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FULL-TIME FACULTY
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Eric Blumenson |
Professor of Law
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| S H O R T B I O G R A P H Y |
Eric Blumenson came to Suffolk after working as a criminal defense attorney for the Seattle public defender and the Boston criminal law firm of Zalkind and Zalkind. While at Suffolk, he has also served as a Fellow of the Open Society Institute, a visiting attorney in the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor's office, a Fulbright scholar in Lahore, Pakistan, and a visiting professor at the University of Witswatersrand in South Africa. As Reporter to the Supreme Judicial Court's criminal rules advisory committee, he was responsible for drafting the first major revision of the Massachusetts criminal rules. His scholarly works include a two volume criminal law treatise and numerous articles on criminal law, human rights, and moral philosophy.
Degrees:
BA, Wesleyan University; JD, Harvard University
Bar Admittance:
WA; CA; MA
Subjects:
Criminal Law; Criminal Procedure; Evidence; Trial & Appellate Advocacy; Clinical Teaching; Moral and Legal Philosophy; Human Rights; Jurisprudence
| S E L E C T E D P U B L I C A T I O N S |
MASSACHUSETTS CRIMINAL PRACTICE (4th ed., 2012) (with Arthur Leavens)
MASSACHUSETTS CRIMINAL PRACTICE (3d CD ed. 2003; 2d ed., 1998 & Supp.2001) (with Frank Herrmann, Daniel Kanstroom, and Brownlow Speer)
MASSACHUSETTS CRIMINAL DEFENSE (1990 & Supp. 1997-2001) (editor with contributions by members of the Massachusetts criminal defense bar)
Two Moral Mistakes in the American Criminal Justice System, in THE TRAGEDY OF LIBERTY (forthcoming 2013)
Retributivism, in A SOCIAL HISTORY OF CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN AMERICA: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA (Sage Reference, Wilbur Miller ed., 2012)
Cultural Relativism, in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GLOBAL JUSTICE (Springer, 2011)
Civil Asset Forfeiture, in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES (Routledge, 2007)
Economic Rights As Group Rights, 15 U. PA. J.L. & SOC. CHANGE 87 (2011)
Liberty Lost: The Moral Case for Marijuana Law Reform, 85 IND. L.J. 279 (2010) (with Eva Nilsen)
No Rational Basis: The Pragmatic Case for Marijuana Law Reform, 17 VA. J. SOC. POL'Y & L. 43 (2009) (with Eva Nilsen)
Constitutional Kabuki: Fidelity and Opportunism in the Foreign Law Debate, 43 SUFFOLK. L. REV. 136 (2009)
Killing in Good Conscience: What's Wrong with Sunstein and Vermeule's Lesser Evil Argument for Capital Punishment and Other Human Rights Violations?, 10 NEW CRIM. L. REV. 209 (2007)
The Challenge of a Global Standard of Justice: Peace, Pluralism, and Punishment at the International Criminal Court, 44 COLUM. J. TRANSNAT'L L. 797 (2006)
National Amnesties and International Justice, 2 EYES ON THE ICC 1 (2006)
Amnistias Nacionales y Justicia International, Revista Argentina De Teoria Juridica, Universidad Torcuato di Tella (2006)
Reporter's Notes to the Pre-trial Rules of the Massachusetts Rules of Criminal Procedure, West (2004)
One Strike and You’re Out? Constitutional Constraints on Zero Tolerance in Public Education, 81 WASH. U. L.Q. 65 (2003) (with Eva Nilsen)
Justice Kennedy Should Recuse Himself, SALON (2002)
Recovering from Drugs and the Drug War: A Viable Public Health Alternative, 6 IOWA J. GENDER, RACE & SOC'Y 225 (2002) (symposium)
How to Construct an Underclass, Or How the War on Drugs Became a War on Education, 6 IOWA J. GENDER, RACE & SOC'Y 61 (2002) (symposium) (with Eva Nilsen)
The Next Stage of Forfeiture Reform, 14 FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER 76 (2001) (with Eva Nilsen)
Who Counts Morally?, 14 J. L. & RELIGION 1 (2000)
Contesting the Government’s Financial Interest in Drug Cases, 13 CRIM. JUST. 4 (1999) (with Eva Nilsen)
Rights and Religion, 31 CONN. L. REV. 711 (1999)
The Drug War's Hidden Economic Agenda, 266 :9 THE NATION 11-16 (1998) (with Eva Nilsen)
Policing for Profit: The Drug War’s Hidden Economic Agenda, 65 U. CHI. L. REV. 35 (1998) (with Eva Nilsen)
Mapping the Limits of Skepticism in Law and Morals, 74 TEX. L. REV.. 523 (1996)
Defending the Accused in District Court: Law and Tactics, 74 MASS. L. REV. 11 (1989)
Constitutional Limitations on Prosecutorial Discovery, 18 HARV. C.R.-C.L. . REV. 123 (1983)
Pretrial Procedure Under the Massachusetts Rules of Criminal Procedure, 67 MASS. L. REV. 61 (1982) (with Eva Nilsen)
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Prof. Eric Blumenson
Suffolk University Law School
120 Tremont Street
, Suite 340-E
Boston, MA 02108-4977
t. 617.305-1967
f. 617-305-3086
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