Robert Weisberg
Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. Professor of Law

Publications & Cases

Recent Publications

Joan Petersilia and Robert Weisberg, Viewpoints: Inmate Realignment Can Succeed, But It May Take More Time, Sacramento Bee, March 30, 2013, p.9A.
Robert Weisberg, The Story of Rizzo: The Shifting Landscape of Attempt Law, Stanford Public Law Working Paper no. 2128813 (2012).
John Kaplan, Robert Weisberg, Guyora Binder, Criminal Law: Cases and Materials, 7th edition, New York: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, 2012.
Robert Weisberg, Reality-Challenged Philosophies of Punishment, (Barrock Lecture), 95 Marquette Law Review 1203 (2012).
Robert Weisberg, Kennedy and the Prisons -- Moral Exhortation and Technical Fastidiousness, 44 McGeorge Law Review 247 (2013).
Robert Weisberg, Approaches to Assessing the Effects of Marijuana Criminal Law Repeal in California, 43 McGeorge Law Review 1 (2012).
Robert Weisberg, California's De Facto Sentencing Commissions, 64 Stanford Law Review Online 1 (2011).
Robert Weisberg, The Unlucky Psychopath as Death Penalty Prototype, in Who Deserves to Die: Constructing the Executable Subject, Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 2011. Also Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 2128963 available on SSRN.
Robert Weisberg, Debbie A. Mukamal and Jordan D. Segall, Life in Limbo: An Examination of Parole Release for Prisoners Serving Life Sentences with the Possibility of Parole in California, Stanford, CA: Stanford Criminal Justice Center, 2011.
Robert Weisberg, Right-Wing Propaganda, Stanford Magazine, May/June 2011.
W. David Ball, Robert Weisberg, Justice Information Sharing: A Legal Primer for Criminal Justice Practitioners in California, Stanford Public Law Working Paper no. 2141523 (2013).
Joan Petersilia and Robert Weisberg, The Dangers of Pyrrhic Victories Against Mass Incarceration, 130 Daedelus 124 (2010)
Robert Weisberg, High Court Reinforces Fifth Amendment Doctrine Against Lower Courts, Daily Journal, June 11, 2010, p. 6.
Robert Weisberg, Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), in Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States, David S. Tanenhaus, ed., New York: Gale Cengage Learning, 2009.
Robert Weisberg, McCleskey v. Kemp, 481 U.S. 279 (1987), in Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States, David S. Tanenhaus, ed., New York: Gale Cengage Learning, 2009.
Robert Weisberg, Capital Punishment, in Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States, David S. Tanenhaus, ed., New York: Gale Cengage Learning, 2009.
Robert Weisberg, Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972), in Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States, David S. Tanenhaus, ed., New York: Gale Cengage Learning, 2009.
Robert Weisberg, Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153 (1976), in Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States, David S. Tanenhaus, ed., New York: Gale Cengage Learning, 2009.
Robert Weisberg, The Values of Interdisciplinarity in Homicide Law Reform, 43 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 53 (2009)
Robert Weisberg, Tragedy, Skepticism, Empirics, and the MPCS, 61 Florida Law Review 797 (September 2009).

weisberg@stanford.edu

650 723.0612

Curriculum Vitae

Education:

BA City College of New York 1966
MA 1967; PhD (English) 1971 Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
JD Stanford Law School 1979

Expertise:

Criminal Law and Criminal Justice
Criminal Procedure
White Collar Crime