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Dripps, Donald
Books
- Sentencing Discretion and the Constitution: Due Process of Time (Oxford University Press forthcoming)
- Criminal Law and Procedure, Cases and Materials (15 ed., Foundation Press 2025) (with Boyce & Perkins)
- Criminal Law and Procedure: Cases and Materials (14th ed., Foundation Press 2021) (with Boyce & Perkins)
- Criminal Procedure: Rights and Remedies in Police Investigations (West Academic 2020)
- About Guilt and Innocence: The Origins, Development, and Future of Constitutional Criminal Procedure (Greenwood Press 2003)
Journal Articles
- Beat My Teeth out and Then Kick Me in the Stomach for Mumbling: Denying Compensation to the Innocent Who Pleaded Guilty, 49 Seton Hall Journal of Legislation and Public Policy 256 (2025)
- Eavesdropping, the Fourth Amendment, and the Common Law (of Eavesdropping), 32 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 721 (2024)
- The "Cruel and Unusual" Legacy of the Star Chamber, 1 Journal of American Constitutional History 139 (2023)
- Due Process Overbreadth? The Void for Vagueness Doctrine, Fundamental Rights, and the Brewing Storm over Undefined Consent in Sexual Assault Statutes, 73 Oklahoma Law Review 121 (2020)
- Why Rape Should be a Federal Crime, 60 William & Mary Law Review 1685 (2019)
- Miranda for the Next Fifty Years: Why the Fifth Amendment Should Go Fourth, 97 Boston University Law Review 893 (2017)
- "Perspectives on the Fourth Amendment" Forty Years Later: Toward an Inclusive Regulatory Model, 100 Minnesota Law Review 1885 (2016)
- Guilt, Innocence, and Due Process of Plea Bargaining, 57 William & Mary Law Review 1343 (2016)
- The Civil Side of Criminal Procedures: Back to the Future?, 14 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 1 (2016)
- Race and Crime Sixty Years After Brown v. Board of Education, 52 San Diego Law Review 899 (2015)
- Does Liberal Procedure Cause Punitive Substance? Preliminary Evidence from Some Natural Experiments, 87 Southern California Law Review 459 (2014)
- 'Dearest Property': Digital Evidence and the History of Private 'Papers' as Special Objects of Search and Seizure, 103 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 49 (2013)
- Why Gideon Failed: Politics and Feedback Loops in the Reform of Criminal Justice, 70 Washington and Lee Law Review 833 (2013)
- Plea Bargaining and the Supreme Court: The End of the Beginning?, 25 Federal Sentencing Reporter 55 (2012)
- Responding to the Challenges of Contextual Change and Legal Dynamism in Interpreting the Fourth Amendment, 81 Mississippi Law Journal 1085 (2012)
- Up from Gideon, 45 Texas Tech Law Review 113 (2012)
- On Reach and Grasp in Criminal Procedure: Crawford in California, 37 North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation 349 (2011)
- Controlling the Damage Done by Crawford v. Washington: Three Constructive Proposals, 7 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 521 (2010)
- The 'New' Exclusionary Rule Debate: From 'Still Preoccupied with 1985' to 'Virtual Deterrence', 37 Fordham Urban Law Journal 743 (2010)
- The Fourth Amendment, the Exclusionary Rule, and the Roberts Court: Normative and Empirical Dimensions of the Over-Deterrence Hypothesis, 86 Chicago-Kent Law Review 209 (2010)
- Recreational Drug Regulation: A Plea for Responsibility, 2009 Utah Law Review 117 (2009)
- Rehabilitating Bentham's Theory of Excuses, 42 Texas Tech Law Review 383 (2009)
- The Fourteenth Amendment, the Bill of Rights, and the (First) Criminal Procedure Revolution, 18 Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues 469 (2009)
- The Priority of Politics and Procedure Over Perfectionism in Penal Law, or, Blackmail in Perspective, 3 Criminal Law & Philosophy 247 (2009)
- After Rape Law: Will the Turn to Consent Normalize the Law of Sexual Assault?, 41 Akron Law Review 957 (2008)
- Is the Privilege Against Private Discrimination an Artifact or an Icon?, 43 San Diego Law Review 1063 (2007)
- Justice Harlan on Criminal Procedure: Two Cheers for the Legal Process School, 3 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 125 (2005)
- Overcriminalization, Discretion, Waiver: A Survey of Possible Exit Strategies, 109 Penn State Law Review 1155 (2005)
- Three Tensions, and One Omission, in the Case for the Federal Marriage Amendment, 42 San Diego Law Review 935 (2005)
- Ineffective Assistance of Ineffective Assistance Claims: Some Uncomfortable Reflections on Massaro v. United States, 42 Brandeis Law Review 33 (2004)
- The Fourth Amendment and the Fallacy of Composition: Determinacy Versus Legitimacy in a Regime of Bright-Line Rules, 73 Mississippi Law Journal 341 (2004)
- Fundamental Retribution Error: Criminal Justice and the Social Psychology of Blame, 56 Vanderbilt Law Review 1383 (2003)
- Terror and Tolerance: Criminal Justice for the New Age of Anxiety, 1 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 9 (2003)
- Constitutional Theory for Criminal Procedure: Miranda, Dickerson, and the Continuing Quest for Broad-but-Shallow, 43 William & Mary Law Review 1 (2001)
- On the Costs of Uniformity, and the Prospects of Dualism in Constitutional Criminal Procedure, 45 St. Louis University Law Journal 433 (2001)
- The Case for the Contingent Exclusionary Rule, 38 American Criminal Law Review 1 (2001)
- Is the Miranda Caselaw Really Inconsistent? A Proposed Fifth Amendment Synthesis, 17 Constitutional Commentary 19 (2000)
- Miscarriages of Justice and the Constitution, 2 Buffalo Criminal Law Review 635 (1999)
- The Variola Variation, 16 Constitutional Commentary 511 (1999)
- The Liberal Critique of the Harm Principle, 17 Criminal Justice Ethics 3 (1998)
- Ineffective Assistance of Counsel: The Case for an 'Ex Ante' Parity Standard, 88 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 242 (1997)
- Akhil Amar on Criminal Procedure and Constitutional Law: 'Here I Go Down that Wrong Road Again', 74 North Carolina Law Review 1560 (1996)
- For a Negative, Normative Model of Consent, With a Comment on Preference-Skepticism, 2 Legal Theory 113 (1996)
- Police, Plus Perjury, Equals Polygraphy, 86 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 693 (1996)
- Relevant but Prejudicial Exculpatory Evidence: Rationality Versus Jury Trial and the Right to Put on a Defense, 69 Southern California Law Review 1389 (1996)
- The Exclusivity of the Criminal Law: Toward a 'Regulatory Model' of, or 'Pathological Perspective' on, the Civil-Criminal Distinction, 7 Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues 199 (1996)
- Bowers v. Hardwick and the Law of Standing: Noncases Make Bad Law, 44 Emory Law Journal 1417 (1995)
- At the Borders of the Fourth Amendment: Why a Real Due Process Test Should Replace the Outrageous Government Conduct Defense, 1993 University of Illinois Law Review 261 (1993)
- Criminal Procedure, Footnote Four, and the Theory of Public Choice: or, Why Don't Legislatures Give a Damn about the Rights of the Accused?, 44 Syracuse Law Review 1079 (1993)
- More on Distinguishing Sex, Sexual Expropriation, and Sexual Assault: A Reply to Professor West, 93 Columbia Law Review 1460 (1993)
- Precommitment, Prohibition, and the Problem of Dissent, 22 The Journal of Legal Studies 255 (1993)
- Beyond Rape: An Essay on the Difference Between the Presence of Force and the Absence of Consent, 92 Columbia Law Review 1780 (1992)
- Self-Incrimination and Self-Preservation: A Skeptical View, 1991 University of Illinois Law Review 329 (1991)
- Beyond the Warren Court and its Conservative Critics: Toward a Unified Theory of Constitutional Criminal Procedure, 23 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 591 (1990)
- Delegation and Due Process, 1988 Duke Law Journal 657 (1988)
- Foreward: Against Police Interrogation--and the Privilege Against Self-Incrimination, 78 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 699 (1988)
- The Constitutional Status of the Reasonable Doubt Rule, 75 California Law Review 1665 (1987)
- Living with Leon, 95 Yale Law Journal 906 (1986)
- More on Search Warrants, Good Faith, and Probable Cause, 95 Yale Law Journal 1424 (1986)
- New Directions for the Regulation of Public Employee Strikes, 60 NYU Law Review 590 (1985)
Chapters of Books or Articles within Books
- Due Process: A Unified Understanding, in Cambridge Companion to the Constitution (Karren Orren & John Compton eds., Cambridge University Press 2018)
- The Substance-Procedure Relationship in Criminal Law, in Philosophical Foundations of Criminal Law (R.A. Duff & Stuart Green eds., Oxford University Press 2011)
- Rape, Law, and American Society, in Rethinking Rape Law: International and Comparative Perspectives (Clare McGlynn & Venessa Munro eds., Routledge-Cavendish 2010)
- Fifth Amendment—Self-Incrimination Clause, in The Heritage Guide to the Constitution (David Forte, Edwin Meese & Matthew Spalding eds., Regnery Publishing 2005)
- Sixth Amendment—Right-to-Counsel Clause, in The Heritage Guide to the Constitution (David Forte, Edwin Meese & Matthew Spalding eds., Regnery Publishing 2005)
- Criminal Justice Process, in Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice (Joshua Dressler ed., 2nd ed., Macmillan Reference USA 2002)
- Exclusionary Rule, in Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice (Joshua Dressler ed., 2nd ed., Macmillan Reference USA 2002)
- Precommitment and Prohibition, in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law (Peter Newman ed., Palgrave Macmillan 1998)
- The Miranda Rules (Update), in Encyclopedia of the American Constitution (Kenneth Karst, Leonard Levy & Adam Winkler eds., Macmillan Reference USA 1992)