Professor Cahill joined the Brooklyn Law School faculty in 2003, after spending a year at Chicago-Kent College of Law as Visiting Assistant Professor of Law. From 2000-03, he was the staff director of the Illinois Criminal Code Rewrite and Reform Commission, helping to draft and revise criminal code provisions. He has also served as a consultant for the Penal Code Reform Project of the Kentucky Criminal Justice Council. Professor Cahill was a law clerk to Judge James B. Loken of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, and while in law school, he served as Note Editor of the Michigan Law Review.
Criminal Law and Procedure
Attempt by Omission, Iowa Law Review (2009)
In addition to requiring subjective culpability, criminal offenses typically involve two objective features: action and...
Grading Arson, Criminal Law and Philosophy (2008)
Criminalizing arson is both easy and hard. On the substantive merits, the conduct of damaging...
Retributive Justice in the Real World, Washington University Law Review (2007)
There are two commonly recognized "theories" of criminal law: utilitarianism, which sees criminal law's purpose...
Criminal Law’s "Mediating Rules": Balancing, Harmonization, or Accident?, Virginia Law Review In Brief (2007)
This brief response discusses Richard Bierschbach and Alex Stein's article, "Mediating Rules in Criminal Law,"...
Attempt, Reckless Homicide, and the Design of Criminal Law, University of Colorado Law Review (2007)
Most American criminal codes create an offense for recklessly killing another person, and nearly all...
Health Care Law and Policy
Pegram’s Regress: A Missed Chance for Sensible Judicial Review of Managed Care Decisions (with Peter D. Jacobson), American Journal of Law and Medicine (2001)
This article argues that a proper interpretation of ERISA places fiduciary duties at the heart...
Applying Fiduciary Responsibilities in the Managed Care Context (with Peter D. Jacobson), American Journal of Law and Medicine (2000)
In this Article we describe a process, based on fiduciary duty principles, for resolving potential...
Jurisprudence
Retributive Justice in the Real World, Washington University Law Review (2007)
There are two commonly recognized "theories" of criminal law: utilitarianism, which sees criminal law's purpose...
Book Notice (reviewing Robin West, Caring For Justice (1997)), Michigan Law Review (1998)
This Book Notice discusses Robin West's Caring for Justice, which posits essential differences between male...