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Robert J. Pushaw, J.D.
James Wilson Endowed Professor of Law

Office: School of Law (SOL)
E-mail: robert.pushaw@pepperdine.edu

• J.D., Yale University, 1988
• B.A., La Salle College, 1980, summa cum laude

In law school, Robert Pushaw served as notes editor of the Yale Law Journal and received an Olin Foundation Fellowship. After graduation, he clerked for Judge James Buckley of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and then worked as an associate for Davis Wright Tremaine in Seattle.

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Selected Works:

• Creating Legal Rights for Suspected Terrorists: Is the Court Being Courageous or Politically Pragmatic?, 84 NOTRE DAME L. REV. (forthcoming 2009).
• Justifying Wartime Limits on Civil Rights and Liberties, 8 CHAPMAN L. REV. (forthcoming 2009).
• Partial-Birth Abortion and the Perils of Constitutional Common Law, 31 HARV. J. L. & PUB. POL'Y 519 (2008).
• The "Enemy Combatant" Cases in Historical Context: The Inevitability of Pragmatic Judicial Review, 82 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 1005 (2007).
• A Neo-Federalist Analysis of Federal Question Jurisdiction, 95 CAL. L. REV. 1515 (2007).
• Bridging the Enforcement Gap in Constitutional Law; A Critique of the Supreme Court's Theory that Self-Restraint Promotes Federalism, 46 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1289 (2005).
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