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Stuart P. Green
Professor of Law and Justice Nathan L. Jacobs Scholar
Professor Green received a B.A. in philosophy from Tufts University and a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was a notes editor of the Yale Law Journal. After law school, he clerked for Judge Pamela Ann Rymer of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Los Angeles and then served as an associate with Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, DC. From 1995-2008, he taught at the Louisiana State University Law Center. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Michigan Law School, and in 2002-03 was a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar in the United Kingdom.
His book Lying, Cheating, and Stealing: A Moral Theory of White Collar Crime received the National White-Collar Crime Center’s Outstanding Publication Award and has been translated into several languages. His latest books are Philosophical Foundations of Criminal Law (with co-editor R.A. Duff) and Thirteen Ways to Steal a Bicycle: Theft Law in the Information Age, which is scheduled to be published in early 2012. His current research focuses on “vice and crime.”
Professor Green is a member of the editorial boards of Criminal Law and Philosophy and the New Criminal Law Review and a manuscript reviewer for several university presses. He has also served as a consultant to the Law Commission for England and Wales.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Books
Thirteen Ways to Steal a Bicycle: Theft Law in the Information Age (Harvard University Press) (forthcoming May 2012)
Philosophical Foundations of Criminal Law (co-edited with R.A. Duff) (Oxford University Press, 2011)
Lying, Cheating, and Stealing: A Moral Theory of White Collar Crime (Oxford University Press, 2006; paperback edition, 2007)
Defining Crimes: Essays on the Special Part of the Criminal Law (co-edited with R.A. Duff) (Oxford University Press, 2005)
Book Chapters and Articles
“Official Bribery and Commercial Bribery: Are They Really Equivalent?,” forthcoming in Jeremy Horder and Peter Alldridge (eds.), Modern Bribery Law: Comparative Perspectives (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012)
“Is it Wrong to Trade Stocks on the Basis of Non-Public Information? Public Views of the Morality of Insider Trading” (with Matthew Kugler), 39 Fordham Urban Law Journal ___ (forthcoming 2012) (symposium).
“Public Perceptions of White Collar Crime Seriousness: Bribery, Perjury, and Fraud” (with Matthew Kugler), 75 Law & Contemporary Problems 33 (2012) (symposium)
“Thieving and Receiving: Overcriminalizing the Possession of Stolen Property,” 14 New Criminal Law Review 35 (2011)
“Taking It to the Streets,” 89 Texas Law Review 61 (2011), (responding to Paul Robinson, Michael Cahill, and Daniel Bartels, “Competing Theories of Blackmail: An Empirical Research Critique of Criminal Law Theory”)
“Hard Times, Hard Time: Retributive Justice for Unjustly Disadvantaged Offenders,” in 2010 University of Chicago Legal Forum 21-48 (symposium), published in revised form as “Just Deserts in Unjust Societies: A Case-Specific Approach,” in Philosophical Foundations of Criminal Law, above
“Golden Rule Ethics and the Death of the Criminal Law’s Special Part,” 29 Criminal Justice Ethics 208 (2010) (reviewing Larry Alexander & Kim Ferzan, Crime and Culpability)
“Theft by Omission,” in James Chalmers, Lindsay Farmer, and Fiona Leverick (eds.), Essays in Criminal Law in Honour of Sir Gerald Gordon (Edinburgh University Press, 2010)
“Community Perceptions of Theft Seriousness: A Challenge to Model Penal Code and English Theft Act Consolidation” (with Matthew Kugler), 7 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 511 (2010)
“Cheating,” “Strict Liability,” and “White Collar Crime,” in Hugh LaFollette (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Ethics (Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming 2012)
“What is Wrong with Tax Evasion?,” 9 Houston Business and Tax Law Journal 221 (2009)
“Is There Too Much Criminal Law?,” 6 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 737 (2009) (reviewing Douglas Husak, Overcriminalization)
“Why Do Privately-Inflicted Criminal Sanctions Matter?” and “Sharing Wrongs Between Criminal and Civil Sanctions,” in Paul H. Robinson, Stephen Garvey, and Kimberly Ferzan (eds.), Criminal Law Conversations (Oxford University Press, 2009)