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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
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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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Robert J. Pushaw Jr., Explaining Korematsu: A Response to Dean Chemerinsky, 39 PEPP. L. REV. 173 (2011) (symposium) HeinOnlineRobert J. Pushaw Jr., Health Law: Bad Policy, but Constitutional, NAT'L L.J., July 18, 2011 Robert J. Pushaw Jr., Limiting Article III Standing to "Accidental" Plaintiffs: Lessons from Environmental and Animal Cases, 45 GA. L. REV. 1 (2010) HeinOnlineRobert J. Pushaw Jr., Justifying Wartime Limits on Civil Rights and Liberties, 12 CHAP. L. REV. 675 (2009) (symposium issue) SSRN HeinOnlineRobert J. Pushaw Jr., Creating Legal Rights for Suspected Terrorists: Is the Court Being Courageous or Politically Pragmatic?, 84 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 1975 (2009) SSRN HeinOnlineRobert J. Pushaw Jr., Partial-Birth Abortion and the Perils of Constitutional Common Law, 31 HARV. J. L. & PUB. POL'Y 519 (2008) HeinOnlineRobert J. Pushaw Jr., A Neo-Federalist Analysis of Federal Question Jurisdiction, 95 CAL. L. REV. 1515 (2007) HeinOnlineRobert J. Pushaw Jr., The "Enemy Combatant" Cases in Historical Context: The Inevitability of Pragmatic Judicial Review, 82 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 1005 (2007) SSRN HeinOnlineRobert J. Pushaw Jr., 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) (symposium issue) SSRN HeinOnlineRobert J. Pushaw Jr., The Medical Marijuana Case: A Commerce Clause Counter-Revolution?, 9 LEWIS & CLARK L. REV. 879 (2005) (symposium issue) SSRN HeinOnlineRobert J. Pushaw Jr., Does Congress Have the Constitutional Power to Prohibit Partial-Birth Abortion?, 42 HARV. J. ON LEGIS. 319 (2005) SSRN HeinOnlineRobert J. Pushaw Jr., Defending Deference: A Response to Professors Epstein and Wells, 69 MO. L. REV. 959 (2004) (symposium issue) SSRN HeinOnlineRobert J. Pushaw Jr., Methods of Interpreting the Commerce Clause: A Comparative Analysis, 55 ARK. L. REV. 1185 (2003) (symposium issue) SSRN HeinOnlineRobert J. Pushaw Jr., Judicial Review and the Political Question Doctrine: Reviving the Federalist "Rebuttable Presumption" Analysis, 80 N.C. L. REV. 1165 (2002) (symposium issue) SSRN HeinOnlineRobert J. Pushaw Jr. & Grant S. Nelson, A Critique of the Narrow Interpretation of the Commerce Clause, 96 N.W.U. L. REV. 695 (2002) SSRN HeinOnlineRobert J. Pushaw Jr., Bush v. Gore: Looking at Baker v. Carr in a Conservative Mirror, 18 CONST. COMMENT. 359 (2001) SSRN HeinOnlineRobert J. Pushaw Jr., The Inherent Powers of Federal Courts and the the Structural Constitution, 86 IOWA L. REV. 735 (2001) SSRN HeinOnlineRobert J. Pushaw Jr., The Presidential Election Dispute, the Political Question Doctrine, and the Fourteenth Amendment: A Reply to Professors Krent and Shane, 29 FLA. ST. U. L. REV. 603 (2001) (symposium issue) SSRN HeinOnlineRobert J. Pushaw Jr. & Grant S. Nelson, Rethinking the Commerce Clause: Applying First Principles to Uphold Federal Commercial Regulations But Preserve State Control Over Social Issues, 85 IOWA L. REV. 1 (1999) SSRN HeinOnlineRobert J. Pushaw Jr., Congressional Power Over Federal Court Jurisdiction: A Defense of the Neo-Federalist Interpretation of Article III, 1997 BYU L. REV. 847 (1997) SSRN HeinOnlineRobert J. Pushaw Jr., Justiciability and Separation of Powers: A Neo-Federalist Approach, 81 CORNELL L. REV. 393 (1996) HeinOnlineRobert J. Pushaw Jr., Article III's Case/Controversy Distinction and the Dual Functions of Federal Courts, 69 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 447 (1994) HeinOnlineNote, Labor Relations Board Regulation of Parochial Schools: A Practical Free Exercise Accomodation, 97 YALE L.J. 135 (1987) HeinOnline(Minimize Publications)
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