The New York Times has a fine obituary for my friend Harvard law professor Bill Stuntz:
William J. Stuntz, an influential legal scholar known for his counterintuitive insights, who blamed liberal judges, conservative legislators and ambitious prosecutors for what he saw as a criminal justice system that imprisons far too many people, died on Tuesday at his home in Belmont, Mass. He was 52.
It goes on to summarize his legal scholarship in considerable detail.