Essays and Articles

Stephen B. Bright, “Our Jury System Is Racially Biased. But It Doesn’t Have to Be That Way,” Washington Post, March 27, 2019.

Stephen B. Bright, “Independence of Counsel: An Essential Requirement for Competent Counsel and a Working Adversary System,” Houston Law Review 55 (2018).

Stephen B. Bright, “The Continuing Denial of Counsel and Assembly-Line Processing of Poor People Accused of Crimes,” St. Louis University Law Journal 61 (2016–2017).

Stephen B. Bright, “Rigged: When Race and Poverty Determine Outcomes in the Criminal Courts,” Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 14 (2016).

Stephen B. Bright, “Imposition of the Death Penalty upon the Poor, Racial Minorities, the Intellectually Disabled and the Mentally Ill,” in United Nations, Moving Away from the Death Penalty (2014).

Stephen B. Bright and Sia Sanneh, “Fifty Years of Defiance and Racism after Gideon v. Wainwright,” Yale Law Journal 122 (2013).

Stephen B. Bright, “Will the Death Penalty Remain Alive in the Twenty-first Century? International Norms, Discrimination, Arbitrariness and the Risk of Executing the Innocent,” Wisconsin Law Review 2001.

Stephen B. Bright, “Discrimination, Death and Denial: The Tolerance of Racial Discrimination in the Infliction of the Death Penalty,” Santa Clara Law Review 35 (1995).

Stephen B. Bright and Patrick J. Keenan, “Judges and the Politics of Death: Deciding Between the Bill of Rights and the Next Election in Capital Cases,” Boston University Law Review 75.

Stephen B. Bright, “Counsel for the Poor: The Death Sentence Not for the Worst Crime but for the Worst Lawyer,” Yale Law Journal 103 (1994).