David Bernstein (law professor)

David E. Bernstein (born 1967) is a professor at the George Mason University School of Law in Arlington, Virginia, where he has taught since 1995. His primary areas of scholarly research are constitutional history and the admissibility of expert testimony. Bernstein is a contributor to the legal blog, The Volokh Conspiracy. Bernstein is a graduate of the Yale Law School, where he was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law, Economics and Public Policy, a Claude Lambe Fellow of the Institute for Humane Studies, and a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal. He received his B.A. degree summa cum laude with honors in History from Brandeis University. Bernstein is Jewish.

Publications

Books

• A Conspiracy Against Obamacare: The Volokh Conspiracy and the Health Care Case (co-author with several others) Palgrave MacMillan, 2013, ISBN 1137363746
• Rehabilitating Lochner: Defending Individual Rights against Progressive Reform University of Chicago Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-226-04353-1
• You Can't Say That: The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from Antidiscrimination Laws, Cato Institute, 2003, ISBN 978-1-930865-53-2
• The New Wigmore: Expert Evidence (treatise, with Kaye and Mnookin) Aspen Publishers, 2004, ISBN 978-0-7355-4555-7
• Only One Place of Redress: African Americans, Labor Regulations and the Supreme Court from Reconstruction to the New Deal, Duke University Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-8223-2583-3 Beito Review
• Phantom Risk: Scientific Inference and the Law (co-editor, with Foster and Huber) The MIT Press, January 29, 1999, ISBN 978-0-262-56119-8

Selected law review articles and review essays

• "The Misbegotten Judicial Resistance to the Daubert Revolution", 89 Notre Dame L. Rev. 27 (2013)
• "Excluding Unfit workers: Social Control Versus Social Justice in the Age of Economic Reform," 72 L. & Contemp. Probs. 177 (2009) (with Thomas C. Leonard)
• "Revisiting Yick Wo v. Hopkins", 2008 Ill. L. Rev. 1393
• "Expert Witnesses, Adversarial Bias, and the (Partial) Failure of the Daubert Revolution", 93 Iowa L. Rev. 451 (2008)
• "The Red Menace Revisited", 100 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1295 (2006)
• "Learning the Wrong Lessons from an American Tragedy", 104 Mich. L. Rev. 1961 (2006)
• "Judicial Power and Civil Rights Reconsidered", 114 Yale L.J. 593 (2004) (with Ilya Somin)
• "Lochner's Feminist Legacy", 101 Mich. L. Rev. 1960 (2003)
• "Lochner's Legacy's Legacy", 82 Tex L. Rev. 1 (2003)
• "Lochner Era Revisionism, Revised: Lochner and the Origins of Fundamental Rights Constitutionalism", 82 Geo. L.J. 1 (2003)
• "Lochner, Parity, and the Chinese Laundry Cases", 41 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 211 (1999) (symposium)
• "The Breast Implant Fiasco", 87 Calif. L. Rev. 457 (1999)
• "Philip Sober Restraining Philip Drunk: Buchanan v. Warley in Historical Perspective", 51 Vand. L. Rev. 799 (1998)
• "The Law and Economics of Post-Civil War Restrictions on Interstate Migration by African-Americans", 74 Tex. L. Rev. 781 (1998)

External links

Official sites

• Profile at the George Mason University School of Law website.
• David E. Bernstein Personal homepage.

Online publications

• Social Science Research Networks.
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