Kevin R. Reitz

James Annenberg Levee Land Grant Chair in Criminal Procedure Law

Kevin R. Reitz

324 Mondale Hall
229–19th Ave. South
Minneapolis, MN 55455

612-626-3078

reitz027@umn.edu

Dartmouth College, B.A.
University of Pennsylvania Law School, J.D.

Professor Kevin R. Reitz joined the University of Minnesota law faculty in 2005. He teaches criminal law, criminal procedure, and professional responsibility. His scholarship is focused on criminal justice policy, including law and criminology. His recent book with Henry Ruth, The Challenge of Crime: Rethinking Our Response (Harvard University Press, 2003), considers issues of crime and punishment in American history, drug control policy, policing, gun control, and juvenile justice. Much of his writing has been in the field of sentencing law and policy, including 2005 articles in the Columbia and Stanford Law Reviews.

In addition to his research, Professor Reitz serves the criminal bar and the criminal justice community. In 1993, he organized the pilot meeting of the National Association of Sentencing Commissions, which has gone on to become a nationwide resource for states contemplating or undertaking the process of sentencing reform. He continues to work with NASC and with individual sentencing commissions nationwide. From 1989 to 1994, he served as Co-Reporter for the new edition of the ABA's Criminal Justice Standards for Sentencing. In June 2001, he was appointed by the American Law Institute to be Reporter for the first-ever revision of the Model Penal Code, limited to the Code's provisions on sentencing and corrections. This ambitious project has drawn wide attention from policy makers and scholars, including a full symposium issue of the Buffalo Criminal Law Review in 2003.

Professor Reitz graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1982, where he served as Comment Editor of the Law Review. Following graduation, he clerked for one year for Justice Jay A. Rabinowitz of the Supreme Court of Alaska in Fairbanks. From 1983 to 1988 he was an associate in the litigation department of Saul, Ewing, Remick, and Saul, in Philadelphia, where he handled criminal and civil cases. From 1988 to 2005 he taught at the University of Colorado School of Law in Boulder. In 2002 he was visiting fellow at the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge, where he taught a seminar in sentencing policy and research.

PUBLICATIONS

Representative List of Publications

The Enforceability of Sentencing Guidelines, 58 Stan. L. Rev. (2005).

The New Sentencing Conundrum: Policy and Constitutional Law at Cross-Purposes, 105 Colum. L. Rev. 1082–1123 (2005).

Questioning the Conventional Wisdom of Parole Release Authority, in The Future of Imprisonment (Michael Tonry, ed. 2004).

Model Penal Code: Sentencing, Report (2003), available at www.ali.org (click on "ALI Projects Online")

The Challenge of Crime: Rethinking our Response (with Henry Ruth) (Harvard University Press, 2003).

American Law Institute, Model Penal Code: Plan for Revision, 6 Buff. Crim. L. Rev. 525 (2002).

Sentencing: Allocation of Authority, in Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice, Revised Edition (Joshua Dressler, ed. 2001).

The Disassembly and Reassembly of U.S. Sentencing Practices, in Sentencing and Sanctions in Western Countries (Richard S. Frase and Michael Tonry, eds. 2001).

Criminal Appeals in the United States, in Rechtsmittel Im Strafrecht: Eine International Vergleichende Untersuchung Zur Rechts-Wirklichkeit Und Effizienz Von Rechtsmitteln (Monika Becker and Jörg Kinzig, eds. 2000) (translated by Bettina Schütz-Gärdén).

The Status of Sentencing Guideline Reforms in the U.S., 10 Overcrowded Times No. 6, 1, 8-14 (1999), reprinted in Penal Reform in Overcrowded Times (Michael Tonry, ed. 2001).

Sentencing, in The Handbook of Crime and Punishment (Michael Tonry ed., 1998).

Lethal Violence in America: An Overview of the Colorado Law Review Symposium, 69 U. Colo. L. Rev. 891 (1998).

The Reactions of Criminal Justice Professionals to a Law Review Symposium, 69 U. Colo. L. Rev. 1217 (1998) (with Alice Donnelly Madden).

Modeling Discretion in American Sentencing Systems, 20 L. & Pol'y 389 (1998).

Zimring, Hawkins, and the Macro Problems of Imprisonment, Book Review, 87 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 604 (1997).

Sentencing Guideline Systems and Sentence Appeals: A Comparison of Federal and State Experiences, 91 Northwestern L. Rev. 1441 (1997).

The Federal Role in Sentencing Law and Policy, 543 The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 116 (1996).

Michael Tonry and the Structure of Sentencing Laws, Book Review, 86 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 1585 (1996).

Testilying as a Problem of Crime Control: A Reply to Professor Slobogin, 66 U. Colo. L. Rev. 1061 (1996).

The American Experiment: Crime Reduction Through Prison Growth, 4.3 European J. Crim. Policy & Rsrch. 74 (1996)

Building a Sentencing Reform Agenda: The ABA's New Sentencing Standards, 78 Judicature 189 (January-February 1995) (with Curtis R. Reitz).

COURSES

Courses

Criminal Law
Criminal Procedure
Sentencing Law & Policy
Professional Responsibility

Seminars

Criminal Punishment