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Luis E. Chiesa

Luis E. Chiesa
Luis E. Chiesa

Associate Professor of Law
BBA, University of Puerto Rico–Río Piedras
JD, University of Puerto Rico School of Law
LLM, Columbia Law School
JSD, Columbia Law School

Contact:
lchiesa@law.pace.edu
(914) 422-4236
Office: P205

Assistant:
Brenda Zamboni
Office: P315-319
(914) 422-4668

Office Hours:
Mondays 3:00 – 7:00 & Wednesdays 3:30 – 5:30

Links:
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SSRN

Professor Luis E. Chiesa joined the full-time faculty in 2007.  Prior to that, he clerked for the Honorable Federico Hernández Denton, Chief Justice of the Puerto Rico Supreme Court. Professor Chiesa was the Rembe Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Washington. He has also been a visiting Professor of Criminal Law at the Torcuato Di Tella University in Buenos Aires, Argentina and a member of the visiting Faculty at the Sergio Arboleda University in Bogota, Colombia. Professor Chiesa serves as editor in charge of book reviews for the New Criminal Law Review. His research interests focus on substantive criminal law, criminal procedure, comparative law, and animal cruelty laws.

Courses: 
Publications: 
Books Derecho Penal Sustantivo (Substantive Criminal Law) (2007).
   
Articles Beyond War: Justifying Targeted Killings in Law and Morality (with Alexander K.A. Greenawalt), Washington & Lee Law Review (forthcoming, 2012).
  Punishing Without Free Will, Utah Law Review (forthcoming, 2011)
  "Consent is Not a Defense to Battery: A Reply to Professor Bergelson," Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law (forthcoming 2011).
  "When an Offense is not an Offense: Rethinking the Supreme Court’s Beyond a Reasonable Doubt Jurisprudence," Creighton Law Review (forthcoming 2010).
  "Beyond Torture: The Nemo Tenetur Principle in Borderline Cases," 30 Boston College Third World Journal (forthcoming 2009).
  "Self-Defense and the Psychotic Aggressor," in Criminal Law Conversations (Oxford University Press, Paul Robinson, Kim Ferzan, and Stephen Garvey, eds.) (with George P. Fletcher) (forthcoming 2009).
  "Spanish Criminal Law," in Comparative Criminal Law (Stanford University Press, Kevin Jon Heller, ed.) (with Carlos Gómez Jara-Díez) (forthcoming 2009). 
  "The Rise of Spanish and Latin American Criminal Theory," 11 New Criminal Law Review 363 (2008).
  "Why is it a Crime to Stomp on a Goldfish? - Harm, Victimhood and the Structure of Anti-Cruelty Offenses," 78 Mississippi Law Journal 1 (2008).
  "Of Persons and the Criminal Law: (Second-Tier) Personhood as a Prerequisite for Victimhood," 28 Pace Law Review 759 (2008).
  "Duress, Demanding Heroism and Proportionality: The Erdemovic Case and Beyond," 41 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 741 (2008).
  "Foreword: Victims and the Criminal Justice System Symposium," 28 Pace Law Review 617 (2008).
  "Outsiders Looking In: The American Legal Discourse of Exclusion," 5 Rutgers Journal of Law and Public Policy 283 (2008).
  "Taking Victims Seriously: A Dworkinian Theory of Punishment," 76 Revista Juridica Universidad de Puerto Rico (University of Puerto Rico Law Review) 117 (2008).
  "The Act Requirement as a Basic Concept of Criminal Law," 28 Cardozo Law Review 2461 (2007) (with Francisco Muñoz Conde).
  "Mujeres Maltratadas y Legítima Defensa: La Experiencia Anglosajona," 20 Revista de Derecho Penal 50 (2007) (Spain's leading criminal law journal) (reprinted in Revista Penal - Argentina’s leading criminal law journal).
  "Normative Gaps in the Criminal Law: A Reasons Theory of Wrongdoing," 10 New Criminal Law Review 102 (2007).
  "El Caso del Padre Amado: La Tortura en el Mundo Post-9/11," Rev. Col. Abogados (2006) (title in English: "The Case of Father Amado: Torture in the Post-9/11 World") (with Sigfrido Steidel Figueroa).
  "La Catástrofe de los Delitos de Riesgo Catastrófico," Revista Juridica Universidad de Puerto Rico (University of Puerto Rico Law Review) (2006) (title in English: "The Castastrophe of the Crimes of Catastrophic Risk") (with Jorge San Miguel).
  "Los Dogmas del Nuevo Código Penal: Porqué enmendarlo y cómo hacerlo," 40 Revista Juridica Universidad de Puerto Rico (University of Puerto Rico Law Review) 135 (2005) (title in English: "Dogmas of the New Penal Code: Why Amend it and How to Do it").
  "La intoxicación voluntaria, intención expecífica y otros demonios," 73 Revista Juridica Universidad de Puerto Rico (University of Puerto Rico Law Review) 83 (2004). (Title in English: "Voluntary Intoxication, Specific Intent and Other Demons").
  "Derecho Penal," 73 Revista Juridica Universidad de Puerto Rico (University of Puerto Rico Law Review) 1 (2005). (Title in English: "Criminal Law").