The The Center for Public Research and Leadership (CPRL) at Columbia University strives to revitalize public school systems while reinventing professional education. CPRL conducts high-impact research and consulting projects for our clients in the education sector and provides rigorous coursework, skills training, and real world experiential learning for our graduate students who attend programs at Columbia University and across the country.
Since its founding in 2011, CPRL has provided research and consulting support to state agencies, school districts, charter school organizations, foundations, and advocacy groups, completing 200 projects and counting. More than two-thirds of CPRL's 500-plus alumni work in education and other public-sector leadership and management roles.
Articles
An "Effective Death Penalty"? AEDPA and Error Detection in Capital Cases, James S. Liebman
Apocalypse Next Time?: The Anachronistic Attack on Habeas Corpus/Direct Review Parity, James S. Liebman
A Public Laboratory Dewey Barely Imagined: The Emerging Model of School Governance and Legal Reform, James S. Liebman and Charles F. Sabel
Brecht v. Abrahamson: Harmful Error in Habeas Corpus Law, James S. Liebman and Randy Hertz
Capital Attrition: Error Rates in Capital Cases, 1973-1995, James S. Liebman, Jeffery Fagan, Valerie West, and Jonathan Lloyd
Correcting Criminal Justice through Collective Experience Rigorously Examined, James S. Liebman and David Mattern
Desegregating Politics: "All-Out" School Desegregation Explained, James S. Liebman
Every Dollar Counts: In Defense of the Education Department's "Supplement Not Supplant" Proposal, James S. Liebman and Michael Mbikiwa
Guiding Capital Sentencing Discretion beyond the "Boiler Plate": Mental Disorder as a Mitigating Factor, James S. Liebman and Michael J. Shepard
Implementing Brown in the Nineties: Political Reconstruction, Liberal Recollection, and Litigatively Enforced Legislative Reform, James S. Liebman
Less is Better: Justice Stevens and the Narrowed Death Penalty, James S. Liebman and Lawrence C. Marshall
Madisonian Equal Protection, James S. Liebman and Brandon L. Garrett
Minority Practice, Majority's Burden: The Death Penalty Today, James S. Liebman and Peter Clarke
More than "Slightly Retro:" The Rehnquist Court's Rout of Habeas Corpus Jurisdiction in Teague v. Lane, James S. Liebman
Opting for Real Death Penalty Reform, James S. Liebman
Slow Dancing with Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment, 1963-2006, James S. Liebman
Some Effectual Power: The Quantity and Quality of Decisionmaking Required of Article III Courts, James S. Liebman and William F. Ryan
The Federal No Child Left Behind Act and the Post-Desegregation Civil Rights Agenda, James S. Liebman and Charles F. Sabel
The Overproduction of Death, James S. Liebman
Vangrack's Explanations: Treating the Truth as a Mere Matter of "Form", Jeffery Fagan, James S. Liebman, and Valerie West
Books
Federal Habeas Corpus Practice and Procedure, Randy A. Hertz and James S. Liebman
Book Reviews
Voice, Not Choice, James S. Liebman
Essays
Perpetual Evolution: A School's-Focused Public Law Litigation Model for Our Day, James S. Liebman
Letters to the Editor
Misstatements of Fact in Adam Vangrack's Student Note: A Letter to the Editors of the Washington University Law Quarterly, Jeffery Fagan, James S. Liebman, and Valerie West
Responses/Comments
Look Who's Extrapolating: A Reply to Hoffmann, Valerie West, Jeffery Fagan, and James S. Liebman
Search and Seizure of the Media: A Statutory, Fourth Amendment and First Amendment Analysis, James S. Liebman
The Fragile Promise of Provisionality, James S. Liebman and Charles F. Sabel
The Fragile Promise of Provisionality, James S. Liebman and Charles F. Sabel
Working Papers
Governance of Steel and Kryptonite Politics in Contemporary Public Education Reform, James S. Liebman, Christina C. Ma, and Elizabeth R. Cruikshank
Minority Practice, Majority’s Burden: The Death Penalty Today, James S. Liebman and Peter Clarke