Bertrall L. Ross

University of California, Berkeley School of Law

Assistant Professor

215 Boalt Hall

Berkeley, CA 94720-7200

United States

University of California, Berkeley - Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law

Boalt Hall

Berkeley, CA 94720-7200

United States

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Measuring Political Power: Suspect Class Determinations and the Poor

104 California Law Review ____ 2016, Forthcoming, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 2571756
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 02 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2016
Bertrall L. Ross and Su Li
University of California, Berkeley School of Law and University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
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Equal Protection Clause, Suspect Class Doctrine, the poor, political power, empirical legal studies, labor union, farmers

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Democracy and Renewed Distrust: Equal Protection and the Evolving Judicial Conception of Politics

California Law Review, Vol. 101, 2013
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 04 Dec 2013
Bertrall L. Ross
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
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Equal Protection Clause, constitutional construction, political theory, pluralism, public choice theory, race, congressional enforcement power, voting rights, constitutional jurisprudence, constitutional interpretive theory, federalism, judicial activism, judicial restraint, political process theory

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Embracing Administrative Constitutionalism

Boston University Law Review, Vol. 95, 2015, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 2575399
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 08 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2015
Bertrall L. Ross
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
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Constitutional theory, Administrative Law, Originalism, Living Constitutionalism, Constitutional Adaptation, Constitutional Experimentation, Administrative Agencies, Hard Look Review, Administrative Constitutionalism

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Against Constitutional Mainstreaming

78 University of Chicago Law Review 1203
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 02 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 23 Dec 2013
Bertrall L. Ross
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
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Dynamic Statutory Interpretation, public values, legislative supremacy, popular constitutionalism, constitutional moments, legislative overrides, positive political theory, judicial decision-making, Voting Rights Act, public choice theory

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The State as Witness: Windsor, Shelby County, and Judicial Distrust of the Legislative Record

New York University Law Review, Vol. 89, p. 2027, December 2014, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 2544533
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 03 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 29 Jan 2015
Bertrall L. Ross
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
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Judicial review, legal theory, separation of powers, public choice theory, pluralism, Equal Protection Clause, Congressional Enforcement Power, strict scrutiny review, rational basis review, constitutional law

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The Representative Equality Principle: Disaggregating the Equal Protection Intent Standard

Fordham Law Review, Vol. 81, 2012, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 2121793
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 02 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 24 Sep 2012
Bertrall L. Ross
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
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Equal Protection, Discriminatory Intent, Vote Dilution, Political Process Theory, Pluralism, Reapportionment, One-person One-vote, majority rule, effective representation, representation-reinforcing judicial review, representation-structuring judicial review

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Denying Deference: Civil Rights and Judicial Resistance to Administrative Constitutionalism

University of Chicago Legal Forum, Vol. 2014, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 2535190
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 08 Dec 2014
Bertrall L. Ross
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
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Administrative Law, Civil Rights Law, Judicial Deference, Agencies, Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, Judicial Supremacy

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Paths of Resistance to Our Imperial First Amendment

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 113, 2015, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 2598393
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 25 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 05 May 2015
Bertrall L. Ross
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
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First Amendment, Campaign Finance, Chilling Speech, Administrative Agencies, Administrative Constitutionalism

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Reconciling the Booker Conflict: A Substantive Sixth Amendment in a Real Offense Sentencing System

Cardozo Pub. Law, Policy & Ethics J., Vol. 4, pp. 725-778, 2006
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 20 Dec 2007
Bertrall L. Ross
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
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Sentencing, United States v. Booker, Sixth Amendment, Real Offense Sentencing, jury sentencing, jury

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Partisan Gerrymandering, the First Amendment, and the Political Outsider

Columbia Law Review, Vol. 118, 2018
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 11 Dec 2018
Bertrall L. Ross
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
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Partisan gerrymandering, First Amendment, freedom of association, representation, participation, competitiveness, districting, democracy, inclusiveness

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The 2016 Presidential Election: The Next Four Years and Beyond

44 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 255 (2017)
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 25 May 2017
Dahlia Lithwick, Bertrall L. Ross, Joan Williams and Scott Dodson
Independent, University of California, Berkeley School of Law, University of California Hastings College of the Law and University of California Hastings College of the Law
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Trump, 2016 Election

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Passive Voter Suppression: Campaign Mobilization and the Effective Disfranchisement of the Poor

Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 114, No. 3, 2019
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 31 Dec 2019
Bertrall L. Ross and Douglas M. Spencer
University of California, Berkeley School of Law and University of Connecticut, School of Law
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Voter suppression, Disfranchisement, Poor, Mobilization, Microtargeting, Campaigns, Voter ID

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Addressing Inequality in the Age of Citizens United

New York University Law Review, Vol. 93, No. 5, 2018
Number of pages: 81 Posted: 11 Dec 2018
Bertrall L. Ross
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
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Political inequality, economic inequality, campaign finance, voting rights, mobilization, the poor, median voter theorem, redistribution

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Administering Suspect Classes

Duke Law Journal, Vol. 66, May 2017
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 11 Dec 2018
Bertrall L. Ross
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
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Administrative constitutionalism, administrative law, constitutional law, equal protection, suspect classes