Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty
William T. Pizzi
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Criminal Law and Procedure; Comparative Law
University of Colorado Law School
464 Wolf Law Building
401 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0401
Phone: (303) 492-6470
E-mail: william.pizzi@colorado.edu
Curriculum Vitae: View (PDF format)
| Educational Background: | |||
| M.A. | University of Massachusetts | 1971 | |
| J.D. | Harvard Law School | 1971 | cum laude |
| A.B. | Holy Cross College | 1965 | |
Bio:
William Pizzi has been a member of the CU Law School School faculty since 1975. He came to Colorado in 1975, after spending a few years as Assistant U.S. Attorney in New Jersey. He specializes in criminal law, with special interest in foreign criminal trial systems. Professor Pizzi's belief in the comparative study of law has compelled him to coordinate many of the law school's study abroad programs, and he recently served as a professor on the Semester-at-Sea program. Professor Pizzi has always been active in Colorado's legal community, working on the Colorado Bar Association's Ethics Committee and, most recently, serving as the reporter for the Governor's Columbine Review Commission. His task was to take the information from more than a year of meetings, testimony and interviews, and put together a cohesive report. He worked to produce the report with help from other members of the commission, while continuing his regular teaching schedule at the CU Law School. "It was a very difficult task, because there was no model to follow. It was very much a team effort," Professor Pizzi said of the report. He was pleased with the results of the commission and said, "I'm proud of the recommendations that will help make Colorado schools safer."
Published Books
| Trials without Truth, (NYU Press 1999). (Juicios y mentiras, translation with notes into Spanish by Carlos Fidalgo Gallardo, (Tecnos Press, Madrid 2004) (2004). |
Articles
| “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) (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). (2006). |
| Criminal Trials, in Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice, Revised Edition (2001). |
Courses:
| Spring 2010 | Criminal Law | LAWS 5503-801 |
| Fall 2009 | Criminal Procedure: Investigative Phase | LAWS 6045-001 |
| Fall 2009 | Advanced Criminal Procedure | LAWS 8335-001 |
| Spring 2009 | Criminal Law | LAWS 5503-802 |
| Spring 2008 | Criminal Law | LAWS 5503-802 |
| Fall 2007 | Criminal Procedure: Investigative Phase | LAWS 6045-001 |
| Fall 2007 | Advanced Criminal Procedure | LAWS 8335-001 |
| Spring 2007 | Criminal Procedure: Adjudicative Process | LAWS 7045-001 |
| Spring 2007 | Advanced Criminal Procedure | LAWS 8335-001 |
