Professor of Law

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Works Published As Part of a Collection

Through a Screen Darkly: Hollywood as a Measure of Discrimination Against Arabs and Muslims, 2 Duke Forum for Law and Social Change __ (forthcoming 2010) [Symposium] [25 pages].

“I Do Not Think [Implausible] Means What You Think It Means”: Ashcroft v. Iqbal and Judicial Vouching for Government Officials, 14 Lewis & Clark Law Review __ (forthcoming 2010) [Symposium] [14 pages].

Enforcing ICC Arrest Warrants, Vol. 31, No. 3, at 2, National Security Law Report (ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security) (May/June 2009) [Dialogue with Capt. Keith Petty, U.S. Army JAG] [7 pages].

Crying Wolf?: In re Marriage Cases and Charges of Judicial Activism, 14 NeXus: A Journal of Opinion 45 (2009) [Symposium] [10 pages].

Boumediene and Lawfare, 43 University of Richmond Law Review 865 (2009) [Symposium] [28 pages].

Great Minds Think Alike: The “Torture Memo,” OLC, Law Clerks, and Sharing the Boss’s Mindset, 45 Willamette Law Review 473 (2009) [Symposium] [32 pages].

Distinguishing Soldiers and Non-State Actors: Clarifying the Geneva Convention’s Regulation of Interrogation of Captured Combatants Through Positive Inducements, 26 Boston University International Law Journal 227 (2008) [50 pages].

Jack Bauer Syndrome: Hollywood’s Depiction of National Security Law, 17 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 279 (2008) [Symposium] [22 pages].

Ten Questions on National Security, 34 William Mitchell Law Review (Journal of the National Security Forum) 509 (2008).

Enemies of the State: Rational Classification in the War on Terrorism, 11 Lewis and Clark Law Review 903 (2007) [Symposium] [39 pages].

Tom and Jerry (and Spike): A Metaphor for Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the President, the Court, and Congress in the War on Terrorism, 42 Tulsa Law Review 505 (2007) [Supreme Court Review Symposium] [31 pages].

Blogging While Untenured and Other Extreme Sports, 84 Washington University Law Review 1235 (2007) [Symposium] [with Christine Hurt] [20 pages].

Structural Objections to the Inherent Commander in Chief Powers Thesis, 16 Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems 965 (2007) [Symposium] [25 pages].

The Impact of the 9/11 Attacks on National Security Law Casebooks, 19 St. Thomas Law Review 157 (2006) [Symposium] [42 pages].

Coercion and Terrorism Prosecutions in the Shadow of Military Detention, 2006 Brigham Young University Law Review 1255 (2006) [77 pages].

Procedural Due Process to Determine “Enemy Combatant” Status in the War on Terrorism, 73 Tennessee Law Review 351 (2006) [64 pages].

Dodging the Jose Padilla Case, vol. 28, no. 2, at 6, National Security Law Report (ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security) (July 2006) [3 pages].

Legal Blogs and the Supreme Court Nomination Process, 11 NeXus: A Journal of Opinion 79 (2006) [10 pages] [Symposium].

Ending the War on Terrorism One Terrorist At a Time: A Non-Criminal Detention Model for Holding and Releasing Guantanamo Bay Detainees, 29 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 149 (2005) [64 pages].

The Role of Article III Courts in the War on Terrorism, 13 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 1061 (2005) [67 pages].

A Government’s Trustworthiness: Beyond the USA PATRIOT Act, 8 Chicago Policy Review 1 (2004) [10 pages].

Disposable Deontology: The Death Penalty and Nuclear Deterrence, 55 Alabama Law Review 111 (2003) [48 pages].

How the Americans with Disabilities Act’s Prohibition on Pre-Offer Disability-Related Questions Violates the First Amendment, 17 Labor Lawyer 107 (2001) [36 pages].

The Probative Values and Pitfalls of Drug Courier Profiles as Probabilistic Evidence, 5 Texas Forum on Civil Liberties-Civil Rights 163 (2000) [50 pages].

• adapted for Search and Seizure Law Report, vol. 28, no. 4 (2001).

Really, Who is Uncle Zeb?, 3 Green Bag 2d 115 (1999) [humor] [3 pages].

State Taxation and the Dormant Commerce Clause: The Object-Measure Approach, 1998 Supreme Court Review 193 [with Jesse H. Choper] [53 pages].

A Better Mousetrap: Procedural Default as a Retroactivity Alternative to Teague v. Lane and the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, 25 American Journal of Criminal Law 203 (1998) [105 pages].

Reviving Fallen Copyrights: A Constitutional Analysis of Section 514 of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act, 17 Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Journal 383 (1997) [29 pages].

• reprinted in 1998 Intellectual Property Law Review 421.
• First Place in 1995 Nathan Burkan Memorial Copyright Competition at Boalt Hall.

Nailing Jello to a Wall: A Uniform Approach for Adjudicating Insurance Coverage Disputes Involving Delayed Manifestation Damages, 81 California Law Review 1243 (1995) [comment] [65 pages].

• reprinted in 8 National Insurance Law Review 383 (1996).

Not a Rotten Carrot: Using Charges Dismissed Pursuant to a Plea Agreement in Sentencing Under the Federal Guidelines, 81 California Law Review 419 (1995) [comment] [51 pages].

Post-Modern Printing Presses: Extending Freedom of the Press to Electronic Online Services, 8 High Technology Law Journal 311 (1993) [comment] [39 pages].

 

Book Chapters

The Alien-Citizen Distinction and the Global War on Terrorism, in Citizenship in a Time of War (Yoav Peled et al. eds.) (forthcoming 2010) (co-authored with David Abraham).

Supreme Court, U.S., in The Thirties in America (encyclopedia entry) (forthcoming 2010).

Civil Rights and Liberties in the United States, in The Thirties in America (encyclopedia entry) (forthcoming 2010).

Supreme Court Decisions, U.S., in The Forties in America (encyclopedia entry) (forthcoming 2010).

Civil Rights and Liberties in the United States, in The Forties in America (encyclopedia entry) (forthcoming 2010).

U.S. National Security Agency is revealed to have been spying on the United Nations, in Great Events from History: Modern Scandals, at 995(encyclopedia entry) (2009) [4 pages].

New York Governor Eliot Spitzer resigns after admitting to using a call-girl service, in Great Events from History: Modern Scandals, at ___ (encyclopedia entry) (2009) [4 pages].

Martha Stewart is convicted, in Great Events from History: Modern Scandals, at 1031 (encyclopedia entry) (2009) [4 pages].

Radical author and professor Ward Churchill is fired from the University of Colorado at Boulder for plagiarism and falsification of research data, in Great Events from History: Modern Scandals, at 1111 (encyclopedia entry) (2009) [4 pages].

Can “Death Row Phenomenon” Be Confined to Death Row Inmates?, in Death Penalty: New Dimensions 92-121 (Areti Krishna Kumari ed. 2007) [30 pages].

Butler v. McKellar, in the Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties, at 208 (encyclopedia entry) (2006) [2 pages].

United States v. United States District Court, in the Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties, at 1695 (encyclopedia entry) (2006) [2 pages].

Terrorism and Civil Liberties, in the Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties, at 1622 (encyclopedia entry) (2006) [5 pages].

Indefinite Detention, in the Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties, at 804 (encyclopedia entry) (2006) [2 pages].

U.S. v. The Progressive, in the Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties, at 1694 (encyclopedia entry) (2006) [2 pages].

National security and sovereignty, in Ethics, at 1003 (Rev. Ed. 2004) (encyclopedia entry) [3 pages].

 

Book Reviews

Review of Ben Saul, Defining Terrorism in International Law, in 101 American Journal of International Law 938 (2007) [4 pages].

A Carbolic Smoke Ball for the Nineties: Class-Based Affirmative Action, 31 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 213 (1997) [Review of Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Remedy] [48 pages].

Review of Janet Lowe, The Secret Empire: How 25 Multinationals Rule the World, 11 International Tax & Business Lawyer 241 (1993) [6 pages].

 

Newspaper Editorials

When war model gets applied to non-state actors, Iowa City Press-Citizen, July 21, 2007, at 17A (reviewing Poems from Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak)

Military recruiting on campus and the Solomon Amendment, Harvard Record, Feb. 9, 2006, at 8.

The case of Roberts v. Clinton, Iowa City Press-Citizen, Sept. 29, 2005, at 9A.

Enemy of the People?, Iowa City Press-Citizen, Sept. 18, 2005, at 11A.

If rules had been followed, Hamm still topples Yang, Iowa City Press-Citizen, Aug. 29, 2004, at 11B.

A justice’s contempt for rule of law, Iowa City Press-Citizen, Aug. 20, 2003, at 11A.

What Will We Do If Saddam Is Captured?, Iowa City Press-Citizen, Mar. 21, 2003, at 9A.