Mark Osler
American legal scholar
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- Bachelors Political Science William & Mary
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Mark William Osler is an American legal scholar and prosecutor. Osler currently serves as Deputy County Attorney for Hennepin County, Minnesota, supervising criminal prosecutions. Prior to his appointment in 2023 by County Attorney Mary Moriarty, he was a law professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minneapolis, Minnesota, holding the Robert and Marion Short Distinguished Chair in Law at St. Thomas and the Ruthie Mattox Chair of Preaching at First Covenant Church, Minneapolis. He began work as a law professor at Baylor University in 2000 before leaving for St. Thomas in 2010. At St. Thomas, he founded the nation's first law school clinic on federal commutations, and he has advocated for an expansive use of the presidential pardon power. His work has been profiled by The American Prospect, Rolling Stone and CBS News.
Mark Osler's Published Works
Published Works
- A 'Holocaust in Slow Motion?' America's Mass Incarceration and the Role of Discretion (2014) (7)
- Designed to Fail: The President's Deference to the Department of Justice in Advancing Criminal Justice Reform (2017) (6)
- Restructuring Clemency: The Cost of Ignoring Clemency and a Plan for Renewal (2014) (4)
- Prosecutors and Victims: Why Wrongful Convictions Matter (2015) (3)
- Intensive Parenting and Banishment as Sentencing: Alternatives for Defendant Parents (2009) (3)
- What Would It Look Like If We Cared About Narcotics Trafficking? An Argument to Attack Narcotics Capital Rather than Labor (2011) (2)
- Jesus on Death Row: The Trial of Jesus and American Capital Punishment (2009) (2)
- The Promise of Trailing-Edge Sentencing Guidelines to Resolve the Conflict between Uniformity and Judicial Discretion (2016) (2)
- Uniformity and Traditional Sentencing Goals in the Age of Feeney (2004) (2)
- A Biblical Value in the Constitution: Mercy, Clemency, Faith, and History (2012) (1)
- This Changes Everything: A Call for a Directive, Goal-Oriented Principle to Guide the Exercise of Discretion by Federal Prosecutors (2011) (1)
- What We Got Wrong in the War on Drugs (2020) (1)
- The Ford Approach and Real Fairness for Crack Convicts (2011) (1)
- More than Numbers: A Proposal for Rational Drug Sentences (2008) (1)
- Amoral Numbers and Narcotics Sentencing (2013) (1)
- The Lawyer's Humble Walk (2008) (1)
- Capone and Bin Laden: The Failure of Government at the Cusp of War and Crime (2007) (1)
- Clemency As the Soul of the Constitution (2019) (1)
- Aseret Had'Varim in Tension: The Ten Commandments and the Bill of Rights (2007) (1)
- Roe's Ragged Remnant: Viability (2012) (1)
- Learning from Crack (2012) (1)
- Last Meal/Last Supper (2006) (0)
- After the Implosion: Trailing-Edge Guidelines for a New Era (2009) (0)
- Policy, Uniformity, Discretion, and Congress's Sentencing Acid Trip (2008) (0)
- Clemency for the 21st Century: A Systemic Reform of the Federal Clemency Process (2013) (0)
- Commutations Symposium: An Introduction (2012) (0)
- The Promise of Trailing-Edge Guidelines to Resolve the Conflict between Uniformity and Judicial Discretion (2012) (0)
- Seeking Justice Below the Guidelines: Sentencing as an Expression of Natural Law (2009) (0)
- Clemency: Where Mercy Meets the Constitution (2022) (0)
- Narcotics Prosecutors as Problem Solvers (2014) (0)
- The Mercy of Judges As An Expression of Natural Law (2009) (0)
- Christ, Christians & Capital Punishment (2006) (0)
- Negotiation Lessons From Former Wiseguy, Michael Franzese (2019) (0)
- The Blakely Problem and The 3x Solution (2004) (0)
- Criminal Justice Amid the Pandemic of 2020 (2020) (0)
- Victims: Transforming the Death Penalty Debate (2016) (0)
- Fewer Hands, More Mercy: A Plea for a Better Federal Clemency System (2016) (0)
- Death to These Guidelines, and a Clean Sheet of Paper (2008) (0)
- 1986: AIDS, Crack, and C. Everett Koop (2014) (0)
- The Calculation of Criminal History by AUSAs and Defendants: A Study of Inefficiency in the Eastern District of Michigan (2001) (0)
- Restoring Justice and Racial and Civil Rights (2013) (0)
- Why Not Treat Drug Crimes as White-Collar Crimes? (2015) (0)
- Linear Thinned Interleaved Arrays for the Optimal Compromise among Sum and Difference (2007) (0)
- The Role of Clemency in Criminal Justice Reform (2022) (0)
- Crazy Eyes: The Discernment of Competence by a Federal Magistrate Judge (2010) (0)
- Memo to the President: Two Steps to Fix the Clemency Crisis (2020) (0)
- Wisdom Not My Own: Rules, Principles, and the Teaching of Law (2011) (0)
- Short of the Mountaintop: Race Neutrality, Criminal Law, and the Jericho Road Ahead (2018) (0)
- Crucifixion & Execution: The Trial of Jesus Christ as a Death Penalty Sentencing Process (2010) (0)
- Chapter 10: The Prosecutor's Emotion (2006) (0)
- Clementia, Obama, and Deborah Leff (2016) (0)
- The Practices and Practicalities of Criminal History (2001) (0)
- This Changes Everything: A Call for a Directive, Goal-Oriented Principle to Guide the Discretion of Federal Prosecutors (2008) (0)
- The Trump Clemencies: Celebrity, Chaos, and Lost Opportunity (2022) (0)
- Two Preachers, a Trial Attorney and Aristotle (2002) (0)
- Law & Tactics for a Market-Reality Narcotics Policy (2015) (0)
- Drugs, Bombs, and the Erosion of Rights (2013) (0)
- Confronto CSI-CFI (2008) (0)
- Susan Glaspell Goes to Law School: Adventures in Teaching Trifles to Criminal Practice Students (2007) (0)
- Ball in a Cup: The Case for Stability and Patience (2006) (0)
- The First Step Act and the Brutal Timidity of Criminal Law Reform (2020) (0)
- Reviewing Clemency in a Time of Change (2016) (0)
- Texas Juries, Buyer's Remorse, and Booker's Fatal Flaw (2009) (0)
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