Guyora Binder

Guyora Binder is an American State University of New York System (SUNY) professor of law and Hodgson Russ faculty scholar at University at Buffalo (UB) School of Law. He has also written books about criminal law and legal theory, including Felony Murder and Literary Criticisms of Law, and research papers on homicide law, mass incarceration, felony murder, and criminal punishment.
== Career ==
Binder graduated from Princeton University with a bachelor's degree and juris doctor (JD) from Yale Law School.
He began his career as a law clerk for Judge Jack B. Weinstein. Binder then held the position of a visiting faculty at various universities, including the Vanderbilt University, Georgetown University, and the University of Michigan before joining UB in 1982 as full-time faculty. He served on the university's President Review Board as a member from 2001 till 2004, and was subsequently appointed as the chair of the board followed by his appointment as the vice dean for research and faculty development.
He is often consulted as a subject matter expert on felony murders and other criminal law matters by various news agencies and legal institutions. Binder's academic work on criminal law and legal theory has been peer reviewed by other academics in the field.
In 1980, Binder was awarded the Dana Fellowship for Comparative Jurisprudence. For his articles in various journals, including the Stanford Law Review, the Yale Journal of Law and Humanities, and the University of Chicago Law Review among other publications, Binder has been listed in Jalnes Lindgren and Daniel Seltzer's The Most Prolific Law Professors and Faculties Chicago-Kent Law Review of 1996. He was also recognized as a SUNY distinguished professor in 2011.
== Bibliography ==
=== Published books ===
* Treaty Conflict and Political Contradiction: The Dialectic of Duplicity (Praeger Paperback|Praeger, 1988)
* Literary Criticisms of Law (Princeton University Press, 2000)
* Felony Murder (Stanford University Press, 2012)
* Criminal Law (Oxford University Press, 2016)
* Criminal Law: Cases and Materials - 9th edition (Aspen Publishers, 2021)
=== Selected research publications ===
* On Critical Legal Studies as Guerrilla Warfare, Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 76, Issue 1 (1987), pp. 1-36
* Beyond Criticism, University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 55, Issue 3 (1988), pp. 888-915
* Representing Nazism: Advocacy and Identity at the Trial of Klaus Barbie, Yale Law Journal, Vol. 98, Issue 7 (1989), pp. 1321-1384
* Mastery, Slavery, and Emancipation, Hegel and Legal Theory Symposium - Part II, Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 10, Issues 5-6 (1989), pp. 1435-1480
* What's Left, Colloquy, Texas Law Review, Vol. 69, Issue 7 (1991), pp. 1985-2041
* The Case for Self-Determination, The Kaplan Lecture on Human Rights, Stanford Journal of International Law, Vol. 29, Issue 2 (1992), pp. 223-270
* The Slavery of Emancipation, Bondage, Freedom and the Constitution: The New Slavery Scholarship and Its Impact on Law and Legal Historiography, Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 17, Issue 6 (1996), pp. 2063-2102
* Cultural Criticism of Law, Symposium: The Critical Use of History, Stanford Law Review, Vol. 49, Issue 5 (1997), pp. 1149-1222
* Cultural Relativism and Cultural Imperialism in Human Rights Law, Buffalo Human Rights Law Review, Vol. 5 (1999), pp. 211-222
* Framed: Utilitarianism and Punishment of the Innocent, Rutgers Law Journal, Vol. 32, Issue 1 (2000), pp. 115-224
* Punishment Theory: Moral or Political, Special Issue: Democracy and Punishment, Buffalo Criminal Law Review, Vol. 5, Issue 2 (2002), pp. 321-372
* The Rhetoric of Motive and Intent, The New Culpability: Motive, Character, and Emotion in Criminal Law, Buffalo Criminal Law Review, Vol. 6, Issue 1 (2002), pp. 1-96
* The Origins of American Felony Murder Rules, Stanford Law Review, Vol. 57, Issue 1 (2004), pp. 59-208
* The Culpability of Felony Murder, Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 83, Issue 3 (2008), pp. 965-1060
* Making the Best of Felony Murder, Boston University Law Review, Vol. 91, Issue 2 (2011), pp. 403-560
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