Jordan M. Steiker
- Judge Robert M. Parker Chair of Law
- Professor
Jordan Steiker is an expert on capital punishment and constitutional law and serves as director of the Texas Law Capital Punishment Center. He has written extensively on constitutional law, federal habeas corpus, and the death penalty, including a co-authored report to the American Law Institute prompting the withdrawal of the death penalty provisions of the Model Penal Code. Before joining Texas Law, Professor Steiker served as a law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court.
Featured Work
Professor Steiker joined the faculty in 1990 after serving as a law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. He teaches constitutional law, criminal law, and death penalty law, and is Director of the law school's Capital Punishment Center. He has written extensively on constitutional law, federal habeas corpus, and the death penalty. Some of his recent publications include: Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment (Belknap/Harvard University Press, 2016, with Carol Steiker), winner of the Hamilton Book Award; The American Death Penalty and the (In)Visibility of Race, 82 U. Chi L. Rev 243 (2015) (with Carol Steiker); The Death Penalty from a Consequentialist Perspective, 47 Tex. Tech. L. Rev. 211 (2014). Along with his sister/co-author Professor Carol Steiker, he co-authored the report to the American Law Institute prompting the withdrawal of the death penalty provisions of the Model Penal Code. He has served as a visiting professor to Harvard Law School several times, most recently as the Touroff-Glueck Visiting Professor of Law and Psychiatry, Fall, 2018.
2014
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The Death Penalty and Mass Incarceration: Convergences and Divergences
Jordan M. Steiker, The Death Penalty and Mass Incarceration: Convergences and Divergences, 41 American Journal of Criminal Law 189 (2014) (with Carol S. Steiker). -
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Lessons for Law Reform From the American Experiment with Capital Punishment
Jordan M. Steiker, Lessons for Law Reform From the American Experiment with Capital Punishment, 87 Southern California Law Review 733 (2014) (with Carol S. Steiker). -
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Lessons for Law Reform From the American Experiment with Capital Punishment
Jordan M. Steiker, Lessons for Law Reform From the American Experiment with Capital Punishment, 87 Southern California Law Review 733 (2014) (with Carol S. Steiker). -
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The American Death Penalty from a Consequentialist Perspective
Jordan M. Steiker, The American Death Penalty from a Consequentialist Perspective [Symposium: Homicide], 47 Texas Tech Law Review 211 (2014).
2013
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Miller v. Alabama: Is Death (Still) Different?
Jordan M. Steiker, Miller v. Alabama: Is Death (Still) Different? [Symposium: Youth Matters: Miller v. Alabama and the Future of Juvenile Sentencing], 11 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 37 (2013) (with Carol S. Steiker). -
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The American Death Penalty: Constitutional Regulation as the Distinctive Feature of American Exceptionalism [Symposium: Future of the Death Penalty in America]
Jordan M. Steiker, The American Death Penalty: Constitutional Regulation as the Distinctive Feature of American Exceptionalism [Symposium: Future of the Death Penalty in America], 67 University of Miami Law Review 329 (2013).
2012
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Entrenchment and/or Destabilization? Reflections on (Another) Two Decades of Constitutional Regulation of Capital Punishment
Jordan M. Steiker, Entrenchment and/or Destabilization? Reflections on (Another) Two Decades of Constitutional Regulation of Capital Punishment, 30 Law and Inequality 211 (2012) (with Carol Steiker). -
Book Chapter
Broken and Beyond Repair: The American Death Penalty and the Insuperable Obstacles to Reform
Jordan M. Steiker, Carol S. Steiker, Broken and Beyond Repair: The American Death Penalty and the Insuperable Obstacles to Reform, in OXFORD HANDBOOK OF SENTENCING AND CORRECTIONS, 707 (Joan Petersilia & Kevin Reitz; Oxford University Press, 2012) (with Carol Steiker).
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Book Review
Peculiar Times for a Peculiar Institution
Jordan M. Steiker, Peculiar Times for a Peculiar Institution, 48 Tulsa Law Review 357 (2012) (reviewing Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition, by David Garland).
2011
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Don't Blame Perry for Texas's Execution Addiction. He Doesn't Have Much to Do With It."
Jordan M. Steiker, Don't Blame Perry for Texas's Execution Addiction. He Doesn't Have Much to Do With It., The New Republic, September 2, 2011 (with Carol S. Steiker). <www.tnr.com/article/politics/94478/rick-perry-texas-death-penalty-clemencyref> -
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Don't Blame Perry for Texas's Execution Addiction. He Doesn't Have Much to Do With It.
Jordan M. Steiker, Carol S. Steiker, Don't Blame Perry for Texas's Execution Addiction. He Doesn't Have Much to Do With It., THE NEW REPUBLIC, September 2, 2011 (September 2, 2011) http://www.tnr.com/article/95378/troy-davis-death-penalty-abolish
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Why Death Penalty Opponents Are Closer to Their Goal Than They Realize
Jordan M. Steiker, Why Death Penalty Opponents Are Closer to Their Goal Than They Realize , The New Republic, September 2, 2011 (with Carol S. Steiker). <http://www.tnr.com/article/95378/troy-davis-death-penalty-abolish>
2010
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Cost and Capital Punishment: A New Consideration Transforms an Old Debate
Jordan M. Steiker, Cost and Capital Punishment: A New Consideration Transforms an Old Debate, 2010 University of Chicago Legal Forum 117 (2010) (with Carol S. Steiker). View Article -
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Part II: Report to the ALI Concerning Capital Punishment--Prepared at the Request of ALI Director Lance Liebman by Professors Carol S. Steiker & Jordan M. Steiker
Jordan M. Steiker, Part II: Report to the ALI Concerning Capital Punishment--Prepared at the Request of ALI Director Lance Liebman by Professors Carol S. Steiker & Jordan M. Steiker, 89 Texas Law Review 367 (2010) (with Carol S. Steiker). View Article -
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Capital Punishment: A Century of Discontinuous Debate
Jordan M. Steiker, Capital Punishment: A Century of Discontinuous Debate [Symposium: Centennial Symposium: A Century of Criminal Justice], 100 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 643 (2010)(with Carol S. Steiker). View Article -
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No More Tinkering: The American Law Institute and the Death Penalty Provisions of the Model Penal Code
Jordan M. Steiker, No More Tinkering: The American Law Institute and the Death Penalty Provisions of the Model Penal Code, 89 Texas Law Review 353 (2010) (with Carol S. Steiker). View Article
2009
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Book Chapter
The Role of Constitutional Facts and Social Science Research in Capital Litigation: Is "Proof" of Arbitrariness or Inaccuracy Relevant to the Constitutional Regulation of the American Death Penalty?
Jordan M. Steiker, The Role of Constitutional Facts and Social Science Research in Capital Litigation: Is "Proof" of Arbitrariness or Inaccuracy Relevant to the Constitutional Regulation of the American Death Penalty?, in THE FUTURE OF THE AMERICAN DEATH PENALTY: AN AGENDA FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT RESEARCH 23 (Charles S. Lanier, William J. Bowers, & James R. Acker; Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2009)
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The Beginning of the End? in The Road to Abolition? The Future of Capital Punishment in the United States 97
Jordan M. Steiker, Carol S. Steiker, The Beginning of the End? in THE ROAD TO ABOLITION? THE FUTURE OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN THE UNITED STATES 97 (Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. & Austin Sarat eds., New York: New York University Press, 2009) (with Carol S. Steiker).
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The Beginning of the End?
Jordan M. Steiker, The Beginning of the End? in The Road to Abolition? The Future of Capital Punishment in the United States 97 (Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. & Austin Sarat eds., New York: New York University Press, 2009) (with Carol S. Steiker).
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Death Pentalty Stories
Jordan M. Steiker, Death Penalty Stories (with John H. Blume, eds., New York: Foundation Press, 2009).
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