Long weekend SSRN reading

Since we get an long weekend to start a new month, here is an long list of interesting new pieces recently appearing on SSRN:

• Federal Prosecution of Terrorism-Related Cases: Conviction and Sentencing Data in Light of the 'Data Reliability' and 'Soft Sentence' Critiques by Robert Chesney

• Minding Moral Responsibility by Steven K. Erickson

• A Reader's Companion to 'Against Prediction': A Reply to Ariela Gross, Yoram Margalioth, and Yoav Sapir on Economic Modeling, Selective Incapacitation, Governmentality, and Race by Bernard E. Harcourt

• The Importance of Research on Race and Policing: Making Race Salient to Individuals and Institutions Within Criminal Justice by David A. Harris

• Habeas Litigation in the U.S. District Courts by Nancy J. King , Fred Cheesman & Brian Ostrom

• Why Sentencing by a Judge Fulfills the Right to Jury Trial: A Comparative Law Look at Blakely and Booker by Susan F. Mandiberg

• The Eighth Amendment, the Death Penalty and Ordinary Robbery-Burglary Murderers: A California Case Study by Steven F. Shatz