Jeffrey Bellin

Eliminating Rule 609 to Provide A Fair Opportunity to Defend Against Criminal Charges: A Proposal to the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Evidence, 92 Fordham L. Rev. 2471 (2024) (written proposal to federal advisory committee on evidence rules to abolish Rule 609)

Symposium on Scholars' Suggestions for Amendments, 92 Fordham L. Rev. 2375, 2377 (2024) (accompanying transcript of oral presentation to federal advisory committee on evidence rules)

The Silence Penalty, 103 Iowa L. Rev. 395 (2018)

Circumventing Congress: How the Federal Courts Opened the Door to Impeaching Criminal Defendants with Prior Convictions, 42 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 289 (2008)

Improving the Reliability of Criminal Trials Through Legal Rules That Encourage Defendants to Testify, 76 U. Cin. L. Rev. 851 (2008)

John Blume

The Dilemma of the Criminal Defendant with a Prior Record—Lessons from the Wrongfully Convicted, 5 J. Empirical Legal Stud. 477 (2008)

Bennett Capers

Crime, Legitimacy, Our Criminal Network, and The Wire, 8 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 459 (2011) 

Race, Gatekeeping, Magical Words, and the Rules of Evidence, 76 Vand. L. Rev. 1855 (2023)

Montré Carodine

"The Mis-Characterization of the Negro": A Race Critique of the Prior Conviction Impeachment Rule, 84 Ind. L.J. 521 (2009)

Keeping it Real: Reforming the "Untried Conviction" Impeachment Rule, 69 Md. L. Rev. 501 (2010)

Jasmine Gonzales Rose

Toward a Critical Race Theory of Evidence, 101 Minn. L. Rev. 2243 (2017)

Lisa Kern Griffin

Honesty Without Truth: Lies, Accuracy, and the Criminal Justice Process, 104 Cornell L. Rev. Online 101 (2018)

Narrative, Truth, and Trial, 101 Geo. L.J. 281 (2013)

False Accuracy in Criminal Trials: The Limits and Costs of Cross-Examination, 102 Tex. L. Rev. 1011 (2024)

John D. King

The Meaning of a Misdemeanor in a Post-Ferguson World: Evaluating the Reliability of Prior Conviction Evidence, 54 Ga. L. Rev. 927 (2020)

Colin Miller

Impeachable Offenses?: Why Civil Parties in Quasi-Criminal Cases Should Be Treated Like Criminal Defendants Under the Felony Impeachment Rule, 36 Pepp. L. Rev. 997 (2009)

Crossing Over: Why Attorneys (And Judges) Should Not Be Able to Cross-Examine Witnesses Regarding Their Immigration Statuses for Impeachment Purposes, 94 Nw. U. L. Rev. Colloquy 290 (2010)

Aviva Orenstein

Insisting that Judges Employ a Balancing Test Before Admitting the Accused's Convictions Under Federal Rule of Evidence 609(A)(2), 75 Brook. L. Rev. 1291 (2010)

Anna Roberts

Benched Judges, 100 Ind. L. J. (2025)

Reforming Prior Conviction Impeachment, 50 Fordham Urb. L. J. 377 (2023) (with Julia Simon-Kerr)

Defense Counsel’s Cross Purposes: Prior Conviction Impeachment of Prosecution Witnesses, 87 Brook. L. Rev. 1225 (2022)

Conviction by Prior Impeachment, 96 B. U. L. Rev. 1977 (2016)

Reclaiming the Importance of the Defendant’s Testimony: Prior Conviction Impeachment and the Fight Against Implicit Stereotyping, 83 U. Chicago L. Rev. 835 (2016)

Impeachment by Unreliable Conviction, 55 B.C. L. Rev. 563 (2014)

Julia Simon-Kerr

Credibility by Proxy, 85 G.W. L. Rev. 152 (2017)

Credibility in an Age of Algorithms, 74 Rutgers L. Rev. 111 (2021)

Law's Credibility Problem, 98 Wash. L. Rev. 179 (2023)

Note, Unchaste and Incredible: The Use of Gendered Conceptions of Honor in Impeachment, 117 Yale L.J. 1854 (2008)