Law Faculty News Articles, Editorials, and Blogs

 
Below you may find selected news articles, editorials, and blog posts by faculty in the Fowler School of Law.

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Submissions from 2015

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Did Congress Really Give the Secretary of Homeland Security Unfettered Discretion Back in 1986 to Confer Legal Immigrant Status on Whomever He Wishes?, John C. Eastman (January 1, 2015)

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From the Supremes to Seminole, Ronald D. Rotunda (January 1, 2015)

Submissions from 2014

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Civil Forfeiture in Philadelphia, Ronald D. Rotunda (October 6, 2014)

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A Special Counsel to Investigate the IRS Targeting of Tea Party Groups, Ronald D. Rotunda (September 29, 2014)

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IRS Monitoring Religious Groups, Ronald D. Rotunda (September 15, 2014)

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Suing the President, Ronald D. Rotunda (August 18, 2014)

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Bonds, Not Bailouts, For Too Big to Fail Banks, Steven D. Gjerstad and Vernon L. Smith (August 13, 2014)

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Using Facebook as a Discovery Device, Ronald D. Rotunda (August 4, 2014)

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Banning the Export of American Oil, Ronald D. Rotunda (July 21, 2014)

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Changes in the Legal Profession and the Progress of Female Lawyers, Ronald D. Rotunda (July 7, 2014)

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Increasing Revenue by Lowering Taxes, Ronald D. Rotunda (June 23, 2014)

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Amending the First Amendment, Ronald D. Rotunda (June 9, 2014)

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Prayers before Meetings of the Town Board of Greece, New York, Ronald D. Rotunda (May 16, 2014)

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The Equal-Protection Clause: A Field Day for Misleading Statistics, Ronald D. Rotunda (May 12, 2014)

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The Ninth Circuit Departs from Tinker in Upholding Ban on American Flag T-Shirts in School, Ronald D. Rotunda (May 12, 2014)

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Endangering Jurors in a Terror Trial, Ronald D. Rotunda (May 2, 2014)

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Using the State to Bully Dissidents, Ronald D. Rotunda (April 24, 2014)

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Congress and Lois Lerner in Contempt, Ronald D. Rotunda (April 10, 2014)

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On Deep Background 41 Years Later: Roe v. Wade, Ronald D. Rotunda (January 22, 2014)

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What If Fetuses Do Feel Pain?, John C. Eastman (January 17, 2014)

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Congress Cannot Stop the Exporting of American Oil, Ronald D. Rotunda (January 1, 2014)

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Does the California Eraser Law Withstand Dormant Commerce Clause Scrutiny? Does it Do Any Good at All?, Samuel F. Ernst (January 1, 2014)

Submissions from 2013

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The Boston Strangler, the Classroom and Me, Ronald D. Rotunda (July 26, 2013)

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On the Health-Care Mandate, Obama Reaches Beyond the Law, Ronald D. Rotunda (July 18, 2013)

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Egypt's Constitutional Do-Over: This Time Around, Take a Closer Look at America's Bill of Rights, Ronald D. Rotunda (July 17, 2013)

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End Near For College Admissions Based on Race?, John C. Eastman (June 24, 2013)

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‘What did he know, and when did he know it?’, Ronald D. Rotunda (June 5, 2013)

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Exporting American Freedoms, in Model, Resource, or Outlier? What Effect Has the U.S. Constitution Had on the Recently Adopted Constitutions of Other Nations?, Ronald D. Rotunda (May 17, 2013)

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IRS Commits Political Sabotage: Column, John C. Eastman (May 15, 2013)

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The Great Recession and the Property Bubble, Vernon L. Smith (April 16, 2013)

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The Faux Federalism Argument Against DOMA, John C. Eastman (March 28, 2013)

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Redefining Marriage Isn’t Mandated by the Due Process Clause, John C. Eastman (March 25, 2013)

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Blaming Hollywood for Gun Violence Doesn’t Work, Ronald D. Rotunda (February 20, 2013)

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Claremont’s Eminent Domain Water Plan Is All Wet, John C. Eastman (February 2, 2013)

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The Constitutionality of Traditional Marriage, John C. Eastman (January 25, 2013)

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Geithner’s “Story of Inflation", Ronald D. Rotunda (January 5, 2013)

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Decision Imperils Initiative Process, John C. Eastman and Edwin Meese III (January 1, 2013)

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Decoding the Constitutional Challenges to Traditional Marriage, John C. Eastman (January 1, 2013)

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Due Process and the Role of Legal Counsel in the War on Terror, Ronald D. Rotunda (January 1, 2013)

Submissions from 2012

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Obama Tax-raising Against JFK precedent: Hiking Rates Will Lose Money, Ronald D. Rotunda (December 13, 2012)

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Federal Government Can Define Marriage Too, John C. Eastman (December 12, 2012)

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ObamaCare Legal Battles Not Over, Ronald D. Rotunda (September 27, 2012)

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Pure and Simple Lawlessness, John C. Eastman (August 1, 2012)

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Where the Supreme Court Went Wrong in Arizona, John C. Eastman (June 26, 2012)

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The Wrong Legal "Help" for NY's Poor, Ronald D. Rotunda (June 1, 2012)

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Obamacare vs. Conscientious Beliefs, Ronald D. Rotunda (March 28, 2012)

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ObamaCare’s Flawed Economic Foundations, Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Vernon L. Smith (March 20, 2012)

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Kagan Should Recuse from ObamaCare Case, Ronald D. Rotunda (February 14, 2012)

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Evidence Mounts against Justice Kagan for Recusal in ObamaCare Suit, Ronald D. Rotunda (January 26, 2012)

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Lessons of Watergate, Ronald D. Rotunda (January 1, 2012)

Submissions from 2011

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Kagan’s Recusal from ObamaCare, Ronald D. Rotunda (December 15, 2011)

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Perry Is Right on Immigration, Ronald D. Rotunda (October 31, 2011)

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Does ObamaCare, As Written, Prevent Congress From Repealing It?, Ronald D. Rotunda (October 28, 2011)

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Alabama’s Immigration Law is Permissible and Sensible, John C. Eastman (October 4, 2011)

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Insolvency, Policy, and Economic Stress, Vernon L. Smith (August 15, 2011)

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Are Capitalists Happier?, Ronald D. Rotunda, Vernon L. Smith, and Bart J. Wilson (August 12, 2011)

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US Fiscal Stimulus Disproportionately Increased Imports and Trade Deficit; Expect the Reverse with Austerity, Joy A. Buchanan, Steven D. Gjerstad, and Vernon L. Smith (July 26, 2011)

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We Do Declare: Libya and the United States Constitution, Ronald D. Rotunda (March 24, 2011)

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Disequilibrium in the Housing Market, Vernon L. Smith (January 24, 2011)

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The 14th Amendment and Children of Illegal Migrants, John C. Eastman (January 13, 2011)

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Arizona’s Immigration Storm, John C. Eastman and Karen J. Lugo (January 1, 2011)

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Lawyers: Why We Are Different and Why We Are the Same: Creating Structural Incentives in Large Law Firms to Promote Ethical Behavior – In-House Ethics Counsel, Bill Padding, and In-House Ethics Training, Ronald D. Rotunda (January 1, 2011)

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Stern v. Marshall, and the Power of Bankruptcy Courts to Issue Final Orders on All Compulsory Counterclaims, Ronald D. Rotunda (January 1, 2011)

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Will Mrs. Bond Topple Missouri v. Holland?, John C. Eastman (January 1, 2011)

Submissions from 2010

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What Ben Bernanke May Be Thinking, Vernon L. Smith (December 1, 2010)

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Congressional Silence Hurts Immigrants, Ronald D. Rotunda (October 25, 2010)

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Can Congress Ban People from Threatening to Burn The Quran?, Ronald D. Rotunda (October 14, 2010)

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The Point of No Return, Ronald D. Rotunda (October 10, 2010)

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A New Look at the Federal Suit against Arizona’s Immigration Law, Ronald D. Rotunda (October 5, 2010)

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Birthright Citizenship Benefits the Country, Ronald D. Rotunda (September 16, 2010)

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What Are D.C. Police Doing Enforcing Shariah Law?, Ronald D. Rotunda (September 16, 2010)

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Why We’re in for a Long, Hard Economic Slog, Steven D. Gjerstad and Vernon L. Smith (September 10, 2010)

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Surveillance of Our Enemies During Wartime? I’m Shocked!, John C. Eastman (August 11, 2010)

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A Decision Full of Contradictions, John C. Eastman (July 28, 2010)

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Please, No More Government Spending!, Vernon L. Smith (July 19, 2010)

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Bolla Immobiliare una Costante Nelle Grandi Crisi, Steven D. Gjerstad and Vernon L. Smith (May 25, 2010)

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What Can Congress Make You Do?, Ronald D. Rotunda (May 23, 2010)

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Repealing the First Amendment, Ronald D. Rotunda (April 14, 2010)

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The Efforts to Disbar Bush Lawyers, Ronald D. Rotunda (March 4, 2010)

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Housing, Depressions and Credit Collapses, Vernon L. Smith (January 24, 2010)

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Book Review, Crisis and Command: A History of Executive Power from George Washington to George Bush, John C. Eastman (January 1, 2010)

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Judicial Disqualification When a Solicitor General Moves to the Bench, Ronald D. Rotunda (January 1, 2010)

Submissions from 2009

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An Unconstitutional Nobel, Ronald D. Rotunda (October 16, 2009)

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The ABC Dilemma of Health Reform, Vernon L. Smith (October 16, 2009)

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The Orange Grove: U.S. Imports of Lawsuits Rising, Ronald D. Rotunda (June 30, 2009)

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Flags of Caution over Sotomayor, John C. Eastman (May 27, 2009)

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From Bubble to Depression?: Why the Housing Crash Ruined the Financial System but the Dot-com Crash Did Not, Steven D. Gjerstad and Vernon L. Smith (April 6, 2009)

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The Right of Free Speech, Regardless Of What Is Spoken, Ronald D. Rotunda (March 23, 2009)

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Some Strings Attached: Is the Stimulus Law Constitutional?, Ronald D. Rotunda (March 15, 2009)

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A Modern Day Bleak House: The Legal Inheritance of Anna Nicole Smith, Ronald D. Rotunda (January 1, 2009)

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The Founders' Intent, Constitutional Provisions, and Limits on Spending Power and Delegation, John C. Eastman (January 1, 2009)

Submissions from 2008

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Don’t Let Google Freeze the Airwaves, Thomas W. Hazlett and Vernon L. Smith (October 3, 2008)

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Legacy Of the Clinton Bubble, Timothy Canova (January 1, 2008)

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Rudy Thinks FAST, Ronald D. Rotunda (January 1, 2008)

Submissions from 2007

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2007 National Lawyer’s Convention The Federalist Society and its Federalism and Separation of Powers Practice Groups present a panel debate on Federalism: Religion, Early America and the Fourteenth Amendment, John C. Eastman, Marci Hamilton, and William H. Pryor Jr. (January 1, 2007)

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Holding Enemy Combatants in the Wake of Hamdan, Ronald D. Rotunda (January 1, 2007)

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Income Mobility and Income Tax Revenue Since the Tax Cuts, Ronald D. Rotunda (January 1, 2007)

Submissions from 2006

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The Courts Need This Watchdog, Ronald D. Rotunda (December 21, 2006)

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There’s No Future in the Past of Campaign Finance: The Latest Decision Displays A Badly Fractured Court, Ronald D. Rotunda (June 28, 2006)

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Citizens by Right, or by Consent?, John C. Eastman (January 2, 2006)