Paul H. Robinson (born November 12, 1948) is the Colin S. Diver Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Robinson earned a BS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1970, a JD from UCLA Law School in 1974, an LLM from Harvard Law School in 1974, and a Diploma in Legal Studies from Cambridge University in 1976.
[3] In 1985 he was nominated by President Reagan to serve as a member of the newly created United States Sentencing Commission.
[4][5] He was later confirmed by the United States Senate and served in that position until he resigned on February 1, 1988.
[10] Among the works that he has co-authored are Aspen Student Treatise for Criminal Law (with Michael T. Cahill, 2012), Law Without Justice: Why Criminal Law Doesn't Give People What They Deserve (with Michael T. Cahill, 2006), and the one-volume treatise Criminal Law: Case Studies and Controversies (with Michael T. Cahill and Shima Baradaran Baughman, 2016).