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Friday, December 05, 2025

Balkinization Symposium on Judith Resnik, Impermissible Punishments-- Collected Posts

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Here are the collected essays for our Balkinization symposium on Judith Resnik, Impermissible Punishments: How Prison Became a Problem for Democracy (University of Chicago Press, 2025).

1. Jack Balkin, Introduction to the Symposium

2. Ryan Sakoda, The Corporality of Incarceration

3. Fiona Doherty, An Enduring Problem: How to Prevent the Abuse of Prisoners

4. Andrea Armstrong, The Public & The Prison

5. Gideon Yaffe, Ruination, Democracy and the Participant Attitude

6. Carol S. Steiker, Prison and Death

7. Nicola Lacey, The Struggle to Institutionalise Impermissibility

8. John Stinneford, Is Punishment Permissible?

9. Paul Butler, The Reformist Trap: Why Anti-Ruination Cannot Transform the Carceral State

10. Judith Resnik, The Problems Punishment Produces



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