Professor of Law

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Works Published As Part of a Collection

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

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.