William T. Pizzi
Emeritus Faculty
Criminal Law and Procedure; Comparative Law
Full Faculty Bio: https://www.colorado.edu/law/william-t-pizzi
Published Books
| Trials without Truth, (NYU Press 1999). (Juicios y mentiras, translation with notes into Spanish by Carlos Fidalgo Gallardo, (Tecnos Press, Madrid 2004). |
Articles
| Understanding the United States' Incarceration Rate, 95 Judicature 207 (2012). |
| Rethinking Attempt Under the Model Penal Code, 9 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 771 (2012). |
| The Need to Overrule Mapp v. Ohio, 82 U. Colo. L. Rev. 679 (2011), reprinted in 39 Search & Seizure L. Rep. 29 (2012). |
| Colorado v. Connelly: What Really Happened, 7 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 377 (2009). |
| "Makeup Calls" in Sports & Courts, 11 Green Bag 2d 333 (2008). |
| A Comparative Perspective on the Sentencing Chaos in the U.S., Global Jurist Topics: Vol. 6: No. 1, Article 2 (2006). |
| Overcoming Logistical and Structural Barriers to Fair Trials at International Tribunals, International Commentary on Evidence: Vol. 4: Iss. 1, Article 4 (2006). |
| El caos producido por el fallo "Blakely v. Washington" de la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos in el sistema de mesura de la pena, 2006-2 Revista de Derecho Procesal Penal (Argentina) 77 (2006). |
| Pizzi (with Blair and Judd), Discrimination in Sentencing on the Basis of Afrocentric Features, 10 Mich. J. Race & Law (2005). |
| Pizzi (with Morris B. Hoffman), Taking Miranda's Pulse, 58 Vand. L. Rev. 813 (2005). |
| Pizzi (with Mongagna), The Battle to Establish an Adversarial Trial System in Italy, 25 Mich. J. Int'l L. 429, )(reprinted in Paolo Carozza, Comparative Legal Traditions (3d ed. 2007) and in Raneta Mack, Comparative Criminal Procedure: History, Processes and Case Studies (2008). Published in translation (La Batalla para el Establecimiento de un Sistema penal acusatorio in Italia) in Derechovirtual.com, an online journal of the Catholic University of Peru (2004).. |
| Juicios y Mentiras: Cronica de la Crisis del Procesa Penal Estadounidense, [Trials Without Truth] (2004). |
| Do Jury Trials Encourage Harsh Punishments?, St. Louis Univ. Public Law Review (2002). |
| Pizzi (with Hoffman), Jury Selection Errors on Appeal, 38 American Criminal Law Rev. 1391 (2001). |
| The Green Grass of Crown Court, 150 New Law Journal (Eng.) 1311 (2000). |
| Victims' Rights: Rethinking Our "Adversary System", Utah Law Review 349 (1999). |
| Victims' Rights in the US, 148 New Law Journal (Eng.) 1805 (1998). |
| The American "Adversary System"?, 100 West. Virginia L. Rev. 847 (1998). |
| Punishment and Procedure in the US, 148 New Law Journal (Eng.) 988 (1998). |
| Pizzi (with Walter Perron), Crime Victims in German Courtrooms: A Comparative Perspective on American Problems, 32 Stan. J. Int. L. 37 (1996). |
Book Chapters
| A Comparative Look at the Roles and Functions of the Prosecution and Defense in Western Trial Systems, (Shlomo Giroa Shoham, Ori Beck & Martin Kett eds.) (2008). |
| The Influence of Criminal Defendants' Afrocentric Features on Their Sentences, in Critical Race Realism: Intersections of Psychology, Race, and Law (New Press) (with Irene V. Blair & Charles M. Judd). (2008). |
| Sentencing in the U.S.: An Inquisitorial Soul in an Adversarial Body?, in Crime, Procedure and Evidence in a Comparative and International Context: Essays in Honour of Professor Mirjan Damaska 65 (John Jackson, Maximo Langer and Peter Tillers eds.). (2008). |
| Trials Without Truth In The US Criminal Justice System, in L'AMÉRICANISATION DU DROIT SUISSE E CONTINENTAL 101 (Martin Killias, editor) (Geneva 2006).. |
| Criminal Trials, in Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice, Revised Edition (2001). |
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