JOSHUA DRESSLER

Michael E. Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University

55 West 12

Avenue

Columbus, Ohio 43210

[email protected]

614-580-5162

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

B.A., U.C.L.A., 1968

Magna Cum Laude

Phi Beta Kappa

Political Science Honors

Social Science Honors

J.D., U.C.L.A., 1973

Order of the Coif

ACADEMIC POSITIONS: TENURE-TRACK

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW

2001 – Present

Distinguished University Professor Emeritus

University Distinguished Lecturer (2005)

University Distinguished Scholar (2007)

1L Teacher of the Year Award (2012)

MCGEORGE SCHOOL OF LAW, UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC

1993 - 2001

Distinguished Professor and Scholar, 2000-2001

Professor of Law, 1993-2000

Eberhardt Teacher and Scholar Award (1995)

WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL

1982 - 1993

Professor of Law

Career Development Chair (1986)

Donald H. Gordon Teaching Excellence Award (1990)

HAMLINE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW

1977 - 1982

Professor of Law 1979 - 1982

Associate Professor of Law 1977 - 1979

"Best Professor" award (1981)

ACADEMIC POSITIONS: VISITOR

UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA AT LAS VEGAS

Spring 2018

Adjunct/Visiting Faculty Professor of the Year (2018)

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY

Spring 2016

UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON

Spring 2014

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS

Spring 2013

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY

Spring 2011

SEATTLE UNIVERSITY

Summer 2008

UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND

Summer 2004

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

Fall, 1991, Fall, 2000

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY

Fall, 1997; Fall 1998

UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA/SOUTHWESTERN U. LAW SCHOOL

Summer, 1997

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS

Fall, 1995

UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW

1983 – 1984

Outstanding 1L Professor (1984)

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA

Summer Session 1979

BOOKS

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: PRINCIPLES, POLICIES, AND PERSPECTIVES (co-authors,

George C. Thomas III & Dan Medwed) (1999) (2d ed.: 2003) (3d ed.: 2006) (4th

ed. 2010) (5th ed. 2012)(6th ed. 2016)(7th ed. 2020)(8

ed. 2023)

THE LAW OF CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS: A COLLEGE CASEBOOK (2019) (co-

authors: Stephanie Lipson Mizrahi & George C. Thomas III).

! C

RIMINAL PROCEDURE: INVESTIGATING CRIME (2003) (2006) (2010) (2012) (2016)

(2020) (2023).

! C

RIMINAL PROCEDURE: PROSECUTING CRIME (2003) (2006) (2010) (2012) (2016)

(2020) (2023).

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ASES AND MATERIALS ON CRIMINAL LAW (1994) (2d ed: 1999) (3d ed. 2003) (4th

ed. 2007) (5th ed. 2009) (6th ed. 2012) (7th ed. 2015) (8th ed. 2019) (9th ed. 2022)

(co-author, beginning with 6th ed., Steven Garvey).

UNDERSTANDING CRIMINAL LAW (1987) (2d ed: 1995) (3d ed. 2001) (4th ed. 2006)

(5th ed. 2009) (6th ed. 2012) (7th ed. 2015) (8th ed. 2018) (9th ed. 2022).

UNDERSTANDING CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (1991) (2d ed: 1997) (3d ed. 2002) (4th

ed. 2007) (5th ed. 2010)(6th ed. 2013)(7th ed. 2017)(8th ed. 2021).

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CRIME AND JUSTICE (4 Volumes) (Editor-in-Chief) (Macmillan

Reference USA: Revised Edition, 2002).

ARTICLES/CHAPTERS

● Kahler v. Kansas: Ask the Wrong Question, Get the Wrong Answer,

18 O

HIO ST. J. CRIM. L. 409 (Fall 2020) (invited essay) (refereed journal).

● Reflections on the Warren Court’s Criminal Justice Legacy, Fifty Years Later: What

the Wings of a Butterfly and a Yiddish Proverb Teach Me, 51 U.

PACIFIC L. REV.

727 (2020) (invited essay).

● Arnold Loewy: Scholar, Civil Libertarian, and Mensch: Some Personal Reflections,

52 T

EXAS TECH. L. REV 83 (2019) (invited essay).

● Miranda v. Arizona: Be Grateful for Small Favors, 50 TEXAS TECH. L. REV. 51

(2017) (invited essay)

● Rethinking Criminal Homicide Statutes: Giving Juries More Discretion, 47

TEXAS TECH L. REV. 89 (2014) (invited essay)

● Reflections on Dudley and Stephens and Killing the Innocent: Taking a Wrong

Conceptual Path, in T

HE SANCTITY OF LIFE AND THE CRIMINAL LAW: THE LEGACY

GLANVILLE WILLIAMS (Cambridge University Press (2013).

● Battered Women, Sleeping Abusers, and Political and Moral Theory, in

LETCHER’S ESSAYS ON CRIMINAL LAW (Oxford University Press) (2013) (Chapter

21, at p. 225).

● Duress, in H

ANDBOOK ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF CRIMINAL LAW (Oxford University

Press (2011) (Chapter 11, at p. 269).

●

Feminist (or “Feminist”) Reform of Self-Defense Law: Some Critical Reflections,

93 M

ARQUETTE U. L. REV. 1475 (2010) (Barrock Lecture in Criminal Law).

● Some Very Modest Reflections on Excusing Criminal Wrongdoers, 42 Texas Tech

L. Rev. 247 (2009).

● Provocation: Explaining and Justifying the Defense in Partial Excuse, Loss of Self-

Control Terms, in C

RIMINAL LAW CONVERSATIONS (Oxford University Press 2009)

(Chapter 15, at p. 319).

● Reforming Complicity Law: Trivial Assistance as a Lesser Offense?, 5 OHIO ST. J.

CRIM. L. 427 (2008) (refereed journal).

● Theories of Punishment, in E

NCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES

(Routledge, 2006).

● Battered Women and Sleeping Abusers: Some Reflections, 3 O

HIO ST. J. CRIM. L.

457 (2006).

● The Wisdom and Morality of Present-Day Criminal Sentencing, 38 A

KRON L. REV.

853 (2005).

● Criminal Law, Moral Theory, and Feminism: Some Reflections on the Subject and

on the Fun (and Value) of Courting Controversy, 48 S

T. LOUIS UNIVERSITY LAW

JOURNAL 1143 (2004).

● The Model Penal Code: Like a Classic Movie in Need of a Remake?, 1

OHIO ST.

JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL LAW 157 (2003).

●

Why Keep the Provocation Defense?: Some Reflections on a Difficult Subject, 86

INNESOTA LAW REVIEW 959 (2002).

● Battered Women Who Kill Their Sleeping Tormenters: Reflections on Maintaining

Respect for Human Life While Killing Moral Monsters, in C

RIMINAL LAW THEORY:

DOCTRINES OF THE GENERAL PART 259 (Oxford University Press, 2002).

● Joseph Grano: Not Quite a Closet Liberal, 46 W

AYNE LAW REVIEW 1223 (2000).

● Does One Mens Rea Fit All?: Thoughts on Alexander=s Unified Conception of

Criminal Culpability, 88 C

ALIF. L. REV. 25 (2000).

● Some Brief Thoughts (Mostly Negative) About ABad Samaritan@ Laws, 40 S

ANTA

CLARA LAW REVIEW 971 (2000).

● Death Duty: A Somewhat Modest Proposal to Bring Executions to the People, 2

REEN BAG 345 (1999).

● Kent Greenawalt, Criminal Responsibility, and the Supreme Court: How a

Moderate Scholar Can Appear Immoderate Thirty Years Later, 74

NOTRE DAME

LAW REVIEW 1507 (1999).

● Where We Have Been and Where We Might Be Going: Some Cautionary Reflections

on Rape Law Reform, 46 C

LEV. ST. L. REV.409 (1998) (article presented with 68th

Cleveland-Marshall Fund Visiting Scholar Lecture)

● Battered Women, Sleeping Abusers, and Criminal Responsibility, 2 C

HICAGO

POLICY REVIEW 1 (Fall, 1997).

● When "Heterosexual" Men Kill "Homosexual" Men: Reflections on Provocation

Law, Sexual Advances, and the "Reasonable Man" Standard, 85 J

OURNAL OF

CRIMINAL LAW AND CRIMINOLOGY 726 (1995).

● Hating Criminals: How Can Something that Feels So Good Be Wrong?, 88

ICHIGAN LAW REVIEW 1448 (1990).

● Exegesis of the Law of Duress: Justifying the Excuse and Searching for Its Proper

Limits, 62 S

OUTHERN CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW 1331 (1989).

● Provocation: Partial Justification or Partial Excuse?, 51 M

ODERN LAW REVIEW

467 (1988).

● Reflections on Excusing Wrongdoers: Moral Theory, New Excuses, and the Model

Penal Code, 19 R

UTGERS LAW JOURNAL 671 (1988).

● Justifications and Excuses: A Brief Review of the Concepts and the Literature, 33

AYNE LAW REVIEW 1155 (1987).

● "Consistency in Sentencing, Just Deserts, and Mercy: Some Reflections," in

ONSISTENCY IN SENTENCING, Commonwealth Law Ministers, Christchurch, New

Zealand, April, 1990

● Reassessing the Theoretical Underpinnings of Accomplice Liability: Providing

Some New Solutions to an Old Problem, 37 H

ASTINGS LAW JOURNAL 91 (1985).

● Survey of School Principals Regarding Alleged Homosexual Teachers in the

Classroom: How Likely (Really) is Discharge?, 10 D

AYTON LAW REVIEW 599

(1985).

● A Lesson in Incaution, Overwork, and Fatigue: The Judicial Miscraftsmanship of

Segura v United States, 26 W

ILLIAM AND MARY LAW REVIEW 375 (1985).

● Reaffirming the Moral Legitimacy of the Doctrine of Diminished Capacity: A Brief

Reply to Professor Morse, 75 J

OURNAL OF CRIMINAL LAW AND CRIMINOLOGY 953

(1984).

● New Thoughts About the Concept of Justification in the Criminal Law: A Critique

of Fletcher's Thinking and Rethinking, 32 UCLA L

AW REVIEW 61 (1984).

● Rethinking Heat of Passion: A Defense in Search of a Rationale, 73 J

OURNAL OF

CRIMINAL LAW AND CRIMINOLOGY 421 (1982).

● Effect of Legal Education Upon Perceptions of Crime Seriousness: A Response to

Rummel v Estelle, 28 W

AYNE LAW REVIEW 1247 (1982).

● Substantive Criminal Law Through the Looking Glass of Rummel v

Estelle: Proportionality and Justice as Endangered Doctrines, 34 S

OUTHWESTERN

LAW JOURNAL 1063 (1981).

● Jurisprudence of Death by Another: Accessories and Capital Punishment, 51

NIVERSITY OF COLORADO LAW REVIEW 17 (1979).

● Professor Delgado's "Brainwashing" Defense: Courting a Determinist Legal

System," 63 M

INNESOTA LAW REVIEW 335 (1979).

● Study of Law Student Attitudes Regarding the Rights of Gay People to be Teachers,

4 J

OURNAL OF HOMOSEXUALITY 315 (1979).

● Judicial Homophobia: The Gay Rights Movement's Biggest Roadblock, C

IVIL

LIBERTIES REVIEW (Jan.- Feb. 1979: 19).

● Gay Teachers: A Disesteemed Minority in an Overly Esteemed Profession, 9

UTGERS-CAMDEN LAW JOURNAL 399 (1978).

● The Gay Scale, S

TUDENT LAWYER, October, 1978, at 55.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

American Law Institute

American Philosophical Association

American Society of Criminology

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

● Members Consultative Group, The American Law Institute, M

ODEL PENAL CODE:

PRINCIPLES OF THE LAW, POLICE INVESTIGATION (2016-Present)

● Members Consultative Group, The American Law Institute, M

ODEL PENAL CODE:

SEXUAL AND GENDER-BASED MISCONDUCT ON CAMPUS (2016-Present)

● Members Consultative Group, The American Law Institute, M

ODEL PENAL CODE:

SEXUAL OFFENSES (2015-2021)

● Members Consultative Group, The American Law Institute,

MODEL PENAL CODE:

SENTENCING revisions (2002-2017)

● Creator and Faculty Editor, O

HIO STATE JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL LAW (2002-2017)

● Law School Advisory Board, West Academic (2008-Present)

● Association of American Law Schools Academic Freedom & Tenure Committee

(2008-2011)

● University Distinguished Scholar Award Selection Committee, 2007-2008

● Editorial Advisory Board, LexisNexis (2005-2008)

● Editorial Board, J

OURNAL OF LEGAL EDUCATION (2004 - 2007)

● Board of Advisors, T

HE GREEN BAG (2000- 2003)

● Advisory Board, C

RIMINAL LAW & PROCEDURE ABSTRACTS (1996 - Present)

● Advisory Board, J

OURNAL OF CRIMINAL LAW & CRIMINOLOGY (1995 - Present)

● Associate Editor, C

RIMINAL JUSTICE ETHICS (1988 - Present)

● Consulting Editor, J

OURNAL OF HOMOSEXUALITY (1981 - 1993)

● Teacher, AALS Workshop for New Law Teachers, July 24-26, 1997

● Assessor, University of Bristol (international search for Chair of Criminal Law)

(1995)

● Chair, AALS Section on Criminal Justice (1991)

● Co-creator, CRIMPROF (Criminal Law Professors Internet newsgroup)

● AALS Planning Committee: Teaching Conference on Criminal Law & Procedure

(1986-1987)

Papers/Programs (woefully incomplete):

● Warren Court Symposium: 50 Years Later, University of the Pacific, March, 2019

Keynote Speaker.

● Death Penalty Symposium, Texas Tech University, April, 14, 2018 (moderator)

● Miranda Symposium, Texas Tech University, March 31, 2017 (speaker)

● Miranda After 50 Years, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law (April

21, 2016).

● Reflections on “Gay Panic” and “Nonviolent Homosexual Advances” and the Law

of Provocation, Northern Kentucky University, Salmon P. Chase College of Law

(March 25, 2015); University of Richmond, Undergraduate Program in Philosophy,

Politics, Economics and the Law (April 9, 2015).

● Rethinking Criminal Homicide Statutes, “Homicide” Conference, Texas Tech Law

School (April 4, 2014); University of Richmond Law School (April 10, 2015).

● The “Castle” and the State, Association of American Law Schools, Mid-Year

Meeting, June 12, 2013, San Diego, California.

●

Faculty Workshops: University of New Mexico (2005, 2008); University of

Oregon (2009); St. John’s University (2011); Fordham University (2011).

●

Barrock Lecture on Criminal Law, Marquette University School of Law, April 8,

2010.

● Keynote Address, Conference on Excuses, Texas Tech University School of Law,

April 2, 2009.

● 2009 Stuart Ryan Memorial Visitor, Queen=s University, March 16-20, 2009.

● Reforming Complicity Law, University of California, Davis, School of Law,

February 22, 2008.

● Complicity, 23

World Congress of the International Association of Legal and

Social Philosophy, Krakow, Poland, August 5, 2007 (invited paper).

● Faculty invited speaker, Rutgers University (Camden) School of Law, April 9, 2006.

● Invited speaker, Sexuality, Violence, and the Criminal Law Panel, American

Philosophical Association (Pacific Division), Portland, Oregon, March 24, 2006.

● Yale Rosenberg Memorial Lecture, Battered Women Who Kill: Some Moral and

Legal Reflections, University of Houston Law Center, February 9, 2006.

● Keynote address, Student Note Symposium, Notre Dame Law School, April 7,

2005.

● Moral and Criminal Law Reflections on Battered Women Who Kill Sleeping

Abusers: Convict or Acquit, and Why, Ohio State University Distinguished Lecture,

February 22, 2005.

● Keynote address, International Conference on Comparative Criminal Procedure

(sponsored by Conference on Foreign Relations and Ford Foundation), February 10,

2005.

● Violent Men, Battered or Killed Women: Reflections on Feminist Critiques of

Current Criminal Defense Law, New York University School of Law Hoffinger

Colloquium, April 27, 2004.

● Reflections on Provocation Law, Fordham University School of Law, April 27,

2004.

● Theories of Punishment and Sentencing Provisions: Are They in Conflict?,

University of Akron Law School, March 31, 2004.

● Reflections on the Morality and Wisdom of the Death Penalty, University of Toledo

College of Law, February 5, 2004.

● Some Reflections and Musings about Elders in the Criminal Justice System:

Theories of Punishment and the Elderly, Association of American Law Schools

(AALS) Annual Meeting, Joint Program of Sections on Again and the Law and

Criminal Justice, January 5, 2002.

● What is the Point of Teaching and Scholarship in Criminal Law and Procedure?,

AALS Conference on Criminal Justice, Washington, D.C., June 11, 2000.

● Some Brief Thoughts (Mostly Negative) About Bad Samaritan Laws, University of

Santa Clara School of Law, Law, Ethics, and Good Samaritan Conference, March

24, 2000.

● Battered Women Who Kill Their Sleeping Tormenters: Reflections on Maintaining

Respect for Human Life While Killing Moral Monsters, University of Birmingham

(England), Criminal Law: Doctrines of the General Part (Conference), November 6,

1999.

● Does One Mens Rea Fit All?: Thoughts on Alexander=s Unified Conception of

Criminal Culpability, University of California, The Morality of Criminal Law@

Symposium in Honor of Professor Sandy Kadish, October 2, 1999.

● Battered Women, Sleeping Abusers, and Criminal Responsibility, Cleveland State

University, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland-Marshall Fund Visiting

Scholar Lecture, March 25, 1999.

● Battered Women, Sleeping Abusers, and Criminal Responsibility, McGeorge

Distinguished Speakers Series, October 22, 1998.

● Speaker and discussion leader, Association of American Law Schools, Workshop

for New Law Teachers, Washington D.C., July 24-26, 1997.

● Rape Law at the Crossroads: When Rush Limbaugh and Feminists Get in Bed

Together, Drake University Law School, October 20, 1995.

● Battered Women Who Kill Their Sleeping Abusers: In Search of a Morally

Acceptable Defense for Homicide, Drake University Law School, October 19, 1995.

● The Fourth Amendment, and Dead or Dying Letters, Continuing Education of the

Bar, Nevada Bar Association, Las Vegas, Nevada, September 22, 1995.

● Syndrome Defenses and Other New Excuses: Reflections on Soft Sciences and Hard

Moral Issues, American Bar Association Appellate Judges Seminar Series,

Appellate Judges Conference, Ottawa, Ontario (Canada), July 19, 1995, and

Tucson, Arizona, January 17, 1996.

● Criminal Law Defenses: Beyond the Casebook, AALS Workshop on Criminal

Justice, Washington, D.C., October 28, 1993.

● Excusing Wrongdoers: Reply to Critics, Boston University School of Law, October

30, 1992,

and University of San Diego School of Law, November 20, 1992.

● Justification and Excuse, AALS Teaching Conference on Criminal Law, University

of North Carolina Law School, May 16-21, 1987.

● Reflections on Excuses, Indiana University School of Law, November, 1987.

● The Model Penal Code and Excuses, American Law Institute Conference

Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Model Penal Code, Rutgers University Law

School, Camden, November 5-7, 1987.

REFERENCES

Furnished on request. Prepared: August, 2022