Richard Daniel Klein

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An Analysis of Thirty Five Years of Rape Reform: A Frustrating Search for Fundemental Fairness, 41 Akron Law Review 981 (2008)

An Analysis of Death Penalty Decisions from the 2006-2007 Supreme Court Term, 23 Touro Law Review 4 (2008).

Death Penalty and Right to Counsel Decisions in the 2005 – 2006 Term of the Supreme Court, 22 Touro Law Review 1003 (2007).

A Comparative Analysis of the Jewish Law and Secular Perspectives on International Human Rights, Jewish Law Report (2006).

Judicial Misconduct in Criminal Cases: It’s Not Just the Counsel Who May Be Ineffective, 4 Ohio State Criminal Law Review 1 (2006).

The Supreme Court’s Analysis of Issues Raised by Death Penalty Litigants in the Court's 2004 Term, 21 Touro Law Review 891(2006).

Due Process Denied: Judicial Coercion in the Plea Bargaining Process, 32 Hofstra Law Review 1349 (2004).

Cultural Relativism, Economic Development and International Human Rights in the Asian Context, Touro International Law Review 1 (2001).


The World’s Youngest Political Prisoner, 59 The Humanist 2 (1999).
The Constitutionalization of Ineffective Assistance of Counsel, 58 University of Maryland Law Review 1433 (1999).


The Status of Human Rights in Hong Kong, 57 The Humanist 22 (1997)
Reprinted in 3 American Reporter 688 as An American Reporter Special Report: Hongkong, Britain and China: The Experience of Democracy.

Immigration Laws as Instruments of Discrimination: Legislation Designed to Limit Chinese Immigration into the United Kingdom, Touro International Law Review 1 (Spring 1997).

The Empire Strikes Back: The Use of Law by the British to Suppress Political Dissent in Hong Kong, Boston University International Law Journal (Spring 1997).

Constitutional Concerns About Capital Punishment: The Death Penalty Statute in New York, 11 Suffolk Academy of Law Journal (1996).


Law and Racism in an Asian Setting: An Analysis of the British Rule of Hong Kong, Hastings International and Comparative Law Review, Winter 1995.

The Indigent Defense Crisis, Special Report, in book form, prepared for the American Bar Association, July 1993 (with Robert Spangenberg).

The Eleventh Commandment: Thou Shalt Not be Compelled to Render the Ineffective Assistance of Counsel, Indiana Law Journal, Spring 1993.

Legal Malpractice, Professional Discipline, and Counsel for the Indigent, 61 Temple Law Review, 1171, Winter 1989.


Court-Induced Ineffective Assistance of Counsel: The Failure of the Judiciary to Safeguard the Defendant's Right to a Fair Trial, Criminal Practice Law Review, Summer 1989 (revised and updated version of the Boston College Law Review Article).
The Relationship of the Court and Defense Counsel: The Impact on Competent Representation and Proposals for Reform, 29 Boston College Law Review, 531 (1988).

The Emperor Gideon Has No Clothes: The Empty Promise of the Constitutional Right to Effective Assistance of Counsel, 13 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 625 (1986).