Law Office of Margaret Love

• Books
• On-line Legal Research Archive
• Articles on Pardon
• Articles on Collateral Consequences
• Articles on Sentencing and Corrections
• Articles on Ethics
• Op Eds and Selected Blog Posts
• Reports

Books

• Collateral Consequences of Criminal Conviction: Law, Policy and Practice
  (ThompsonWest/NACDL 2016) (with Cecelia Klingele and Jenny Roberts) (2d ed.)
  • Updated State-by-State Profiles and Charts on Restoration of Rights and Status
  • Order Form
• Relief from the Collateral Consequences of a Criminal Conviction: State by State Resource Guide (W.S. Hein 2006)

On-Line Legal Research Archive

• Collateral Consequences Resource Center, www.ccresourcecenter.org
• Restoration of Rights Project, www.nacdl.org/rightsrestoration

Articles on Pardon

• Obama’s Clemency Legacy: An Assessment
  29 Federal Sentencing Reporter 271 (2017)
• Justice Department Administration of the President’s Pardon Power: A Case Study in Institutional Conflict of Interest
  47 University of Toledo Law Review 89 (2016)
• Reinvigorating the Federal Pardon Process: What the President Can Learn from the States
  University of St. Thomas Law Review 730 (2013)
• When the Punishment Doesn’t Fit the Crime: Reinventing Forgiveness in Unforgiving Times,
  Human Rights (Nov. 2011)
• The Twilight of the Pardon Power,
  100 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 1169 (2010)
• Taking a Serious Look at “Second Look” Sentencing Reforms 22 Federal Sentencing Reporter 149 (2009)
• Reinventing the President’s Pardon Power
  20 Federal Sentencing Reporter 5 ( 2007)
• Reviving the Benign Prerogative of Pardoning
  Litigation Magazine (Winter 2005 – 2006)
• Mandatory Sentences and Presidential Mercy: The Role of Judges in Pardon Cases, 1790–1850
  Federal Sentencing Reporter, February 2004 (with George Lardner)
• The Pardon Paradox: Lessons of Clinton’s Last Pardons,
  32 Capitol Law Review 185 (2002)
• Pardon Power and Sentencing Policy
  13 Federal Sentencing Reporter (2000 – 2001) (guest editor)
• Fear of Forgiving: Rule and Discretion in the Theory and Practice of Pardoning,
  13 Federal Sentencing Reporter (2000-01)
• Of Pardons, Politics and Collar Buttons: Reflections on the President’s Duty to Be Merciful,
  27 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1483 (2000).

Articles on Collateral Consequences

• Managing Collateral Consequences in the Sentencing Process: The Revised Sentencing Articles of the Model Penal Code, 2015 Wis. L. Rev. 247 (2015)
• The Collateral Consequences of Padilla v. Kentucky: Is Forgiveness Now Constitutionally Required?,
  160 U. Penn. L. Rev. Pennumbra 113 (2011)
• Collateral Consequences After Padilla v. Kentucky: From Punishment to Regulation , 30 St. Louis Pub. L. Rev 87 (2011)
• Evolving Standards of Reasonableness: The ABA Standards and the Right to Counsel in Plea Negotiations, 39 Fordham Urban Law Journal 147 (2011)
• Paying Their Debt to Society: Forgiveness, Redemption, and the Uniform Collateral Consequences of Conviction Act, Howard L. J. 753 (2011)
• Status as Punishment: A Critical Guide to Padilla v. Kentucky,
  Criminal Justice Magazine (Fall 2010)
• Padilla v. Kentucky: The Right to Counsel and the Collateral Consequences of Conviction, (with Gabriel J. Chin) (Fall, 2010)
• A New Look at a Very Old Subject: The Uniform Collateral Consequences of Conviction Act, Prison Legal News, (March 2010)
• Alternatives to Conviction: Deferred Adjudication as a Way of Avoiding Collateral Consequences, Federal Sentencing Reporter, (October 2009)
• Certificates of Rehabilitation and Other Forms of Relief from the Collateral Consequences of Conviction: A Survey of State Laws (with April Frazier) (October 2006)
• The Debt that Can Never Be Paid: Report Card on the Collateral Consequences of Conviction,
  21 Criminal Justice 16 (Fall 2006)
• Relief from the Collateral Consequences of Conviction, National HIRE Network Newsletter (2005-2006)
• Starting Over With a Clean Slate: In Praise of a Forgotten Section of the Model Penal Code, 30 Fordham Urban Law Journal 101 (2003)

Articles on Sentencing and Corrections

• Gender & Sexuality in the ABA Standards on the Treatment of Prisoners,
  38 Wm. Mitchell. L. Rev. 2116 (2012) (with Giovanna Shay)
• First Thoughts about “Second Look” and Other Sentence Reduction Provisions of the Model Penal Code: Sentencing Revision,
  42 U. Toledo L. Rev. 859 (2011) (with Cecelia Klingele)
• Taking a Serious Look at “Second Look” Sentencing Reforms,
  22 Federal Sentencing Reporter 149 (2009)
• Sentence Reduction Mechanisms in a Determinate Sentencing System: Report of the Second Look Roundtable
  22 Federal Sentencing Reporter 211 (2009)
• ABA Criminal Justice Standards on the Treatment of Prisoners,
  Criminal Justice Magazine, (Summer 2010) (with Margo Schlanger and Carl Reynolds)

Articles on Ethics

• The Revised ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct: Summary of the Work of Ethics 2000,
  15 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 441 (2002)

Op Eds and Selected Blog Posts

• Presidential pardons have lost their true purpose 
  Washington Post, Op-ed, August 29, 2017
• Should the AG Look Outside BOP For Its New Director?
  The Crime Report, August 13, 2015
• Clemency is Not the Answer
  The Crime Report, July 13, 2015
• What’s In a Name? A Lot, When the Name is “Felon”
  The Crime Report, March 13, 2012
• Expungement of Criminal Records: “The Big Lie,”
  The Crime Report, June 23, 2011
• Time to pardon people as well as turkeys, Mr. President
  Washington Post, Op-Ed, November 12, 2010
• The Quality of Mercy in New York: A Different Kind of State Challenge to Federal Immigration Policy
  ACSblog, October 28, 2010
• Looking for the President’s Pardon Power? Try the Supreme Court.
  ACSblog, April 14, 2010
• Goodbye to Willie Horton
  The National Law Journal, January 11, 2010
• Crime, Politics, and The 24-Hour News Cycle
  The Crime Report, December 24, 2009
• Final Report Card on Pardoning by George W. Bush
  January 27, 2009 (rev. March 13, 2009)
• Reinvigorate The Power
  The National Law Journal, February 23, 2009 (with John Stanish)
• On Pardon Transparency and Access
  National Law Review, Interview, November 26, 2008
• In Defense Of Lame Duck Pardons
  Washington Post, Op-Ed, November 18, 2007
• Begging Bush’s Pardon
  Los Angeles Times, Op-Ed, June 7, 2007
• The Quality of the President’s Mercy
  New York Times, Op-Ed, December 19, 2004
• A Place for Pardons
  Washington Post, Op-Ed, December 21, 1998
• Rescuing The Pardon Power
  Washington Post, Op-Ed, January 25, 2001
• Testimony on Clinton Pardons:
  http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/love1.htm (2001 Senate testimony) http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/love2.htm (2001 House testimony)
• Testimony before the United States Sentencing Commission on Reduction in Term of Imprisonment under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c/)(1)(A)(i)

Reports

• NACDL, Collateral Damage: America’s Failure to Forgive or Forget in the War on Crime: A Roadmap to Restore Rights and Status After Conviction (2014)
• ABA Criminal Justice Standards on the Treatment of Prisoners (chaired drafting committee)
• ABA Criminal Justice Standards on Collateral Sanctions and Discretionary Disqualification of Convicted Person (chaired drafting committee)
• Uniform Collateral Consequences of Conviction Act (ABA liaison to drafting task force)
• Internal Exile: Survey of the Collateral Consequences of Conviction Under Federal Law, ABA Commission on Effective Criminal Sanctions and District of Columbia Public Defender Service (with Kelly Salzmann) (2008)
• Second Chances in the Criminal Justice System: Alternatives to Incarceration and Reentry Strategies, ABA Commission on Effective Criminal Sanctions (2008) (Director)
• Report of the American Bar Association Justice Kennedy Commission (2004) (with Stephen A. Saltzburg and Angela Jordan Davis)

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