WILLIAM T. PIZZI
University of Colorado Law School
UCB 401
Boulder, Colorado 80309
Phone: 303-492-6470
Fax: 303-492-1200
Email:
[email protected]
Cell: 303-594-9318
EDUCATION:
J.D. cum laude, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1971. Member, Harvard Law Review.
M.A. Philosophy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1971.
B.A. Holy Cross College, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1965.
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT:
Professor of Law, University of Colorado School of Law, Boulder. (Associate Dean from 1980 – 1983;
Professor Emeritus, January 2011.)
Visiting Professor, University of San Diego Summer Program in Oxford, England, July 2007 (course:
Comparative Criminal Justice).
Visiting Professor, Loyola Law School of Los Angeles, Fall 2006.
Visiting Professor, Lund, Sweden, in the Suffolk Law School Joint Program with Lund University, June
2001 and June 2004 (course: Comparative Criminal Procedure).
Faculty Member, Semester at Sea Program, University of Pittsburgh, Spring 1998 and Fall 2002 (Core
Director).
Visiting Professor, University of Sassari (Sardinia), Italy, Faculty of Jurisprudence, May 1991. Visiting
Professor, University of Perugia, Italy, Faculty of Jurisprudence, April 1991.
Assistant United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Criminal Division, January 1972 - July
1975. Special Achievement Award for Sustained Superior Performance of Duty, 1974.
AWARDS:
The Don W. Sears Award for Ethical Enhancement of the Legal Profession in Colorado, the Ethics
Committee of the Colorado Bar Association, September 18, 2004.
Fellow of the Colorado Bar Foundation, elected 2004.
The Clifford Calhoun Award for Public Service, University of Colorado School of Law, 2003
The Faculty Excellence Award for Teaching, University of Colorado School of Law, 1996.
Colorado Supreme Court, Award for Service on the Rules of Professional Conduct Committee, 1992.
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Colorado Bar Association Ethics Committee, Award for Outstanding Service 1990.
PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
TRIALS WITHOUT TRUTH (NYU Press 1999). (JUICIOS Y MENTIRAS, translation with notes into
Spanish by Carlos Fidalgo Gallardo (Tecnos Press, Madrid 2004.)
Scholarly Articles:
Seeing Red: Anger Increases How Much Republican Identification Predicts Partisan Attitudes and
Perceived Polarization. PLoS ONE 10(9): e0139193. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0139193
(with Michaela Huber, Leaf Van Boven, and Bernadette Park).
Comparative Reflections on Duncan v. Louisiana and Baldwin v. New York, to be published in
Loyola of Los Angeles Comparative and International Law Journal.
Revisiting the Mansions and Gatehouses of Criminal Procedure: Reflections on Yale Kamisar’s
Famous Essay, 2015 OHIO STATE J. OF CRIMINAL LAW 633.
Understanding the United States’ Incarceration Rate, 95 JUDICATURE 207 (2012).
A Perfect Storm: Prosecutorial Discretion in the United States, in THE PROSECUTOR IN
TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE 189 (Marianne Wade & Erik Luna, editors)(2012).
(Published in translation in ARCHIVIO PENALE, maggio-agosto 2012, available at:
http://www.archiviopenale.it/joomla/images/stories/rivista/RIVISTA_2012_2/Pizzi_defini
tivo.pdf)
Rethinking Attempt Under the Model Penal Code, 9 OHIO STATE J. CRIM. LAW 771 (2012).
The Need to Overrule Mapp v. Ohio, 82 U. COLO. L. REV. 679 (2011). (An abridged version of
this article appeared at 39 SEARCH AND SEIZURE LAW REPORT No 4 at 29 (2012).)
Colorado v. Connelly: What Really Happened? 7 OHIO ST. J. CRIM. LAW 377 (2009).
Sentencing in the U.S.: An Inquisitorial Soul in an Adversarial Body? in CRIME, PROCEDURE AND
EVIDENCE IN A COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT 65 (John Jackson, Maximo
Langer and Peter Tillers, editors) (2008)
The Influence of Criminal Defendants’ Afrocentric Features on their Sentences ((with Irene V.
Blair and Charles M. Judd) in CRITICAL RACE REALISM: INTERSECTIONS OF PSYCHOLOGY,
RACE AND LAW at 259 (Gregory S. Parks, Shayne Jones, W. Jonathan Cardi,
editors)(2008).
“Makeup Calls” in Sports and Courts, 11 GREEN BAG 2D 333 (2008).
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A Comparative Look at the Roles and Functions of the Prosecution and Defense in Western Trial
Systems, in INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF PENOLOGY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE (Shlomo
Giora Shoham, editor)(September 2007).
Overcoming Logistical and Structural Barriers to Fair Trials at International Tribunals,
INTERNATIONAL COMMENTARY ON EVIDENCE: Vol. 4 : Iss. 1, Article 4 (2006). Available
at: http://www.bepress.com/ice/vol4/iss1/art4
El caos producido por el fallo “Blakely v. Washington” de la Corte Suprema de los Estados
Unidos in el sistema de mesura de la pena, 2006-2 Revista de Derecho Procesal Penal
(Argentina) 77.
“Trials without Truth” in the US Criminal Justice System, in L’AMÉRICANISATION DU DROIT
SUISSE E CONTINENTAL 101 (Martin Killias, editor) (Geneva 2006).
A Comparative Perspective on the Sentencing Chaos in the U.S., GLOBAL JURIST TOPICS: Vol. 6:
No. 1, Article 2, at http://www.bepress.com/gj/topics/vol6/iss1/art2 (2006).
Taking Miranda’s Pulse, 58 VANDERBILT L. REV. 813 (2005)(with Morris Hoffman).
Discrimination in Sentencing on the Basis of Afrocentric Features, 10 MICH. J. OF RACE AND LAW
327(2005) (with Irene V. Blair and Charles M. Judd)(reprinted in DOROTHY BROWN,
CRITICAL RACE THEORY CASEBOOK (Thomson West 2007). Also reprinted in RACIAL
DISCRIMINATION: A JURISPRUDENTIAL STUDY AT 54 (Hyderbad, India 2009) (G.
Chandana, editor).
The Battle to Establish an Adversarial Trial System in Italy, 25 MICH.J. INTL. L. 429 (2004) (with
Mariangela Montagna)(reprinted in PAOLO CAROZZA, COMPARATIVE LEGAL TRADITIONS
(3d ed. 2007) and in RANETA MACK, COMPARATIVE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: HISTORY,
PROCESSES AND CASE STUDIES (2008). Published in translation (La Batalla para el
Establecimiento de un Sistema penal acusatorio in Italia) in Derechovirtual.com, an
online journal of the Catholic University of Peru.
Do Jury Trials Encourage Harsh Punishments?, 2002 ST. LOUIS U. PUB. LAW REV. 51 (2002).
Jury Selection Errors on Appeal, 38 AMER. CRIM. L. REV. 1391 (2001) (with Morris Hoffman).
Criminal Trials, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CRIME AND JUSTICE, Revised Edition (Macmillan Press, 2001).
The Green Grass of Crown Court, 150 NEW LAW JOURNAL (Eng.) 1311 (2000).
Victims’ Rights: Rethinking Our “Adversary System”, 1999 UTAH LAW REVIEW 349.
Victims’Rights in the US, 148 NEW LAW JOURNAL (Eng.) 1805 (1998).
The American “Adversary System”? 100 WEST. VIRGINIA L. REV. 847 (1998).
Punishment and Procedure in the US, 148 NEW LAW JOURNAL (Eng.) 988 (1998).
Watts: The Decline of the Jury, 9 FED. SENT. RPTR. 303 (1997).
The American adversary system, 147 NEW LAW JOURNAL (Eng.) 986 (1997).
When an Acquittal Counts Toward Sentence, 147 NEW LAW JOURNAL (Eng.) 393 (1997).
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Discovering Who We Are: An English Perspective on the Simpson Trial, 67 U. COLORADO L.
REV.1027 (1996).
Fact-Bargaining: An American Phenomenon, 8 FED. SENT. RPTR. 336 (1996).
Accepting Guilty Pleas from “Innocent” Defendants?, 146 NEW LAW JOURNAL (Eng.) 997 (1996).
Crime Victims in German Courtrooms: A Comparative Perspective on American Problems 32
STAN. J. INT. L. 37 (1996) (with Walter Perron).
Punishment and Procedure: A Different View of the American Criminal Justice System, 13 CONST.
COMM. 55 (1996) (reprinted in POINT-COUNTERPOINT - READINGS IN AMERICAN
GOVERNMENT (Herbert Levine, ed. 6th ed. 1997); also reprinted in THE LANAHAN
READINGS IN CIVIL RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES (David O’Brien, ed.,1998)).
Lessons From Reforming Inquisitorial Systems, 8 FED. SENT. RPTR. 42 (1995).
Soccer, Football and Trial Systems, 1 COLUMBIA JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN LAW 369 (1995)
(reprinted in RACE, GENDER, AND SPORTS by Michael J. Cozzillio and Robert L. Hayman,
Jr. 2003).
A holistic approach to criminal justice scholarship, 79 JUDICATURE 58 (1995).
The OJ Simpson trial and the American legal system, 145 NEW LAW JOURNAL (Eng.) 990 (1995)
Expert Testimony in the US, 145 NEW LAW JOURNAL (Eng.) 82 (1995)
Understanding Prosecutorial Discretion in the United States: The Limits of Comparative Criminal
Procedure as an Instrument of Reform, 54 OHIO ST. L. J. 1325 (1994).
United States Prosecutors on the Defensive, 144 NEW LAW JOURNAL (Eng.) 894 (1994).
Some Worries About Sentencing Guidelines, 64 U. COLO. L. REV. 707 (1993).
Reforming the Role of the US Prosecutor, 143 NEW LAW JOURNAL (Eng.) 1160 (August 6, 1993).
Argomenti etici e practici relativamente agli interrogatori preprocessuali dei testimoni
dell'accusa da parte del consiglio di difesa negli Stati Uniti, 34 LA DIFESA PENALE 101
(gennaio-marzo 1992) (trans. Enrico Baccino).
The New Italian Code of Criminal Procedure: The Difficulties of Building an Adversarial Trial
System on a Civil Law Foundation, 17 YALE J. INT'L. LAW 1 (1992) co-authored with
Luca Marafioti.
La discrezionalità del prosecutor statunitense nell'esercizio dell'azione penale, 11-12 IL GIUSTO
PROCESSO 298 (1991) (trans. Luca Marafioti).
Waiver of Rights in the Interrogation Room: The Court's Dilemma, 23 CONN. L. REV. 229
(1991)(reprinted in 4 CRIMINAL PRACTICE LAW REVIEW 167 (1992)).
Il dovere del pubblico ministero di comunicare alla difeso la prova a discarico nel processo
penale americano (trans. by L. Marafioti), in ACCUSA PENALE E RUOLO DEL PUBBLICO
MINISTERO, edited by A. Gaito, 275 (1991).
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Book review of James Stewart, THE PROSECUTORS: INSIDE THE OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT'S MOST
POWERFUL LAWYERS, 40 J. LEG. EDUC. 396 (1990).
Batson v. Kentucky: Curing the Disease But Killing the Patient, 1987 SUP. CT. REV. 97.
The Privilege Against Self-Incrimination in a Rescue Situation, 76 J. CRIM. LAW AND
CRIMINOLOGY 567 (1985).
Criminal Law, 1983 ANNUAL SURVEY OF COLORADO LAW, Continuing Legal Education of
Colorado, Inc., 147.
Criminal Law, 1982 ANNUAL SURVEY OF COLORADO LAW, Continuing Legal Education of
Colorado, Inc., 57.
Judge Frankel and the Adversary System, 52 U. COLO. L. REV. 357 (1981).
Criminal Law, 1980 ANNUAL SURVEY OF COLORADO LAW, Continuing Legal Education of
Colorado, Inc. 107.
The Adversary Model is Bent, 9 COLO. LAWYER 2576 (1980) co-authored with Phillip Figa and
Hon. Kenneth Barnhill.
Prosecutorial Discretion, Plea Bargaining and the Supreme Court's Opinion in Bordenkircher v.
Hayes, 6 HAST. CONST. L. QUARTERLY 269 (1978) (portions reprinted in COURTS, THE
LAW, AND THE JUDICIAL PROCESS, S. Sidney Ulmer, ed., Free Press, 1980).
Criminal Law, 1979 ANNUAL SURVEY OF COLORADO LAW, Continuing Legal Education of
Colorado, Inc., 77.
Competency to Stand Trial in Federal Courts: Conceptual and Constitutional Problems, 45 U.
CHI. L. REV. 21 (1977).
Newspaper/Magazine Articles:
Miscellaneous short articles in magazines and newspapers including the Denver Post and the Wall
Street Journal.
LECTURES AND OTHER PRESENTATIONS (representative selection):
Speaker, Comparative Reflections on Criminal Procedure and Criminal Law, University of Bergen,
Norway, September 26, 2012.
Speaker, Corboy Lecture on Trial Advocacy, Loyola Univ. Law School, Chicago, September 24, 2009.
Speaker, Joint Meeting of the American Society of Comparative Law and the Italian Society of
Comparative Law, Penn State Univ. Law School, April 7, 2006.
Speaker, Conference on the Americanization of Continental Law, Romainmotier, Switzerland, October 9,
2004.
Speaker, Comparative Law Section, American Association of Law Schools, San Francisco, January 5, 2002
Speaker, Police Executive Research Forum, 25th Anniversary Meeting, Chicago, April 5, 2001.
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Speaker, University of Bergen Faculty of Law, Bergen, Norway, June 2, 2000.
Speaker, Fortunoff Colloquium Series, New York University School of Law, September 27, 1999
Speaker, Lay Participation in Criminal Trials in the 21st Century, International Institute for Higher Studies
in the Criminal Sciences, Siracusa, Italy, May 27, 1999.
Speaker, American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Meeting, San Diego, August 8, 1998
Speaker, China University of Political Science and Law (Ford Foundation Sponsorship), Beijing, November
3, 1997.
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