Presentations

• "The Cultural Range of Prosecutor Services in North Carolina," presentation at conference on Comparative Study of Prosecution Systems, at the Institute on Crime and Public Policy, University of Minnesota Law School; April 2011 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• "Padilla and the Theory of the Criminal Defense Firm," presentation at UCLA Law Review symposium on Criminal Law and Immigration Law: January 2011 in Los Angeles, California.
• "Criminal Litigators and the Information Age," presentation at Adaptation and Resiliency in Legal Systems; University of North Carolina School of Law; October 2010 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
• "Popular Control of Criminal Justice Actors," presentation to the faculty at Emory University School of Law; September 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia.
• "Can Grandma SCOTUS Converse Nicely with Others in Criminal Justice?," presentation at annual conference of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools; August 2010 in West Palm Beach, Florida.
• "Continued Convergence of Immigration and Criminal Practice after Padilla v. Kentucky," presentation at North Carolina Bar Association; June 2010, in Cary, North Carolina.
• "Political and Bureaucratic Accountability of Prosecutors," presentation at Prosecutorial Power: A Transnational Workshop; Washington and Lee University School of Law; April 2010, in Lexington, Virginia.
• "Public Defender Elections and Popular Control Over Criminal Justice," presentation at the 2010 Missouri Law Review Symposium, Broke and Broken: Can We Fix our State Indigent Defense Systems?; University of Missouri School of Law; February 2010, in Columbia, Missouri.
• "Election of Public Defenders," presentation to the faculty at the University of Arizona, Rogers School of Law; February 2010, in Tucson, Arizona.
• "How Do Baby DAs Grow Up, and Why Should We Care?," presentation to faculty and students at University of Arizona, Rogers School of Law, Program in Criminal Law and Policy; February 2010, in Tucson, Arizona.
• "Systems and Culture in Prosecutor's Office to Promote Compliance," panel discussion at the Conference on Prosecutor Compliance with Disclosure Obligations at Cardozo School of Law; November 2009 in New York City.
• "Encouraging Electoral Challenges to Incumbent Prosecutors," presentation at annual conference of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools; August 2009 in Palm Beach, Florida.
• "Mexican Drug Violence and Adversarial Experimentation," presentation to the Conference on the Future of the Adversary System at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; April 2009 at Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
• "The Power of Information Versus the Power of Enforcement," testimony before the United States Sentencing Commission during regional hearings to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of federal sentencing legislation; February 2009, in Atlanta, Georgia.
• "Roundtable on 'Second Look' Sentencing Reforms," roundtable discussion sponsored by the American Bar Association's Commission on Effective Criminal Sanctions; December 2008, in Washington, D.C.
• "Sentencing Commissions and Community Corrections," presentation to California Summit of Judicial Leaders, sponsored by Judicial Council of California; October 2008, in Monterey, California.
• "Discovering the Old World of Content Analysis," presentation to the Judicial Behavior Workship at the University of Chicago Law School and the Northwestern University School of Law; October 2008, in Chicago, Illinois (with Mark Hall).
• "The Balance of Power Between Prosecutors and Judges, plenary presentation to the National Association of Sentencing Commissions; August 2008 in San Francisco, California.
• "Why Prosecutor Elections Fail Us," roundtable presentation, Ohio State University symposium on Prosecutorial Discretion; July 2008 in Columbus, Ohio.
• "Scholarship Methods, Scholarship Topics," presentation to the AALS New Law Teachers' Conference; June 2008, in Washington, D.C.
• "Social Norms among Prosecutors," presentation for faculty colloquium at Washington University School of Law; February 2008, in St. Louis, Missouri.
• "Dead Wrong," presentation at the symposium "Beyond Innocence," University of Utah, Quinney School of Law; November 2007, in Salt Lake City, Utah.
• "Criminal Justice Metrics for the People," The Hoffinger Colloquium Lecture at the New York University School of Law; September 2007, in New York City.
• "Charge Movement and Theories of Prosecutors," presentation at the symposium on "Plea Bargaining and Dispute Resolution," Marquette University School of Law; April 2007, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
• "Prosecutor Responses to Racial Disparities in Policing," presentation to a faculty colloquium at the University of Georgia School of Law; February 2007, in Athens, Georgia.
• "Systematic Content Analysis of Judicial Opinions," presentation to a faculty colloquium at the Florida State University School of Law; October 2006, in Tallahassee, Florida.
• "The Black Box of Prosecutorial Discretion," presentation at the Empirical Legal Studies Conference; October 2006, at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, Texas.
• "Delivering the Ideas," presentation to the AALS New Law Teachers' Conference; June 2006, in Washington, D.C. (presented same address in June 2003 and June 2005).
• "The Black Box," presentation at the Faculty Colloquium of the University of Alabama School of Law; 13 March, 2006, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; presentation for the Faculty Colloquium of the Florida State University School of Law, 11 April, 2006, in Tallahassee, Florida.
• "The Power of Bureaucracy after Blakely and Booker," presentation at the Symposium on Sentencing After Booker, sponsored by the University of Houston School of Law; 18 November, 2005, in Houston, Texas.
• "The Rhetoric of the Incremental and the Incendiary after Booker and Blakely," presentation at the Symposium on Sentencing Rhetoric after Booker, sponsored by the Roger Williams University School of Law; 22 October, 2005, in Bristol, Rhode Island.
• "Review of the Constitutional Background for the Sykes Investigation," presentation to the Sykes Administrative Review Committee of the City of Winston-Salem; 20 October, 2005.
• "Reasons as Law for the 'Lawless' Prosecutor," presentation to the law faculty at the University of Iowa; 13 October, 2005, in Iowa City, Iowa.
• "Trial Distortion and the End of Innocence in Federal Criminal Justice," presentation for the Fall Authors' Luncheon of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review; 7 October, 2005, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• "Blakely and the Role of Certainty in Crime Politics," presentation at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools; 20 July, 2005, in Hilton Head, South Carolina.
• "Sentencing Commissions as Provocateurs of Prosecutorial Self-Regulation," presentation and panel discussion at Columbia Law School; 14 January, 2005, in New York City.
• "Smoother Plea Negotiations After Blakely," presentation and panel discussion at the National Roundtable on Sentencing at Stanford Law School; 9 October, 2004; Palo Alto, California.
• "Go Slow: A Recommendation for Responding to Blakely v. Washington in the Federal System," written testimony submitted to the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. Senate; 12 July, 2004 (with Berman, Miller, and Demleitner).
• "Crime Politics and Crime Budgets: A National and Historical Perspective on North Carolina's Current Dilemma," presentation to the North Carolina Symposium on Sentencing and Public Safety; 13 April, 2004; Durham, North Carolina.
• "Plausible Sentencing Reforms, Here and Now, From the State Vantage Point," testimony to the Justice Kennedy Commission of the American Bar Association; 13 November, 2003; Washington, D.C.
• "Delivering the Ideas," presentation to the AALS New Law Teachers' Conference, June 2003; Washington, D.C.
• "Researching Prosecution from the Inside Out," presentation to the American Prosecutors Research Institute, May 2003; Washington, D.C.
• "Resource Parity for Defense Counsel," presentation to the Criminal Procedure Discussion Forum, at Washington and Lee University School of Law, May 2003; Lexington, Virginia.
• "The Screening Bargaining Tradeoff," presentation to Stanford Law School, February 2003; Palo Alto, California.  Also presented at Tulane Law School, April 2003; New Orleans, Louisiana.
• "The Supreme Court's Fire and Ice in Criminal Justice," Washington and Lee University School of Law, March 2002; Lexington, Virginia.
• "The Sentencing Judge as Immigration Judge," Emory University School of Law, Thrower Symposium, February 2002; Atlanta, Georgia (with Margaret Taylor).  Also presented to the Carolina Seminar on Law and Public Policy, October 2002; Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
• "Is the Drug War De-Escalating? Where to Look and Where Not to Look for Evidence," Association of American Law Schools, Section on Criminal Justice, January 2002; New Orleans, Louisiana.
• "The House Side of Federal Sentencing in 1984," presentation to the Sentencing Workshop for Federal Defenders and CJA Panel Attorneys, sponsored by the Federal Judicial Center; March 12, 2001, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
• "Trial Rates, Sentencing Departures, Chickens and Eggs," presentation to the Sentencing Workshop for Federal Defenders and CJA Panel Attorneys, sponsored by the Federal Judicial Center; February 28, 2000.
• "Kenneth Starr as an Ordinary Prosecutor," presentation to the North Carolina Civil Liberties Union, Greensboro chapter; October 12, 1998.
• "A New Legislative History of the 1984 Sentencing Reform Act," presentation to the Federal Public Defenders of the Ninth Circuit; September 13, 1998; Las Vegas, Nevada.
• "Georgia's Sentencing Options for 1997-98 and Beyond," Georgia Senate Sentencing Commission; June 18, 1997; Atlanta, Georgia.
• "In Favor of the Proposed Victim's Rights Amendment to the North Carolina Constitution," debate sponsored by the Committee on Constitutional Integrity; Wake Forest University; October 24, 1996.
• Expert Panelist, "On Line Hearing" of the U.S. Sentencing Commission; October 1996.
• "Population Management and Three Phases in the Life of a Sentencing Commission," National Association of State Correctional Administrators; San Diego, California; November 19, 1995.
• Panel Participant, Fourth and Sixth Circuit Departures from the Federal Sentencing Guidelines; Federal Judicial Center, Sentencing Institute for the Fourth and Sixth Circuits; September 10, 1993; Durham, North Carolina.
• Testimony before the North Carolina House Judiciary III Committee, regarding sentencing guidelines legislation; March 11, 1993.
• Panel Participant, Judicial Departures from the Federal Sentencing Guidelines; Federal Judicial Center, Sentencing Institute for the Third, Seventh, and D.C. Circuits; October 30, 1992; Tallahassee, Florida.
• "Challenges to Guideline Sentences Based on Administrative Law Concepts," ABA Second National Institute on Federal Sentencing Guidelines; San Francisco, CA; September 25, 1992.
• Vital Records, Health Statistics, and the Review of Maternal and Infant Mortality; Annual Meeting, Association for Vital Records and Health Statistics; June 26, 1990; Traverse City, Michigan.