Long-Term Incarceration and the Moral Limits of Punishment

* Climenko Fellow & Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School. For incisive comments, I am grateful to my Ph.D. supervisors, Nicola Lacey and Peter Ramsay, my examiners, Lindsay Farmer and Victor Tadros, as well as to Andrea Armstrong, Susanna Blumenthal, Vincent Chiao, Andrew Crespo, Anne Dailey, Mihailis Diamantis, Stephen Galoob, John Goldberg, Nan Goodman, Ariela Gross, Jonathan Grossberg, Charles Fried, Erin Kelly, Josh Kleinfeld, Christopher Lewis, Ben Levin, Naomi Mezey, Hiroshi Motomura, Erin Murphy, Liam Murphy, Justin Murray, Carmel Nemirovsky, Diana Newmark, Shalev Roisman, Teemu Ruskola, Paul Saint-Amour, Blaine Saito, Amy Sepinwall, Clyde Spillenger, Carol Steiker, Nomi Stolzenberg, Rebecca Sutton, Will Thomas, Susannah Barton Tobin, Martha Umphrey, Jeremy Waldron, Robin West, and participants at presentations at Harvard Law School, NYU Law School, Richmond Law School, the Law Department of the London School of Economics and Political Science, the 2019 Law & Humanities Junior Scholars Workshop at the University of Pennsylvania, and the 2019 Law and Society Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. I am also indebted to the editors of the Cardozo Law Review for their careful work.