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*Category placement is based on papers actually online rather than the author's research interests.
 
 
Ian Ayres
Yale University.  Titles include
"Shooting Down the More Guns, Less Crime Hypothesis" (2002);
"A Viable Alternative to Breaking up Microsoft: Compulsory Licensing That Would Make Microsoft Compete With Its Past Self" (2002);
"Outcome Tests of Racial Disparities in Police Practices" (2002);
"Internalizing Outsider Trading" (2002);
"Correlated Values in the Theory of Property and Liability Rules" (2002);  and
"Why Telemarketers Should Pay Us" (2001).
 
Vanessa Baird
University of Colorado.  Titles include
"Profit, Political Context and Judicial Power: Why the Supreme Court Cannot Make Liberal Economic Policy";
"The Effect of Politically Salient Decisions on the U.S. Supreme Court’s Agenda";
"Can the Supreme Court ‘Go Public’?: The Influence of the Supreme Court on Congress";  and
"Shattering the Myth of Legality?: When the Public Learns How the Court Really Works."
 
Jack Balkin
Yale University.  Titles include
"Lochner and Constitutional Historicism" (2005);
"Plessy, Brown, and Grutter: A Play in Three Acts" (2005);
"What Brown Teaches Us About Constitutional Theory" (2004);
"Respect Worthy: Frank Michelman and the Legitimate Constitution" (2004);
"The Use that the Future Makes of the Past: John Marshall's Greatness and its Lessons for Today's Supreme Court Justices" (2002);
"Understanding the Constitutional Revolution" (2001);
"Legal Historicism and Legal Academics: The Roles of Law Professors in the Wake of Bush v. Gore" (2001);
"Bush v. Gore and the Boundary Between Law and Politics" (2001);
"Legitimacy and the 2000 Election" (2002);
"The American Civil Rights Tradition: Anticlassification or Antisubordination?" (2003);  and
"The Declaration and the Promise of a Democratic Culture" (1999).
 
Gregory Caldeira
Titles include
"Organized Interests Before the Supreme Court: Setting the Agenda";
"FDR's Court-Packing Plan in the Court of Public Opinion";
"Strategic Voting and Gatekeeping in the Supreme Court";
"Strategic Timing, Position Taking and Impeachment in the House of Representatives";
"The Lobbying Activities of the Organized Interests in the Federal Judicial Nominations";
"Measuring the Ideologies of US Senators; The Song Remains the Same";  and
"Defender of Democracy? Legitimacy, Popular Acceptance, and the South African Constitutional Court."
 
Craig Curtis
Bradley University.   Titles include
 “Judicial Accountability and the Fourth Amendment: An Examination of Republican Success in Manipulating the Judicial System.”
 
Jim Dator
University of Hawaii.  Titles include
"Judicial Governance of the Long Blur";
"From Parking to When the Courts of Justice are Overgrown with Grass";
"American State Courts, Five Tsunamis, & Four Alternative Futures";
"The Dancing Judicial Zen Masters: How many judges does it take to see the future?";
"Dowager Revisited";
"Notes on Social Policy Implications for the Panel Discussion on Biotechnology and the Courts, "To Be or Not To Be";
"Culturally-Appropriate Dispute Resolution Techniques and the Formal Judicial System in Hawaii";
"Inventing the Future of Courts and Courts of the Future: A Futurists Perspective";
"Judiciaries, Futures of US State";
"Teleworking Justice - a Concept Paper";
"When Crime Doesn't Pay -- Enough";
"20 Minutes Into the Future";  and
"Virginia Courts."
 
John Gardner
University of Oxford.  Titles include
"The Mark of Responsibility";
"Value, Interest, and Well-Being";  and
"The Legality of Law."
 
Bert Kritzer
University of Wisconsin. Scroll to the bottom of the page.  Categories include
Contingency Fee Legal Practice;  The Status and Future of the Legal Profession and Other Law Workers;  Comparing Lawyers and Nonlawyers as Advocates;  Bringing the Law Back In: Finding a Role for Law in Supreme Court Decision-Making;  Public Evaluation of State Courts;  Law, Politics, and Judicial Process in England;  Legal Implications of Smoking;  Non-Law Substantive Research;  and
Interpretation in Quantitative and Qualitative Research.
 
Jeremy Lewis
Huntington College.  Titles include
"Electronic Access to Public Records" (2000);
"Reinventing (Open) Government: State and Federal Trends" (1995);
"The Next Cycle of FOIA Policy?" (1994);
"New Technologies and FOIA Processing" (1993);  and
"Freedom of Information: Developments in the United Kingdom" (1989).
 
Peter Maggs
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  Titles include
"Constitutional Commercial Law in the Courts";
"The Effect of Proposed Amendments to Uniform Commercial Code Article 2";
"New Developments in Internet Consumer Law";
"The Impact of the Internet on Legal Bibliography in the United States of America";  and
"Enforcing the Bill of Rights in the Twilight of the Soviet Union."
 
Kevin McGuire
University of North Carolina.  Titles include
"Explaining Executive Success in the U.S. Supreme Court";
"Congress, the Supreme Court, and the Flag";
"Issues, Agendas, and Decision Making on the Supreme Court";
"Issue Fluidity on the U.S. Supreme Court";
"Repeat Players in the Supreme Court: The Role of Experienced Lawyers in Litigation Success";
"Amici Curiae and Strategies for Gaining Access to the Supreme Court";
"Lawyers, Organized Interests, and the Law of Obscenity: Agenda Setting in the Supreme Court";
"Lawyers and the U.S. Supreme Court: The Washington Community and Legal Elites";
"Ambiguities in Measuring and Modeling the U.S. Supreme Court";
"The Institutionalization of the U.S. Supreme Court";  and
"The Least Dangerous Branch Revisited: New Evidence on Supreme Court Responsiveness to Public Preferences." 
 
Eben Moglen
Columbia Law School.  Titles includes
"Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright";
"A Vigil For Thurgood Marshall";
"Judge Weinfeld, A Recollection";
"Considering Zenger: Partisan Politics and the Legal Profession in Colonial New York";
"Holmes's Legacy and the New Constitutional History";
"The Incompleat Burkean: Bruce Ackerman's New Constitutional History";  and
"The Transformation of Morton Horwitz."
 
Kevin Quinn
University of Washington.  Titles include
"Bayesian Learning about Ideal Points of U.S. Supreme Court Justices, 1953-1999";
"The Dimensions of Supreme Court Decision Making: Again Revisiting The Judicial Mind";
"Visualizing Multivariate Outliers and Leverage Points";  and
"An Integrated Computational Model of Multiparty Electoral Competition."
 
Kieth Whittington
Princeton University.  Scroll to the middle of the page.  Titles include
 "From Democratic Dualism to Political Realism: Transforming the Constitution";
"High Crimes After Clinton: Deciding What’s Impeachable";
"Bill Clinton was no Andrew Johnson: Comparing Two Impeachments";
"The Politics of the Supreme Court";
"In Defense of Legislatures";
"The Road not Taken: Dred Scott, Constitutional Law, and Political Questions";
"The Confirmation Process We Deserve";
"Taking What They Give Us: Explaining the Court’s Federalism Offensive";
"William H. Rehnquist: Nixon’s Strict Constructionist, Reagan’s Chief Justice," in The Structure of Rehnquist Court Jurisprudence. Earl Maltz, ed. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, forthcoming 2003);  and
"Constitutional Theory and the Faces of Power," in Alexander Bickel and Contemporary Constitutional Theory. Kenneth Ward, ed. (Albany: SUNY Press, forthcoming 2003).
Book titles include
"To Say What the Law Is: Judicial Authority in a Political Context."
 

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