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Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal

Volume 34

Number 1, Fall 2025

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

Number 3, Spring 2024
Number 2, Winter 2023
Number 1, Fall 2023

Volume 32

Number 2, Winter 2023
Number 1, Fall 2022

Volume 31

Number 3, Spring 2022
Number 2, Winter 2022
Number 1, Fall 2021

Volume 30

Number 3, Spring 2021
Number 2, Winter 2021
Number 1, Fall 2020

Volume 29

Number 4, Summer 2020
Number 3, Spring 2020
Number 2, Winter 2020
Number 1, Fall 2019

Volume 28

Number 3, Spring 2019
Number 2, Winter 2019
Number 1, Fall 2018

Volume 27

Number 1, Spring 2018

Volume 26

Number 3, Summer 2017
Number 2, Spring 2017
Number 1, Fall 2016

Volume 25

Number 3, Summer 2016
Number 2, Spring 2016
Number 1, Winter 2015

Volume 24

Number 3, Spring 2015
Number 2, Spring 2015
Number 1, Fall 2014

Volume 23

Number 2, Spring 2014
Number 1, Fall 2014

Volume 22

Number 3, Fall 2013
Number 2, Winter 2013
Number 1, Fall 2012

Volume 21

Number 3, Fall 2012
Number 2, Fall 2011
Number 1, Fall 2011

Volume 20

Number 3, Spring 2011
Number 2, Winter 2011
Number 1, Fall 2010

Volume 19

Number 3, Spring 2010
Number 2, Winter 2010
Number 1, Fall 2009

Volume 18

Number 3, Spring 2009
Number 2, Winter 2009
Number 1, Fall 2008

Volume 17

Number 3, Spring 2008
Number 2, Winter 2008
Number 1, Fall 2007

Volume 16

Number 3, Spring 2007
Number 2, Winter 2007
Number 1, Fall 2006

Volume 15

Number 2, Spring 2006
Number 1, Fall 2005

Volume 14

Number 2, Spring 2005
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Volume 13

Number 2, Spring 2004
Number 1, Fall 2003

Volume 12

Number 2, Spring 2003
Number 1, Winter 2002

Volume 11

Number 2, Spring 2002
Number 1, Winter 2001

Volume 10

Number 2, Spring 2001
Number 1, Fall 2000

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

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

Articles

  • 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

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

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

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

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

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

Notes

  • The Human Rights Implications of a “Cultural Defense” Michaël Fischer
Number 2, Spring 1998

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

Notes

  • Facilitated Communication: The Need for a Skeptical Perspective Joseph A. DiMondi
Number 1, Fall 1997

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

Notes

  • 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

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

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

Notes

  • Hate Speech Debate and Free Expression Dana Moon Dorset
Number 1, Winter 1996

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

Notes

  • 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
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

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

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

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

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
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

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

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

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