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
715 O'Brian Hall, North Campus
Buffalo, NY 14260-1100
716-645-3152
lechiesa@buffalo.edu
SUBSTANTIVE CRIMINAL LAW: CASES, COMMENTS AND COMPARATIVE MATERIALS (Carolina Academic Press: 2014)
DERECHO PENAL SUSTANTIVO (JTS Publishers, 2nd edition: 2013) (in Spanish)
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)
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)
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Spanish Criminal Law (with Carlos Gómez Jara-Díez) in THE HANDBOOK OF COMPARATIVE CRIMINAL LAW (Kevin Jon Heller, editor) (Stanford University Press, 2010)
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