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Michael L. Corrado

Arch T. Allen Distinguished Professor of Law

Education

  • J.D. (honors), University of Chicago (1984)
  • Ph.D., Brown University (1970)
  • A.M., Brown University (1968)
  • B.S., Pennsylvania State University (1966)
  • B.A., Pennsylvania State University (1965)

Michael L. Corrado joined the UNC-Chapel Hill law faculty in 1988, and he teaches torts, criminal law, comparative law and philosophy of law. He is editor-in-chief of the interdisciplinary journal Law and Philosophy, co-director of the annual North Carolina Workshop on Law and Philosophy, and editor of a new series of books on comparative law.

During law school, Corrado served as articles editor of the University of Chicago Law Review. After graduation he clerked on the Seventh Circuit and then practiced law in Chicago for three years. Before law school, Corrado taught philosophy at Ohio University. He spent the academic year 1978-79 at the University of Michigan on an NEH postdoctoral fellowship.

Selected Publications

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  • COMPARATIVE CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE (Edward Elgar, forthcoming).
  • PUNISHMENT AND PREVENTIVE DETENTION IN AMERICAN LAW, (University of Trento, forthcoming).
  • COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW: A CASEBOOK (Carolina Academic Press, 2nd ed., forthcoming).
  • Some Notes on Preventive Detention and Psychotherapy, in PSYCHOPATHY AND THE LAW, eds. Kent Kiehl, Stephen Morse, and Walter Sinnot Armstrong (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). [SSRN]
  • Why Do We Resist Hard Incompatibilism? Thoughts on Freedom and Determinism, in THE FUTURE OF REHABILITATION AND PUNISHMENT (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). [SSRN]
  • Book Review [Theory and Practice] 70 ANALYSIS 403 (2009), (reviewing L. Alexander, K. Ferzan, and S. Morse, CRIME AND CULPABILITY:  A THEORY OF CRIMINAL LAW (2010)). [Document Link K5103 .A44 2009]
  • Future of Adversary Systems:  An Introduction to the Papers from the First Conference, 35 N.C. J. INT'L L. & COM. REG. 285 (2010). [Westlaw, Lexis/Nexis, SSRN, Hein]
  • Professor Fontaine and Self-Defense: A Reply to His Rejoinder , 47 AM. CRIM. L. REV. 105 (2010) (symposium). [Westlaw, Lexis/Nexis, SSRN]
  • Purpose, Cause, and Supervenience, 11 ESSAYS IN PHILOSOPHY #1 (2010). [SSRN]
  • Self-Defense, Moral Acceptability, and Compensation: A Response to Professor Fontaine, 47 AM. CRIM. L. REV. 91 (2010) (symposium). [Westlaw, Lexis/Nexis, SSRN]


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