Samuel W. Buell

Forthcoming

Criminal Liability, in Research Handbook on Corporate Liability (M. Petrin and C. Witting, eds., forthcoming)

Works in Progress

The Mirage of Individual Liability as the Answer to Corporate Fraud (January 1, 2022)

Books

Corporate Crime: An Introduction to the Law and Its Enforcement (Esplanade Press, 1st ed. 2021, 2nd ed. 2022, 3rd ed. 2023)
Capital Offenses: Business Crime and Punishment in America's Corporate Age (W.W. Norton, 2016)

Articles & Essays

A Restatement of Corporate Criminal Liability's Theory and Research Agenda, 47 Journal of Corporation Law 937-961 (2022)
L'importanza della regolamentazione delle indagini interne nella giustizia negoziata degli enti, in Internal Investigations: Best Practices e istanze di regolamentazione 3-66 (Francesco Centonze & Stefania Giavazzi, eds., 2021) (Italian translation of The Law of Corporate Investigations and the Global Expansion of Corporate Criminal Liability, 93 Southern California Law Review 697-761 (2020)) (with Jennifer Arlen)
Pointing Guns, 99 Texas Law Review 1173-1200 (2021) (with others)
Retiring Corporate Retribution, 83 Law and Contemporary Problems 25-45 (2020)
The Law of Corporate Investigations and the Global Expansion of Corporate Criminal Liability, 93 Southern California Law Review 697-761 (2020) (translated in Italian as L'importanza della regolamentazione delle indagini interne nella giustizia negoziata degli enti, in Internal Investigations: Best Practices e Istanze di Regolamentazione 3-66 (Francesco Centonze & Stefania Giavazzi, eds., 2021) (with Jennifer Arlen)
Two Decades of Corporate Criminal Enforcement, 83 Law and Contemporary Problems i-v (2020) (with Brandon L. Garrett)
Fraud, in Palgrave Handbook of Applied Ethics and the Criminal Law 265-282 (Larry Alexander & Kimberly Kessler Ferzan, eds., 2019)
The Political and Professional Economies of US Global Corporate Criminal Enforcement, in The Oxford Handbook of Institutions of International Economic Governance and Market Regulation (Eric Brousseau, Jean-Michel Glachant, and Jérôme Sgard, eds., 2019)
Criminally Bad Management, in Research Handbook on Corporate Crime and Financial Misdealing 59-86 (Jennifer Arlen, 2018)
The Responsibility Gap in Corporate Crime, 12 Criminal Law and Philosophy 471-491 (2018)
Why Do Prosecutors Say Anything? The Case of Corporate Crime, 96 North Carolina Law Review 823-858 (2018)
The Market for Global Anticorruption Enforcement, 80 Law & Contemporary Problems 193-214 (No. 1 2017) (with Rachel Brewster)
Culpability and Modern Crime, 103 Georgetown Law Journal 548-603 (2015)
Brief of Common Law Scholars as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents , Omnicare, Inc. v. Laborers District Council Construction Industry Pension Fund, No. 13-435 (U.S., Sept 2014)
Is the White Collar Offender Privileged?, 63 Duke Law Journal 823-889 (2014)
'White Collar' Crime, in Oxford Handbook of Criminal Law 837-861 (M. Dubber & T. Hornle eds., 2014)
Liability and Admissions of Wrongdoing in Public Enforcement of Law, 82 University of Cincinnati Law Review 505-522 (2014)
Book Review, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books (2012) (reviewing William J. Stuntz, The Collapse of American Criminal Justice (2011))
Becoming a Legal Scholar, 110 Michigan Law Review 1175-1190 (2012) (reviewing Brannon P. Denning et al., Becoming a Law Professor: A Candidates Guide (ABA, 2010))
Foreword: Adjudicating the Guilty Mind, 75 Law & Contemporary Problems i-v (2012) (with Lisa Kern Griffin)
On the Mental State of Consciousness of Wrongdoing, 75 Law & Contemporary Problems 133-166 (2012) (with Lisa Kern Griffin)
Good Faith and Law Evasion, 58 UCLA Law Review 611-666 (2011)
Potentially Perverse Effects of Corporate Civil Liability, in Prosecutors In The Boardroom: Using Criminal Law To Regulate Corporate Conduct 87-109 (Anthony S. Barkow & Rachel E. Barkow eds., 2011)
What Is Securities Fraud?, 61 Duke Law Journal 511-581 (2011)
The Court's Fraud Dud, 6 Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy 31-48 (2010)
Decision Rules as Notice: The Case of Fraud, in Criminal Law Conversations 13 (Paul H. Robinson, Stephen P. Garvey & Kimberly Kessler Ferzan eds., 2009)
The Sources of Overbreadth, in Criminal Law Conversations 530 (Paul H. Robinson, Stephen P. Garvey & Kimberly Kessler Ferzan eds., 2009)
The Upside of Overbreadth, 83 N.Y.U. Law Review 1491-1564 (2008)
Time for A Twenty-First Century Justice Department, 20 Federal Sentencing Reporter 326-328 (2008)
Purposes and Effects in Criminal Law, 93 Virginia Law Review In Brief 215-221 (2007)
Criminal Procedure Within the Firm, 59 Stanford Law Review 1613-1670 (2007)
Reforming Punishment of Financial Reporting Fraud, 28 Cardozo Law Review 1611-1652 (2007)
Novel Criminal Fraud, 81 N.Y.U. Law Review 1971-2043 (2006)
The Blaming Function of Entity Criminal Liability, 81 Indiana Law Journal 473-537 (2006)
Criminal Abortion Revisited, 66 N.Y.U. Law Review 1774-1831 (1991)

Issues Edited

Two Decades of Corporate Criminal Enforcement, 83 Law and Contemporary Problems (No. 4, 2020) (with Brandon L. Garrett)
Adjudicating the Guilty Mind, 75 Law & Contemporary Problems (No. 2, 2012) (with Lisa Kern Griffin)

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

The Second Circuit Was Wrong in Reversing Ex-Deutsche Bank Traders’ Libor Convictions, CLS Blue Sky Blog (February 7, 2022)
Trump’s Mueller Interview Endgame, Slate (January 29, 2018) (with Lisa Kern Griffin )
Insider Trading Money Shouldn't Be 'Finders, Keepers', Hill (October 18, 2016)
Prosecuting Wells Fargo Executives Won't Solve Anything, Slate (September 16, 2016)
What's In a Word, Your Honor? Defining Fraud is as Tricky as Prosecuting It., Duke Magazine (August 8, 2016)
It's Easy to Hate White Collar Criminals, But It's Surprisingly Hard to Sentence Them, Quartz (July 2, 2016)
Insider Trading Law in Deeper Waters, CLS Blue Sky Blog (January 10, 2015)
For Deferred Prosecution to Work, Government's Threat Must Be Credible, New York Times (November 11, 2014)

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