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Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal

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Volume 34

Number 2, Fall 2025 toggle arrow icon

FORTHCOMING

ARTICLES
 
NOTES
  • SWORD OR SHIELD? § 230 OF THE CDA, RACIAL CAPITALISM, AND THE RISE OF FAR-RIGHT EXTREMISM ON SOCIAL MEDIA
    Maryam Nazir
  • GRASS V. TURF: ANALYZING THE CURRENT LEGAL LANDSCAPE SURROUNDING ARTIFICIAL TURF-RELATED INJURIES IN THE NFL
    Michelle Meyer
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FORTHCOMING

Articles

Notes

  • SOCIAL MEDIA SURVEILLANCE AND GANG DATABASES: NYPD’S EVOLVING FORM OF POLICE SUPPRESSION AND CONTROL OF MARGINALIZED POPULATIONS
    Priyal Thakral
  • THE CONTRADICTORY CORPORATE CONCEPT: A METAPHORICAL ANALYSIS OF THE CORPORATE BODY Noah Kim

Volume 33

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Volume 29

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Volume 27

Volume 26

Volume 25

Volume 24

Number 1, Fall 2014 toggle arrow icon

Volume 23

Volume 22

Volume 21

Volume 20

Volume 19

Volume 18

Volume 17

Volume 10

Number 1, Fall 2000 toggle arrow icon

Articles

  • John Steinbeck and the Law: Literary Cause and Judicial Effect
    James N. Gilbert
  • Narrating Pain: The Problem with Victim Impact Statements
    Elizabeth E. Joh
  • Regulation of Scientific Misconduct in Federally Funded Research
    Nisan A. Steinberg

Notes

  • Children and Mothers at Risk: A System Failing to Alleviate the Devastation of Drug Abuse
    Polina Friendland
  • Narrowing Broadband Choices: AT&T's Monopology Over the Future of the Internet
    Glenn T. Inanaga

Volume 9

Number 2, Spring 2000 toggle arrow icon

Articles

  • Searching for the Crown of Feathers: An Essay on Psychology, Ethics, and Truth in Constitutional Law
    Marie A. Failinger
  • Reification in Law and Legal Theory
    Douglas Litowitz
  • And So Say Some of Us...What to Do when Jurors Disagree
    Edward P. Schwartz, Warren F. Schwartz

Notes

  • Structured Settlements: The Assignability Problem
    Leo Andrada
  • Commercial Speech in the Street: Regulation of Day Labor Soliciation
    Gabriela Garcia Kornzweig
Number 1, Winter 1999 toggle arrow icon

Article

I Want a Girl (Boy) Just Like the Girl (Boy) that Married Dear Old Dad (Mom): Cloning Lives
Michael H. Shapiro

Notes

  • Facial Recognition Technology, Video Surveillance, and Privacy
    Christopher S. Milligan
  • Organ Transplantation at the Millennium: Regulatory Framework, Allocation Prerogatives, and Political Interests
    Eric F. Galen

Volume 8

Number 2, Spring 1999 toggle arrow icon

Articles

  • Harming Future Persons: Obligations to the Children of Reproductive Technology
    Philip G. Peters, Jr.
  • Picking Positivism Apart: Stanley Fish on Epistemology and Law
    Michael Robertson
  • Of Sovereignty and Contract: Damages for Breach of Contract by Government
    Gillian Hadfield
  • The Counterfeit Buck Stops Here: National Security Issues in the Redesign of U.S. Currency
    Nathan K. Cummings
  • The "Missing Thirteenth Amendment": Constitutional Nonsense and Titles of Nobility
    Jol A. Silversmith
  • Introduction to Classical Legal Rhetoric: A Lost Heritage
    Michael Frost

Notes

  • Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996: Confronting the Challenges of Virtual Reality
    Lydia W. Lee
  • Can You Forgive Her?: Legal Ambivalence Toward Infanticide
    Karen Lewicki
  • The Politics of Law, Language & Morality: Thucydides & the Abortion Debate
    Peggy Hau
Number 1, Winter 1998 toggle arrow icon

Articles

  • In Search of Legal Scholarship: Strategies for the Integration of Science into the Practice of Law
    Carl N. Edwards
  • The Supreme Court, Public Opinion, and the Sentencing of Sexual Predators
    Michelle Johnson


SYMPOSIUM ON CLONING

  • Cloning Position Paper of the IIT Institute for Science, Law and Technology Working Group on Reproductive Technologies
    IIT ISLAT Working Group
  • Human Cloning: Science Fact and Fiction
    Michael A. Goldman
  • Human Cloning: A Jewish Perspective
    Elliot N. Dorff
  • Banning "Human Cloning": A Study in the Difficulties of Defining Science
    Henry T. Greely
  • Human Cloning and the Substantive Due Process Riddle
    Stephen A. Newman
  • The Future of Human Cloning: Prescient Lessons from Medical Ethics Past
    Judith F. Daar
  • First Amendment Protection of Experimentation: A Critical Review and Tentative Synthesis/Reconstruction of the Literature
    Roy G. Spece, Jr.
  • The Constitutional Question of Cloning Humans: Duplication or Procreation?: An Examination of the Constitutional Right to Procreate
    Charlene Kalebic


Notes

  • Uniformity Under the United States Sentencing Guidelines and the D-/L-Methamphetamine Circuit Split
    Daniel S. Roberts
  • Rethinking the Hunter Doctrine
    Gregory Ellis

Volume 7

Number 2, Fall 1998 toggle arrow icon

Articles

  • Two Models of Welfare: Private Charity Versus Public Duty
    William E. Nelson
  • Felix Frankfurter, Charles Hamilton Houston and the "N-Word": A Case Study in the Evolution of Judicial Attitudes Towards Race
    David M. Siegel
  • Ensuring the Incalculable Benefits of Railroads: The Origins of Liability for Negligence in Georgia
    James L. Hunt

Notes

  • Sovereignty Under the World Heritage Convention: A Questionable Basis for Limiting Federal Land Designation Pursuant to International Agreements
    Daniel L. Gebert
  • "Capital Adequacy" in Crisis: Towards an Optional Bank Deposit Insurance Regime
    James B. Ransom
  • Permanent Injunctions in Copyright Infringement: Moral and Economic Justifications for Balancing Individual Rights Instead of Following Harsh Rules
    James Thompson
  • Beyond the Bright Line: Consideration of Externalities, the Meaning of Undue Hardship, and the Allocation of the Burden of Proof Under Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act
    Jason Zarin
Number 1, Summer 1998 toggle arrow icon

Articles

  • Political Accommodation and the Ideology of the "Model Minority": Building a Bridge to White Minority Rule in the 21st Century
    Chris K. Iijima
  • Yearning for Lake Wobegon: The Quest for the Best Test at the Expense of the Best Education
    Lisa Kelly
  • Chief Justice Traynor's Contract Jurisprudence and the Free Law Dilemma: Nazism, the Judiciary, and California's Contract Law
    Stephen J. Lubben

Notes

  • Exploring "Unchartered" Territory: An Analysis of Charter Schools and the Applicability of the U.S. Constitution
    Justin M. Goldstein
  • An Examination of the Effectiveness of California's Chemical Castration Bill in Preventing Sex Offenders from Reoffending
    Carol Gilchrist
  • The Supreme Court's Denver Nondecision and the Need for a New Media Speaker Paradigm
    David Tobenkin
  • Treating and Releasing the Mule: The Rational, Non-Discriminatory Provisions of 18 U.S.C. § 3621
    Reuven Cohen

Volume 6

Number 3, Spring 1998 toggle arrow icon

Articles

  • Assurance, Reliance, and Expectation
    Jay Conison
  • The Anatomy of Contract Damages and Efficient Breach Theory
    David W. Barnes
  • Rhetorical Knowledge in Legal Practice and Theory
    Francis J. Mootz III
  • Tweaking Facts, Speaking Judgement: Judicial Transmogrification of Case Narrative as Jurisprudence in the United States and Britain
    Larry Catá Backer

Note

The Human Rights Implications of a "Cultural Defense"
Michaël Fischer

Number 2, Spring 1998 toggle arrow icon

Articles

  • Postmodernism's Misguided Place in Legal Scholarship: Chaos Theory, Deconstruction, and Some Insights from Thomas Pynchon's Fiction
    Jay P. Moran
  • Location.Location.Location: Internet Addresses as Evolving Property
    Kenton K. Yee
  • California Code of Civil Procedure Section 580b, Anti-Deficiency Protection Regarding Purchase Money Debts: Arguments for the Inclusion of Refinanced Purchase Money Obligations Within the Anti-Deficiency Protection of Section 580b
    Charles B. Sheppard

Note

Facilitated Communication: The Need for a Skeptical Perspective
Joseph A. DiMondi

Number 1, Fall 1997 toggle arrow icon

Articles

  • What Do Jury Experiments Tell Us About How Juries (Should) Make Decisions?
    Michael J. Saks
  • Ruling with the Heart: Emotion-Based Public Policy
    D. Don Welch
  • Growth for the Twenty-First Century: Tales from Bavaria and the Vienna Woods - Comparative Images of Urban Planning in Munich, Salzburg, Vienna, and the United States
    James A. Kushner

Note

Can Witnesses Be Prohibited from Selling Their Stories Prior to Trial?: A First Amendment Analysis of California's Statute
Joshua R. Arlow

Volume 5

Number 3, Summer 1997 toggle arrow icon

Articles

  • Good Catholics Should Be Rawlsian Liberals
    Leslie Griffin
  • Skewing the Results: The Role of Lawyers in Transmitting Legal Rules
    Donald C. Langevoort, Robert K. Rasmussen
  • The Problem of Parochialism in Legal Education
    Paul T. Wangerin
  • Advising Financially Troubled Professional Entities
    Thomas H. Vickers

Notes

  • A Proposed Standard of Common Law Liability for the Public Accounting Profession
    Roger J. Buffington
  • Protection of Foreign Copyrights in China: The Intellectual Property Courts and Alternative Avenues of Protection
    Kenyon S. Jenckes
Number 2, Spring 1997 toggle arrow icon

Articles

  • Lawyers, Judges and Bioethics
    Michael H. Shapiro
  • Reason or Hermeticism?: A Comment
    James Q. Whitman
  • Rearranging the Family: Diversity, Pluralism, Social Tolerance and Child Custody Disputes
    David J. Herring

Note

Hate Speech Debate and Free Expression
Dana Moon Dorset

Number 1, Winter 1996 toggle arrow icon

Articles

Suits for Wrongful Life, Counterfactuals, and the Nonexistence Problem
F. Allan Hanson
Gene Patents and the Death of Dualism
Steven Goldberg
Law Teachers and the Educational Continuum
Michael Jordon

Note
Regulating Bomb Recipes on the Internet: Does First Amendment Law Permit the Government to React to the Most Egregious Harms?
Ian A. Kass

Volume 4

Number 3, Summer 1995 toggle arrow icon

SYMPOSIUM ON NATURAL LAW

Articles

  • A Practitioner's Primer on Natural Law
    Schuyler M. Moore
  • Is Natural Law Theory of Any Use in Constitutional Interpretation?
    R. George Wright

Comment

Objectivity, Moral Truth, and Constitutional Doctrine: A Comment on R. George Wright's "Is Natural Law Theory of Any Use in Constitutional Interpretation?"
David M. Adams

Articles

  • Substance Above All: The Utopian Vision of Modern Natural Law Constitutionalists
    Thomas B. McAffee
  • Natural Law and a Limited Constitution
    Charles R. Kesler

Comment

Distinguishing Between Constitutional Art and Morals
Russell Hittinger

Articles

  • Nonsense and Natural Law
    Steven D. Smith
  • Deposing Finnis
    Ronald R. Garet
  • Copying Constitutional Text: Natural Law, Constitutionalism, Authority
    Michael H. Hoffheimer

Comment

The Augustan Constitution and Our Natural Rights Tradition: Is There a Conflict? Thomas B. McAffee

Forum

  • Jaffa's Quarrel with Bork: Religious Belief Masquerading as Constitutional Argument Lino A. Graglia
  • Graglia's Quarrel with God: Atheism and Nihilism Masquerading as Constitutional Argument Harry V. Jaffa

Notes

  • The Need for International Agreements Concerning the Ozone Depleting Effects of Chemical Rocket Propulsion Lynn Anne Shapiro
  • Subliminal Speech: Is It Worthy of First Amendment Protection? Nicole Grattan Pearson
 
Number 2, Winter 1995 toggle arrow icon

Articles

  • Law and Community in the New Nation: Three Visions for Michigan, 1788-1831
    Richard P. Cole
  • Public Figure Libel: The Premium on Ignorance and the Race to the Bottom
    Edward T. Fenno

Forum

  • Economics as One of the Humanities: An Ecumenical Response to Weisberg, West, and White
    Paul J. Heald
  • Economics as One of the Humanities: A Comment
    Andrew Brod

Notes

  • The New Al Capone Laws and the Double Jeopardy Implications of Taxing Illegal Drugs
    Christopher Paul Sorrow
  • Sexuality, Live Without a Net: Regulating Obscenity and Indecency on the Global Network
    Jason Kay
  • Options, Waste and Agency Costs in the Corporation
    Roy F. Price
  • The Yenaldlooshi in Court and the Killing of a Witch: The Case for an Indian Cultural Defense
    Andrew M. Kanter
Number 1, Fall 1994 toggle arrow icon

Articles

  • The Interpretation and Distortion of Culture: A Hmong "Marriage by Capture" Case in Fresno, California
    Deirdre Evans-Pritchard Alison Dundes Renteln
  • Evaluating DNA Evidence for Identification
    C.G.G. Aitken
  • The American Fresh Start
    F.H. Buckley

Notes

  • Extending Batson v. Kentucky to Religion-Based Peremptory Challenges
    Melissa Roth Triedman
  • A Fathers' Rights Perspective on Custody Law in California: Would You Believe It If I Told You That the Law Is Fair to Fathers?
    Nancy Ellen Yaffe
 

Volume 3

Number 3, Summer 1994 toggle arrow icon

Articles

  • The American Stay
    F.H. Buckley
  • Regulation vs. Markets in the Development of Standards
    Michael I. Krauss
  • Un-Covering the Tradition of Jewish "Dissimilation": Frankfurter, Bickel, and Cover on Judicial Review
    Nomi M. Stolzenberg

Notes

  • Legislative Relief From Toxic Exposure: The Lifeguard Presumption Act
    Christopher W. Krueger
Number 2, Winter 1994 toggle arrow icon

Articles

  • Moral Reasoning and the Due Process Clause
    Edward O. Correia
  • Legal Problems of Nanotechnology: An Overview
    Frederick A. Fiedler Glenn H. Reynolds
  • Using Social Science Research in Family Law Analysis and Formation: Problems and Prospects
    Sarah H. Ramsey Robert F. Kelly

Notes

Powerful, Unique and Anonymous: The European Court of Justice and Its Continuing Impact on the Formation of the European Community
Kevin A. Swartz

Number 1, Fall 1993 toggle arrow icon

SYMPOSIUM ON DEFAULT RULES AND CONTRACTUAL CONSENT

Article

Preliminary Thoughts on Optimal Tailoring of Contractual Rules Ian Ayres

Comments

  • Social Structure, Legal Structure, and Default Rules: A Comment Todd D. Rakoff
  • The Futile Search for Principles for Default Rules W. David Slawson
  • Article Relational Contract and Default Rules Jay M. Feinman
  • Comments Social Norms and Default Rules Analysis Lisa Bernstein
  • The Relational Move: Some Questions from Law and Economics Richard Craswell

Article

Default Principles, Legitimacy, and the Authority of a Contract Steven J. Burton 

Comments

  • Cooperation and Convention in Contractual Defaults Clayton P. Gillette
  • Looking for Default Rule Legitimacy in All the Wrong Places: A Critique of the Authority of Contract Model and the Coordination Principle Proposed by Professor Burton Juliet P. Kostritsky
  • Coordination by Default: Comment on Steven Burton Richard Warner

Article

The Pseudo-Debate Over Default Rules in Contract Law
Dennis Patterson

Comments

  • Default Rules, Efficiency, and Prudence
    Richard Craswell
  • Comment on Professor Patterson's Pseudo-Debate Over Default Rules in Contract Law
    Steven J. Burton
  • The Boundaries of Legal Discourse and the Debate Over Default Rules in Contract Law
    Lawrence B. Solum

Articles

  • Default Rules / Mandatory Principles: A Game Theoretic Analysis of Good Faith and the Contract Modification Problem
    Jason Scott Johnston
  • The Default Rule Paradigm and the Limits of Contract Law
    Alan Schwartz

Afterword

...and Contractual Consent
Randy E. Barnett

Forum

  • Should Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Be Repealed? -- Part Two A False Sense of Social Reality: A Response to Erwin Chemerinsky
    Richard A. Epstein
  • Professor Epstein's Strange Sense of Social Reality: Of Course, All Laws Prohibiting Employment Discrimination Should Not Be Repealed
    Erwin Chemerinsky

Note

Canons, Presumptions and Manifest Injustice: Retroactivity of the Civil Rights Act of 1991
Scott M. Pearson

Volume 2

Number 2, Spring 1993 toggle arrow icon

Articles

  • Les Misérables Redux: Law and the Poor
    Allan C. Hutchinson
  • When Law Fails: Ethics, Commerce, and Tales of Value
    Robert L. Palmer
  • HIV-Infected Health Care Professionals and Informed Consent
    Thaddeus J. Nodzenski

Forum

Should Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Be Repealed?
Richard A. Epstein, Erwin Chemerinsky

Note

The Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act: A Styrofoam Damocles' Sword?
Howard Levkowitz

Recent Developments

Fear of Exposure to HIV as Compensable Injury Peter V. Lee
Lynn Anne Shapiro

Number 1, Spring 1993 toggle arrow icon

Articles

  • Law and Public Policy: Map of an Area
    William H. Clune
  • Culpability and Other Minds
    Rebecca Dresser
  • Out From Uncertainty: A Model of the Lawyer-Client Relationship
    Reed Elizabeth Loder

Notes

  • Norplant Use in Conjunction with the Welfare System
    Anne-Marie Funk
  • Privacy Protections of Computerized Information
    Mark Fall

Volume 1

Number 1, Spring 1992 toggle arrow icon

Introduction

The Blind Men and the Elephant: An Introduction to Multidisciplinary Legal Analysis
Alexander Morgan Capron

Articles

  • Telling Fortunes: Challenging the Efficient Markets Hypothesis by Prediction
    James Lindren
  • Liberalism and the Criminal Law
    Richard Warner

Notes

  • Defining Constitutional Parameters: The Forced Drugging of Civilly Committed Mental Patients
    Lisa Litwiller
  • Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate: An Examination of Workplace Privacy in Electronic Mail
    Steven B. Winters