Faculty Publications

Darien Shanske

Thucydides and the Philosophical Origins of History (Cambridge Univ. Press 2006). AMAZON

Engquist and the Erosion of the Equal Protection Clause: An Attempt to Stop the Creep of Irrational Dicta, 60 Hastings L.J. ___ (forthcoming 2010). SSRN
Above All Else Stop Digging: Local Government Law as a Cause (and Solution) to the Current Financial Crisis, 43 U. Mich. J.L. Reform ___ (forthcoming 2010). SSRN
What Might They Talk About at a California Constitutional Convention, 36 Hastings Const. L.Q. ___ (forthcoming 2010) (invited symposium piece).
Hegel and the Justification for Arbitration in a Modern State, 1 Y.B. Arb. & Mediation 445 (2009) (peer–reviewed). SSRN
Putting the California Constitution (Back) to Work: A Blueprint for Clearing Legal Roadblocks to Proper Infrastructure Finance, 54 St. Tax Notes 567 (2009).
Revitalizing Aristotle's Doctrine of Equity, 4 J.L. Culture & Human. 352 (2008) (peer–reviewed). SSRN

How Should We Govern Ourselves at Home?, ___ J.L. Culture & Human. ___ (forthcoming 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)).
What Homevoters Want (and It is Not What You Might Think), 1 Cal. J. Pol. & Pol'y 18 (2009) (reviewing Isaac W. Martin, The Permanent Tax Revolt: How the Property Tax Transformed American Politics (2008)). 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)).

Thucydides and Lawfulness, Proceedings of the 2008 Congress on Thucydides (2009) (invited paper).
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).

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

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).