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Phone: (303) 492-8428
E-mail: robert.nagel@colorado.edu
Curriculum Vitae: View (PDF format)
Educational Background: | |||
B.A. | Swarthmore College | with High Honors, Phi Beta Kappa | |
J.D. | Yale Law School |
Published Books
Unrestrained: Judicial Excess and the Mind of the American Lawyer, Transaction Publishers (2008). |
The Implosion of American Federalism, (Oxford University Press) (2001). |
Judicial Power and American Character: Censoring Ourselves in An Anxious Age, (1996). |
Constitutional Cultures: The Mentality and Consequences of Judicial Review, (1989). |
Articles
Same-Sex Marriage, Federalism, and Judicial Supremacy, 64 Case W. Res. L. Rev 1119 (2014). |
Partiality and Disclosure in Supreme Court Opinions, 7 N.W. J.L. & Soc. Pol'y 116 (2012). |
Loose Lips Sink Ships, 11 Claremont Rev. Bks. 38 (Winter 2010-Spring 2011) (reviewing Gabriel Schoenfeld, Necessary Secrets: National Security, the Media, and the Rule of Law (2010)). |
Stevens, the Radical, The Weekly Standard, Apr. 26, 2010, at 11. (2010). |
The Hot Seat, Nat'l Rev., June 8, 2009, at 46 (reviewing Lucas A. Powe, Jr., The Supreme Court and the American Elite, 1789-2008) (2009). |
Questioning Sotomayor: The Senate Hearings Needn't Be Worthless, The Weekly Standard, July 13, 2009, at 8 (2009). |
The Incivility Epidemic: How the Supreme Court's Defamation Decisions Coarsened Our Public Life, The Weekly Standard, Dec. 7, 2009, at 18 (2009). |
R-e-s-p-e-c-t: The Next Stage in Litigating Same-Sex Marriage, The Weekly Standard, Oct. 13, at 16. (2008). |
Voting Rights and Wrongs,, Claremont Rev. Bks. 40 (Winter 2008/09) (reviewing Anthony A. Peacock, Deconstructing the Republic: Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Founders' Republicanism Reconsidered (2008). |
Marriage and Practical Knowledge, 50 S. Tex. L. Rev. 37 (Symposium: Gay Marriage in the Conservative Movement) (2008). |
Conservative Judicial Activism?: Inventing a Constitutional Right to "Medical Self-Defense", The Weekly Standard, Feb. 5, at 25. (2007). |
Bowing to Precedent: A Decent Respect for the Constitution Should Cause the Supreme Court to Reconsider Some Past Decisions, The Weekly Standard, Apr. 17, 2006, at 24. (2006). |
Journalists and Judges: Neither Can Be Trusted to Make Good Decisions About Secrecy, The Weekly Standard, Dec. 4, 2006, at 14. (2006). |
Limiting the Court by Limiting Life Tenure, in Reforming the Court: Term Limits for Supreme Court Justices 127, Roger C. Cramton & Paul D. Carrington eds. (2006). |
On the Decline of Federalism, Daedalus, Winter 2006, at 127. (2006). |
Ignoring the Obvious, Claremont Review of Books (2005). |
A Comment on "Everything I Know About Marriage I Learned from Law Professors", San Diego L. Rev. (2005). |
The Problem With the Court: Well, the Justices, Being Lawyers, Think Like Them, Nat'l Rev., Nov. 21, 2005, at 43. (2005). |
Diversity and the Practice of Interest Assessment, 53 Duke L.J. 1515 (2004). |
Common Sense and Common Law, First Things 42 (February) (2004). |
States and Localities: A Comment on Robert Nisbet's Communitarianism, 34 Publius 125 (2004). |
Selective Justice, Claremont Rev. Books, Fall 2005, at 58 (reviewing Michael Comiskey, Seeking Justices: The Judging of Supreme Court Nominees (2004)). |
Marbury v. Madison and Modern Judicial Review, 38 Wake Forest Law Review 613 (2003). |
Six Opinions by Mr. Justice Stevens: A New Methodology for Constitutional Cases?, 78 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 509 (2003). |
Justice Stevens' Religion Problem, First Things 9 (June/July) (2003). |
Judicial Power and the Restoration of Federalism, 574 Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 52 (2001). |
Nationalized Political Discourse, 69 Fordham Law Review 101 (2001). |
Privacy and Celebrity: An Essay on the Nationalization of Intimacy, 33 U. Richmond L. Rev. 1121 (2000). |
Indirect Constitutional Discourse: A Comment on Meese, 63 Law and Contemporary Problems 101 (2000). |
Judges and Federalism: A Comment on "Justice Kennedy's Vision of Federalism", 31 Rutgers Law Journal 539 (2000). |
Lies and Law, 22 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 605 (1999). |
Judicial Supremacy and the Settlement Function, 39 William & Mary Law Review 849 (1998). |
Playing Defense in Colorado, First Things 34, May (1998). |
Advice, Consent, and Influence, 84 Nw. U. L. Rev. 858 (1990). |
Political Law, Legalistic Politics: A Recent History of The Political Question Dectrine, 56 U. Chi. L. Rev. 643 (1989). |
Controlling the Structural Injunction, 7 Harv. J.L. & Pub. Policy 395 (1984). |
Other Publications
Judicial Power and Cultural Damage: Lessons from America, in Public Interest Litigation: New Zealand Experience In International Perspective 101 (Bigwood ed., LexisNexis) (2006). |
American Judicial Review in Perspective, in Protecting Human rights in Australia 225 (Campbell, et al. ed., Ashgate) (2006). |
Limiting the Court by Limiting Life Tenure, in Carrington & Crampton (eds.), Life Tenure (2005). |
Supreme Chaos, Wall Street Journal, March 7, at A18 (2005). |
Law Schools Are Bad for Democracy, Wall Street Journal at A16 (2004). |
Nationhood and Judicial Supremacy, in (Wolfe, ed.) That Eminent Tribunal: Judicial Supremacy and the Constitution (Princeton University Press) (2004). |
From U.S. v. Nixon to Bush v. Gore, Weekly Standard 20 (2000). |
The High (and Mighty) Court, Wall Street Journal, June 30 at A18 (2000). |
Book Chapters
Nagel (Stanley N. Katz), Judicial Power, in The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History 406 (2009). |
Federalism and Printz v. United States, 521 U.S. 898 (1997), in, Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States (David S. Tanenhaus ed., Macmillan Reference USA) (2008). |
Principle, Prudence, and Judicial Power, in The Judiciary and American Democracy: Alexander Bickel the Countermajoritarian Difficulty and Contemporary Constitutional Theory 9 (K. Ward ed., State University of New York Press) (2006). |
Courses:
Fall 2015 | Seminar: Constitutional Theory | LAWS 8015-001 |
Fall 2014 | First Amendment | LAWS 7015-001 |
Spring 2014 | Seminar: Constitutional Theory | LAWS 8015-801 |
Fall 2013 | First Amendment | LAWS 7015-001 |
Fall 2013 | Seminar: Constitutional Theory | LAWS 8015-001 |
Spring 2013 | Constitutional Law | LAWS 6005-802 |
Spring 2013 | Seminar: Constitutional Theory | LAWS 8015-801 |
Fall 2012 | First Amendment | LAWS 7015-001 |
Fall 2012 | Seminar: Constitutional Theory | LAWS 8015-001 |