Publications

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATION 

Chapter, “Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and the ‘Marketplace of Ideas’: Experience Proves to be the ‘Life of the Law’ in Judging Free Speech: First Amendment Jurisprudence of US Supreme Court Justices, ed. by Knowles and Lichtman (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, September, 2015).

Article, “The Impact of Transformations in National Cultural Identity upon Competing Constitutional Narratives in the United States of America in the Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, Volume 25,#2 (June, 2012) 177-195.

Article, “Symbolic Conflict and the First Amendment: U.S. Supreme Court Adjudication of the Expression of Condensation Symbols” in the Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, Vol. 23, #2, (Summer, 2010) 207.

Chapter, “Tolerance, Pluralism and ‘Fighting Faiths’: Seeking the Sources of U.S. Constitutional Meaning” in Diversity and Tolerance in Socio-Legal Contexts: Explorations in the Semiotics of Law  ed. by Bhatia and Wagner (London,UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2009)

Book, The Context of Judicial Activism: The Endurance of the Warren Court Legacy in a Conservative Age. Lanham, MD:  Rowman and Littlefield, 1999. Portions On-Line with Google Books, 2010.

 

SELECTED PRIOR PUBLICATION 

Chapter, “The Quest for Certainty in Recent U.S. Constitutional Scholarship: Original Intent and the Practice of the Constitutional ‘Creativity’” Published in Contemporary Issues of the Semiotics of Law: Cultural and Symbolic Analyses of Law in a Global Context,  ed. by Wagner, Summerfield and Benavides Vanegas (Oxford, UK & Portland, Oregon: Hart Publishing Ltd, 2005)

Article, “Is Judicial Activism a “Hollow Hope?”: Some Thoughts  about Constitutional Doctrine and Social Change,”  National Social Science Perspectives Journal, Vol. 25,#1, (2003).

Article, “The Creature Walks Among Us,” as part of Symposium: The Constitution of the Living Dead, in The Good Society, Vol. 11, No. 2, (2002)

Chapter, “The New Libertarianism and its Challenges,” Published in States, Citizens and Questions of Significance, ed.by Brigham and Kevelson, (New York: Peter Lang, 1997).

Article, “The Tradition of Creative Constitutional Development,”  National Social Science Perspectives Journal, Vol. 11,#1, (1997).

Book Review of “Alternative Tracks: The Constitution of the American Industrial Order, 1865-1917” by Gerald Berk in  Perspectives on Political Science, Vol. 24, No. 4, pg.229, Fall 1995.

Arbitration Decision, “Town of Framingham Parks & Rec’n Dept. v. Laborers Int’l Union of N.A. Local 1156,” Selected for Inclusion in Arbitration in Government,  Feb.1995; Vol. 25,#2- 5008, Published by LRP Publications for International Center for Dispute Resolution, American Arbitration Association.

Book Review of “Of Power and Right: Hugo Black, William O. Douglas and America’s Constitutional Revolution.” in Perspectives on Political Science, Volume 23, Number 4, pg. 197, Fall 1994,

Arbitration Decision, “Boston College v. SEIU Local 254,” Selected for Inclusion in Arbitration in the Schools, June, 1994; #292-6, Published by LRP Publications for International Center for Dispute Resolution, American Arbitration Association.

Book Review of “The Overworked American” by Juliet Schor in New Solutions,Volume 3, Number 3, Page 94,Spring 1993.

Book Review of “Remedial Law: When Courts Become Administrators” by Robert Wood in Perspectives on Political Science, Volume 21, Number 2, Page 104, Spring 1992.

Book Review of “Congress Shall Make No Law: Oliver Wendell Homes, the First Amendment and Judicial Decision Making” in Perspectives on Political Science  Volume 21, Number 1, Page 42-43 Winter 1992.

Book Review of “American Cultural Pluralism and the Law” by Norgren & Nanda, published in Perspectives, Vol 19, No.1, pg.11,Winter,1990.

Book Review,”The Constitution under Pressure” by Whicker, Strickland and Moore published in Perspectives, Vol.19, No.1,pg.10,Winter 1990.    

Book: The Nationalization of Liberty. Lanham, Maryland.: University Press of America, 1990.

Three-Book Review Article: “Law, Liberalism and Free Speech” by D.F.B. Tucker; “Toleration and the Constitution” by David A.J. Richards; and “The Tolerant Society” by Lee Bollinger; published in American Political Science Review, Vol.82, No.2, pg.622, June,1988.

Review Article on “Religion and the Burger Court” by Leo Pfeffer, published in Teaching Political Science, Summer, 1988.

Book Review of “Reforming American Government” by Donald Robinson, published in Perspective, Vol.15, No.2,pg.38, March/April, 1986.

Book Review of “The Constitution in Flux” by Philip Norton, published in Perspective, Vol.13, No.4, pg.81, May/June, 1984.

Book Review  of “Constitutional Fate: Theory of the Constitution” by Phillip Bobbitt, published in America Political Science Review, Vol.77, No.3, pg. 751, September, 1983.

Book Review  of “Democratic Dictatorship: The Emergent Constitution of Control” by A.S. Miller, published in the American Political Science Review, Vol.76, No.2, pg.414, June, 1982.

Book: The Dilemma in the Congressional Power to Enforce the Fourteenth Amendment. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1980

Article, “The Massachusetts Bilingual Education Act: Two Years After.” Inequality in Education, #19, Harvard  Center for Law and Education, Cambridge, Mass., February, 1975.

Introduction to Issue #20, Inequality in Education, Harvard Center for Law and Education, Cambridge, Mass., August, 1975.

Contributor, legal analysis, in “Short Term Plan to Reduce Racial Imbalance in the Public Schools of Massachusetts, “Massachusetts Board of Education, Publication #7078, February, 1974.

Article, “Due Process Implications of Chapter 467 of the Acts of 1972,” The Commonwealth, Fall, 1972.