David Bernstein (law professor)

David E. Bernstein is a professor at the George Mason University School of Law in Arlington, Virginia, where he has been teaching since 1995.^[1] His primary areas of scholarly research are constitutional history and the admissibility of expert testimony. Bernstein is a contributor to the popular 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.^[2]

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)

References

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.