FSR Issue on Claiborne and Rita

I have finally put the finishing touches on the Federal Sentencing Reporter's latest issue, which is entitled "Claiborne & Rita: Reasonableness Review in the Supreme Court."  As the title suggests, this issue of FSR is focused primarily on the two post-Booker cases now pending before the Court.  Here's a review of the contents: 

EDITOR’S OBSERVATIONS

• Douglas A. Berman, Claiborne and Rita — Booker Clean-up or Continued Confusion?

ARTICLES ON POST-BOOKER SENTENCING

• Frank O. Bowman, III, "The Question Is Which Is to Be Master—That's All": Cunningham, Claiborne, Rita, and the Sixth Amendment Muddle (available via SSRN here)
• Nancy Gertner, Thoughts on Reasonableness
• Carissa Byrne Hessick & F. Andrew Hessick, Rita, Claiborne, and the Courts of Appeals' Attachment to the Sentencing Guidelines (available via SSRN here)
• Alexandra A.E. Shapiro & Nathan H. Seltzer, Guidelines or Higher: NYCDL's Study of Reasonableness Review Patterns Reveals the Courts of Appeals' Aversion to Parsimony
• Regina Stone-Harris, How to Vary from the Federal Sentencing Guidelines Without Being Reversed

ARTICLES ON BROADER GUIDELINE OPERATION

• Lynn D. Lu, Prosecutorial Discretion and Racial Disparities in Federal Sentencing: Some Views of Former U.S. Attorneys
• John F. Pfaff, The Vitality of Voluntary Guidelines in the Wake of Blakely v. Washington: An Empirical Assessment
• Frederick H. Weisberg & Kim S. Hunt, Voluntary Sentencing Guidelines in the District of Columbia: Results of the Pilot Program

The Federal Sentencing Reporter can be ordered here and accessed electronically here, though it will be a few days before this latest issue (Vol. 19, No. 3) comes on-line.

Other recent FSR issues on Blakely, Booker and federal sentencing dynamics:

• FSR Issue 18.5: Toward Real Reform: The Constitution Project Recommendations; Model Federal Sentencing Guidelines 
• FSR Issue 18.4: Sentencing at the Supreme Court
• 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?