Luis E. Chiesa

Man wearing glasses, smiling, standing outside in front of a brick building.

Dr. Teresa A. Miller Professor in Law; Vice Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Belonging; Director of the Buffalo Criminal Law Center

Research Focus: Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Jurisprudence, Torts, Animal Cruelty Laws, Mindfulness and Law

Links: Curriculum Vitae, SSRNBuffalo Criminal Law Center

Contact Information

715 O'Brian Hall, North Campus
Buffalo, NY 14260-1100
716-645-3152
lechiesa@buffalo.edu

bio pubs

Books

SUBSTANTIVE CRIMINAL LAW: CASES, COMMENTS AND COMPARATIVE MATERIALS (Carolina Academic Press: 2014)

DERECHO PENAL SUSTANTIVO (JTS Publishers, 2nd edition: 2013) (in Spanish)

Journal Articles

Sexual Lynching, CORNELL JOURNAL OF LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY (2020)

Selective Incompatibilism, Free Will, and the (Limited) Role of Retribution in Punishment Theory, 71 RUTGERS LAW REVIEW 977, 977-1001 (2020)

Comparative Analysis as an Antidote to Tunnel Vision in Criminal Law Reform: The Example of Complicity, 70 RUTGERS LAW REVIEW 1117, 1117-41 (2018)

Mens Rea in Comparative Perspective, 102 MARQUETTE LAW REVIEW 575, 575-603 (2018)

The Model Penal Code, Mass Incarceration, and the Racialization of American Criminal Law, 25 GEORGE MASON LAW REVIEW 605, 605-52 (2018)

The Puzzle of Inciting Suicide (with Guyora Binder), 56 AMERICAN CRIMINAL LAW REVIEW 65, 65-135 (2018)

Animal Rights Unraveled: Why Abolitionism Collapses into Welfarism and What it Means for Animal Ethics, 28 GEORGETOWN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REVIEW 557, 557-87 (2017)

Solving the Riddle of Rape by Deception, 35 YALE LAW & POLICY REVIEW 407, 407-60 (2017)

Book Chapters

General Defenses to Criminal Liability in the United States, in CRIMINAL DEFENSES (Michael Bohlander & Alan Reed, eds.) (Ashgate, 2014)

La Investigación Policial en un Mundo Post-Intimidad (title in English – Police Investigations in a Post-Privacy World (Universidad San Carlos de Guatemala) (2014)

Comparative Criminal Law in OXFORD HANDBOOK OF CRIMINAL LAW (Markus Dubber and Tatjana Hornle, editors) (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2014)

ADN y Proceso Penal in LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS: CINCO PROBLEMAS (Juan Luis Gómez-Colomer, editor) (Tirant Lo Blanch Publishers, forthcoming 2013)  (in Spanish)

Criminal Participation in the United States in PARTICIPATION IN CRIME: DOMESTIC AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES (Michael Bohlander & Alan Reed, editors) (Ashgate, 2013)

La Mignonette in CASOS QUE HICIERON DOCTRINA EN DERECHO PENAL (Pablo Sanchez Ostiz, editor) (La Ley Publishers, 2011) (95-109) (in Spanish)

Self-Defense and the Psychotic Aggressor (with George P. Fletcher) in CRIMINAL LAW CONVERSATIONS (Paul Robinson, Kim Ferzan and Stephen Garvey, editors) (Oxford University Press, 2010)
  SSRN

Spanish Criminal Law (with Carlos Gómez Jara-Díez) in THE HANDBOOK OF COMPARATIVE CRIMINAL LAW (Kevin Jon Heller, editor) (Stanford University Press, 2010)
  SSRN