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(Paywall site) Barber, C., Brauben, J. (2025). Presidential Pardons Escalate as Modern Political Weapon . The Wall Street Journal.
Barkow, R.E. (2015). Clemency and Presidential Administration of Criminal Law . New York University Law Review, 90(3), 1051-1115.
Bierschbach, R.A., & Bibas, S. (2016). What’s Wrong with Sentencing Equity? Virginia Law Review, 92(7), 1447-1498.
Chad Flanders, Pardons and the Theory of the “Second-Best” , 65 Fla. L. Rev. 1559 (2013) Available at: Pardons and the Theory of the “Second-Best” by Chad Flanders
Ghandnoosh, N., & Barry, C. (2023). One in Five: Racial Disparity in Imprisonment — Causes and Remedies. The Sentencing Project.
Hutchinson, D.L. (2018). Who Locked Us Up? Examining the Social Meaning of Black Punitiveness. Yale Law Journal, 127(8), 2388-2446.
Osler, Mark William, Review: Mass Pardons in America by Graham G. Dodds (2022). Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books (Rutgers)., U of St, Thomas (Minnesota) Legal Studies Research Paper No 22-11,
Rappaport, Aaron, An Unappreciated Constraint on the President’s Pardon Power (2020). Connecticut Law Review. 444.
Wheelock, Darren, A Jury of One’s “Peers”: Felon Jury Exclusion and Racial Inequality in Georgia Courts (2011). Social and Cultural Sciences Faculty Research and Publications. 47.
Alschuler, Albert, The Corruption of the Pardon Power , Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper Series, No. 796 (2022).
JaneAnne Murray, Judicial Restoration of Rights as an Auxiliary to the Pardon Power , 33:5 328 (2021)
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