Scholarship is a core priority for the Pacific McGeorge faculty. Among their scholarly pursuits, Pacific McGeorge faculty develop and present at scholarly symposia and conferences, author books for the legal profession, students, and the general public, and produce scholarship for top journals around the country and the world.

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Submissions from 2004

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Tame year for State Supreme Court, J. Clark Kelso

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Vieth v. Jubelirer: The Legality of Partisan Gerrymanders, J. Clark Kelso

Brown v. Board of Education and the Role of the Lawyer, Brian K. Landsberg

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International Project Finance: Risk Analysis andRegulatory Concerns, Michael P. Malloy

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Panel One: Unfunding Terror--Perspectives on UnfundingTerror: Commentary, Michael P. Malloy

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Was Bedeutet "Terrorismus?", Michael P. Malloy

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Conclusion: The Rule of Law Among Countries, Stephen C. McCaffrey

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An Examination of Patents, Licensing, Research Tools and the Tragedy of the Anticommons in Biotechnology Innovation, Michael S. Mireles Jr.

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Bordering on Terror: Global Business in Times of Terror--The Legal Issues: Introduction, Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker

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Markets in Transition: Reconstruction and Development: Introduction, Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker

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Compliance Without Remands: The Experience Under the European Convention on Human Rights, John Cary Sims

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The Aftermath of Free Speech: A New Definition of Child Pornography, Brian G. Slocum

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Virtual Child Pornography: Does it Mean the End of the Child Pornography Exception to the First Amendment?, Brian G. Slocum

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California's Three Strikes and We're Out: Was Judicial Activism California's Best Hope?, Michael Vitiello

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Reforming Three Strikes’ Excesses, Michael Vitiello

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A Proposal for Wholesale Reform of California’s Sentencing Practice and Policy, Michael Vitiello and J. Clark Kelso

Submissions from 2003

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Clarifying the Content-Based/Content Neutral and Content/Viewpoint Determinations, Leslie Gielow Jacobs

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California’s Unfair Competition Law: Regulatory Balance or Unlevel Playing Field?, J. Clark Kelso

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To Err Is Human, To Defer Sublime, J. Clark Kelso

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Impacts of institutional rules and spatial context on public management, John J. Kirlin

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Regional Investment as a Theme in Public Works Policy Making and Management, John J. Kirlin

Affirmative-Action Decision Indicates Shifts in Position, Brian K. Landsberg

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Sumter County, Alabama and the Origins of the Voting Rights Act, Brian K. Landsberg

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The need for flexibility in freshwater treaty regimes, Stephen C. McCaffrey

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A Future Foretold: Neo-Aristotelian Praise of Postmodern Legal Theory, Francis J. Mootz III

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Holding Liability Insurers Accountable for Bad Faith Litigation Tactics with the Tort of Abuse of Process, Francis J. Mootz III

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Nietzschean Critique and Philosophical Hermeneutics, Francis J. Mootz III

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Government controls of information and scientific inquiry., Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker and Leslie Gielow Jacobs

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Teaching Law Students to Be Self- Regulated Learners, Michael Hunter Schwartz

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The Immigration Rule of Lenity and Chevron Deference, Brian G. Slocum

Submissions from 2002

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The 9/11 "National Security" Cases: Three Principles Guiding Judges' Decision-Making, Raquel Aldana-Pindell

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The Robert Wendland case: Legal implications of the Wendland case for end-of-life decision making, Jon B. Eisenberg and J. Clark Kelso

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Getting Real About Corporate Social Responsibility: A Reply to Professor Greenfield, Franklin A. Gevurtz

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The Globalization of Corporate and Securities Law: An Introduction to a Symposium, and an Essay on the Need for a Little Humility When Exporting One's Corporate Law, Franklin A. Gevurtz

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The Globalization of Insider Trading Prohibitions, Franklin A. Gevurtz

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Who’s Talking? Disentangling Government and Private Speech, Leslie Gielow Jacobs

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The Intersection of Intellectual Property and Antitrust Law: In re Independent Service Organizations Antitrust Litigation, Matthew G. Jacobs and Michael S. Mireles

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Book Review – Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, J. Clark Kelso

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Rulings Muddy Waters on 1st Amendment, J. Clark Kelso

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Strengthening effective government-citizen connections through greater civic engagement, John J. Kirlin and Mary K. Kirlin

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Current Issues in International Arbitration, Michael P. Malloy

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The Sounds of Silence: Waiting for Courts to Acknowledge That Public Policy Justifies Awarding Damages to Third-Party Claimants When Liability Insurers Deal With Them in Bad Faith, Francis J. Mootz III

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Something for Everyone? The Future of Comprehensive Criminal Justice Initiatives After Senate v. Jones and Manduley v. Superior Court, Mary-Beth Moylan

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Beyond Napster--The Future of the Digital Commons: Introduction, Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker

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Transnational Business Law in the Twenty-First Century: Introduction, John G. Sprankling

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Punishment and Democracy: A Hard Look at Three Strikes’ Overblown Promises, Michael Vitiello

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Somewhat Frantic: A Brief Response to Crime, Punishment and Romero, Michael Vitiello

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What Marc Anthony, Lady Macbeth, and Iago Teach Us about the First Amendment, Michael Vitiello

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Reform of California’s Grand Jury System, Michael Vitiello and J. Clark Kelso

Submissions from 2001

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The Sporting Approach to Harmless Error: The Supreme Court's "No Harm, No Foul" Debacle in Neder v. United States, Linda Carter

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Free Speech and the Limits of Legislative Discretion: The Example of Specialty License Plates, Leslie Gielow Jacobs

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The Public Sensibilities Forum, Leslie Gielow Jacobs

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Sandra Day O'Connor: A Justice Who Has Made a Difference in Constitutional Law, Charles D. Kelso and R. Randall Kelso

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Big questions for a significant public administration, John J. Kirlin

Stay the Civil Rights Course, Brian K. Landsberg

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Biotechnology: Some Issues of General International Law, Stephen McCaffrey

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Biotechnology: Some Issues of General International Law, Stephen McCaffrey

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Book Review Liability for Environmental Damage and the World Bank's Chad-Cameroon Oil and Pipeline Project Serge A. Bronkhorst, Ed., Netherlands Committee for IUCN, Amsterdam, July 2000. Pp. 1-128., Stephen McCaffrey

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International Water Law for the 21st Century: The Contribution of the U.N. Convention, Stephen C. McCaffrey

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The contribution of the UN Convention on the law of the non-navigational uses of international watercourses, Stephen C. McCaffrey

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Coverage for Unfair Competition Torts under General Liability Policies: Will the "Intellectual Property" Tail Wag the Coverage Dog?, Francis J. Mootz III

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Teaching Law by Design: How Learning Theory and Instructional Design Can Inform and Reform Law Teaching, Michael Hunter Schwartz

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Potential Innovations in Civil Discovery: Lessons for California from the State and Federal Courts, Gregory S. Weber

Submissions from 2000

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Dialogue: Knowledge and Research, Peter Bogason, Melvin J. Dubnick, John J. Kirlin, Kenneth J. Meier, Janet Foley Orosz, Jos C.N. Raadschelders, and Curtis Ventriss

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“Court Performed” Mediation in the People’s Republic of China: A Proposed Model to Improve Mediation Programs In The United States Federal District Courts, Michael T. Colatrella

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Biotechnology and the Creation of Ethics, Raymond R. Coletta

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Biotechnology's Challenge to the Law of Torts, Julie A. Davies and Lawrence C. Levine

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Biotechnology and the Law: Introduction, Franklin A. Gevurtz

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Biotechnology: Business Organization Issues, Franklin A. Gevurtz

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The Link Between Student Activity Fees and Campaign Finance Regulations, Leslie Gielow Jacobs

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A Healthy Balance of Decisions, J. Clark Kelso

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Statutory Interpretation: Four Theories in Disarray, J. Clark Kelso and Charles D. Kelso

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Water, Water Everywhere, but Too Few Drops to Drink: The Coming Fresh Water Crisis and International Environmental Law, Stephen C. McCaffrey

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Foreward, Symposium: Philosophical Hermeneutics and Critical Legal Theory, Francis J. Mootz III

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Psychotherapeutic Practice as a Model for Postmodern Legal Theory, Francis J. Mootz III

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The Quest to Reprogram Cultural Software: A Hermeneutical Response to Jack Balkin's Theory of Ideology and Critique, Francis J. Mootz III

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RICO and the Legislative Supremacy Approach to Federal Criminal Lawmaking, Brian G. Slocum

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The Nuremberg Files: Testing the Outer Limits of the First Amendment, Michael Vitiello

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Owning the Secret of Life: Biotechnology and Property Rights Revisited, Kojo Yelpaala

Submissions from 1999

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Is There an Obligation to Listen?, Leslie Gielow Jacobs

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Pledges, Parades, and Mandatory Payments, Leslie Gielow Jacobs

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The California Supreme Court’s 1998-1999 Term: Striking the Balance, J. Clark Kelso

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Introduction to Civil Rights Symposium , Brian K. Landsberg

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Safeguarding Constitutional Rights: The Uses and Limits of Prophylactic Rules, Brian K. Landsberg

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Corporate Nonrecognition Provisions: A Comparison of the United States and Canadian Tax Regimes, Christine Manolakas and Catherine Brown

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Foreword: Employment Practices Liability Insurance and the Changing American Workplace, Francis J. Mootz III

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Insuring Employer Liability for Hostile Work Environment Claims: How Changes in Discrimination Law May Affect the Growing Market for Employment-Related Practices Liability Insurance, Francis J. Mootz III

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Law as Language [reviewing PETER M. TIERSMA, LEGAL LANGUAGE (1999)], Francis J. Mootz III

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Law in Flux: Philosophical Hermeneutics, Legal Argumentation, and the Natural Law Tradition, Francis J. Mootz III

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How Imperial Is the Supreme Court? An Analysis of Supreme Court Abortion Doctrine and Popular Will, Michael Vitiello

Submissions from 1998

Applying Penalty Enhancements to Civil Disobedience: Clarifying the Free Speech Clause Model to Bring the Social Value of Political Protest into the Balance, Leslie Gielow Jacobs

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Integrated Criminal Justice Technologies: An Introduction, J. Clark Kelso

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The Impact of Fiscal Limits on Governance, John J. Kirlin

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Corporate Reorganizations and Treaty Relief from Double Taxation Within the NAFTA Block, Christine Manolakas and Catherine Brown

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The United States and Canada: A Comparison of Corporate Nonrecognition Provisions, Christine Manolakas and Catherine Brown

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Between Truth and Provocation: Reclaiming Reason in American Legal Scholarship [reviewing DANIEL A. FARBER AND SUZANNA SHERRY, BEYOND ALL REASON: THE RADICAL ASSAULT ON TRUTH IN AMERICAN LAW (1997)], Francis J. Mootz III

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Rhetorical Knowledge in Legal Practice and Theory, Francis J. Mootz III

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Representing Foreign Nationals: Emerging Importance of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations as a Defense Tool, John Cary Sims and Linda E. Carter

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Proposition 215: De Facto Legalization of Pot and the Shortcomings of Direct Democracy, Michael Vitiello

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Article III Judges and the Initiative Process: Are Article III Judges Hopelessly Elitist?, Michael Vitiello and Andrew J. Glendon