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Distinguished Professor Rutgers School of Law - Camden 217 North Fifth Street Camden, NJ 08102
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Biography
Professor Singer, Dean from 1986-89, is the author of books on prisoners rights and sentencing reform and of a casebook on criminal law and student texts on criminal law and criminal procedure, in addition to nearly fifty law revieew articles. He received a B.A. from Amherst College, a J.D. from the University of Chicago, and LL.M. and J.S.D. degrees from Columbia. Professor Singer was the Reporter for two national projects which developed standards for prisoners rights. His courses include Criminal Law, Federal Criminal Law, and Criminal Procedure.
Publications
Books
Criminal Procedure II: From Bail to Jail --- Examples and Explanations (Aspen)(2005)
Criminal Law: Examples & Explanations (with LaFond) (Aspen) ( 3rd 3d. 2004).
Crimes and Punishment (Casebook with Gardner) (Matthew Bender) ( 4th ed. 2004)
Just Deserts: Sentencing Based on Equality and Desert (1979).
Rights of the Imprisoned: Cases, Materials and Directions (casebook with Statsky)
(Bobbs-Merrill) (1974).
Book Chapters:
Strict Liability; Civil Disabilities, in the Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice (2000).
The Philosophical Underpinnings (first chapter in a book on New Jersey Products Liability Law, published by the New Jersey Law Journal in 1994).
Ethics of Using Prediction in Sentencing, in The Prediction of Criminal Violence (1987).
The Wolfish Case: Has the Bell Tolled for Prison Litigation? in Legal Rights of Prisoners (G. Alpert 1980).
The Coming Right to Rehabilitation, in Prisoner's Rights Sourcebook (1973).
Class Actions in Civil Rights Suits, in Class Action Primer (1973).
Law Review Articles:
The Proposed Duty to Inquire as Affected by Recent Decisions in the United States Supreme Court, 3 Buff. Crim. L. Rev., (forthcoming, 2000).
The Model Penal Code and Three Ways Courts Avoid Mens Rea, presented as a paper to the Conference on the Model Penal Code, SUNY at Buffalo, October 31, 1999, to be published in 4 Buffalo Criminal Law Review.
Of Innocence and Innocents: The Supreme Court and Mens Rea Since Herbert Packer, 2 Buff. Crim. L. Rev. Fall 859 (1999) (with Doug Husak).
Searching for the 'Tail of the Dog': Finding 'Elements' of Crimes in the Wake of McMillan v. Pennsylvania, 22 Seattle U. L. Rev. 1057 (1999) (with Knoll).
Jones Raises Key Questions in All U.S. Sentencing and Drug Cases, 158 N.J.L.J. 27, October 4, 1999 (with Knoll).
Strict Criminal Liability: Alabama Courts Lead the Way Into the Twenty-First Century, 46 Ala. L. Rev. 47 (1994).
Porn Case Highlights Statutory Interpretation, N.J.L.J. October 17, 1994, P. 10.
Will Peremptory Challenges Last for the Next Century? in New Jersey Lawyer (January 11, 1993) (reprinted in Law School News, Spring 1993).
The Responsible Corporate Officer Doctrine, 6 Toxics L. Reptr. 1378, 1405 (1992), excerpted in New Jersey Lawyer (May 25, 1992) and the New York Law Journal (May 5, 1992).
The Resurgence of Mens Rea: III - The Rise and Fall of Strict Criminal Liability, 30 B.C.L. Rev. 459 (1987).
The Resurgence of Mens Rea: II - Honest But Unreasonable Mistake of Fact in Self Defense, 28 B.C.L. Rev. 459 (1987).
The Goetz Case Revives Issues of Self-Defense Standards, New York Law Journal (Feb. 18, 1986).
The Resurgence of Mens Rea: I - Provocation, Emotional Disturbance and the Model Penal Code, 27 B.C. L. Rev. 243 (1986).
Peremptory Holds - A Suggestion (Only Half Specious) of a Solution to the Discriminatory Use of Peremptory Challenges, 62 U. Det. L. Rev. 301 (1986).
Classism and Dissonance in the Criminal Law: A Reply to Professor Meir Dan-Cohen, 77 J. Crim. L. & Crim. 69 (1986).
Essay: Abolition of the Insanity Defense, 4 Cardozo L. Rev., 683 (1983).
Insanity Defense Reforms: ABA Principles Scored, New York Law Journal, April 29, 1983, P. 1.
Desert and Overcrowded Prisons, 12 N.Y.U. Rev. of L. and Soc. Change, 85 (1983).
The Jones Case and the Insanity Plea. The Annals, 477 (Jan. 1981).
Legal Aspects of Providing Mental Health Services to Jail Inmates, presented to national conference on the topic, Fall, 1978; published by NIMH in a collection of keynote speeches; published in 1 J. of Prison Health 105 (1981).
Prisoner's Rights Litigation - The Past Ten Years; the Coming Decade, 44 Fed. Prob. 3 (Dec. 1980).
In Favor of 'Presumptive Sentences' Set by a Sentencing Commission, 5 Cr. J. 1 (1978); 24 Crime and Delinquency 401 (1978).
Consent of the Unfree: Medical Experimentation and Behavior Modification in Closed Institutions, 1 J. of Law and Human Behavior, 1, 101 (1977).
Prisoners as Wards of the Court: A Non-Constitutional Path to Enforcing Prisoner's Rights, 41 U. Cin. L. Rev. 759 (1973).
Morrissey v. Brewer - Implications for the Future of Correctional Law, 6 Clearinghouse Rev. (1972).
Sending Men to Prison - Constitutional Aspects of the Burden of Proof and the Doctrine of the Least Drastic Alternative as Applied to Sentencing Determinations, 58 Cornell L. Rev. 51 (1972).
Privacy, Autonomy and Dignity in the Prison: A Preliminary Inquiry Concerning Constitutional Aspects of the Degradation Process in Our Prisons, 21 Buff. L. Rev. 669 (1972).
Confining Solitary Confinement: Constitutional Arguments for the 'New Penology,' 56 Iowa L. Rev. 1251 (1971).
Prison Conditions: An Unconstitutional Roadblock to Rehabilitation, 20 Cath. U. L. Rev. 1251 (1971).
Student Power at the Polls, 32 Ohio State L. J. 703 (1970).
Bringing the Constitution to Prison: Substantive Due Process v. the Eighth Amendment, 39 U. Cin. L. Rev. 650 (1970).
Censorship of Prisoners' Mail and the Constitution: An Inquiry into Judicial Attitudes, 56 A. B. A. J. 1051 (1970).
Justiciability and Recent Supreme Court Cases, 21 Ala. L. Rev. 227 (1968).
Forensic Misconduct by Federal Prosecutors and How it Grew, 20 Ala. L. Rev. 227 (1968).
The F.C.C. and Equal Time: Neverneverland Revisited, 27 Md. L. Rev. 221 (1967).
Church of Christ - Standing and the Evidentiary Hearing, 55 Geo L.J. 264 (1966).