Kevin Cole - University of San Diego

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the subject of judicial appointment gridlock
and the nuclear option at the 2005
annual meeting of the American Political
Science Association in Washington, D.C.
He recently published an article in
Judicature titled “Judicial Ideology and the
Decision to Publish: Voting and Publication
Patterns in Ninth Circuit Asylum
Cases.” His forthcoming article in the
Georgia Law Review, titled “The Paradox of
Omnipotence: Courts, Constitutions, and
Commitments,” takes an interdisciplinary
look at the problem of sovereign commitment-making,
which lies at the intersection
of political science, economics and
constitutional theory. Law also continues
to write on the subjects of federal judicial
DAVID S. LAW
appointment and behavior, and he was
interviewed by the National Law Journal on
the failed nomination of Harriet Miers to
the Supreme Court and by the ABA
Journal on recent popular and political
challenges to judicial independence.
Law will act as editor of the Journal of
Contemporary Legal Issues in 2006. The
forthcoming volume collects a series
of papers organized around the theme
of positive political theory and the law.
He also continues to review manuscripts
for the Law & Society Review. Most
recently, he was selected to present a
paper on the subject of globalization
and constitutional law at the Hawaii
International Conference on the Social
Sciences this summer.
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BERT LAZEROW was elected chair of the
University Senate for 2005-06. He also
directed the USD programs in Florence
and Paris this summer.
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ORLY LOBEL’S article on occupational
safety and reform policies at OSHA,
“Interlocking Regulatory and Industrial
Relations: The Governance of Workplace
Safety,” was published in the Administrative
Law Review and is the recipient of the
2005 HLS Irving Oberman Memorial
Award for best paper on a current legal
issue in law and governance. Lobel’s
BERT LAZEROW ORLY LOBEL
review essay, “The Four Pillars of Work
Law,” is forthcoming in the Michigan Law
Review. An earlier Michigan Law Review
essay, “Orchestrated Experimentalism in
the Regulation of Work” was reprinted in
a new casebook Employment Discrimination
Law: Cases, Problems and Critical Perspectives
(Prentice Hall, 2005). Other recent publications
include: “Sustainable Capitalism
or Ethical Transnationalism: Off-Shore
Production and Economic Development,”
forthcoming, Journal of Asian Economics
(2006); “Beyond Experimentation: The
Case of Occupational Health and Safety
Administrative Governance in the United
States,” forthcoming in New Governance
and Constitutionalism in Europe and the United
States (Hart Publishing: Oxford, UK,