Jon D. Michaels

University of California, Los Angeles - School of Law

Professor

385 Charles E. Young Dr. East

Room 1242

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1476

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (25)

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
Downloads 1,384 (23,932)
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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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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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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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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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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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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

11.

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

13.

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

15.

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

16.

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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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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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

19.

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

20.

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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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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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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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
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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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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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