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Ethan J. Leib

Books
Journal Articles
  • (When) Should Family Status Matter in the Criminal Justice System?, 13 New Crim. L. Rev. 151 (2010) (with Jennifer Collins & Dan Markel). LX HEIN WL SSRN
  • Contracts & Friendships, 59 Emory L.J. 649 (2010) (excerpted in Randy Barnett, Perspectives on Contract Law (Aspen 4th ed. 2010)). LX HEIN WL SSRN
  • Rethinking Criminal Law and Family Status, 119 Yale L.J. 1864 (2010) (with Dan Markel & Jennifer Collins). LX WL SSRN URL
  • The Costs of Consensus in Statutory Interpretation, 120 Yale L.J. Pocket Part 47 (2010) (with Michael Serota). WL SSRN URL
  • Friends as Fiduciaries, 86 Wash. U. L. Rev. 665 (2009). LX HEIN WL SSRN
  • A Comparison of Criminal Jury Decision Rules in Democratic Countries, 5 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 629 (2008) (faculty–edited). LX HEIN WL SSRN
  • Adding Legislation Courses to the First–Year Curriculum, 58 J. Legal Educ. 166 (2008) (invited essay, faculty–edited). WL
  • Democratic Principle and Electoral College Reform, 106 Mich. L. Rev. First Impressions 105 (2008) (with Eli J. Mark). LX WL URL
  • Interpreting Statutes Passed Through Referendums, 7 Election L.J. 49 (2008) (peer–reviewed). WL SSRN
  • Punishing Family Status, 88 B.U. L. Rev. 1327 (2008) (with Jennifer Collins & Dan Markel). LX WL SSRN
  • Voluntarism, Vulnerability, and Criminal Law: A Response to Professor Hill and O'Hear, 88 B.U. L. Rev. 1449 (2008) (with Jennifer Collins & Dan Markel). LX WL SSRN
  • Criminal Justice and the Challenge of Family Ties, U. Ill. L. Rev. 1147 (2007) (with Dan Markel & Jennifer M. Collins). LX HEIN WL SSRN
  • Friends and the Law, 145 Pol'y Rev. 55 (Oct.⁄Nov. 2007). WL
  • Friendship and the Law, 54 UCLA L. Rev. 631 (2007). LX HEIN WL URL
  • Representation in America: Some Thoughts on Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom, Tim Johnson, and Deliberative Engagement, 16 Good Soc'y 1 (2007) (with David L. Ponet) (faculty–edited).
  • The Perpetual Anxiety of Living Constitutionalism, 24 Const. Comment. 353 (2007) (faculty–edited). LX WL SSRN
  • Why Supermajoritarianism Does Not Illuminate the Interpretive Debate Between Originalists and Non–Originalists, 101 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1905 (2007). LX WL SSRN
  • Can Direct Democracy Be Made Deliberative?, 54 Buff. L. Rev. 903 (2006) (invited contribution). LX HEIN WL SSRN
  • Responsibility and Social⁄Political Choices about Choice; or, One Way to be a True Non–Voluntarist, 25 Law & Phil. 453 (2006) (peer–reviewed). SSRN CATALOG
  • Supermajoritarianism and the American Criminal Jury, 33 Hastings Const. L.Q. 141 (2006). LX HEIN WL SSRN
  • On Collaboration, Organizations, and Conciliation in the General Theory of Contract, 24 Quinnipiac L. Rev. 1 (2005). LX WL SSRN
  • Rorty's New School of American Pride, 34 Polity 175 (2004) (peer–reviewed).
  • The Politics of Family and Friends in Aristotle and Montaigne, 31 Interpretation 165 (2004) (peer–reviewed).
  • Redeeming the Welshed Guarantee: A Scheme for Achieving Justiciability, 24 Whittier L. Rev. 143 (2002). LX HEIN WL SSRN
  • Towards a Practice of Deliberative Democracy: A Proposal for a Popular Branch, 33 Rutgers L.J. 359 (2002). LX HEIN WL SSRN
  • On the Sorites: Toward a Better Understanding of Chrysippus, 21 Ancient Phil. 147 (2001) (peer–reviewed).
  • Authentic Falling: Heidegger's Paradox?, 4 Symp.: J. Can. Soc'y Hermeneutics & Postmodern Thought 223 (2000) (peer–reviewed).
  • Foreman FOR Every MAN: Pearls for Pigs, 42 Mod. Drama 375 (Fall 1999) (peer–reviewed).
  • Nietzsche's Playground/Battlefield in Thus Spoke Zarathustra: The Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry, 47 Y.B. Comp. & Gen. Literature 125 (1999) (peer–reviewed).
Chapters In Books
  • Pragmatism in Designing Popular Deliberative Institutions in the United States and China, in The Search for Deliberative Democracy in China 113 (ed., Palgrave Macmillan 2006) (with Baogang He) (translated into Chinese in Developments in Deliberative Democracy: A Collection of Essays About Chinese Local and Deliberative Institutions 161 (Chen Shengyong & Baogang He eds., 2006)). CATALOG
Book Reviews
  • Book Review, 5 Persp. on Pol. 154 (2007) (reviewing Diana C. Mutz, Hearing the Other Side: Deliberative Versus Participatory Democracy (2006) & Andrew J. Perrin, Citizen Speak: The Democratic Imagination in American Life (2006)). CATALOG
  • Rooted Cosmopolitans, 137 Pol'y Rev. 89 (June/July 2006) (reviewing Kwame Anthony Appiah, Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (2006)). WL
  • Book Review, 120 Pol. Sci. Q. 159 (2005) (reviewing Seymour Martin Lipset & Jason M. Lakin, The Democratic Century (2004)). CATALOG
  • Book Review, 14 Law & Pol. Book Rev. 458 (2004) (reviewing Martin Loughlin, The Idea of Public Law (2003)).
  • On the Difficulty of Imagining an Aesthetic Politics, 12 Yale J.L. & Human. 151 (2000) (reviewing Elaine Scarry, On Beauty and Being Just (1999)). LX HEIN WL
Newspaper & Magazine Articles
  • Budgets by the People, for the People, N.Y. Times, July 28, 2009 (with Chris Elmendorf). URL
  • This is a Job for Superdelegates, Legal Times, Feb. 25, 2008, at 50 (with David L. Ponet). CATALOG
  • Democracy and Bicameralism in the U.S. and Britain: Term–Limits and the Legislation to Put Houses of Lords Members Up for Election, Findlaw's Writ: Legal Commentary, Apr. 13, 2007 (with David L. Ponet). URL
  • PBS's "The Supreme Court": A Conventional View of the Cathedral, Findlaw's Writ: Legal Commentary, Feb. 6, 2007. URL
  • When Vermont's, San Francisco's, and Other Cities' and Towns' Constituents Call for Impeachment of the President and Vice–President, Must Their Federal Representatives Listen? The Ethics of Representative–Constituent Relations, Findlaw's Writ: Legal Commentary, July 26, 2007 (with David L. Ponet). URL
  • Is it a Tort When a Company Gives Bad News, Then Good News, Then Bad News? Why the West Virginia Miners' Families Can Probably Sue for Their Emotional Distress, Findlaw's Writ: Legal Commentary, Jan. 10, 2006. URL
  • Pelosi Promises But Should the Democratic Leader Keep Impeachment 'On the Table'?, Legal Times, Nov. 6, 2006, at 60. CATALOG
  • Surprise Witness: Three Surprises from Alito's Testimony, The New Republic Online, Jan. 11, 2006 (excerpted in The New Republic, Jan. 23, 2006 at 9).
  • The Problem of Hung Juries — and How To Solve It, Findlaw's Writ: Legal Commentary, May 12, 2006. URL
  • Why Not Dial–In Democracy, Too?, Wash. Post, May 28, 2006. URL
  • A Man's Right to Choose: Men Deserve Voice in Abortion Decision, Legal Times, Apr. 4, 2005, at 60. CATALOG
  • A Third Option on Gay Marriage, S.F. Chron., Sept. 20, 2005 (with Vikram D. Amar).
  • Alito and Abortion: Mixed Signals, The New Republic Online, Nov. 2, 2005 (excerpted in The New Republic, Nov. 14, 2005 at 9).
  • The Overlooked Legal Option That Would Let Governor Schwarzenegger Fully Respect Proposition 22 and the Will of the People, Yet Also Sign the Gay Marriage Bill, Findlaw's Writ: Legal Commentary, Sept. 16, 2005 (with Vikram D. Amar). URL




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