Jon D. Michaels

University of California, Los Angeles - School of Law

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385 Charles E. Young Dr. East

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1.

Vigilante Federalism

108 Cornell Law Review 1187-1264
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 22 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 17 Sep 2023
Jon D. Michaels and David L. Noll
University of California, Los Angeles - School of Law and Rutgers Law School
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civil rights, equal protection, constitutional law, federal courts, abortion, transgender rights, torts, anti-democratic practices

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An Enduring, Evolving Separation of Powers

Columbia Law Review, Vol. 115, 2015, p. 515, UCLA School of Law Research Paper No. 14-11
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 02 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 29 Apr 2015
Jon D. Michaels
University of California, Los Angeles - School of Law
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Administrative Law, Separation of Powers, Privatization, Constitutional Law, Public Administration, Bureaucracy, Government Contracting

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All the President's Spies: Private-Public Intelligence Partnerships in the War on Terror

California Law Review, Vol. 96, p. 901, 2008
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 08 Oct 2008
Jon D. Michaels
University of California, Los Angeles - School of Law
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war on terror, national security law, counterterrorism Law, intelligence law, private-public partnerships, privatization, government contracting, surveillance, FISA

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Running Government Like a Business... Then and Now

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 128, No. 4, p. 1152, 2015
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 21 Apr 2015
Jon D. Michaels
University of California, Los Angeles - School of Law
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administrative law, privatization, civil service, bureaucracy, for-profit government, legal history

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Beyond Accountability: The Constitutional, Democratic, and Strategic Problems with Privatizing War

Washington University Law Quarterly, Vol. 82, p. 1001, 2004
Number of pages: 127 Posted: 03 Aug 2005
Jon D. Michaels
University of California, Los Angeles - School of Law
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National security law, military law, privatization, administrative law, separation of powers, constitutional law

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The American Deep State

93 Notre Dame Law Review 2018 (Symposium Issue), UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 18-04
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 09 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 16 Feb 2018
Jon D. Michaels
University of California, Los Angeles - School of Law
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administrative law, constitutional law, bureaucracy, civil service, deep state, culture wars, comparative constitutional law

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We the Shareholders: Government Market Participation in the Postliberal U.S. Political Economy

Columbia Law Review, Vol. 120, pp. 465-547, 2020
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 07 Apr 2020
Jon D. Michaels
University of California, Los Angeles - School of Law
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Administrative Law, Government Market Participation, Privatization, Deregulation, Legal Liberalism, Neoliberalism, Democratic Socialism, Commodification, Constitutional Law, Regulation, Welfare

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Abandoning Presidential Administration: A Civic Governance Agenda To Promote Democratic Equality and Guard Against Creeping Authoritarianism

68 UCLA Law Review 104 (2021), UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 21-07
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 25 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 18 Aug 2021
Blake Emerson and Jon D. Michaels
UCLA School of Law and University of California, Los Angeles - School of Law
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The (Willingly) Fettered Executive: Presidential Spinoffs in National Security Domains and Beyond

Virginia Law Review, Vol. 97, No. 4, pp. 801-898, 2011, UCLA School of Law Research Paper No. 11-23
Number of pages: 98 Posted: 06 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 28 Jul 2011
Jon D. Michaels
University of California, Los Angeles - School of Law
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[Administrative Law, National Security Law, Separation of Powers, Executive Authority, Unitary Executive, Institutional Design, Privatization, Constitutional Law, Intelligence, Counterterrorism, Economic Security, Bureaucracy, Political Accountability]

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Deputizing Homeland Security

Texas Law Review, Vol. 88, p. 1435, 2010, UCLA School of Law Research Paper No. 10-32
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 24 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 04 Dec 2010
Jon D. Michaels
University of California, Los Angeles - School of Law
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Privatization's Progeny

101 Georgetown Law Journal 1023-1088 (2013), UCLA School of Law Research Paper 13-02
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 11 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2013
Jon D. Michaels
University of California, Los Angeles - School of Law
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Administrative Law, Public Administration, Privatization

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Constitutional Coup: Privatization's Threat to the American Republic (Introduction)

Constitutional Coup: Privatization's Threat to the American Republic, Harvard University Press (2017), UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 17-32
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 27 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2017
Jon D. Michaels
University of California, Los Angeles - School of Law
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Separation of Powers; Constitutional Law; Administrative Law; Bureaucracy; Civil Service; Privatization; Businesslike Government; Neoliberalism; Presidential Power; Welfare State; Running Government like a Business

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Privatization’s Pretensions

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 77, p. 717, 2010, UCLA School of Law Research Paper No. 10-31
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 24 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 04 Dec 2010
Jon D. Michaels
University of California, Los Angeles - School of Law
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Administrative Law, Privatization, Government Outsourcing, Separation of Powers, Executive authority, Constitutional Law, National Security, Bureaucracy, Accountability

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The Cycles of Separation-of-Powers Jurisprudence

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 126, 2016 Forthcoming, UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 16-18, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 576
Number of pages: 92 Posted: 04 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 02 Nov 2016
Aziz Z. Huq and Jon D. Michaels
University of Chicago - Law School and University of California, Los Angeles - School of Law
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separation of powers; administrative law; constitutional law

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Of Constitutional Custodians and Regulatory Rivals: An Account of the Old and New Separation of Powers

91 New York University Law Review 227 (2016)
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 06 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 15 Jun 2016
Jon D. Michaels
University of California, Los Angeles - School of Law
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Separation of Powers, Administrative Law, Internal Separation of Powers, Administrative Separation of Powers, Agency Control, Bureaucracy, Bureaucratic Control, Civil Service, Unitary Executive, Constitutional Law

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Just-Right Government: Interstate Compacts and Multistate Governance in an Era of Political Polarization, Policy Paralysis, and Bad-Faith Partisanship

Indiana Law Journal, Vol. 98, No. 863, 2023
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 28 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 26 Apr 2023
Jon D. Michaels and Emme Tyler
University of California, Los Angeles - School of Law and Judicial Law Clerk
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Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, federalism, political dysfunction, public administration, interstate compacts, interstate governance, public health, climate change

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Private Military Firms, the American Precedent, and the Arab Spring

48 Stanford Journal of International Law 277 (2012)
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 11 Oct 2012
Jon D. Michaels
University of California, Los Angeles - School of Law
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National Security Law, Foreign Affairs Law, Military Privatization, Arab Spring, Military-Industrial Complex

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Baller Judges

2020 Wisconsin Law Review 411-438, Wisconsin Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 24 Jun 2020
Jon D. Michaels
University of California, Los Angeles - School of Law
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Constitutional Adjudication, Supreme Court, Judges As Umpires, Original-ism, Departmental-ism, Dissents, Jurisprudence, Senate Confirmation, Judicial Politics, Chief Justice

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What about Private Options?

in Politics, Policy, and Public Options 58-79 (Ganesh Sitaraman & Anne Alstott, eds.) (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 06 May 2020 Last Revised: 12 Aug 2021
Jon D. Michaels
University of California, Los Angeles - School of Law
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Government Market Participation, Administrative Law, Regulation, Privatization, Dysfunctional Government, Neoliberalism, Law and Political Economy, Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple

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Deforming Welfare: How the Dominant Narratives of Devolution and Privatization Subverted Federal Welfare Reform

Seton Hall Law Review, Vol. 34, p. 573, 2004
Number of pages: 98 Posted: 04 Aug 2005
Jon D. Michaels
University of California, Los Angeles - School of Law
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federalism, devolution, welfare law, poverty law, administrative law, Establishment Clause, church-state relations, faith-based initiatives

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Separation of Powers and Centripetal Forces: Implications for the Institutional Design and Constitutionality of Our National Security State

83 University of Chicago Law Review 199 (2016), UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 16-26
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 12 May 2016 Last Revised: 21 May 2016
Jon D. Michaels
University of California, Los Angeles - School of Law
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separation of powers, constitutional law, national security law, administrative law, institutional design, organizational theory

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To Promote the General Welfare: The Republican Imperative to Enhance Citizenship Welfare Rights

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 111, p. 1457, 2002
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 04 Aug 2005
Jon D. Michaels
University of California, Los Angeles - School of Law
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constitutional law, welfare law, poverty law, Fourteenth Amendment, civic republicanism, substantive due process

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Sovereigns, Shopkeepers, and the Separation of Powers

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 166, No. 861, 2018
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 07 Apr 2020
Jon D. Michaels
University of California, Los Angeles - School of Law
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Separation of Powers, Government Market Participation, Constitutional Law, Due Process, Privatization, Self-Dealing, Neoliberalism, Running Government Like a Business

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Brief of Legal Scholars in Support of Petitioner, United States v. Texas, No. 21-588 (U.S.)

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 02 Nov 2021
David L. Noll, Jon D. Michaels, Blake Emerson and Diego A. Zambrano
Rutgers Law School, University of California, Los Angeles - School of Law, UCLA School of Law and Stanford University
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civil rights, equal protection, constitutional law, federal courts, abortion

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Blue State Exodus?

2023 Pepp. L. Rev. 58 (2023)
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 03 Nov 2023 Last Revised: 14 Dec 2023
Jon D. Michaels and David L. Noll
University of California, Los Angeles - School of Law and Rutgers Law School
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federalism, interstate competition, voting with feet, MAGA politics, vigilantism, political paralysis

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Testimony before California's Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 08 Mar 2023
Jon D. Michaels
University of California, Los Angeles - School of Law
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administrative law, bureaucracy, civil rights, reparations, independent agency, civil service, privatization, political violence

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Designing a Latter-Day Freedmen's Bureau

UCLA Law Review Disc., Vol. 71, pp.70-89, 2023
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 29 Nov 2023
Jon D. Michaels
University of California, Los Angeles - School of Law
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administrative law, bureaucracy, civil rights, reparations, independent agency, civil service, privatization, political violence,