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Overview

Malcolm M Feeley is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their scholarly work primarily spans the social sciences, with a focus on law, political science and international relations, cognitive neuroscience, economics and econometrics, and sociology and political science.

The main topics of their research include:

  • Criminal Law and Evidence
  • Judicial and Constitutional Studies
  • Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
  • Free Will and Agency
  • Comparative constitutional jurisprudence studies
  • American Constitutional Law and Politics
  • Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems

Malcolm M Feeley has published frequently in several academic venues, including:

  • Law & Society Review
  • New Criminal Law Review
  • Public Choice
  • Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies

Recent papers authored by Feeley cover a range of topics related to criminal justice and constitutionalism. These publications include:

  • "Criminal Justice as Regulation," 2020, New Criminal Law Review
  • "Privilege and punishment: How race and class matter in criminal court. By Matthew Clair. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. 320 pp. $19.95 paperback," 2022, Law & Society Review
  • "Prisoners of Politics: Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration. By Rachel Elise Barkow. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 2019. 291 pp. $35.00 hardcover," 2020, Law & Society Review
  • "David Skarbek: The puzzle of prison order: why life behind bars varies around the world. Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 2020, xiii + 240 pp, USD 27.95 (paperback)," 2021, Public Choice
  • "Introduction to the Symposium on Nicholas Barber, The Principles of Constitutionalism," 2021, Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies

Feeley's collaboration record includes work with Rosann Greenspan.

In 2020, Malcolm M Feeley was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Best Publications

  • The New Penology : Notes on the emerging strategy of corrections and its implications

    Malcolm M. Feeley;Jonathan Simon

  • Federalism: Some Notes on a National Neurosis

    Edward L. Rubin;Malcolm Feeley

  • Judicial Policy Making and the Modern State: How the Courts Reformed America's Prisons

    Malcolm Feeley;Edward L. Rubin

  • The Process is the Punishment: Handling Cases in a Lower Criminal Court

    Malcolm M. Feeley

  • Economic Analysis of Law

    Malcolm Feeley;Richard A. Posner

  • Fighting for political freedom : comparative studies of the legal complex and political liberalism

    Malcolm M Feeley;Terry Halliday;Lucien Karpik

  • True Crime: The New Penology and Public Discourse on Crime

    Malcolm M Feeley;Jonathan Simon

  • The Process is the Punishment

    Paul Wiles;Malcolm M. Feeley

  • Two Models of the Criminal Justice System: An Organizational Perspective

    Malcolm M. Feeley

  • Court Reform on Trial: Why Simple Solutions Fail

    Malcolm M Feeley

  • Federalism: Political Identity and Tragic Compromise

    Malcolm M. Feeley;Edward L. Rubin

  • Entrepreneurs of punishment: The legacy of privatization

    Malcolm M. Feeley

  • 1-1-1972 Two Models of the Criminal Justice System : An Organizational Perspective

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  • Hollow Hopes, Flypaper, and Metaphors

    Malcolm M. Feeley

  • The impact of Supreme Court decisions

    Malcolm M Feeley;Theodore L. Becker

  • The Vanishing Female: The Decline of Women in the Criminal Process, 1687-1912

    Malcolm M. Feeley;Deborah L. Little

  • The Legal Complex and Struggles for Political Liberalism

    Terry Halliday;Lucien Karpik;Malcolm Feeley

  • Legality, Social Research, and the Challenge of Institutional Review Boards

    Malcolm M. Feeley

  • The Form and Limits of the New Penology

    Malcolm M Feeley;Jonathan Simon

  • Fates of Political Liberalism in the British Post-Colony: The Politics Of The Legal Complex

    Terence C. Halliday;Lucien Karpik;Malcolm M. Feeley

  • Book Review: Crime, social order and the rise of neo-Conservative politics

    Malcolm M. Feeley

  • THE CONCEPT OF LAWS IN SOCIAL SCIENCE : A CRITIQUE AND NOTES ON AN EXPANDED VIEW *

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  • Urban politics and the criminal courts

    Malcolm M. Feeley;Martin A. Levin

  • The Process is the Punishment

    Malcolm M. Feeley

  • The Process is the Punishment: Handling Cases in a Lower Criminal Court.

    Jean Bickmore White;Malcolm M. Feeley

  • The Policy Dilemma; Federal Crime Policy and the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, 1968-1978

    Robert F. Coulam;Malcolm M. Feeley;Austin D. Sarat

Frequent Co-Authors

Austin Sarat
Austin Sarat Amherst College
Terence C. Halliday
Terence C. Halliday American Bar Foundation
Lee Epstein
Lee Epstein Washington University in St. Louis
Richard A. Posner
Richard A. Posner University of Chicago

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