LEE, CYNTHIA
BOOKS
Searches and Seizures: The Fourth Amendment, Its Constitutional History and the Contemporary Debate. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2010.
(With Harris, Angela). Criminal Law: Cases and Materials. 2nd ed. St. Paul: West, 2009.
First edition published in 2005.
Murder and the Reasonable Man: Passion and Fear in the Criminal Courtroom. New York: New York University Press, 2003.
LAW REVIEW ARTICLES & CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
"Reasonableness with Teeth: The Future of Fourth Amendment Reasonableness Analysis," 81 Mississippi Law Journal 1133-1182 (2012).
"The Future of 'Reasonableness' Analysis: When Is a Search or Seizure Justified?," 81 Mississipi Law Journal 1133-1182 (2012).
"Package Bombs, Footlockers and Laptops: What the Disappearing Container Doctrine Can Tell Us about the Fourth Amendment," 100 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 1403-1494 (2010).
Available at http://www.law.northwestern.edu/jclc/backissues/v100/n4/1004_1403.Lee.pdf.
"Hate Crimes and the War on Terror," in 5 Hate Crimes: Responding to Hate Crime, p. 139-166. Edited by Barbara Perry; Frederick M. Lawrence, volume editor. Westport, CT : Praeger Publishers, 2009.
"Reasonable Provocation and Self-Defense: Recognizing the Disctincton between Act Reasonableness and Emotion Reasonableness," in Criminal Law Conversations, p. 427-448. Edited by Paul H. Robinson, Stephen Garvey and Kimberly Ferzan. New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
(With Harris, Angela P.) "Teaching Criminal Law from a Critical Perspective," (Commentary Symposium: Criminal Law, Casebooks, and Legal Education) 7 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 261-266 (2009).
"The Gay Panic Defense," 42 UC Davis Law Review 471-566 (2008).
"Cultural convergence: Interest Convergence Theory Meets the Cultural Defense," 49 Arizona Law Review 911-959 (2007).
"'Murder and the Reasonable Man' Revisited: A Response to Victoria Nourse." 3 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 301-306 (2005).
"'But I Thought He Had a Gun': Race and Police Use of Deadly Force." 2 Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal1-51 (2004).
"Culture and Crime." 9 Goal IX, No. 3, p. 1 (Summer 2003).
"Race and the Victim: An Examination of Capital Sentencing and Guilt Attribution Studies." 73 Chicago-Kent Law Review 533-558 (1998).
"The Act-Belief Distinction in Self-Defense Doctrine: A New Dual Requirement Theory of Justification." 2 Buffalo Criminal Law Review 191-247 (1998).
"A New 'Sliding Scale of Deference' Approach to Abuse of Discretion: Appellate Review of District Court Departures under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines." 35 American Criminal Law Review 1-55 (1997).
"From Gatekeeper to Concierge: The Federal Prosecutor's Expanding Power over Substantial Assistance Departures." 50 Rutgers Law Review 199-251 (1997).
"Race and Self Defense: Toward a Normative Conception of Reasonableness." 81 Minnesota Law Review 367-500 (1996).
Reprinted two-part series in 5 Criminal Practice Law Reporter 25 (1997) and 5 Criminal Practice Law Reporter 33 (1997).
Reprinted in Race and Races: American Law in Critical Context. St. Paul: West, 1999.
Reprinted in Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999.
"Beyond Black and White: Racializing Asian Americans in a Society Obsessed with O.J." 6 Hastings Women's Law Journal 165-207 (1995).
Adapted version published in Asian Week 12 (Nov. 12, 1995).
"Prosecutorial Discretion, Substantial Assistance, and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines." 42 UCLA Law Review 105-180 (1994).
Reprinted in 3 Criminal Practice Law Reporter 17 (1995).
Reprinted in 18 Criminal Law Review 443 (1996).
"The Sentencing Court's Decision to Depart Downward in Recognition of a Defendant's Substantial Assistance: A Proposal to Eliminate the Government Motion Requirement." 23 Indiana Law Review 681-702 (1990).
"Freedom of Speech in the Public Workplace: A Comment on the Public Concern Requirement." 76 California Law Review 1109-1146 (1988).