University of San Diego Legal Working Paper Series
University of San Diego Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper Series
Papers from 2005
Pursuing Justice for the Mentally Disabled, Grant H. Morris (June 2, 2005)
The Chief Prosecutor, Sai Prakash (June 2, 2005)
Legal Scholarship as Resistance to 'Science', Steven D. Smith (June 2, 2005)
Dickerson v. United States: The Case That Disappointed Miranda's Critics--and Then Its Supporters, Yale Kamisar (June 2, 2005)
Justice Douglas, Justice O'Connor, and George Orwell: Does the Constitution Compel Us to Disown Our Past, Steven D. Smith (June 2, 2005)
The Paradox of Omnipotence: Courts, Constitutions, and Commitments, David S. Law (June 2, 2005)
Overcriminalization, Discretion, Waiver: A Survey of Possible Exit Strategies, Donald A. Dripps (June 2, 2005)
The Judge as a Fly on the Wall: Interpretive Lessons from the Positive Political Theory of Legislation, Daniel B. Rodriguez, Cheryl Boudreau, Arthur Lupia, and Mathew McCubbins (June 2, 2005)
Papers from 2004
The Iceberg of Religious Freedom: Subsurface Levels of Nonestablishment Discourse, Steve D. Smith (November 5, 2004)
Montesquieu's Mistakes and the True Meaning of Separation, Laurence Claus (September 22, 2004)
The Tenuous Case for Conscience, Steven D. Smith (September 22, 2004)
Prosecutorial Neutrality, Fred C. Zacharias and Bruce A. Green (September 22, 2004)
Appointing Federal Judges: The President, the Senate, and the Prisoner's Dilemma, David S. Law (September 22, 2004)
Generic Constitutional Law, David S. Law (September 22, 2004)
Strategic Judicial Lawmaking: An Empirical Investigation of Ideology and Publication on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, David S. Law (September 22, 2004)
Understanding Recent Trends in Federal Regulation of Lawyers, Fred C. Zacharias (September 22, 2004)
Lawyers as Gatekeepers, Fred C. Zacharias (September 22, 2004)
Competency to Stand Trial on Trial, Grant H. Morris, Ansar M. Haroun, and David Naimark (September 22, 2004)
Mental Disorder and the Civil/Criminal Distinction, Grant H. Morris (September 22, 2004)
The Hollowness of the Harm Principle, Steven D. Smith (September 22, 2004)
Grutter's First Amendment, Paul Horwitz (September 22, 2004)
Judges as Rulemakers, Larry A. Alexander and Emily Sherwin (September 22, 2004)
A Tournament of Virtue, Lawrence B. Solum (September 22, 2004)
Supermajority Rules and the Judicial Confirmation Process, Michael B. Rappaport and John O. McGinnis (September 22, 2004)
Of Gift Horses and Great Expectations: Remands Without Vacatur in Administrative Law, Daniel B. Rodriguez (July 1, 2004)
Judicial Selection: Ideology versus Character, Lawrence B. Solum (March 11, 2004)
The Aretaic Turn in Constitutional Theory, Lawrence B. Solum (March 4, 2004)
Toleration and Liberal Commitments, Steven Douglas Smith (March 1, 2004)
The Pluralist Predicament: Contemporary Theorizing in the Law of Religious Freedom, Steven Douglas Smith (March 1, 2004)
American Insurance Association v. Garamendi and Executive Preemption in Foreign Affairs, Brannon P. Denning and Michael D. Ramsey (March 1, 2004)
Nonestablishment Under God? The Nonsectarian Principle, Steven Douglas Smith (March 1, 2004)
Grutter or Otherwise: Racial Preferences and Higher Education, Larry Alexander and Maimon Schwarzschild (March 1, 2004)
Procedural Justice, Lawrence B. Solum (February 23, 2004)
Papers from 2002
Straw Polls, Daniel B. Rodriguez (January 1, 2002)