The American criminal justice system is a system of pleas. Few who know it well think it is
working. And yet, identifying plausible strategies for law reform proves challenging, given …

Much has been made of an" innocence problem" in plea bargaining.'Even scholars who
view plea bargaining as systemically positive nevertheless propose reforms to limit access …

The US Supreme Court's decision last year in Padilla v. Kentucky marks a watershed in the
Court's approach to regulating plea bargains. Padilla held that, before a guilty plea, criminal …

Contemporary advances in the field of political economy, particularly those concerning the
subject of delegated authority, can provide a unifying framework for analyzing the behavior …

Plea bargaining now dominates the day-to-day operation of the American criminal justice
system; about ninety-five percent of convictions are obtained by way of a guilty plea.'Indeed …

In contrast with the common assumption in the plea bargaining literature, we show fairness‐
related concerns systematically impact defendants' preferences and judgments. In the …

This Article draws a distinction between two kinds of plea bargain-ing. In some instances,
the practice of plea bargaining leads to what this Article calls de facto unilateral adjudication …

with Plea-Based Ceilings Page 1 Fixed Justice: Reforming Plea Bargaining with Plea-Based
Ceilings Russell D. Covey* The ubiquity of plea bargaining creates real concern that …

This article examines the behavioral analysis of law, meaning the application of empirical
behavioral evidence to legal analysis, which has become increasingly popular in legal …

“Plea bargaining is a defining, if not the defining, feature of the federal criminal justice
system”(Brown and Bunnell, 2006: 1063). In plea bargaining, a defendant is faced with a …