Criminal Law

I would like to thank Professor Alison Siegler for introducing me to the law on joinder. This Comment would not exist without her guidance and support. I would also like to thank the talented editors of the Law Review for their helpful comments and suggestions.

The author would like to thank Albertina Antognini, Annette Appell, Elizabeth Chambliss, Martin Guggenheim, Avni Gupta-Kagan, Clare Huntington, Cortney Lollar, Adrian Smith, Robin Walker-Sterling, and participants in a faculty workshop at the University of Kentucky College of Law and Duke Law School’s 2015 conference on civil rights, “The Present and Future of Civil Rights Movements: Race and Reform in 21st Century America,” for thoughtful comments on earlier drafts. The author would like to thank Joni Gerrity for excellent research assistance.

The author thanks James G. Hein, Jr and Richard H. McAdams for helpful comments. This Essay was written for a festschrift honoring Judge Frank H. Easterbrook’s twenty-five years on the Seventh Circuit.

I thank Frank Easterbrook, Tom Gorman, Bernard Harcourt, Carissa Hessick, Richard McAdams, and David Sklansky for helpful comments.

The author thanks Ronen Avraham, Howard Beales, Nevin Gewertz, Bernard Harcourt, Uri Itkin, Sarah Lawsky, Ronald Lee, Doug Lichtman, Tom Miles, Beth Milnikel, Jide Nzelibe, Adam Samaha, Max Schanzenbach, Paul Schwartz, David Weisbach, and Noah Zatz for their comments and suggestions, Levi Giovanetto for research assistance, and the Morton C. Seeley Fund and Visa, USA, Inc for generous research support. The author particularly thanks participants in The University of Chicago Law School’s Surveillance Symposium for their suggestions, as well as workshop participants at Northwestern and The University of Chicago.

My work on criminal justice has been greatly influenced by conversations with three extraordinary colleagues: Lawrence Friedman, Mark Kelman, and Robert Weisberg. I thank them for their generous willingness to share their thoughts on the field. Needless to say, I absolve them (and anyone else) of responsibility for any errors or omissions.

The authors would like to thank Jason Friedman, Ben Schaye, and Grace Tabib for excellent research assistance. The authors also thank participants in workshops at Harvard Law School, Yale Law School, and the University of Minnesota School of Law for helpful comments.