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    Motive, Action, and Confusions in the Debate over Hate Crime Legislation
    Criminal Justice Ethics 37 (1): 1-20. 2018.
    In this article I argue that the objections against hate crimes defined as separate offenses and in terms of group animus are misguided and are based upon a mistaken view of human action that does...
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    The Statist Approach to the Philosophy of Immigration and the Problem of Statelessness
    Global Justice : Theory Practice Rhetoric 11 (1). 2018.
    The issue of statelessness poses problems for the statist approach to the philosophy of immigration. Despite the fact that the statist approach claims to constrain the state’s right to exclude with human rights considerations, the arguments statists offer for the right of states to determine their own immigration policies would also justify citizenship rules that would render some children stateless. Insofar as rendering a child stateless is best characterized as a violation of human rights and …Read more
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    A plea for omissions
    Criminal Justice Ethics 22 (2): 15-31. 2003.
    No abstract
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    Voluntariness and the Orthodox Actus Reus Requirement
    Southwest Philosophy Review 14 (1): 55-61. 1998.
  • The punishment of criminal attempts brings to light, among others, the problem of identifying the proper criteria for determining criminal liability. Those who have taken the "orthodox" approach to criminal law theory have identified two main formal requirements for criminal liability, actus reus and mens rea. The orthodox conception of these requirements, however, is problematic for several reasons: the requirements are not distinct, they fail to accord descriptively with aspects of legal pract…Read more