Great new FSR issue for SCOTUS followers

I am pleased to report that another issue of the Federal Sentencing Reporter is now available on line. This issue (Volume 18, No. 4) is titled "Sentencing at the Supreme Court" and it explores a ranges of sentencing issues and cases before the Supreme Court last Term and this coming Term.

The opening commentary to this FSR issue, authored by my co-editor Nora Demleitner, is entitled "Where to Go From Here? The Roberts Court at the Crossroads of Sentencing."  Our gracious publisher, University of California Press, has made Nora's piece available free here. 

The full contents of this latest FSR issue can bee seen here and major articles are listed below.  (The Federal Sentencing Reporter can be ordered here and accessed electronically here. 

EDITOR'S OBSERVATIONS

• Nora V. Demleitner, Where to Go From Here? The Roberts Court at the Crossroads of Sentencing

ARTICLES

• Michael H. Marcus, Post-Booker Sentencing Issues for a Post-Booker Court
• Michael S. Pardo, Confrontation Clause Implications of Constitutional Sentencing Options
• Youngjae Lee, Judicial Regulation of Excessive Punishments through the Eighth Amendment
• David C. Gray, A Prayer for Constitutional Comparativism in Eighth Amendment Cases
• Ernest A. Young & Carina Cuellar, Supranational Courts, Presidential Power, and the Medellin Case
• Laura I. Appleman, Rediscovering Retribution: Understanding Punishment Theory After Blakely
• Jon M. Sands, Roberts' Sentencing Rules of Order
• Jason Hernandez, Presumptions of Reasonableness for Guideline Sentences After Booker
• Amy Baron-Evans & Anne E. Blanchard, The Occasion to Overrule Harris
• Anne E. Blanchard & Sarah S. Gannett, Fifth Amendment Protections at Sentencing: The Next Logical Step after Booker
• Michael M. O'Hear, Cunningham: Why Federal Practitioners and Policy Makers Should Pay Attention
• Steven G. Sanders, A Closer Look at Washington v. Recuenco
• Juliet P. Stumpf, Penalizing Immigrants

Other recent FSR issues:

• FSR Issue 18.3: Taking Stock a Year after Booker
• FSR Issue 18.2: Defense Perspectives on the Post-Booker World
• FSR Issue 18.1: State of Blakely in the States
• FSR Issue 17.5: Is a Booker Fix Needed?
• FSR Issue 17.4: The Booker Aftershock