to Dissent?, 50 Hastings L.J. 683 (1999) . Link, SSRN
  • Who Should Regulate the Ethics of Federal Prosecutors?, 65 Fordham L. Rev. 355 (1996) . Link
  • Guilt.Reasonable Doubt and the Reasonable Woman, 6 Hastings Women’s L.J. 275 (1995) . Link
  • Myths and Principles of Federalization, 46 Hastings L.J. 1029 (1995) . Link
  • The Case for Parallel Importation, 11 N.C. J. Int’l L. & Com. Reg. 205 (1986) (with Jamie Gorelick). Link
  • The Generosity of Justice Stewart, 32 Yale L. Rep. 12 (1986) .
  • Tribute to Arthur Allan Leff, 1935–1981, 28 Yale L. Rep. 12 (1982) .
  • Protecting Privacy Under the Fourth Amendment, 91 Yale L.J. 313 (1981) . Link
  • Chapters in Books

  • Vega v. Tekoh on Limiting the Enforcement of the Miranda Ruling, in SCOTUS 2022: Major Decisions and Developments of the US Supreme Court 139 (Morgan Marietta ed., Palgrave Macmillan 2022).
  • U.S. Supreme Court Criminal Law Decisions, in The State of Criminal Justice Ch. 2 (ABA Criminal Justice Section 2006 – 2020).
  • Double Jeopardy and the Gamble Decision, in SCOTUS 2019: Major Decisions and Developments of the US Supreme Court 49 (David Klein & Morgan Marietta eds., Palgrave Macmillan 2020).
  • Book Reviews

  • The Eyes of the Beholders, 4 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 237 (2006) (reviewing SCOTT SUNDBY: A LIFE AND DEATH DECISION, A JURY WEIGHS THE DEATH PENALTY).
  • Newspaper & Magazine Articles

  • If They Meant It, Then Make Them Say It: Lower Courts Should Put Immunity Ruling to the Test, LAW.COM (July 12, 2024), https://www.law.com/therecorder/2024/07/12/if-they-meant-it-then-make-them-say-it-lower-courts-should-put-immunity-ruling-to-the-test/. Link
  • An Under-the-Radar Threat to the Attorney-Client Privilege, Nat’l L.J., Jan. 5 2023.
  • My Turn: Special Counsel Right on Quick SCOTUS Review, Greenfield Recorder, Dec. 19 2023.
  • Playing Tug-of-War with Mens Rea and Law, 1 L.A. Daily J., 6-May 2014.
  • Saving Obamacare, 35 Cal. Law., May 2014.
  • Bill McGivern: A Complete Portrayal, 6 L.A.Daily J., Mar.5 2012.
  • Prosecution Politics, 8 L.A. Daily J., Mar. 22 2007.
  • Let’s Wait to See What Result From Sentencing–Guidelines Decision, 6 L.A. Daily J., Jan. 14 2005.
  • Supreme Court Decisions on Sentencing Ignore Intentions of Constitution’s Framers, 6 L.A. Daily J., Oct. 4 2004.
  • Accountability Will Ensure Protection of Civil Liberties, 6 L.A. Daily J., Oct. 12 2001.
  • Why I Won’t Join the Class, 5 The Recorder, Sept. 15 1999 (reprinted as Not All Rewards Are Made in Cash; Nat’l L.J.; Sept. 20; 1999; at A22).
  • Out of Class: Class Action by Federal Attorneys Seeking Overtime, 25 N.J.L.J., Sept. 27 1999.
  • Scaling Justice: Executive Branch Retains Discretion to Correct ‘Mandatory’ Sentences, 6 L.A. Daily J., Sept. 21 1998 () .
  • Hijacking Public Opinion, 4 The Recorder, Feb. 26 1997 () .
  • The Emperors Have No Rules, 6 The Recorder, 20-Jul 1995.
  • The Continuing Debate Over Cameras in the Courtroom, 28 Fed. Law., July 1995 (with Steven Brill).
  • Race–Conscious Remedies? Affirmative!, 13 Nat’l L.J., 28-Jul 1986.
  • Miscellaneous

  • Annual Review of Supreme Court Decisions – Criminal Cases, Criminal Justice Section of the American Bar Association (2010 – 2018) (published annually by the ABA since 1999).
  • SCOTUSblog: Analyses and Previews of Criminal Cases in the Supreme Court of the United States, (2010 – 2018).