A personal sentencing year in review

In a future post, I will review the major sentencing highlights of 2006.  Here I start my reflective blogging by reviewing my sentencing scholarship and related activities for the year (roughly in chronological order with links to posts with more information).

Major Articles

• Conceptualizing Booker
• Tweaking Booker: Advisory Guidelines in the Federal System
• Finding Bickel Gold in a Hill of Beans
• Making Sentencing Sensible (with Stephanos Bibas)

Major Commentaries

• Reasoning Through Reasonableness
• Perspectives on Booker's Potential
• Now What? The Post-Booker Challenge for Congress and the Sentencing Commission
• The Real (Sentencing) World: State Sentencing in the Post-Blakely Era (with Steve Chanenson)

Major Amicus Efforts

• Crack sentencing in many circuits
• Reasonableness review in the Ninth Circuit
• Reasonableness review of veteran's variance
• Claiborne and Rita: Reasonableness review in the Supreme Court

Journal Issues

• OSJCL Issue 3.2: The Mind of a Child
• OSJCL Issue 4.1: Blakely in the States

• FSR Issue 18.2: Defense Perspectives on the Post-Booker World
• FSR Issue 18.3: Taking Stock a Year after Booker
• FSR Issue 18.4: Sentencing at the Supreme Court
• FSR Issue 18.5: Toward Real Reform: Model Federal Sentencing Guidelines 
• FSR Issue 19.1: Victims and Sentencing I

Of course, I have also done more posts than I can count on this blog and also started a new group blog, Law School Innovation.  And, speaking of blogs, I also wrote this article, "Scholarship in Action: The Power, Possibilities, and Pitfalls for Law Professor Blogs," as part of this year's Harvard Law School symposium, "Bloggership: How Blogs are Transforming Legal Scholarship Conference."