A Sampling of Faculty Scholarship
Addressing Issues of Social Justice

Constitutional Rights

Professor David M. Siegel, Canadian Fundamental Justice and U.S. Due Process: Two Models for a Guarantee of Basic Adjudicative Fairness, 37 Geo. Wash. Int’l. L. Rev. 1 (Number 1, 2005).

Professor Lawrence M. Friedman, Public Opinion and Strict Scrutiny Equal Protection Review: Higher Education Affirmative Action and the Future of the Equal Protection Framework, 24 B.C. Third World L.J. 267 (2004).

Professor Gary L. Monserud, The Quest for a Meaningful Mandate for the Education of Children with Disabilities, 18 St. John’s J. Legal Comment. 675 (2004).

Criminal Justice

Professor Hillary Brave Farber, The Role of the Parent/Guardian in Juvenile Custodial Interrogations: Friend or Foe?, 41 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 1277 (2004).

Professor Lawrence M. Friedman, In Defense of Corporate Criminal Liability, 23 Harv. J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 833 (2000).

Professor David M. Siegel, Confidentiality & Privilege in the Juvenile Court Setting, in Improving the Professional Response to Children in the Legal System, ch. 4 (Nat'l. Assn. Of Counsel for Children, 2000) (with Albert J. Grudzinskas, Jr.).

Professor David M. Siegel, Development and Presentation of Psychological Evidence in Criminal Defense Proceedings, in Criminal Defense Techniques (Matthew Bender, 1999).

 Professor David M. Siegel, My Reputation or Your Liberty (or Your Life): The Ethical Obligations of Trial Counsel in Post Conviction Proceedings, 23 J. Legal Prof. 85 (1998-99).

Environmental Law

Professor Peter M. Manus, Our Environmental Rebels – An Average American Law Professor’s Perspective on Environmental Advocacy and the Law, 40 N. Eng. L. Rev. 499 (2006).

Professor Peter M. Manus, To a Candidate in Search of an Environmental Theme: Preach Environmental Restoration -- Promote the Public Trust, 19 Stan. Envtl. L.J. 315 (2000).

Professor Peter M. Manus, The Blackbird Whistling – The Silence Just After: Evaluating the Environmental Legacy of Justice Blackmun, 85 Iowa L. Rev. 429 (2000).

Professor Lawrence M. Friedman, Questions of Intent: Environmental Crimes and "Public Welfare" Offenses, 10 Vill. Envtl. L J. 1 (1999) (with H. Hamilton Hackney III).

Professor Peter M. Manus, Wild Bill Douglas's Last Stand: A Retrospective on the First Supreme Court Environmentalist, 72 Temp. L. Rev. 111 (1999).

Professor Peter M. Manus, One Hundred Years of Green: A Legal Perspective on Three Twentieth Century Nature Philosophers, 59 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 557 (1998).

Professor Elizabeth K. Spahn, Feeling Grounded: A Gendered View of Population Control, 27 Envtl. L. 1295 (1997).

Professor Peter M. Manus, The Owl, the Indian, the Feminist and the Brother: Environmentalism Encounters the Social Justice Movements, 23 B.C. Envtl. Aff. L. Rev. 249 (1996).

Professor Peter M. Manus, Natural Resource Damages from Rachel Carson's Perspective: A Rite of Spring in American Environmentalism, 37 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 381 (1996).

Human Rights

Professor Tawia Ansah, Genocide and the Eroticization of Death: Law, Violence, and Moral Purity, 14 S. Cal. Interdisc. L.J. 181 (2005).

Professor John Cerone, Reasonable Measures in Unreasonable Circumstances: A Legal Responsibility Framework for Human Rights Violations in Post-Conflict Territories under UN Administration, in The UN, Human Rights and Post-Conflict Situations (Nigel White and Dirk Klaasen, editors) (Manchester Univ. Press, 2005).

 Professor Tawia Ansah, “A Terrible Purity:” International Law, Morality, Religion, Exclusion,
38 Cornell Int’l L.J. 1 (2004).

Professor Tawia Ansah, Surprised by Sin: Human Rights and Universality, 30 Syracuse J. Int'l L. & Com. 307 (2003).

Professor Tawia Ansah, War: Rhetoric and Norm-Creation in Response to Terror, 43 Va. J. Int'l L. 797 (2003).

Professor John P. Cerone, The Human Rights Legal Framework Applicable to Trafficking in Persons and Its Incorporation into UNMIK Regulation 2001/4, International Peacekeeping, in The Yearbook of International Peace Operations, Vol. 7, at 43-98 (2002).

Professor John P. Cerone, Minding the Gap: Outlining KFOR Accountability under International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Post-Conflict Kosovo, 12 Eur. J. of Int’l L., No. 3 (June 2001).

Professor Lawrence M. Friedman, On Human Rights, the United States and the People's Republic of China at Century's End, 4 J. Int’l Stud. 241 (1998).

Professor Elizabeth K. Spahn, Waiting for Credentials: Feminist Theories of Enforcing International Human Rights, 44 Am. U. L. Rev. 1053 (1995).

Indigenous Peoples

Professor Peter M. Manus, Sovereignty, Self-determination and Environment-based Cultures: The Emerging Voice of Indigenous Peoples in International Law, 23 Wis. Int’l L.J. 553 (2005-2006).

Professor Allison M. Dussias, Kennewick Man, Kinship, and the “Dying Race”: The Ninth Circuit’s Assimilationist Assault on the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 84 Neb. L. Rev. 401 (2005).

 Professor Peter M. Manus, Indigenous Peoples’ Environmental Rights: Evolving Common Law Perspectives in Canada, Australia and the United States, 33 B.C. Envtl. Aff. L. Rev. 1 (2005).

Professor Allison M. Dussias, Does the Right of Self-determination Include a Right to a Homeland?, 31 Syracuse J. Int’l L. & Com. 83 (2004).

Professor Allison M. Dussias, Let No Native American Child Be Left Behind: Re-envisioning Native American Education for the Twenty-first Century, 43 Ariz. L. Rev. 819 (2001).

Professor Allison M. Dussias, Waging War with Words: Native Americans’ Continuing Struggle Against the Suppression of Their Languages, 60 Ohio St. L.J. 901 (1999).

Professor Allison M. Dussias, Squaw Drudges, Farm Wives, and the Dann Sisters' Last Stand: American Indian Women's Resistance to Domestication and the Denial of Their Property Rights, 77 N.C. L. Rev. 637 (1999).

Professor Allison M. Dussias, Asserting a Traditional Environmental Ethic: Recent Developments in Environmental Regulation Involving Native American Tribes, 33 New Eng. L. Rev. 653 (1999).

Professor Allison M. Dussias, Cultural Conflicts Regarding Land Use: The Conflict between Recreational Users and Native American Ceremonial Users at Devils Tower, 1 Vt. J. Envtl. L. (1998-1999).

Professor Allison M. Dussias, Ghost Dance and Holy Ghost: The Echoes of Nineteenth Century Christianization Policy in Twentieth Century Native American Free Exercise Cases, 49 Stan. L. Rev. 773 (1997).

Professor Allison M. Dussias, Science, Sovereignty, and the Sacred Text: Paleontological Resources and Native American Rights, 55 Md. L. Rev. 84 (1996).

Professor Allison M. Dussias, The Right to Cultural and Religious Self-determination: Lessons from the Experience of Native Americans, 2 ILSA J. Int'l & Comp. L. 633 (1996).

Legal Education

Professor Russell Engler, From 10 to 20: A Guide to Utilizing the MacCrate Report Over the Next Decade, 23 Pace L.Rev. 519 (2003).

Professor Russell Engler, Integrating Public Service into Non-clinical Courses, 13 The Law Teacher (Fall 2001).

Professor Russell Engler, The MacCrate Report Turns 10: Assessing its Impact and Identifying Gaps We Should Seek to Narrow, 8 Clinical L. Rev. 109 (2001).

Legal Ethics

Professor David M. Siegel, The Ethical Obligations of Prosecutors in Postconviction Claims of Innocence: A New Ethical Framework for a New Legal Regime, 38 Cal. W. L. Rev. 389 (2002) (with Judith Goldberg).

 Professor Davalene Cooper, The Ethical Rules Lack Ethics: Tort Liability When a Lawyer Fails to Warn a Third Party of a Client's Threat to Cause Serious Physical Harm or Death, 36 Idaho L. Rev. 479 (2000).

Associate Dean Charles W. Sorenson, Jr., Disclosure Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(a) --"Much Ado About Nothing?", 46 Hastings L.J. 679 (1995).

Legal Representation of the Underprivileged

Professor David M. Siegel, Justice on the Cheap, 49 Boston Bar J. 10, No. 1 (Jan.-Feb. 2005).

Professor Russell Engler, Revising the Role of the Court-Connected Mediator To Achieve Fairness for Unrepresented Litigants, NE-ACR Newsletter, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Winter 2005).

Professor Russell Engler, And Justice for All--Including the Unrepresented Poor: Revisitng the Roles of the Judges, Mediators and Clerks, 67 Fordham L. Rev. 1987 (1999).

Professor Russell Engler, Out of Sight and Out of Line: The Need for Regulation of Lawyers' Negotiations with Unrepresented Poor Persons, 85 Cal. L. Rev. 79, (1997).

Public Service

Professor Russell Engler, Normalcy After 9/11: Public Service as the Crisis Fades, 31 Fordham Urb. L.J. 983 (2004).

Professor Russell Engler, What Counts As Pro Bono/Public Service? One View, The AALS Pro Bono and Public Service Section Newsletter, Vol. 2, No.3 (2002).

Race Issues

Professor David M. Siegel, Felix Frankfurter, Charles Hamilton Houston, and the 'N-Word’: A Case Study in Evolution of Judicial Attitudes Toward Race, 7 S. Cal. Interdisc. L. J. (1998).

Professor Judith G. Greenberg, Teaching Race and the Law Through Narrative, 30 Wake Forest L. Rev. 323 (1995) (with Robert V. Ward).

Science and Law

Professor Joëlle A. Moreno, Faith-Based Miranda; Why The New Missouri v. Seibert Police Bad Faith Test is a Terrible Idea , 47 Ariz. L. Rev. ___ (2005).

 Professor Joëlle A. Moreno, What Happens When Dirty Harry Becomes an (Expert) Witness for the Prosecution?, 79 Tul. L. Rev. 1 (2004).

Professor Joëlle A. Moreno, A Courtroom Diagnosis: Countering the Defenses of Temporary Brittle Bone Disease and Mild Osteogenisis Imperfecta in Child Abuse Cases, 16 Update 8 (American Prosecutors Research Institute 2004).

Professor Joëlle A. Moreno, Translating Visions of Rationality into Specific Legal Reforms, 4 Det. C.L. Rev. 1175 (2003).

Professor Joëlle A. Moreno, Eyes Wide Shut: Hidden Problems and Future Consequences of the Fact-Based Reliability Standard, 34 Seton Hall L. Rev. 89 (2003).

Professor Joëlle A. Moreno, Einstein on the Bench?: Exposing What Judges Do Not Know About Science and Using Child Abuse Cases to Improve How Courts Evaluate Scientific Evidence, 64 Ohio St. L.J. 531 (2003).

Professor David M. Siegel, Psychoactive Medication and Your Client: Better Living and (Maybe) Better Law Through Chemistry, 22 The Champion (National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers) (Dec. 2003).

Professor C. Ronald Chester, Cloning for Human Reproduction: One American Perspective, 23 Sydney L. Rev. 319 (2001).

Professor Joëlle A. Moreno, Beyond the Polemic Against Junk Science: Navigating the Oceans that Divide Science and Law with Justice Breyer at the Helm, 81 B.U. L. Rev. 1033 (2001).

Professor David M. Siegel, Old Law Meets New Medicine: Revisiting Involuntary Psychotropic Medication of the Criminal Defendant, 2001 Wis. L. Rev. 307 (2001) (with Albert J. Grudzinskas, Jr. and Debra A. Pinals, M.D.).

Professor Elizabeth K. Spahn, Mis-Conceptions: The Moment of Conception in Religion, Science and Law, 32 U.S.F. L. Rev. 261 (1998) (with B. Andrade).

Professor Joëlle A. Moreno, "Whoever Fights Monsters Should See to It that in the Process He Does Not Become a Monster": Hunting the Sexual Predator with Silver Bullets – Federal Rules of Evidence 413-415 and a Stake Through the Heart – Kansas v. Hendricks, 49 Fla. L. Rev. 505 (1997).

Women’s Issues

Professor Judith G. Greenberg, Domestic Violence and the Danger of Joint Custody Presumptions, 25 N. Ill. L. Rev. 403 (2005).

Professor Judith G. Greenberg, Criminalizing Dowry Deaths, 11 Am. U. J. Gender, Social Pol’y & L. 101 (2003).

Professor Judith G. Greenberg, Mary Joe Frug's Women & The Law (3d ed. 2003) (with Martha Minow and Dorothy Roberts).

Professor Judith G. Greenberg, The Pregnancy Discrimination Act: Legitimating Discrimination Against Pregnant Women in the Work Force, 50 Me. L. Rev. 225 (1998).

Professor Judith G. Greenberg, Insider Trading and Family Values, 4 Wm. & Mary J. Women & L. 303 (1998).

Professor Elizabeth K. Spahn, Shattered Jade, Broken Shoe: Foreign Economic Development and the Sexual Exploitation of Women in China, 50 Me. L. Rev. 255 (1998).

Professor Elizabeth K. Spahn, Difficult Straits: Economic Interdependence and Women's Labor in Taiwan, 32 New Eng. L. Rev. 779 (1998).