Michael T. Cahill
Brooklyn, NY 11201
M.P.P., University of Michigan
B.A., Yale University
Criminal Juries
Criminal Law
Sentencing Law and Policy
Articles & Essays
Multilayered Criminal (F)laws, 89 Fordham Law Review Online 183 (2021)
Thoughts on Zaibert's Rethinking, 71 Rutgers University Law Review 937 (2020)
Defining Inchoate Crime: An Incomplete Attempt, 9 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 751 (2012)​
Comment, Politics and Punishment: Reactions to Markel’s Political Retributivism, 1 Virginia Journal of Criminal Law 167 (2012)
Competing Theories of Blackmail: An Empirical Research Critique of Criminal Law Theory, 89 Texas Law Review 291 (2010) (with P. Robinson & D. Bartels)
Attempt by Omission, 94 Iowa Law Review 1207 (2009)
Grading Arson, 3 Criminal Law and Philosophy 79 (2009)
Retributive Justice in the Real World, 85 Washington University Law Review 815 (2007)
Criminal Law’s "Mediating Rules": Balancing, Harmonization, or Accident?, 93 Virginia Law Review In Brief 199 (2007)
Attempt, Reckless Homicide, and the Design of Criminal Law, 78 University of Colorado Law Review 879 (2007)
Punishment Decisions at Conviction: Recognizing the Jury as Fault-Finder, 2005 University of Chicago Legal Forum 91 (2005)
The Accelerating Degradation of American Criminal Codes, 56 Hastings Law Journal 633 (2005) (with P. Robinson)
Introduction: Three Perspectives on Criminal Justice, 13 Journal of Law and Policy 181 (2005)
Offense Grading and Multiple Liability: New Challenges for a Model Penal Code Second, 1 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 599 (2004)
Can a Model Penal Code Second Save the States from Themselves?, 1 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 169 (2003) (with P. Robinson)
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)
Applying Fiduciary Responsibilities in the Managed Care Context, 26 American Journal of Law and Medicine 155 (2000) (with P. Jacobson)
The Five Worst (and Five Best) American Criminal Codes, 95 Northwestern University Law Review 1 (2000) (with P. Robinson & U. Mohammad)
Book Review, 96 Michigan Law Review 1884 (1998) (reviewing Robin West, Caring for Justice (1999))
Books
Criminal Law: Case Studies and Controversies (Wolters Kluwer, 4th ed. 2016) (with P. Robinson & S. Baradaran Baughman)
Criminal Law (Aspen, 2d ed. 2012) (with P. Robinson)​
Law Without Justice: Why Criminal Law Doesn't Give People What They Deserve (Oxford University Press, 2006) (with P. Robinson)
Contributions to Books
Extortion and Blackmail, in Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012) (J. Albanese, ed.)
Punishment Pluralism, in Retributivism: Essays on Theory and Policy (Oxford, 2011) (M. White, ed.)