Books

• Criminal Procedures: Cases, Statutes, and Executive Materials (Aspen Publishers) (4th edition, 2011) (with Marc L. Miller).
• Criminal Procedures -- Prosecution and Adjudication: Cases, Statutes, and Executive Materials (Aspen Publishers) (4th edition, 2011) (with Marc L. Miller).
• Criminal Procedures -- The Police: Cases, Statutes, and Executive Materials (Aspen Publishers) (4th edition, 2011) (with Marc L. Miller).
• Criminal Procedures:  Cases, Statutes, and Executive Materials (Aspen Publishers) (3d edition, 2007) (with Marc L. Miller).
• Sentencing Law and Policy:  Cases, Statutes, and Guidelines (Aspen Publishers) (2d edition, 2007) (with Nora Demleitner, Douglas Berman, and Marc Miller).
• Criminal Procedures - Prosecution and Adjudication:  Cases, Statutes, and Executive Materials (Aspen Publishers) (3d edition, 2007) (with Marc Miller) (paperback edition).
• Criminal Procedures - The Police:  Cases, Statutes, and Executive Materials (Aspen Publishers) (3d edition, 2007) (with Marc L. Miller) (paperback edition).
• Criminal Procedures - Prosecution and Adjudication: Cases, Statutes, and Executive Materials (Aspen Publishers) (2d edition, 2005) (with Marc Miller).
• Sentencing Law and Policy.  Nora V. Demleitner, Douglas A. Berman, Marc L. Miller, Ronald F. Wright.  New York:  Aspen, c2004.
• Criminal Procedures: Cases, Statutes, and Executive Materials.  2nd ed.  By Marc L. Miller, Ronald F. Wright. New York, NY: Aspen , c2003. 
• Criminal Procedures - The Police:  Cases, Statutes and Executive Materials.   By Marc L. Miller, Ronald F. Wright.  Aspen Law & Business, c1999. 
• Criminal Procedures - Prosecution and Adjudication: Cases, Statutes and Executive Materials.  By Marc L. Miller, Ronald F. Wright.  New York, NY: Aspen Law & Business, c1999. 
• Criminal Procedures: Cases, Statutes, and Executive Materials.  By Marc L. Miller, Ronald F. Wright. New York, NY: Aspen Law & Business, c1998. 

Articles, Parts of Books, Book Reviews

• "Padilla and the Delivery of Integrated Criminal Defense," 58 UCLA L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2011), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1804207.
• "Portable Minimalism in Sentencing Politics," 32 Cardozo L. Rev. de-novo 9-22 (2011), available at http://www.cardozolawreview.com/content/denovo/Wright_2011_9.pdf.
• "Reporting for Duty: The Universal Prosecutorial Accountability Puzzle and an Experimental Transparency Alternative," in Transnational Perspectives on Prosecutorial Power (Erik Luna and Marianne Wade eds., forthcoming 2011) (with Marc Miller).
• "The Future of the Administrative Presidency: Turning Administrative Law Inside-Out," 65 U. Miami L. Rev. 577-620 (2011) (with Sid Shapiro) (symposium issue), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1738491.
• "Charging and Plea Bargaining as Forms of Sentencing Discretion," Oxford Handbook on Sentencing and Corrections (Kevin Reitz & Joan Peterselia, ed., forthcoming 2011).
• "The Worldwide Accountability Deficit for Criminal Prosecutors," 67 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1587-1620 (2010) (symposium issue) (with Marc Miller), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1699266.
• "Public Defender Elections and Public Control of Criminal Justice," 75 Mo. L. Rev. 803-829 (2010) (symposium issue), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1591008.
• "New Perspectives on Brady and Other Disclosure Obligations: Report of the Working Groups on Best Practices," 31 Cardozo L. Rev. 1961, 1995-2010 (2010) (author of part IV, System and Culture).
• "Why is Criminal Justice Only Partially Privatized?" Jotwell.com (11 February 2010), available at http://crim.jotwell.com/why-is-criminal-justice-only-partially-privatized/.
• "Fragmented Users of Crime Predictions," 52 Ariz. L. Rev. 91-96 (2010).
• "Mexican Drug Violence and Adversarial Experiments," 35 N.C. J. Int'l L. & Comm. Reg. 363-385 (2010), electronic copy available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1481263.
• "Grand Juries and Expertise in the Administrative State," in Grand Jury 2.0: Modern Perspectives on the Grand Jury (Roger Fairfax, ed. 2010).
• "How Prosecutor Elections Fail Us," 6 Ohio St. J. Crim. Law 581-610 (2009), electronic copy available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1339939.
• "Prosecutor Elections and Overdepth in Criminal Codes," in Criminal Law Conversations (Paul Robinson, Kimberly Ferzan, and Steven Garvey, eds., forthcoming 2009).
• "Subjective and Objective Discretion of Prosecutors," in Criminal Law Conversations (Paul Robinson, Kimberly Ferzan, and Steven Garvey, eds., forthcoming 2009) (with Marc Miller).
• "Guilty Pleas and Sub-Markets," 157 U. Pa. L. Rev. PENNumbra 68 (2008), electronic copy available at www.pennumbra.com/responses/11-2008/Wright.pdf.
• "The Black Box," 94 Iowa L. Rev. 125-196 (2008) (with Marc Miller), electronic copy available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1264010.
• "Leaky Floors:  State Law Below Federal Constitutional Limits," 50 Ariz. L. Rev. 227-259 (2008) (with Marc Miller) (symposium issue).
• "Dead Wrong," 2008 Utah L. Rev. 89-106 (with Marc Miller) (symposium issue), electronic copy at papers.ssrn.com/abstract=1076823.
• "Systematic Content Analysis of Judicial Opinions," 95 Calif. L. Rev. 63-122 (2008) (with Mark Hall), electronic copy at papers.ssrn.com/abstract=913336.
• "Charge Movement and Theories of Prosecutors," 90 Marquette L. Rev. 9-38 (2007) (with Rodney Engen) (symposium issue), electronic copy at papers.ssrn.com/abstract=1034219.
• "The Charging and Sentencing Effects of Depth and Distance in a Criminal Code," 84 N.C. L. Rev. 1935-1982 (2006) (with Rodney Engen), electronic copy at papers.ssrn.com/abstract=900622.
• "Federal or State? Sorting as a Sentencing Choice," Criminal Justice (Summer 2006) (symposium issue).
• "The Power of Bureaucracy in the Response to Blakely and Booker," 43 Houston L. Rev. 389-414 (2006) (symposium issue) (electronic copy at http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=885513).
• "Incremental and Incendiary Rhetoric in  Sentencing After Blakely and Booker," 11  Roger Williams Univ. L. Rev. 461-471 (2006) (symposium issue).
• Entries for "Mandatory Minimum Sentences" and "Sentencing Guidelines" in the Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties (forthcoming 2006).
• "The Political Economy of Up-Front Fees for Indigent Criminal Defense Counsel," 47 William & Mary L. Rev. 2045-2087 (2006) (with Wayne Logan) (electronic copy at http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=805426).
• "Blakely and the Centralizers in North Carolina," 18 Fed. Sentencing Reporter 19-22 (2005).
• "The Wisdom We Have Lost: Sentencing Information in the Federal System," 58 Stan. L. Rev. 361-380 (2005) (with Marc Miller) (electronic copy at http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=838393).
• "Trial Distortion and the End of Innocence in Federal Criminal Justice," 154 U. Pa. L. Rev. 79-154 (2005) (electronic copy at http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=702901).
• "Sentencing Commissions as Provocateurs of Prosecutorial Self-Regulation," 105 Colum. L. Rev. 1010-1047 (2005) (symposium issue) (electronic copy at http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=658501).
• "Proceedings, The Future of American Sentencing: A National Roundtable on Blakely," 2 Ohio State J. of Crim. Law 622, 644-645 (2005).
• "Prosecutorial Guidelines and the New Terrain in New Jersey," 109 Penn. St. L. Rev. 1087-1105 (2005) (symposium issue) (electronic copy at http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=732545).
• "The Future of American Sentencing: A National Roundtable on Blakely," 17 Fed. Sentencing Reporter 115, 123-130 (2004).
• "Secret Police and the Mysterious Case of the Missing Tort Cases," 52 Buff. L. Rev. 757-791 (2004) (with Marc Miller) (electronic copy at http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=611944).
• "Parity of Resources for Defense Counsel and the Reach of Public Choice Theory," 90 Iowa L. Rev. 219-268 (2004), (electronic copy at http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=515382)
• "Prosecutor Rex," Philadelphia Inquirer, 19 December, 2003 (with Marc Miller)
• Criminal Procedures: Cases, Statutes, and Executive Materials.  2004 Supplement by Marc L. Miller, Ronald Wright.  Gaithersburg, [MD]: Aspen Law & Business, 2000. 
• "Honesty and Opacity in Charge Bargains," 55 Stanford Law Review (2003) 1409-1417 (with Marc Miller).
• "Tough Times for Hard Time," 33 Wake Forest Jurist Magazine (Summer 2003) 14-17.
• "The Right to Refuse Searches Is In Danger," Los Angeles Times, April 15, 2002 (with Marc Miller).
• Criminal Procedures: Cases, Statutes, and Executive Materials.  2003 Supplement by Marc L. Miller, Ronald Wright.  Gaithersburg, [MD]: Aspen Law & Business, 2000. 
• "How the Supreme Court Delivers Fire and Ice to State Criminal Justice."  Washington and Lee Law Review 59 no. 4 (Fall 2002) 1429-1457.
• "The Sentencing Judge as Immigration Judge,"  Emory Law Journal 51, no. 3 (summer 2002): p. [1131]-1185.  By Margaret Taylor and Ronald F. Wright.
• "The Screening/Bargaining Tradeoff."  Stanford Law Review 55, no. 1 (Oct. 2002): 29-118 (with Marc Miller).  (http://lawreview.stanford.edu/content/vol55/1/Wright_Miller.pdf).
• "Counting Cases about Milk, Our "Most Nearly Perfect" Food," 1860-1940  Law & Society Review 36, no. 1 (2002): 51-112 (with Paul Huck). 
• "Counting the Cost of Sentencing in North Carolina," 1980-2000.  Crime and Justice: A Review of Research 29 (2002): 39-112.
• "Are the Drug Wars De-Escalating?" Federal Sentencing Reporter 14, no. 3-4 (Nov./Dec 2001-Jan./Feb. 2002): 141-146. 
• Criminal Procedures: Cases, Statutes, and Executive Materials.  2002 Supplement by Marc L. Miller, Ronald Wright.  Gaithersburg, [MD]: Aspen Law & Business, 2000. 
• "The Canadian Difference in Sentencing," 3 Punishment & Society 550 (2001) (reviewing "Making Sense of Sentencing," Julian Roberts and David Cole, eds.)
• Criminal Procedures: Cases, Statutes, and Executive Materials.  2001 Supplement by Marc L. Miller, Ronald Wright.  Gaithersburg, [MD]: Aspen Law & Business, 2000. 
• "Judge Frank Johnson in the Long Run," with Kathryn Abrams, Alabama Law Review 51, no. 4 (Summer 2000): 407-468. 
• The Abruptness of Acton," Criminal Law Bulletin 36, no. 5 (September-October 2000): 401-431. 
• Criminal Procedures: Cases, Statutes, and Executive Materials.  2000 Supplement by Marc L. Miller, Ronald Wright.  Gaithersburg, [MD]: Aspen Law & Business, 2000. 
• Chapter in: Historical Encyclopedia of U.S. Independent Counsel Investigations.  Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, c2000.
• "Empty Heart, Vibrant Corpus," Federal Sentencing Reporter 12, no. 2 (September/October 1999): 86-91 (with Marc Miller). 
• Criminal Procedures: Cases, Statutes, and Executive Materials.  1999 Supplement by Marc L. Miller, Ronald Wright.  Gaithersburg, [MD]: Aspen Law & Business, c1999. 
• "Your Cheatin' Heart(land): The Long Search for Administrative Sentencing Justice," Marc L. Miller and Ronald F. Wright. Buffalo Criminal Law Review 2, no. 2 (1999): [723]-813. 
• "Rules for Sentencing Revolutions,"  The Yale Law Journal 108, no. 6 (April 1999): 1355-1387.
• "The Future of Responsive Sentencing in North Carolina,"  Federal Sentencing Reporter 11, no. 4 (January/February 1999): 215-218. 
• "Flexibility in North Carolina Structured Sentencing," 1995-1997, Overcrowded Times 9, no. 6 (December 1998): [1], 11-15.
• "Three Strikes Legislation and Sentencing Commission Objectives,"  Law & Policy 20, no. 4 (October 1998):  [429]-463. 
• "Teaching Holistic Sentencing," Marc Miller and Ronald Wright. Federal Sentencing Reporter 10, no. 6 (May/June 1998): 338-343.
• "Managing Prison Growth in North Carolina Through Structured Sentencing,"  Program Focus series, National Institute of Justice, NCJ168994 (February 1998): [16 p.]
• Book Review: The Constitution and Criminal Procedure: First Principles. Constitutional Commentary 14, no. 3 (1997): 557-571.
• "When Do We Want Incomplete Agreements? A Comment on Sunstein's Holmes Devise Lecture," Wake Forest Law Review 31, no. 2 (Summer 1996): 459-470.
• "Congressional Use of Immunity Grants After Iran-Contra," Minnesota Law Review 80,  no. 2 (December 1995).  407-468.
• "Three Strikes Legislation and a Sinking Fund Proposal," Federal Sentencing Reporter 8,  no. 2 (September/October 1995). 80-83. 
• "Sentencing Guidelines of the Right Sort," Judicature 78, no. 4 (January-February 1995): 168. 
• "North Carolina Avoids Early Trouble with Guidelines," Overcrowded Times 6, no. 1 (February 1995): 1, 16-18. 
• Administrative Law and Practice  vol. 2 1994 Supplement. By Charles H. Koch, Jr. and Ronald F. Wright, Jr.  St. Paul, Minn. : West, 1994.
• "Amendments in the Route to Sentencing Reform," Criminal Justice Reform 13, (Winter-Spring 1994):  58-66.
• "NC Prepares for Guideline Sentencing," Overcrowded Times: Solving the Prison Problem 5, no. 1 (February 1994): 1, 11-14.
• "Federal Sentencing Law in the Supreme Court's 1992-1993 Term,"  Federal Sentencing Reporter 6, no. 1 (July/August 1993), 39-42.
• "A Progress Report on the North Carolina Sentencing and Policy Advisory Commission,"  Wake Forest Law Review 28, no. 2 (Summer 1993):  421-461 (with Susan Ellis). 
• "Drug Sentences as a Reform Priority," Federal Sentencing Reporter 5, no. 4 (January/February 1993), 199-200.
• "A Post-Webster Reminder about Delegation and Regulation," Chapter 7 in Abortion and the States: Political Change and Future Regulation  Edited by Jane B. Wishner, 101-107. Chicago, American Bar Association, Section of Urban, State and Local Government Law, 1993. 
• "The Law of Federal Sentencing in the Supreme Court's 1991-92 Term,"  Federal Sentencing Reporter 5, no. 2 (September/October 1992), 108-111.
• "Challenges to Guideline Sentences Based on Administrative Law Concepts,"  In The Second National Institute on Federal Sentencing Guidelines  A Publication of the American Bar Association, Section of Criminal Justice and the Division for Professional Education. [Chicago, Ill.]:  American Bar Association, 1992.
• "Why Not Administrative Grand Juries?," Administrative Law Review 44, no. 3 (Summer 1992), 465-521.
• "Complexity and Distrust in Sentencing Guidelines,"  U.C. Davis Law Review 25, no. 3 (Spring 1992), 616-637.
• "Drugs and Druggists," Personal Injury- Actions, Defenses, Damages 3B, Drugs 1- Drugs 148. Edited by Louis R. Frumer and Melvin I. Friedman. New York: Matthew Bender & Co. 1992.
• "The Sentencing Commission as an Administrative Agency," Federal Sentencing Reporter 4, no. 3 (November/December 1991): 134-136.
• "Sentencing Law in the Supreme Court's 1990-91 Term," Federal Sentencing Reporter 4, no. 1 (July/August 1991): 58-59.
• "Sentencers, Bureaucrats, and the Administrative Law Perspective on the Federal Sentencing Commission," California Law Review 79, no. 1 (January 1991), 1-90.
• "Letters From Beyond the Regulatory State," The Yale Law Journal 100, no. 3 (December 1990): 825-851.
• "Kent Greenawalt and the Border Skirmishes of the First Amendment,"  Emory Law Journal  39, no. 4 (Fall 1990): 1245-1260.
• "Are Expert Review Committees Protected?,"  Washington, D.C. : The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists 1990 (with Jack Smith).
• "State Level Expert Review Committees? Are They Protected?," Public Health Reports 105, no.1 (January-February 1990): 13-23 (with Jack Smith).
• "The Proposed Organizational Sanctions Guidelines and the Issue of Corporate Probation," Federal Sentencing Reporter 1, no.5 (November 1988): 295-298. 
• "Post Mistretta Forum: How Can Guideline Sentencing Be Improved?," Federal Sentencing Reporter 1, no. 8 (February/March 1989): 374.
• "Judge Frank Johnson of Alabama," Annual Survey of  American Law (1987): xix-xxi. 
• "In Your Court:  State Judicial Federalism in Capital Cases," The Urban Lawyer 18, no.3 (Summer 1986):  659-705 (with Marc Miller). 
• "The Civil and Criminal Methodologies of the Fourth Amendment," The Yale Law Journal 93, no. 6 (May 1984):  1127-1146.