Sentencing Matters Substack
DAB, Jonathan J. Wroblewski, Steven L. Chanenson, Judge Joseph Goodwin, Sam J. Merchant, Christopher Slobogin, Matthew Kleiman, Adrian RochaCommentary on why and how sentencing matters, from the editors of the Federal Sentencing Reporter
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Steven L. Chanenson is a Professor of Law at Villanova University and one of the Managing Editors of the Federal Sentencing Reporter. Previously, he was an AUSA in Chicago and later the Chair of the PA Commission on Sentencing.
United States District Judge Southern District of West Virginia
Associate Professor, University of Minnesota School of Law
Christopher Slobogin occupies the Milton Underwood Chair and directs the Criminal Justice Program at Vanderbilt University Law School.
Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing
Policy Director for Last Prisoner Project, a nonpartisan, nonprofit working at the interesction of criminal justice and drug reform
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