Faculty Publications

Darien Shanske

Books

• Thucydides and the Philosophical Origins of History (Cambridge Univ. Press 2007).

Journal Articles

• How Less Can Be More: Using the Federal Income Tax to Stabilize State and Local Finance, ___ Va. Tax Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2012). SSRN
• Three Essays on Tax Salience: Market Salience and Political Salience, 65 Tax L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2012) (with David S. Gamage). SSRN
• Going Forward by Going Backward to Benefit Taxes, 3 Cal. J. Pol. & Pol'y Art. 14 (Sep. 2011) (peer-reviewed). SSRN BE_PRESS
• On Tax Increase Limitations: Part I–A Costly Incoherence, 62 St. Tax Notes 813 (2011) (with David Gamage). LX SSRN
• The Supreme Court and the New Old Public Finance: A New Old Defense of the Court's Recent Dormant Commerce Clause Jurisprudence, 43 Urb. Law. 659 (2011). WL SSRN
• Engquist and the Erosion of the Equal Protection Clause: An Attempt to Stop the Creep of Irrational Dicta, 61 Hastings L.J. 969 (2010). LX HEIN WL SSRN
• Above All Else Stop Digging: Local Government Law as a (Partial) Cause of (and Solution to) the Current Housing Crisis, 43 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 663 (2010). LX HEIN WL SSRN
• Attention Carbon Auditors: There’s Low-Hanging Fruit in the PAB Regs, 127 Tax Notes 693 (2010). SSRN CATALOG
• What Would the Delegates Talk About? A Rough Agenda for a Constitutional Convention, 37 Hastings Const. L.Q. 641 (2010) (invited symposium piece). LX HEIN WL SSRN
• Hegel and the Justification for Arbitration in a Modern State, 1 Y.B. Arb. & Mediation 445 (2009) (peer–reviewed). SSRN CATALOG
• Putting the California Constitution (Back) to Work: A Blueprint for Clearing Legal Roadblocks to Proper Infrastructure Finance, 54 St. Tax Notes 567 (2009). LX SSRN
• Revitalizing Aristotle's Doctrine of Equity, 4 J.L. Culture & Human. 352 (2008) (peer–reviewed). SSRN

Chapters In Books

• Thucydides and Lawfulness, in Thucydides–A Violent Teacher? History and its Representations 199 (Georg Rechenauer & Vassiliki Pothou, eds., V&R Unipress 2011). AMAZON

Book Reviews

• How Should We Govern Ourselves at Home?, 6 J.L. Culture & Human. 296 (2010) (reviewing Douglass C. North et al., Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History (2009), Josiah Ober, Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens (2009), & Gerald E. Frug & David J. Barron, City Bound: How States Stifle Urban Innovation (2008)) (peer-reviewed). SSRN
• What the Original Property Tax Revolutionaries Wanted (It Is Not What You Think), 1 Cal. J. Pol. & Pol'y Art. 18 (2009) (reviewing Isaac W. Martin, The Permanent Tax Revolt: How the Property Tax Transformed American Politics (2008)) (peer-reviewed). SSRN BE_PRESS
• Detienne's Masters of Truth and the 'Truth' about Simonides of Ceos, 8 Critical Sense 131 (Winter 2000) (reviewing Marcel Detienne, Les Maîtres de Vérité dans la Grèce Archaïque (1967)).

Reports, Working Papers & Training Materials

• Does a Fiscal Crisis Affect Your Credit Rating? Not Necessarily, School Services of California Inc. Fiscal Report (May 2003).
• Saving Time and Money: How and When to Use Design–Build, Cal. Ass'n Sch. Bus. Officials J. (Mar./Apr. 2003) (with Cathleen Dominico).
• Credit Check: Charter Schools and Districts Partner in Financing, Cal. Ass'n Sch. Bus. Officials J. (Nov./Dec. 2002) (with Terri Ryland).
• Interest Rates May Be Too Law to Refinance!, School Services of California Inc. Fiscal Report (Nov. 2001) (with Lori Raineri).

Student Notes/Comments

• Note, Public Tax Dollars for Private Suburban Development: A First Report on a National Phenomenon, 26 Va. Tax Rev. 709 (2007). LX HEIN WL SSRN
• Note, Four Theses: Preliminary to an Appeal to Equity, 57 Stan. L. Rev. 2053 (2005). LX HEIN WL SSRN

Dissertations & Theses

• Thucydides and the Metaphysical Foundations of History (Fall 2001) (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley) (on file with Gardner Library, University of California, Berkeley).
• Nietzsche on Becoming a Self Worth Being (March 1997) (unpublished M.A. thesis, McGill University) (on file with the Humanities and Social Sciences Library, McGill University).