David Pozen

Columbia University - Law School

Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law

435 West 116th Street

New York, NY 10025

United States

http://www.law.columbia.edu/faculty/david-pozen

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1.

Executive Underreach, in Pandemics and Otherwise

American Journal of International Law, Vol. 114, pp. 608-17, 2020
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 23 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 21 Oct 2020
David Pozen and Kim Lane Scheppele
Columbia University - Law School and Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
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coronavirus, underreach, overreach, emergency governance, executive power, underenforced norms, Orban, Trump, Bolsonaro

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A Skeptical View of Information Fiduciaries

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 133, pp. 497-541, 2019
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 24 Mar 2019 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2019
Lina Khan and David Pozen
Columbia University - Law School and Columbia University - Law School
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fiduciary theory, First Amendment, online service providers, social media, privacy, surveillance, data security, targeted advertising, Delaware law, competition policy

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The Leaky Leviathan: Why the Government Condemns and Condones Unlawful Disclosures of Information

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 127, pp. 512-635, 2013
Number of pages: 124 Posted: 25 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 24 Sep 2015
David Pozen
Columbia University - Law School
Downloads 2,673 (8,877)
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secrecy, transparency, freedom of information, classification, whistleblowers, WikiLeaks, Pentagon Papers, Espionage Act, Official Secrets Act, reporter’s privilege, bureaucracy, intelligence, cyber, drones, underenforcement, social norms, informal sanctions, First Amendment, Obama, Snowden

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Structural Biases in Structural Constitutional Law

New York University Law Review, Vol. 97, pp. 59-136, 2022
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 04 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 22 Apr 2022
Jonathan Gould and David Pozen
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and Columbia University - Law School
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constitutional law; constitutional theory; institutional design; regulation; law and politics; law and political economy; Congress, courts, and agencies; polarization; parties

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The Mosaic Theory, National Security, and the Freedom of Information Act

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 115, pp. 628-679, 2005
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 19 Oct 2005
David Pozen
Columbia University - Law School
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Mosaic Theory, National Security, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Government Secrecy, Judicial Review

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Asymmetric Constitutional Hardball

Columbia Law Review, Vol. 118, pp. 915-82, 2018
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 28 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 01 May 2018
Joseph Fishkin and David Pozen
UCLA Law School and Columbia University - Law School
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constitutional law, constitutional politics, political parties, norms, conventions, polarization, partisanship, Congress, originalism, living constitutionalism, constitutional restorationism

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Uncivil Obedience

Columbia Law Review, Vol. 115, pp. 809-72, 2015
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 01 Dec 2014 Last Revised: 11 May 2015
Jessica Bulman-Pozen and David Pozen
Columbia University - Law School and Columbia University - Law School
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Civil disobedience, legalism, legal theory, rules and standards, social norms, law in books/law in action, grey holes, rule of law, abuse of right, equity, preemption, federalism, Senate, work to rule, medication abortion, filibuster, immigration, welfare, navigators, moral psychology, partisanship

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Freedom of Information Beyond the Freedom of Information Act

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 165, pp. 1097-1158, 2017
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 01 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 24 Apr 2017
David Pozen
Columbia University - Law School
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Information Law and Policy, Open Government, Open Data, Transparency, Secrecy, Accountability, Administrative Law and Politics, Investigative Journalism, National Security, Congressional Oversight, Private Enforcement, Due Process, Liberalism of Fear

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Transparency's Ideological Drift

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 128, pp. 100-65, 2018
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 12 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2018
David Pozen
Columbia University - Law School
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transparency, publicity, secrecy, open records, open meetings, open data, campaign finance, First Amendment, consumer protection, administrative law, legislative process, governance, regulation, law and politics, progressivism, neoliberalism

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Deep Secrecy

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 62, No. 2, pp. 257-339, 2010
Number of pages: 85 Posted: 08 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 22 Apr 2011
David Pozen
Columbia University - Law School
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Secrecy, transparency, executive power, constitutional theory, separation of powers, democratic deliberation, bureaucratic culture, national security, mosaic theory, black holes, Church Committee, Bush Administration, Rumsfeld, CIA, FISA, FOIA

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How Constitutional Norms Break Down

UCLA Law Review, Vol. 65, pp. 1430-1459, 2018
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 01 May 2018 Last Revised: 07 Oct 2018
Josh Chafetz and David Pozen
Georgetown University Law Center and Columbia University - Law School
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constitutional norms, constitutional conventions, constitutional change, law and politics, rules and standards, backlash, resistance, civil society, Trump administration

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The Puzzles and Possibilities of Article V

Columbia Law Review, Vol. 121, pp. 2317-95, 2021
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 26 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 02 Dec 2021
David Pozen and Thomas P. Schmidt
Columbia University - Law School and Columbia University - Law School
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Article V, constitutional amendment, constitutional change, constitutional theory, law and politics, rule of recognition, Coleman v. Miller, Equal Rights Amendment

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Hardball and/as Anti-Hardball

N.Y.U. Journal of Legislation & Public Policy, Vol. 21, pp. 949-55, 2019
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 27 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 27 Nov 2019
David Pozen
Columbia University - Law School
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hardball, anti-hardball, constitutional politics, judicial reform, voting reform

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The Effectiveness of Juvenile Correctional Facilities: Public Versus Private Management

Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 48, pp. 549-89, 2005
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 04 Jan 2006
Patrick J. Bayer and David Pozen
Duke University - Department of Economics and Columbia University - Law School
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Juvenile Crime, Juvenile Correctional Facilities, Recidivism, Prison Privatization, Provision of Public Goods: Nonprofit, For-profit, Public

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Managing a Correctional Marketplace: Prison Privatization in the United States and the United Kingdom

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 17 Feb 2004
David Pozen
Columbia University - Law School
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Correctional regulation, prison privatization, provision of public goods

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Anti-Modalities

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 119, pp. 729-96, 2021
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 09 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 21 Jan 2021
David Pozen and Adam M. Samaha
Columbia University - Law School and New York University School of Law
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Constitutional Law, Constitutional Interpretation, Constitutional Norms, Constitutional Theory, Legal Reasoning, Legal Decision-Making, Law and Politics, Legal Sociology, General Jurisprudence

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Working Themselves Impure: A Life Cycle Theory of Legal Theories

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 83, pp. 1819-1892, 2016
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 28 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2017
Jeremy Kessler and David Pozen
Columbia University - Law School and Columbia University - Law School
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legal theory, legal history, theory change, legal process, originalism, textualism, popular constitutionalism, cost-benefit analysis, law and politics, public law regulation, constitutional interpretation, statutory interpretation, rules and standards, Kuhn

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A Computational Analysis of Constitutional Polarization

Cornell Law Review, Vol. 105, pp. 1-84, 2019
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 14 Mar 2019 Last Revised: 20 May 2020
David Pozen, Eric L. Talley and Julian Nyarko
Columbia University - Law School, Columbia University - School of Law and Stanford Law School
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constitutional law, constitutional politics, constitutional history, digital text analysis, partisan polarization, ideological polarization, Congress

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Privacy-Privacy Tradeoffs

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 83, pp. 221-247, 2016
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 30 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 31 Mar 2016
David Pozen
Columbia University - Law School
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Privacy theory, civil liberties, information law, risk analysis, risk management, surveillance, intelligence, cybersecurity, technology, Big Data, institutional design, executive branch, NSA, Section 215, USA Freedom Act, metadata, Snowden, Solove

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The Search for an Egalitarian First Amendment

Columbia Law Review, Vol. 118, pp. 1953-2010, 2018
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 08 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2018
Jeremy Kessler and David Pozen
Columbia University - Law School and Columbia University - Law School
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free speech, free expression, law and inequality, constitutional law, constitutional theory, constitutional political economy, informational capitalism, information state, speech regulation, rights enforcement, Lochner, Roberts Court, liberal compromise, progressive civil libertarianism

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We Are All Entrepreneurs Now

Wake Forest Law Review, Vol. 43, pp. 283-340, 2008
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 05 Dec 2007 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2008
David Pozen
Columbia University - Law School
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entrepreneurship, social entrepreneur, moral entrepreneur, norm entrepreneur, policy entrepreneur, entrepreneurial rhetoric, entrepreneur meme, capitalism, Cantillon, Say, Schumpeter, Marx, Weber, Knight, Baumol, Kirzner, Ashoka

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The Irony of Judicial Elections

Columbia Law Review, Vol. 108, pp. 265-330, 2008
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 05 Dec 2007 Last Revised: 18 Apr 2008
David Pozen
Columbia University - Law School
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judicial elections, judicial selection, judicial review, judicial activism, campaign conduct canons, state courts, majoritarian difficulty, popular constitutionalism, Republican Party of Minnesota v. White

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Constitutional Bad Faith

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 129, pp. 885-955, 2016
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 12 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 31 Mar 2016
David Pozen
Columbia University - Law School
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Constitutional law, constitutional theory, constitutional politics, constitutional culture, constitutional interpretation, constitutional faith, good faith, bad faith, comparative analysis, judicial review, separation of powers, underenforcement, conventions, fiduciary duties, opportunism, Sartre

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Remapping the Charitable Deduction

Connecticut Law Review, Vol. 39, pp. 531-601, 2006
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 08 May 2006
David Pozen
Columbia University - Law School
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Charitable Deduction, Charitable Contributions Deduction, Charity, Altruism, Nonprofit (Not-for-Profit) Organizations, Nonprofit Tax Policy, Tax Theory, International Tax, Global Associational Revolution, Cosmopolitan Ethics

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Self-Help and the Separation of Powers

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 124, pp. 2-90, 2014
Number of pages: 89 Posted: 24 May 2014 Last Revised: 15 Oct 2014
David Pozen
Columbia University - Law School
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self-help, separation of powers, countermeasures, conventions, unwritten norms, custom, small-c theory, enforcement, remedies, responsibility, executive power, unilateralism, Congress, gridlock, retaliation, partisanship, proportionality, hardball, showdowns, ILC, President Obama, We Can't Wait

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Seeing Transparency More Clearly

Public Administration Review, Vol. 80, pp. 326-31, 2020
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 10 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 08 Mar 2020
David Pozen
Columbia University - Law School
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transparency, open government law and policy, public administration, research methods

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Building Criminal Capital Behind Bars: Peer Effects in Juvenile Corrections

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Building Criminal Capital Behind Bars: Peer Effects in Juvenile Corrections

Yale University Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper No. 864
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 10 Sep 2003
Patrick J. Bayer, Randi Pintoff and David Pozen
Duke University - Department of Economics, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Columbia University - Law School
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social learning, peer effects, social interactions, recidivism, juvenile crime, human capital accumulation

Building Criminal Capital Behind Bars: Peer Effects in Juvenile Corrections

NBER Working Paper No. w12932
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 24 Feb 2007 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2022
Patrick J. Bayer, Randi Hjalmarsson and David Pozen
Duke University - Department of Economics, University of Maryland - School of Public Policy and Columbia University - Law School
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Evaluating Constitutional Hardball: Two Fallacies and a Research Agenda

Columbia Law Review Online, Vol. 119, pp. 158-72, 2019
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 13 Feb 2019 Last Revised: 14 May 2019
Joseph Fishkin and David Pozen
UCLA Law School and Columbia University - Law School
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constitutional law, constitutional politics, constitutional norms, political parties, government shutdowns, Obama administration, Congress

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Judicial Elections as Popular Constitutionalism

Columbia Law Review, Vol. 110, pp. 2047-2134, 2010
Number of pages: 88 Posted: 14 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 26 Nov 2010
David Pozen
Columbia University - Law School
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Judicial Selection, Judicial Review, Departmentalism, Role Fidelity, Direct Democracy, State Constitutions, Institutional Design, Federalism, Proposition 8, Majoritarian & Countermajoritarian Difficulty, Legislative Supremacy, Democratic Legitimacy, Backlash, Kramer, Tushnet, Post, Siegel, Waldron

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Edward Snowden, National Security Whistleblowing, and Civil Disobedience

Whistleblowing Nation: The History of National Security Disclosures and the Cult of State Secrecy (Kaeten Mistry & Hannah Gurman eds.)
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 02 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 16 Jul 2020
David Pozen
Columbia University - Law School
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civil disobedience theory, national security whistleblowing, NSA, Snowden, Rawls, King, Arendt, Walzer

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The Regulation of Labor and the Relevance of Legal Origin

Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal, Vol. 28, pp. 43-56, 2007
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 09 May 2006
David Pozen
Columbia University - Law School
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Labor Regulation, Labor Law, LLSV, Shleifer, Legal Origins, Legal Institutional Theory, Regulatory Complementarity, Comparative Law and Economics

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Tax Expenditures as Foreign Aid

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 116, pp. 869-880, 2007
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 13 Dec 2006 Last Revised: 17 Jan 2008
David Pozen
Columbia University - Law School
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Tax Expenditures, Foreign Aid, Official Development Assistance, OECD, Philanthropy, Charity, Nonprofit (Not-for-Profit) Organizations, Charitable Contributions Deduction

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The Influence of Juridical Cant on Edificatory Approaches in 21st-Century America

Green Bag 2d, Vol. 19, pp. 111-116, 2015
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 24 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 09 Dec 2015
David Pozen
Columbia University - Law School
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Legal education, legal profession, disjunctionality, Kant, judging, satire

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Making Judicial Recusal More Rigorous

Judges' Journal, Vol. 46, pp. 17-24, Winter 2007
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 03 Jul 2007 Last Revised: 28 Jan 2008
James J. Sample and David Pozen
Hofstra University, Maurice A. Deane School of Law and Columbia University - Law School
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recusal, disqualification, due process, judicial elections, state courts, Republican Party of Minnesota v. White

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Hidden Foreign Aid

Florida Tax Review, Vol. 8, No. 6, pp. 641-680, 2007
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 05 Dec 2007 Last Revised: 25 Jan 2008
David Pozen
Columbia University - Law School
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tax expenditures, foreign aid, official development assistance (ODA), OECD, philanthropy, charity, nonprofit (not-for-profit) organizations, nonprofit tax exemptions, charitable contributions deduction

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The Best Defense: Why Elected Courts Should Lead Recusal Reform

Washburn Law Journal, Vol. 46, No. 3, pp. 503-534, 2007
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 03 Jul 2007
Deborah Goldberg, James J. Sample and David Pozen
New York University (NYU) - Brennan Center for Justice, Hofstra University, Maurice A. Deane School of Law and Columbia University - Law School
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recusal, disqualification, due process, judicial independence, model Code of Judicial Conduct, Judicial Elections, State Courts, Avery, Republican Party of Minnesota v. White

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What Happened in Iowa?

Columbia Law Review Sidebar, Vol. 111, pp. 90-102, 2011
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 07 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 07 Jun 2011
David Pozen
Columbia University - Law School
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Popular constitutionalism, popular sovereignty, federalism, judicial selection, judicial review, state courts, state constitutions, constitutional law, judicial politics, Iowa, same-sex marriage, Proposition 8, Kramer, Post, Siegel, Caperton

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The Abortion Closet (with a Note on Rules and Standards)

Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 35, pp. 161-166, 2017
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 29 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 13 Sep 2017
David Pozen
Columbia University - Law School
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abortion, the closet, rules and standards, Roe, Casey

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Some Legal Realism About Legal Theory

Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-584
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 28 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 02 Mar 2018
Jeremy Kessler and David Pozen
Columbia University - Law School and Columbia University - Law School
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legal theory, legal history, theory change, originalism

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Justice Stevens and the Obligations of Judgment

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, Vol. 44, pp. 851-62, 2011
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 15 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 15 Nov 2011
David Pozen
Columbia University - Law School
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Justice Stevens, Justice Scalia, Justice Breyer, jurisprudence, constitutional law, judicial ethics, practical reason, Heller, McDonald, AEDPA

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The Rhetorical Presidency Meets the Drone Presidency

New Rambler Review, 2015, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-484
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 30 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2015
David Pozen
Columbia University - Law School
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national security law, international law, executive power, targeted killings, drones, detention, legal rhetoric

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Introduction: Troubling Transparency

Troubling Transparency: The History and Future of Freedom of Information (David E. Pozen & Michael Schudson eds., 2018)
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 12 Sep 2018
David Pozen and Michael Schudson
Columbia University - Law School and Independent
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transparency, secrecy, open government, news media, freedom of information (FOI), Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), right to know

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The Shrinking Constitution of Settlement

Drake Law Review, Vol. 68, pp. 335-51, 2020
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 16 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 22 Apr 2020
David Pozen
Columbia University - Law School
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constitutional law, constitutional change, constitutional norms, constitutional conventions

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Are Judicial Elections Democracy-Enhancing?

WHAT'S LAW GOT TO DO WITH IT? WHAT JUDGES DO, WHY THEY DO IT, AND WHAT'S AT STAKE, Charles Gardner Geyh, ed., 2011
Posted: 06 Apr 2011
David Pozen
Columbia University - Law School

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