Law Faculty News Articles, Editorials, and Blogs
Submissions from 2015
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)
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)
What If Fetuses Do Feel Pain?, John C. Eastman (January 17, 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)
End Near For College Admissions Based on Race?, John C. Eastman (June 24, 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)
IRS Commits Political Sabotage: Column, John C. Eastman (May 15, 2013)
The Great Recession and the Property Bubble, Vernon L. Smith (April 16, 2013)
The Faux Federalism Argument Against DOMA, John C. Eastman (March 28, 2013)
Redefining Marriage Isn’t Mandated by the Due Process Clause, John C. Eastman (March 25, 2013)
Blaming Hollywood for Gun Violence Doesn’t Work, Ronald D. Rotunda (February 20, 2013)
Claremont’s Eminent Domain Water Plan Is All Wet, John C. Eastman (February 2, 2013)
The Constitutionality of Traditional Marriage, John C. Eastman (January 25, 2013)
Geithner’s “Story of Inflation", Ronald D. Rotunda (January 5, 2013)
Decision Imperils Initiative Process, John C. Eastman and Edwin Meese III (January 1, 2013)
Decoding the Constitutional Challenges to Traditional Marriage, John C. Eastman (January 1, 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)
Federal Government Can Define Marriage Too, John C. Eastman (December 12, 2012)
ObamaCare Legal Battles Not Over, Ronald D. Rotunda (September 27, 2012)
Pure and Simple Lawlessness, John C. Eastman (August 1, 2012)
Where the Supreme Court Went Wrong in Arizona, John C. Eastman (June 26, 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)
Alabama’s Immigration Law is Permissible and Sensible, John C. Eastman (October 4, 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)
The 14th Amendment and Children of Illegal Migrants, John C. Eastman (January 13, 2011)
Arizona’s Immigration Storm, John C. Eastman and Karen J. Lugo (January 1, 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)
Will Mrs. Bond Topple Missouri v. Holland?, John C. Eastman (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)
Surveillance of Our Enemies During Wartime? I’m Shocked!, John C. Eastman (August 11, 2010)
A Decision Full of Contradictions, John C. Eastman (July 28, 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)
Book Review, Crisis and Command: A History of Executive Power from George Washington to George Bush, John C. Eastman (January 1, 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)
Flags of Caution over Sotomayor, John C. Eastman (May 27, 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)
The Founders' Intent, Constitutional Provisions, and Limits on Spending Power and Delegation, John C. Eastman (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
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)
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)
Citizens by Right, or by Consent?, John C. Eastman (January 2, 2006)