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    Critical Mercy in Criminal Law
    Law and Philosophy 42 (4): 351-378. 2023.
    Much contemporary discussion of mercy has focused on what I call ‘beneficent mercy’: compassionately sparing a person from harsh treatment that she deserves. Drawing on Seneca’s discussion of mercy, I articulate a different concept of mercy which I call ‘critical mercy’: treating a person justly when unjust social rules call for harsher treatment. Whereas beneficent mercy is grounded in recognition of imperfection in human individuals, critical mercy is grounded in recognition of imperfection in…Read more
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    Toward a normative theory of parole grounded in agency
    Philosophical Issues 31 (1): 24-40. 2021.
    Philosophical Issues, Volume 31, Issue 1, Page 24-40, October 2021.
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    Stone of Hope
    Harvard Civil Rights Civil Liberties Law Review 54 455-548. 2019.
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    Our Ethical Obligation to Treat Opioid Use Disorder in Prisons: A Patient and Physician's Perspective
    with Curtis Bone, Lindsay Eysenbach, and Declan T. Barry
    Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 46 (2): 268-271. 2018.
    The opioid epidemic has claimed the lives of more than 183,000 individuals since 1999 and is now the leading cause of accidental death in the United States. Meanwhile, rates of incarceration have quadrupled in recent decades, and drug use is the leading cause of incarceration. Medication-assisted treatment or MAT is the gold standard for treatment of opioid use disorder. Incarcerated individuals with opioid use disorder treated with methadone or buprenorphine have a lower risk of overdose, lower…Read more
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    Prisoners as Patients: The Opioid Epidemic, Medication-Assisted Treatment, and the Eighth Amendment
    with Michael Linden, Sam Marullo, Curtis Bone, and Declan T. Barry
    Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 46 (2): 252-267. 2018.
    This article argues that correctional institutions violate the Eighth Amendment when they refuse to establish MAT programs and prevent doctors from exercising medical judgment to properly treat incarcerated people with OUD.