Francis A. Allen

Edson R. Sunderland Professor of Law Emeritus
Member of University of Michigan Law School Faculty 1966-2007

Books

• Co-author. A Sketch of Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson. N.W. Allen, co-author. Sketches of the Chief Justices, 13. Washington, D.C.: Green Bag Press, 2005.
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• The Habits of Legality: Criminal Justice and the Rule of Law. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1996.
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• The Decline of the Rehabilitative Ideal: Penal Policy and Social Purpose. New Haven, Conn.: Yale Univ. Press, 1981.
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• Law, Intellect, and Education. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1979.
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• The Criminal Law as an Instrument of Economic Regulation. Los Angeles: International Institute of Economic Research, 1976.
• The Crimes of Politics: Political Dimensions of Criminal Justice. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1974.
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• The Borderland of Criminal Justice: Essays on Law and Criminology. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1964. (Work published when author not on Michigan Law faculty.)

Book Chapters

• "Criminal Sentencing in the United States: A Survey in Aid of Comparative Study." In Conflict and Integration: Comparative Law in the World Today: The 40th Anniversary of The Institute of Comparative Law in Japan, Chuo University, 1988, 439-54. Tokyo: Chuo Univ. Press, 1989.
• "Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Eclipse of Private Worlds." In The Future of Nineteen Eighty-Four, edited by E. J. Jensen, 151–75. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1984.
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• "Humanistic Legal Education: The Quiet Crisis." In Essays on Legal Education, edited by N. Gold, 9-22. Toronto: Butterworths, 1982.
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• "Legal Values and the Rehabilitative Ideal." In Crime and Justice. 2nd ed., edited by Sir L. Radzinowicz and M. E. Wolfgang. New York: Basic Books, 1977.
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• "Central Problems of American Criminal Justice." In Legal Institutions Today, edited by H. W. Jones, 364-76. Chicago: American Bar Assoc., 1977.
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• "Criminal Law." In Ballantine's Problems in Law. 5th ed., edited by W. Burby, 250–80. St. Paul, Minn.: West, 1975.
• "Freedom, Order and Justice." In Crime and Justice, edited by J. Susman. New York: AMS Press, 1974.
• "The Values of History and the Perils of Pluralism." In One Hundred Years of the Fourteenth Amendment: Implications for the Future, edited by J. Gerard, 121–6. Buffalo, N.Y.: Dennis, 1973.
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• "The Juvenile Court and the Limits of Juvenile Justice." In Modern Juvenile Justice, edited by S. Fox, 167–73. St. Paul, Minn.: West, 1972.
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• "The Borderland of Criminal Justice." In Modern Juvenile Justice, edited by S. Fox, 167–73. St. Paul, Minn.: West, 1972.
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• "Criminology." In Collier's Encyclopedia. New York: Macmillan, 1972.
• "Thomas Erskine." In Encyclopaedia Britannica. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1971.
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• "Criminal Justice, Legal Values and the Rehabilitative Ideal." In Crime, Law and Society, edited by A. Goldstein and J. Goldstein, 271–82. New York: Free Press, 1971.
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• "Criminal Justice, Legal Values and the Rehabilitative Ideal." In Theories of Punishment, edited by S. E. Grupp, 317–30. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1971.
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• "Civil Disobedience and the Legal Order." In The Law of Dissent and Riots, edited by M. Bassiouni, 121–66. Springfield, Ill.: Thomas, 1971.
• "Beccaria, Cesare Bonesana." In Encyclopaedia Britannica, 3, 351. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1971.
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• "Small Crimes and Large Problems: Some Constitutional Dimensions ." In Mass Production, Justice and the Constitutional Ideal, edited by C. H. Whitebread, 74–96. Charlottesville, Va.: Michie, 1970.
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• "Civil Disobedience and the Legal Order: Part II." In Law and Philosophy, edited by F. A. Allen, 355–70. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1970.
• "Murder." In Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15, 1005. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1969.
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• "Criminal Law." In Encyclopaedia Britannica, 6, 762-73. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1969.
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• "Criminal Justice, Legal Values and the Rehabilitative Ideal." In Crime and Justice in Society, edited by R. Quinney, 449–59. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1969.
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• "Confession." In Encyclopaedia Britannica. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1969.
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• "Children's Court." In Encyclopaedia Britannica, 5, 514-5. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1969.
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• "Capital Punishment." In International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, edited by D. Sills, 2, 290-4. New York: Macmillan, 1968.
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• "The Supreme Court Discovers the Juvenile Court." In New Directions: '67, 8–12. Chicago: Citizen's Committee on the Juvenile Court, 1967.
• "Law and Psychiatry: An Approach to Rapprochement." In Community Psychiatry, edited by L. Roberts et al., 183–99. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1966.
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• "The Civil War Amendments." In An American Primer, edited by D. Boorstin, vol. 1, 161–9. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1966.
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• "Federalism and the Fourth Amendment: A Requiem for Wolf." In The Supreme Court and the Constitution, edited by P. Kurland, 75-122. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1965. (Work published when author not on Michigan Law faculty.)
• "Current Tendencies in American Narcotics Legislation." In Narcotics, edited by D. Wilner and G. Kassebaum, 19-35. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965. (Work published when author not on Michigan Law faculty.)

Journal Articles

• "Yale Kamisar: Warrior Scholar." Mich. L. Rev. 102, no. 8 (2004): 1689-92.
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• "Terry Sandalow: Mind and Man." Mich. L. Rev. 99, no. 8 (2001): 1817-20.
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• "A Matter of Proportion." Green Bag 4, no. 4 (2001): 343-50.
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• "The Scholarship of Kenneth Pye." SMU L. Rev. 49, no. 3 (1996): 439-61.
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• "Joseph Richard Julin, 1926-1993." Fla. L. Rev. 45 (1993): viii–xii.
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• "On Coming of Age: Twenty-Five Years of the 'University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform'." U. Mich. J.L. Reform 25, no. 1 (1991): 1-6.
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• "A Crisis of Legality in the Criminal Law? Reflections on the Rule of Law." Mercer L. Rev. 42, no. 2 (1991): 811-45.
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• "Remembering Shelley v. Kraemer: Of Public and Private Worlds (Symposium on the State Action Doctrine of Shelley v. Kraemer)." Wash. U. L.Q. 67, no. 3 (1989): 709-35.
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• "What Provisions Should Govern Deans' Tenure?" Syllabus 19, no. 4 (1988): 1, 5.
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• "The Erosion of Legality in American Criminal Justice: Some Latter-Day Adventures of the Nulla Poena Principle." Ariz. L. Rev. 29, no. 3 (1987): 385-412.
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• "Commentary on Baldwin (Symposium: Procedural Due Process: Liberty and Justice)." U. Fla. L. Rev. 39, no. 2 (1987): 545-50.
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• "In Memoriam: Walter V. Schaeffer." Nw. U. L. Rev. 80 (1986): 1147–49.
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• "A Serendipitous Trek through the Advance-Sheet Jungle: Criminal Justice in the Courts of Review." Iowa L. Rev. 70, no. 2 (1985): 311–41.
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• "1984: The End of Intimacy." Hum. Rts. 11, no. 3 (1984): 22.
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• "Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Eclipse of Private Worlds." Mich. Q. Rev. 22 (1983): 517–40.
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• "Legal Scholarship: Present Status and Future Prospects." J. Legal Educ. 33, no. 3 (1983): 403–5.
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• "Ernst Freund." U. Chi. L. Sch. Rec. 29 (1983): 6–8.
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• "Majorities, Minorities, and Morals: Penal Policy and Consensual Behavior." N. Ky. L. Rev. 9, no. 1 (1982): 1–22.
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• "Morality of Means: Three Problems in Criminal Sanctions." U. Pitt. L. Rev. 42, no. 4 (1981): 737–58.
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• "In Praise of Book Reviews." Mich. L. Rev. 79, no. 4 (1981): 557–63.
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• "The Law as a Path to the World." Mich. Q. Rev. 18 (1979): 548–63.
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• "In Honor of Walter V. Schaefer." Nw. U. L. Rev. 74 (1979): 691–3.
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• "The Prospects of University Law Training." J. Legal Educ. 29, no. 2 (1978): 127–38.
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• "The Law as a Path to the World." Mich. L. Rev. 77, no. 2 (1978): 157–70.
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• "Decline of the Rehabilitative Ideal in American Criminal Justice." Clev. St. L. Rev. 27 (1978): 147–56.
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• "The Prospects of University Law Training." A.B.A. J. 63 (1977): 346–50.
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• "The New Anti-Intellectualism in American Legal Education." Mercer L. Rev. 28, no. 2 (1977): 447–62.
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• "Introduction: In Honor of Helen Silving." Rev. Jur. U.P.R. 44 (1977): 367-9.
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• "Criminal Law and the Modern Consciousness: Some Observations on Blameworthiness." Tenn. L. Rev. 44, no. 3 (1977): 735–63.
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• "Central Problems of American Criminal Justice." Mich. L. Rev. 75, no. 5 (1977): 813–22.
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• "The Causes of Popular Dissatisfaction with Legal Education." A.B.A. J. 62 (1976): 447–50.
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• "Bringing Substance into a Formless Future." Learning & L. 3, no. 2 (1976): 68–71.
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• "Judicial Quest for Penal Justice - Warren Court and Criminal-Cases." U. Ill. L.F. 1975, no. 4 (1975): 518-42.
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• "Mr. Justice Holmes and 'The Life of the Mind'." B.U. L. Rev. 52 (1972): 229–35.
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• "Issues Confronting the University." AAUP Bull. 57, no. 1 (1971): 5-7.
• "Introduction (Symposium: Recodification of the Criminal Laws)." U. Mich. J.L. Reform 4, no. 3 (1971): 425–8.
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• "Freedom, Order and Justice." Current Hist. 60, no. 358 (1971): 321–6.
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• "Rights in Conflict: A Balanced Approach." Val. U. L. Rev. 3 (1969): 223–32.
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• "A Prospectus for Reform." Prospectus 1 (1968): 1–4.
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• "One Aspect of the Problem of Relevance in Legal Education." Va. L. Rev. 54, no. 4 (1968): 595–605.
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• "Legal Values and Correctional Values." U. Toronto L.J. 18 (1968): 119–30.
• "The Law School." Mich. Alumnus 64 (1968): 13–4.
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• "Law and Medicine." U. Mich. Med. Center J. 33, no. 4 (1967): 158–9.
• "Civil Disobedience and the Legal Order (Parts I and II)." U. Cin. L. Rev. 36 (1967): 1–38, 175–95.
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• "Criminal Justice, Legal Values and the Rehabilitative Ideal." J. Crim. L. Criminology & Police Sci. 50 (1959): 226-32. (Work published when author not on Michigan Law faculty.)
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Reviews

• Review of Death in the Dark: Midnight Executions in America, by J. D. Bessler, and Death at Midnight: The Confession of an Executioner, by D. A. Cabana. Law & Hist. Rev. 19, no. 1 (2001): 227-30.
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• "Law and the Waning of Democratic Values." Review of Stewards of Democracy: Law as a Public Profession, by P. D. Carrington. Green Bag 4, no. 1 (2000): 85-94.
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• Review of Against the Death Penalty: The Relentless Dissents of Justices Brennan and Marshall, by M. Mello, and Against Capital Punishment: The Anti-Death Penalty Movement in America, 1972-1994, by H. H. Haines. Law & Hist. Rev 16, no. 3 (1998): 631-4.
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• "The Poignant Paradoxes of Criminal Justice: A Review." Review of Romantic Outlaws, Beloved Prisons, by M. G. Duncan. Fla. L. Rev. 48, no. 3 (1996): 539-50.
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• Review of Rites of Execution: Capital Punishment and the Transformation of America Culture, 1776-1865, by L. P. Masur. Am. J. Legal Hist. 34, no. 3 (1990): 317-8.
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• "Of Literature, Politics, and Crime." Review of Seductions of Crime: Moral and Sensual Attractions in Doing Evil, by J. Katz. Mich. L. Rev. 88, no. 6 (1990): 1440-7.
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• "Changing with Society." Review of American Law, by L. M. Friedman. N.Y. Times Book Rev. December 2, 1984: 73.
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• " 'American Law' Has Ambitious Purpose." Review of American Law, by L. M. Friedman. Chi. Daily L. Bull. 130, no. 240 (1984): 2, 14.
• Review of Denial of Justice: Criminal Process in the United States, by L. Weinrab. Am. Scholar 47 (1978): 565–9.
• Review of Crime and Criminalization, by C. A. Hartjen. Soc. Sci. Q. 56, no. 4 (1976): 749.
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• Review of Crime, Law, and Society, by F. Hartung. J. Crim. L. Criminology, & Police Sci. 57, no. 2 (1966 ): 188.
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• Review of Cases and Materials on Family Law, by C. Foote et al. Minn. L. Rev. 50 (1966): 989.
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• Review of A Man's Reach: The Philosophy of Judge Jerome Frank, by B. F. Kristein. Tex. L. Rev. 44 (1965): 377. (Work published when author not on Michigan Law faculty.)
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Other Publications

• Foreword to The Changing Borders of Juvenile Justice: Transfer of Adolescents to the Criminal Court, by J. Fagan and F. E. Zimring, editors, ix-xvi. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2000.
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• Introduction to Police Practices and the Law: Essays from the Michigan Law Review, 1-10. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1982.
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• Foreword to Law, Justice and the Individual in Society: Psychological and Legal Issues, by J. Tapp and F. J. Levine, editors. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1977.
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• Foreword to "Quiescence and Ferment: The 1974 Term in the Supreme Court." J. Crim. L. & Criminology 66, no. 4 (1975): 391–9.
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• Preface to Standards of American Legislation, by E. Freund. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, (1965). (Work published when author not on Michigan Law faculty.)