Publications
This is a list of some of my publications. I hope you find them interesting and useful.
My SSRN papers page is here.
My Berkeley Electronic Press “Selected Works” page is here.
My December 5, 2005 Weekly Standard piece about growing up in Las Vegas is available here. My March 21, 2005 Weekly Standard article on mandatory voting is here: Vote or Else.
I’ve written several pieces for the good people at the Personal Democracy Forum, including “The FEC and the Internet: Where are We Now?”, Cutting on the Bias, and It’s Getting Hot (Headed) in Here: The FEC’s Internet Summer.
My April 27, 2005 review of Floyd Abrams’s book “Speaking Freely” for the Washington Examiner is here: Washington Examiner: Opinion.
Bradley Smith and I have coauthored an article on 527 regulation and the scope of the FEC’s administrative authority in the April 2005 Election Law Journal, which can be purchased for $29(!) here (hint - this is what libraries are for): Don’t Shoot the Messenger.
A White Paper I wrote for the Federalist Society in January 2005, where I (attempt to) rethink some of the fundamentals of campaign finance regulation, can be found here.
From time to time I’ve been fortunate enought to appear on National Review Online, see: Randall v. Sorrell & balancing,
In Praise of Negative Liberty, “corporate” contributions, BCRA Trial, Harry Potter & California Recall, Buckley Drafting History, Torricelli .
An oldie but goodie, this 1996 piece from Reason magazine has been overtaken by BCRA but still has some points to make: Gagging on Political Reform.
I do not have links to several published pieces: my book from 2000 Teach Yourself E-Politics Today: Using the Internet to Participate and Interact with Your Government (Sams Publishing); When Does an Advertisement about Issues Become an “Issues Ad”? 49 Cath. U. Law Rev. 63 (1999); Stalking the Elusive Express Advocacy Standard, 10 Journal of Law & Politics 51 (1993).
I’ve also written two law journal articles about other subjects: Common Law Remedies and the UST Regulations, 21 Boston Coll. Env. Aff. Law Rev. 619 (1994) and (with Michael Glennon) Collective Security and the Constitution: Can the Commander in Chief Power be Delegated to the United Nations? 82 Georgetown L. Journal 1573 (1994).