Lawrence Rosenthal

Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law

Professor of Law

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Orange, CA 92866-1099

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1.

The Scope of Regulatory Authority Under the Second Amendment

REDUCING GUN VIOLENCE IN AMERICA: INFORMING POLICY WITH EVIDENCE AND ANALYSIS (Daniel W. Webster & Jon S. Vernick eds., 2013), Chapman University Law Research Paper No. 13-1
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 23 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 11 Jul 2014
Lawrence Rosenthal and Adam Winkler
Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
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Second Amendment, District of Columbia v. Heller, gun control, Sandy Hook, Newtown

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The Limits of Second Amendment Originalism and the Constitutional Case for Gun Control

92 Wash. U.L. Rev. 1187 (2015) , Chapman University, Fowler Law Research Paper No. 15-05
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 28 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 05 Jan 2016
Lawrence Rosenthal
Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law
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District of Columbia v. Heller, McDonald v. City of Chicago, Second Amendment, right to keep and bear arms, assault weapons, firearms registration, concealed carry, open carry, Peruta v. County of San Diego

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Good and Bad Ways to Address Police Violence

The Urban Lawyer, volume 48, pages 675-736 (2016), Chapman University, Fowler Law Research Paper No. 16-17
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 04 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 03 Feb 2017
Lawrence Rosenthal
Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law
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Police Misconduct, Police Shootings, Use of Force, Excessive Force, Criminology

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Those Who Can't, Teach: What the Legal Career of John Yoo Tells Us About Who Should be Teaching Law

Mississippi Law Journal, Vol. 80, No. 4, pp. 1563-1631, 2011, Chapman University Law Research Paper No. 10-24
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 27 Jun 2010 Last Revised: 21 May 2011
Lawrence Rosenthal
Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law
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John Yoo, Office of Legal Counsel, Torture Memo, legal education, legal ethics

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Second Amendment Plumbing After Heller: Of Standards of Scrutiny, Incorporation, Well-Regulated Militias and Criminal Street Gangs

Urban Lawyer, Vol. 41, p. 1, 2009, Chapman University Law Research Paper No. 08-203
Number of pages: 93 Posted: 22 Aug 2008 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2009
Lawrence Rosenthal
Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law
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Second Amendment, right to bear arms, District of Columbia v. Heller, criminology, violent crime, homicide, policing, Fourteenth Amendment, incorporation

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The New Originalism Meets the Fourteenth Amendment: Original Public Meaning and the Problem of Incorporation

Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues, Vol. 18, p. 361, 2009, Chapman University Law Research Paper No. 09-14
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 13 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 28 Mar 2010
Lawrence Rosenthal
Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law
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incorporation, Fourteenth Amendment, Privileges or Immunities Clause, Bill of Rights, Privileges or Immunities, originalism, constituitonal interpretation, original public meaning

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Defending Qualified Immunity

South Carolina Law Review, vol. 72, p. 547
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 06 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2021
Lawrence Rosenthal
Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law
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Qualified Immunity, Civil Rights, Section 1983 Litigation

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Debate: The Constitutionality of Stop-and-Frisk in New York City

University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online, Vol. 162, Pg. 117, 2013, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 14-1
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 08 Jan 2014
David Rudovsky and Lawrence Rosenthal
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law
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constitutional law, criminal procedure, stop and frisk, police stops, reasonableness, probable cause, articulable suspicion, unreasonable search and seizure, Fourth Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, equal protection, Terry v. Ohio, racial bias

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Does Due Process Have an Original Meaning? On Originalism, Due Process, Procedural Innovation . . . And Parking Tickets

Oklahoma Law Review, Vol. 60, No. 1, 2007
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 11 Sep 2006
Lawrence Rosenthal
Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law
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constitutional law, constitutional theory, constitutional interpretation, due process, civil procedure, criminal procedure

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A Theory of Government Damages Liability: Torts, Constitutional Torts, and Takings

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, Vol. 9, p. 797
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 09 Apr 2007
Lawrence Rosenthal
Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law
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sovereign immunty, torts, constitutional torts, takings

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Pragmatism, Originalism, Race, and the Case Against Terry v. Ohio

Texas Tech Law Review, Vol. 43, 2010, Chapman University Law Research Paper No. 10-25
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 19 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 03 Feb 2011
Lawrence Rosenthal
Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law
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search and seizure, Terry v. Ohio, racial profiling, originalism, urban crime, criminology, gang crime

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Originalism in Practice

87 Ind. L.J. 1183 (2012), Chapman University Law Research Paper No. 11-01
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 23 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2012
Lawrence Rosenthal
Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law
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Constitutional Law, Constitutional Interpretation, Originalism, District of Columbia v. Heller, Crawford v. Washington, Apprendi v. New Jersey

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Second Thoughts on Damages for Wrongful Convictions

Chicago-Kent Law Review, Vol. 85, No. 1, 2010, Chapman University Law Research Paper No. 10-13
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 05 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 29 May 2010
Lawrence Rosenthal
Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law
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torts, constitutional torts, wrongful convictions, prosecutorial immunity, qualified immunity, malicious prosecution

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Second Amendment Plumbing After McDonald Exploring the Contradiction in the Second Amendment

Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 85, No. 1, 2011, Chapman University Law Research Paper No. 10-33
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 09 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 04 Jun 2011
Lawrence Rosenthal and Joyce Lee Malcolm
Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law and George Mason University, Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty
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Second Amendment, Right to Bear Arms, District of Columbia v. Heller, Fourteenth Amendment

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An Empirical Inquiry into the Use of Originalism: Fourth Amendment Jurisprudence During the Career of Justice Scalia

70 Hastings L.J. 75 (2019)
Number of pages: 98 Posted: 21 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 21 Jan 2019
Lawrence Rosenthal
Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law
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Constitutional Interpretation, Originalism, Justice Antonin Scalia, Fourth Amendment, Search and Seizure

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The Law and Economics of De-Policing

Federal Sentencing Reporter, Vol. 33, No. 1-2, pp. 128–141 (Oct./Dec. 2020)
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 14 Jan 2021
Lawrence Rosenthal
Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law
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Law and Economics, Ferguson Effect, De-Policing, Police Misconduct

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Probability, Probable Cause, and the Law of Unintended Consequences

Texas Law Review, See Also Vol. 87, p. 63, 2009, Chapman University Law Research Paper No. 09-26
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 03 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 09 Jul 2009
Lawrence Rosenthal
Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law
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Fourth Amendment, search and seizure, probable cause, reasonable suspicion, Terry v. Ohio, stop and frisk

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First Amendment Investigations and the Inescapable Pragmatism of the Common Law of Free Speech

Indiana Law Journal, Vol. 86, p. 1, 2011, Chapman University Law Research Paper No. 09-36
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 08 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 15 Jan 2011
Lawrence Rosenthal
Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law
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First Amendment, Free Speech, Free Press, Originalism, Pragmatism, Branzburg V. Hayes, Laird V. Tatum, Balancing

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Saving Disparate Impact

34 Cardozo L. Rev. 2157 (2013), Chapman University Law Research Paper No. 12-4
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 24 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 20 Aug 2013
Lawrence Rosenthal
Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law
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employment discrimination, equal protection, affirmative action, Ricci v. DeStefano, Title VII, disparate impact

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Nonoriginalist Laws in an Originalist World: Litigating Original Meaning from Heller To Bruen

American University Law Review, Vol. 73, No. 2, forthcoming 2024
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 01 May 2023 Last Revised: 02 Dec 2023
Lawrence Rosenthal
Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law
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Second Amendment, New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n v. Bruen, originalism, constitutional litigation, appellate litigation

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Policing and Equal Protection

Yale Law & Policy Review, Vol. 21, p. 53, 2003
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 24 Aug 2006
Lawrence Rosenthal
Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law
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Equal Protection, Police, Racial Profiling, Urban Crime

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Seven Theses in Grudging Defense of the Exclusionary Rule

10 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 523 (2013), Chapman University Law Research Paper No. 13-6
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 19 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 30 Apr 2013
Lawrence Rosenthal
Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law
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Exclusionary Rule, Search and Seizure, Fourth Amendment, Weeks v. United States, Mapp v. Ohio, Herring v. United States, Davis v. United States

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The Crime Drop and the Fourth Amendment: Toward an Empirical Jurisprudence of Search and Seizure

New York University Review of Law and Social Change, Vol. 29, p. 642, 2005
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 20 Sep 2005
Lawrence Rosenthal
Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law
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search and seizure, racial profiling, fourth amendment, urban police

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The Emerging First Amendment Law of Managerial Prerogative

Fordham Law Review, Vol. 77, p. 33, 2008, Chapman University Law Research Paper No. 08-303
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 29 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 15 Oct 2008
Lawrence Rosenthal
Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law
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Garcetti v. Ceballos, First Amendment, public employee speech, labor law, sexual harassment, racial harassment, employment discrimination, public schools, academic freedom, Morse v. Frederick

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The Chapman Dialogues: Same Sex Marriage - Response to Professor Eskridge

12 Chap. L. Rev. 12 (2008), Chapman University Law Research Paper No. 09-04
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 12 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 11 Mar 2009
Lawrence Rosenthal
Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law
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Same-sex marriage, gay and lesbian rights

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Compulsion

University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, Vol. 19, 2017, Chapman University, Fowler Law Research Paper No. 16-04
Number of pages: 87 Posted: 14 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 14 Mar 2018
Lawrence Rosenthal
Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law
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Fifth Amendment, Self-Incrimination, Miranda v. Arizona, Griffin v. California, Salinas v. Texas

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Eyewitness Identification and the Problematics of Blackstonian Reform of the Criminal Law

110 J. CRIM. L. & CRIMINOLOGY 181 (2020)
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 09 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 06 Jan 2022
Lawrence Rosenthal
Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law
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Eyewitness, Identification, Blackstone Ratio, Manson v. Brathwaite

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Gang Loitering and Race

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 91, pp. 99, 2000
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 24 Aug 2006
Lawrence Rosenthal
Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law
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gangs, inner-city crime, equal protection, policing, loitering, public order laws

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Does the First Amendment Protect Academic Freedom?

Journal of College and University Law, vol. 46, p. 51 (2021)
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 28 Sep 2021 Last Revised: 27 Sep 2022
Lawrence Rosenthal
Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law
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Against Orthodoxy: Miranda is Not Prophylactic and the Constitution is Not Perfect

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Against Orthodoxy: Miranda is Not Prophylactic and the Constitution is Not Perfect

10 Chapman L. Rev. 579 (2007)
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 12 Sep 2007
Lawrence Rosenthal
Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law
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Miranda, interrogation, confessions, Fifth Amendment, constitutional criminal procedure, false confessions, wrongful convictions

Against Orthodoxy: Miranda is Not Prophylactic and the Constitution is Not Perfect

Chapman University Law Research Paper No. 2007-10
Posted: 22 Sep 2009
Lawrence Rosenthal
Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law

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Miranda, interrogation, confessions, Fifth Amendment, constitutional criminal procedure, false confessions, wrongful convictions

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Binary Searches and the Central Meaning of the Fourth Amendment

22 Wm. & Mary Bill of Rights J. 881 (2014), Chapman University Law Research Paper No. 13-11
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 10 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 14 Aug 2014
Lawrence Rosenthal
Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law
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Fourth Amendment, search and seizure, binary search, Florida v. Jardines

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The Statement and Account Clause as a National Security Freedom of Information Act

47 Loyola U. Chi. L.J. 1 (2015) , Chapman University, Fowler Law Research Paper No. 15-05
Number of pages: 91 Posted: 19 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2015
Lawrence Rosenthal
Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law
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National Security, Intelligence Community, Statement and Account Clause, standing, political question, United States v. Richardson

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One-Eyed Floyd

 162 U. Pa. L. Rev. Online 127 (2013), Chapman University Law Research Paper No. 13-6
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 11 Dec 2013 Last Revised: 16 Feb 2014
Lawrence Rosenthal
Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law
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Stop and Frisk, Fourth Amendment, Equal Protection, Terry v. Ohio

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Confusing Cause and Effect

CRIMINAL LAW CONVERSATIONS, Paul H. Robinson, Kimberly Ferzan & Stephen Garvey, eds., 2009, Chapman University Law Research Paper No. 09-05
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 07 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 23 Jan 2009
Lawrence Rosenthal
Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law
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jury nullification, racial discrimination, police, paul butler

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The Case for Surveillance

The Cambridge Handbook of Surveillance Law (David Gray & Stephen E. Henderson eds., 2017)
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 11 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 26 Jul 2018
Lawrence Rosenthal
Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law
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Surveillance, Fourth Amendment, privacy

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Romer V. Evans as the Transformation of Local Government Law

Urban Lawyer, Vol. 31, pp. 257, 1999
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 11 Sep 2006 Last Revised: 24 Apr 2014
Lawrence Rosenthal
Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law
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Local Government Law, Dillon's Rule, Constitutional Law

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The Law Professor as Counterterrorist Tactician

Texas Law Review, Vol. 89, No. 1, 2010, Chapman University Law Research Paper No. 11-23
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 08 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 23 Jul 2011
Lawrence Rosenthal
Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law
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First Amendment, Religious Liberty, Terrorism, Counterterrorism, National Security

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Permissible Content Discrimination and the First Amendment: The Strange Case of the Public Employee

Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, Vol. 25, p. 529, 1998
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 11 Sep 2006
Lawrence Rosenthal
Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law
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Legal Ethics as Roadblock to Police Accountability

92 Miss. L.J. 1 (2022)
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 23 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2022
Lawrence Rosenthal
Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law
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constitutional torts, police misconduct, legal ethics

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The Debt Ceiling Is Constitutional

New York University Journal of Legislation and Public Policy, 2024
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 31 Oct 2023 Last Revised: 27 Nov 2023
Lawrence Rosenthal
Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law
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