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Sheley, Erin
Books
- Criminality and the Common Law Imagination in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Edinburgh University Press 2020)
Journal Articles
- Familial DNA and Due Process for Innocents, 98 Southern California Law Review 761 (2025)
- Prosecutorial Discretion and Digital Democracy, 113 Kentucky Law Journal 71 (2024)
- Self-Defense and Political Rage, 11 Texas A & M Law Review 591 (2024)
- The Purloined Debtor: Edgar Allan Poe’s Bankruptcy in Law and Letters, 34 Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities 433 (2023) (with Zvi Rosen)
- Rethinking Coercion-Based Defenses, 112 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 265 (2022) (with Stephen Galoob)
- The Dignitary Confrontation Clause, 97 Washington Law Review 207 (2022)
- Criminalizing Coercive Control Within the Limits of Due Process, 70 Duke Law Journal 1321 (2021)
- Black Lives and Violent Minds, 7 Critical Analysis of Law (2020)
- Criminal Investigation and Canadian National Identity in Murdoch Mysteries, 18 The Entertainment and Sports Law Journal (2020)
- Review of Colin Manlove’s George MacDonald’s Children’s Fantasies and the Divine Imagination, 45 Children's Literature Association Quarterly 182 (2020)
- Victim Impact Statements and Corporate Sex Crimes, 73 Oklahoma Law Review 209 (2020)
- Victim Impact Statements at Canadian Corporate Sentencing, 43 Manitoba Law Journal 421 (2020)
- Tort Answers to the Problem of Corporate Criminal Mens Rea, 97 North Carolina Law Review 773 (2019)
- A Broken Windows Theory of Sexual Assault Enforcement, 108 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 101 (2018)
- Adultery, Criminality, and the Myth of English Sovereignty, 14 Law, Culture, and the Humanities 501 (2018)
- Substantive and Procedural Silence, 84 Tennessee Law Review 447 (2017)
- Victim Impact Statements and Expressive Punishment in the Age of Social Media, 52 Wake Forest Law Review 157 (2017)
- Prospective Injunctive Relief and Class Action Settlements, 39 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 769 (2016) (with Theodore Frank)
- Rethinking Injury: the Case of Informed Consent, 2015 Brigham Young University Law Review 63 (2015)
- The Condemned Woman as Historical Relic, 24 Law and Literature 211 (2014)
- Gone with the Wind and the Trauma of Lost Sovereignty, 45 Southern Literary Journal 1 (2013)
- Perceptual Harm and the Corporate Criminal, 81 University of Cincinnati Law Review 225 (2013)
- Demolished Worlds: Manfred and Sublime (Un)Burial, 40 Byron Journal 51 (2012)
- Reciprocal Colonization in the Fairy Tales of Lord Dunsany, 31 Mythlore 105 (2012)
- Reverberations of the ‘Victim’s Voice’: Victim Impact Statements and the Cultural Project of Punishment, 87 Indiana Law Journal 1247 (2012)
- The Law of Nature or Nature’s God? Penal Authority in Charles Kingsley’s The Water Babies, 37 Children's Literature Association Quarterly 133 (2012)
- The Constable’s Blunder and Other Stories: Narrative Representations of the Police and the Criminal in the Development of the Fourth Amendment Exclusionary Rule, 2010 Michigan State Law Review 121 (2010)
- Live Animals: Towards Protection for Pets and Livestock in Contracts for Carriage, 3 Journal of Animal Law 59 (2007)
- Re-Imagining Olympus: The Creative Mythologies of John Keats, 45 Romanticism on the Net (2007)
- From Eden to Eternity: The Timescales of Genesis in George MacDonald’s ‘The Golden Key’ and Lilith, 29 Children's Literature Association Quarterly 329 (2004)
Chapters of Books or Articles within Books
- Adultery, in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature (Spoo, Milberg & Stern eds., Edward Elgar Publishing 2025)
- Adultery, Criminality, and the Fiction of the King's Body, in Fictional Discourse and the Law (Lind ed., Routledge 2020)
- Convicta et Combusta: Walter Scott’s Condemned Woman, the Chivalric Tradition, and Historical Legitimacy, in Impassioned Jurisprudence: Law, Literature, and Emotion (Johnson ed., Bucknell University Press 2015)