
Sharon Dolovich
Professor of Law
Faculty Director, UCLA Prison Law & Policy Program
Faculty Director, UCLA Prison Law & Policy Program
B.A. Queen's University
Ph.D. Cambridge University
J.D. Harvard Law School
Ph.D. Cambridge University
J.D. Harvard Law School
UCLA Faculty Since 2000
Books
The New Criminal Justice Thinking
(edited by Sharon Dolovich & Alexandra Natapoff).
NYU Press (2017).
Articles and Chapters
Evading the Eighth Amendment: Prison Conditions and the Courts, in
The Eighth Amendment and Its Future in a New Age of Punishment
(edited by Meghan J. Ryan & William W. Berry III, Cambridge University Press, 2020).
Full Text
Prison Conditions, in
Vol. 4
Reforming Criminal Justice: Punishment, Incarceration, and Release
261
(edited by Erik Luna, Arizona State University, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, 2017).
Full Text
Canons of Evasion in Criminal Constitutional Law, in
The New Criminal Justice Thinking
(edited by Sharon Dolovich & Alexandra Natapoff, NYU Press, 2017).
Introduction: Mapping the New Criminal Justice Thinking (with Alexandra Natapoff),
in
The New Criminal Justice Thinking
(edited by Sharon Dolovich & Alexandra Natapoff, NYU Press, 2017).
Two Models of the Prison: Accidental Humanity and Hypermasculinity in the L.A. County Jail, 102
Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology
965
(2012).
Full Text
Teaching Prison Law, 62
Journal of Legal Education
218
(2012).
Full Text
Creating the Permanent Prisoner, in
Life Without Parole: America's New Death Penalty?
(edited by Charles Ogletree and Austin Sarat, NYU Press, 2012).
Full Text
Forms of Deference in Prison Law, 24
Federal Sentencing Reporter
245
(2012).
Full Text
Exclusion and Control in the Carceral State, 16
Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law
259
(2011).
Full Text
Strategic Segregation in the Modern Prison, 48
American Criminal Law Review
1
(2011).
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Incarceration American-Style, 3
Harvard Law And Policy Review
237
(2009).
Full Text
Cruelty, Prison Conditions and the Eighth Amendment, 84
New York University Law Review
881
(2009).
Full Text
How Privatization Thinks: The Case of Prisons, in
Government by Contract: Outsourcing and American Democracy
128
(edited by Jody Freeman and Martha Minow, Harvard University Press, 2009).
Full Text
State Punishment and Private Prisons, 55
Duke Law Journal
439-548
(2005).
Full Text
Legitimate Punishment in Liberal Democracy, 7
Buffalo Criminal Law Review
307
(2004).
Full Text
Idealism, Disproportionality, and Democracy: A Reply to Chambers and Garvey, 7
Buffalo Criminal Law Review
479
(2004).
Full Text
Ethical Lawyering and the Possibility of Integrity, 70
Fordham Law Review
1629
(2002).
Full Text
Note: Making Docile Lawyers: An Essay on the Pacification of Law Students, 111
Harvard Law Review
2027
(1998).
Full Text
Book Review, Leaving the Law Behind, 20
Harvard Women’s Law Journal
313-31
(1997).
Reviewing The Rooster’s Egg: On the Persistence of Prejudice, by Patricia Williams. Full Text
Case Comment: Qualified Immunity – Privatized Governmental Functions: Richardson v. McKnight, 117 S. Ct.2100, 111
Harvard Law Review
390
(1997).
Full Text
Recent Legislation: Welfare Reform – Punishment of Drug Offenders – Congress Denies Cash Assistance and Food Stamps to Drug Felons: Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, Public Law No. 104-193 § 115 (to be codified at 42 U.S.C. §862A), 110
Harvard Law Review
983
(1997).
Full Text
Other
Constitution 2020: Prison Conditions and the Eighth Amendment, (September 29, 2010).
Blog post on Balkinization, leading blog on constitutional law.
Book Review, Balancing the Scales of Justice, Los Angeles Times Book Review
(October 12, 2003).
Reviewing Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer’s Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty, by Scott Turow.
Even the Worst Thug is Human, Your Honor, Los Angeles Times
(July 7, 2002).
In Memoriam: David Charny, 17
Harvard Blackletter Law Journal
7-11
(2001).
Invasion of SWAT Teams Leaves Trauma and Death, Los Angeles Times
(September 22, 2000).
Saying No to the War on Drugs, Harvard Law Record
(April 19, 1996).
Beyond Liberal v. Conservative, Harvard Law Record
(March 1, 1996).
Looking Back, Thinking Ahead, Globe & Mail
(June 10, 1995).
Dispatch from Hong Kong.
Where Ghosts Walk the Streets, Globe & Mail
(May 16, 1992).
Dispatch from Czechoslovakia.
Learning a Bitter Lesson, Globe & Mail
(Sep. 21, 1991).
Dispatch from the West Bank.