Luis E. Chiesa

My research lies at the intersection of criminal law, philosophy, and comparative law. Drawing from my experience teaching and lecturing about criminal law in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe, and Asia, my work aims to understand and critique domestic criminal law doctrines by looking at how other countries approach basic concepts of criminal theory.” PROFESSOR VICE DEAN FOR DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION DIRECTOR OF THE BUFFALO CRIMINAL LAW CENTER

JSD, Columbia Law School LLM, Columbia Law School JD, University of Puerto Rico Law School BBA, University of Puerto Rico

(716) 645-3152 lechiesa@buffalo.edu

AREAS OF INTEREST

ANIMAL CRUELTY LAWS CRIMINAL LAW CRIMINAL PROCEDURE TORTS JURISPRUDENCE MINDFULNESS AND LAW

ARTICLES Selective Incompatibilism, Free Will, and the (Limited) Role of Retribution in Punishment Theory, 71 Rutgers Law Review 977 (2020).

Sexual Lynching, 29 Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy 759 (2020).

Comparative Analysis as an Antidote to Tunnel Vision in Criminal Law Reform: The Example of Complicity, 70 Rutgers Law Review 1117 (2018).

Mens Rea in Comparative Perspective, 102 Marquette Law Review 575 (2018).

The Model Penal Code, Mass Incarceration, and the Racialization of American Criminal Law, 25 George Mason Law Review 605 (2018).

The Puzzle of Inciting Suicide (with Guyora Binder), 56 American Criminal Law Review 65 (2018).