Law Faculty News Articles, Editorials, and Blogs
Submissions from 2015
From the Supremes to Seminole, Ronald D. Rotunda (January 1, 2015)
Submissions from 2014
Civil Forfeiture in Philadelphia, Ronald D. Rotunda (October 6, 2014)
A Special Counsel to Investigate the IRS Targeting of Tea Party Groups, Ronald D. Rotunda (September 29, 2014)
IRS Monitoring Religious Groups, Ronald D. Rotunda (September 15, 2014)
Suing the President, Ronald D. Rotunda (August 18, 2014)
Bonds, Not Bailouts, For Too Big to Fail Banks, Steven D. Gjerstad and Vernon L. Smith (August 13, 2014)
Using Facebook as a Discovery Device, Ronald D. Rotunda (August 4, 2014)
Banning the Export of American Oil, Ronald D. Rotunda (July 21, 2014)
Changes in the Legal Profession and the Progress of Female Lawyers, Ronald D. Rotunda (July 7, 2014)
Increasing Revenue by Lowering Taxes, Ronald D. Rotunda (June 23, 2014)
Amending the First Amendment, Ronald D. Rotunda (June 9, 2014)
Prayers before Meetings of the Town Board of Greece, New York, Ronald D. Rotunda (May 16, 2014)
The Equal-Protection Clause: A Field Day for Misleading Statistics, Ronald D. Rotunda (May 12, 2014)
The Ninth Circuit Departs from Tinker in Upholding Ban on American Flag T-Shirts in School, Ronald D. Rotunda (May 12, 2014)
Endangering Jurors in a Terror Trial, Ronald D. Rotunda (May 2, 2014)
Using the State to Bully Dissidents, Ronald D. Rotunda (April 24, 2014)
Congress and Lois Lerner in Contempt, Ronald D. Rotunda (April 10, 2014)
On Deep Background 41 Years Later: Roe v. Wade, Ronald D. Rotunda (January 22, 2014)
Congress Cannot Stop the Exporting of American Oil, Ronald D. Rotunda (January 1, 2014)
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
The Boston Strangler, the Classroom and Me, Ronald D. Rotunda (July 26, 2013)
On the Health-Care Mandate, Obama Reaches Beyond the Law, Ronald D. Rotunda (July 18, 2013)
Egypt's Constitutional Do-Over: This Time Around, Take a Closer Look at America's Bill of Rights, Ronald D. Rotunda (July 17, 2013)
‘What did he know, and when did he know it?’, Ronald D. Rotunda (June 5, 2013)
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)
The Great Recession and the Property Bubble, Vernon L. Smith (April 16, 2013)
Blaming Hollywood for Gun Violence Doesn’t Work, Ronald D. Rotunda (February 20, 2013)
Geithner’s “Story of Inflation", Ronald D. Rotunda (January 5, 2013)
Due Process and the Role of Legal Counsel in the War on Terror, Ronald D. Rotunda (January 1, 2013)
Submissions from 2012
Obama Tax-raising Against JFK precedent: Hiking Rates Will Lose Money, Ronald D. Rotunda (December 13, 2012)
ObamaCare Legal Battles Not Over, Ronald D. Rotunda (September 27, 2012)
The Wrong Legal "Help" for NY's Poor, Ronald D. Rotunda (June 1, 2012)
Obamacare vs. Conscientious Beliefs, Ronald D. Rotunda (March 28, 2012)
ObamaCare’s Flawed Economic Foundations, Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Vernon L. Smith (March 20, 2012)
Kagan Should Recuse from ObamaCare Case, Ronald D. Rotunda (February 14, 2012)
Evidence Mounts against Justice Kagan for Recusal in ObamaCare Suit, Ronald D. Rotunda (January 26, 2012)
Lessons of Watergate, Ronald D. Rotunda (January 1, 2012)
Submissions from 2011
Kagan’s Recusal from ObamaCare, Ronald D. Rotunda (December 15, 2011)
Perry Is Right on Immigration, Ronald D. Rotunda (October 31, 2011)
Does ObamaCare, As Written, Prevent Congress From Repealing It?, Ronald D. Rotunda (October 28, 2011)
Insolvency, Policy, and Economic Stress, Vernon L. Smith (August 15, 2011)
Are Capitalists Happier?, Ronald D. Rotunda, Vernon L. Smith, and Bart J. Wilson (August 12, 2011)
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)
We Do Declare: Libya and the United States Constitution, Ronald D. Rotunda (March 24, 2011)
Disequilibrium in the Housing Market, Vernon L. Smith (January 24, 2011)
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)
Stern v. Marshall, and the Power of Bankruptcy Courts to Issue Final Orders on All Compulsory Counterclaims, Ronald D. Rotunda (January 1, 2011)
Submissions from 2010
What Ben Bernanke May Be Thinking, Vernon L. Smith (December 1, 2010)
Congressional Silence Hurts Immigrants, Ronald D. Rotunda (October 25, 2010)
Can Congress Ban People from Threatening to Burn The Quran?, Ronald D. Rotunda (October 14, 2010)
The Point of No Return, Ronald D. Rotunda (October 10, 2010)
A New Look at the Federal Suit against Arizona’s Immigration Law, Ronald D. Rotunda (October 5, 2010)
Birthright Citizenship Benefits the Country, Ronald D. Rotunda (September 16, 2010)
What Are D.C. Police Doing Enforcing Shariah Law?, Ronald D. Rotunda (September 16, 2010)
Why We’re in for a Long, Hard Economic Slog, Steven D. Gjerstad and Vernon L. Smith (September 10, 2010)
Please, No More Government Spending!, Vernon L. Smith (July 19, 2010)
Bolla Immobiliare una Costante Nelle Grandi Crisi, Steven D. Gjerstad and Vernon L. Smith (May 25, 2010)
What Can Congress Make You Do?, Ronald D. Rotunda (May 23, 2010)
Repealing the First Amendment, Ronald D. Rotunda (April 14, 2010)
The Efforts to Disbar Bush Lawyers, Ronald D. Rotunda (March 4, 2010)
Housing, Depressions and Credit Collapses, Vernon L. Smith (January 24, 2010)
Judicial Disqualification When a Solicitor General Moves to the Bench, Ronald D. Rotunda (January 1, 2010)
Submissions from 2009
An Unconstitutional Nobel, Ronald D. Rotunda (October 16, 2009)
The ABC Dilemma of Health Reform, Vernon L. Smith (October 16, 2009)
The Orange Grove: U.S. Imports of Lawsuits Rising, Ronald D. Rotunda (June 30, 2009)
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)
The Right of Free Speech, Regardless Of What Is Spoken, Ronald D. Rotunda (March 23, 2009)
Some Strings Attached: Is the Stimulus Law Constitutional?, Ronald D. Rotunda (March 15, 2009)
A Modern Day Bleak House: The Legal Inheritance of Anna Nicole Smith, Ronald D. Rotunda (January 1, 2009)
Submissions from 2008
Don’t Let Google Freeze the Airwaves, Thomas W. Hazlett and Vernon L. Smith (October 3, 2008)
Legacy Of the Clinton Bubble, Timothy Canova (January 1, 2008)
Rudy Thinks FAST, Ronald D. Rotunda (January 1, 2008)
Submissions from 2007
Holding Enemy Combatants in the Wake of Hamdan, Ronald D. Rotunda (January 1, 2007)
Income Mobility and Income Tax Revenue Since the Tax Cuts, Ronald D. Rotunda (January 1, 2007)
Submissions from 2006
The Courts Need This Watchdog, Ronald D. Rotunda (December 21, 2006)
There’s No Future in the Past of Campaign Finance: The Latest Decision Displays A Badly Fractured Court, Ronald D. Rotunda (June 28, 2006)
CMS Information Policy Under Medicare “Part D” Creates 1st Amendment Problems, Ronald D. Rotunda (January 1, 2006)
Frische Datteln für die Häftlinge, Ronald D. Rotunda (January 1, 2006)
Guantanamo, Another Story, Ronald D. Rotunda (January 1, 2006)
Submissions from 2005
A Shaky Ethics Charge, Ronald D. Rotunda (September 6, 2005)
Submissions from 2004
To Hasten Iraq Democracy, Put Wells in People’s Hands, Ronald D. Rotunda (May 14, 2004)
Election-Year Hunting: Should Scalia Recuse Himself from Cheney-Related Cases?, Ronald D. Rotunda (March 30, 2004)
Is There Hope for Iraq’s Post-Occupation Government?, Ronald D. Rotunda (January 1, 2004)
Submissions from 2003
The Iraqi People’s Fund, Vernon L. Smith (December 22, 2003)
Socket to California, Vernon L. Smith and Lynne Kiesling (November 10, 2003)
Demand, Not Supply, Vernon L. Smith and Lynne Kiesling (August 20, 2003)
SBC’s Secessionist Gambit Deserved to Fail, Ronald D. Rotunda (June 15, 2003)
Book Review: Democracy by Decree, Ronald D. Rotunda (January 1, 2003)
Estate Tax Repeal: Historical Data Indicate Philanthropy May Suffer, Frank Doti (January 1, 2003)
Found Money: IOLTA, Brown v. Legal Foundation of Washington, and the Taking of Property without the Payment of Compensation, Ronald D. Rotunda (January 1, 2003)
Submissions from 2002
Federalizing the Windy City, Ronald D. Rotunda (June 18, 2002)
No POWs: Unlawful Combatants, American Law, and the Geneva Convention, Ronald D. Rotunda (January 29, 2002)
Submissions from 2000
The Partisanship Myth, Ronald D. Rotunda (December 15, 2000)
Rubbish about Recusal, Ronald D. Rotunda (December 13, 2000)
What it Takes to Win: Using the Psychic Hotline to Decide Contested Races, Ronald D. Rotunda (November 26, 2000)
Let Legislature Decide, Ronald D. Rotunda (November 21, 2000)
How the Electoral College Works, and Why It Works Well, Ronald D. Rotunda (November 15, 2000)
The FTC Report on Hollywood Entertainment, Ronald D. Rotunda (September 15, 2000)
Another Clinton Victim: The Integrity of the Federal Courts, Ronald D. Rotunda (March 20, 2000)
Constitutional Problems with Enforcing the Biological Weapons Convention, Ronald D. Rotunda (January 1, 2000)