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Cornell Law School
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Sheri Lynn Johnson 
James and Mark Flanagan Professor of Law
Working Papers
"The Death Penalty in Delaware: An Empirical Study" (With John H. Blume, Theodore Eisenberg, and Valerie P. Hans) Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-025 (Aug 6, 2008) Available at SSRN
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Books
Law for Society: Nature, Function, and Limits (with K. Clermont, R. Hillman, and R. Summers), (NY: Aspen Publishers; 2010).
Contributions to Books
"Mental Retardation and the Death Penalty Five Years After Atkins" (with J Blume, and Christopher Seeds), in The Future of America's Death Penalty (Carolina Academic Press, 2009).
"Coker v. Georgia: of Rape, Race, and Burying the Past," in Death Penalty Stories (Foundation Press: Blume and Steiker eds., 2009).
Articles
"When Lightning Strikes Back: South Carolina's Return to the Unconstitutional, Standardless Capital Sentencing Regime of the Pre-Furman Era" (with John H. Blume, Emily Paavola, and Keir Weyble), 4 Charleston Law Review 479-535 (2010).
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"An Empirical Look at Atkins v. Virginia and its Application in Capital Cases" (with John H. Blume and Christopher Seeds) 76 Tennessee Law Review 627-639 (2009).
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Back to a Future: Reversing Keith Simpson's Death Sentence and Making Peace with the Victim's Family Through Post-Conviction Investigation. (with John H. Blume) 77 UMKC Law Review 963-988 (2009).
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"Of Atkins and Men: Deviations from Clinical Definitions of Mental Retardation in Death Penalty Cases," (with John H. Blume and Christopher Seeds) 18 Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy 689-733 (2009).
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"Does Unconscious Racial Bias Affect Trial Judges?" (with Jeffrey J. Rachlinski, et al.), 84 Notre Dame Law Review 1195 (2009).
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"Competent Capital Representation: the Necessity of Knowing What Jurors Tell Us About Mitigation" (with John H. Blume and Scott Sundby) 36 Hofstra Law Review 1035 (2008)
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