Directory

Bibliography

Books

Sensing Injustice: A Lawyer's Life in the Battle for Change (Monthly Review Press, 2021)
Mythologies of State and Monopoly Power (Monthly Review Press, 2018)
Nine Principles of Litigation and Life (American Bar Association, 2009)
Trial Stories (2008) (editor with Angela J Davis)
Thinking About Terrorism: The Threat to Civil Liberties in Times of National Emergency (American Bar Association, 2007)
Mastering the Craft of Trial Advocacy: Empowering the Jury (Professional Education Group, 2006) (1998-2006) (with Jane B. Tigar)
Examining Witnesses (American Bar Association, 1st ed. 1993, 2d ed. 2003)
Fighting Injustice (American Bar Association, 2002)
Law and the Rise of Capitalism (Monthly Review Press, 1st ed. 1977, 2nd ed. 2000) (with Madeleine R. Levy)
Federal Appeals: Jurisdiction and Practice (West Group, 3d Ed. 1999) (with Jane B. Tigar)
Persuasion: The Litigators Art (American Bar Association, 1999)
Federal Appeals: Jurisdiction and Practice (Shepard's/McGraw-Hill, 1st ed. 1987, 2d Ed. 1993)
A Practice Manual of Selective Service Law (Public Law Education Institute, 1982)

Articles & Essays

Judge James A. Wynn, Originalism, and the Juridical/Judicial Role, 100 North Carolina Law Review Forum 231-239 (2022)
The Point Is to Change It, 73 Monthly review (2021) (reviewing Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous People’s History of the United States (2015), David Vine, The United States of War: A Global History of America’s Endless Conflicts, From Columbus to the Islamic State (2021))
John French Sloan and the Word Pictures in Your Case, 46 Litigation 62-63 (2019)
Susan Sontag and the Pictures in Your Case, 44 Litigation 56-57 (2018)
William Wordsworth and the Creation of Memory, 44 Litigation 57-58 (2018)
Lecture: Thoughts About Legal Ethics and Criminal Defense, 16 Hitosubasi Journal of Law & International Studies 241-275 (No. 1 2017) (translated by Keiichi Muraoka)
Plea Bargaining for Leniency, 10 Hakuō Law Review 253-270 (2017) (translated by Keiichi Muraoka)
Sartre and How the Witnesses See Your Case, 43 Litigation 57-58 (Spring 2017)
Claude Monet and the Theory of Your Case, Litigation 57 (Fall 2016)
The Essential Monroe Freedman, in Four Works, 44 Hofstra Law Review 659-668 (2016) (previously published in 23 Professional Lawyer (2015))
Resisting Wholesale Electronic Invasion of the Fourth Amendment, Champion 20-25 (August 2015)
Missing McVeigh, 112 Michigan Law Review 1091-1110 (2014) (reviewing Jody Lynee Madeira, Killing McVeigh: The Death Penalty and the Myth of Closure (2012))
The National Security State: The End of Separation of Powers, Monthly Review 136-159 (2014)
A Jurisprudence of Insurgency: Lawyers as Companions of Unimagined Change, 2 Journal of Jurisprudence & Interdisciplinary Studies 10-15 (2012)
Crisis in the Legal Profession: Dont Mourn, Organize!, 37 Ohio Northern Law Review 539-574 (2011)
Foreword, in Wrestling with Free Speech, Religious Freedom, and Democracy in Turkey: The Political Trials and Times of Fethullah Gulen (2011)
Respecting Atticus Finch and Scout, an essay for the ABA Conference on Professional Responsibility (2011)
Ways of Seeing, Ways of Judging, an essay for the Central District of California Judicial Conference (2011)
What Are We Doing to the Children: An Essay in Juvenile (In)justice, 7 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 849-866 (2010)
The Reichstag Fire Trial, 1933-2008: The Production of Law and History, 60 Monthly Review 24-49 (2009) (with John Mage)
Foreword, in Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia xi-xvi (2009)
Introduction, in The Art of Cross-Examination (2009) (ABA Classics 2009, 1st ed. 1904)
Narratives of Oppression, 17 Human Rights Brief 34-38 (2009)
A Sanctuary in the Jungle: Terry Lynn Nichols and His Oklahoma City Bombing Trial, in Trial Stories 149-204 (Michael E. Tigar & Angela J. Davis eds., 2008) (with James E. Coleman Jr.)
Crossing the Bridge Between Academy and Practice, 13 North Carolina State Bar Journal 14-16 (Winter 2008)
The Vioxx Litigation: Two Case Studies, in Trial Stories 399-476 (Michael E. Tigar & Angela J. Davis eds., 2008)
A Closer Look at Terrorist Groups, T.M.C Asser Institute (2007)
A System of Wholesale Denial of Rights, 59 Monthly Review 4 (September 2007)
Appellate Courts, 2007 Federal Courts Law Review 1-4 (2007) (reviewing Daniel J. Meador et al., Appellate Courts: Structures, Functions, Processes, and Personnel (2d ed., 2006))
Immunities: Augusto Pinochet to Slobodan Milosevic, T.M.C. Asser Institute/Washington College of Law (2007)
The CIty Upon the Hill, in Raise the Bar: Real World Solutions for a Troubled Profession (Lawrence J. Fox ed., 2007)
What Lawyers, What Edge?, 36 Hofstra Law Review 521-537 (2007)
Paradigms in Teaching Criminal Law, keynote lecture AALS Midyear Meeting (2006)
The Twilight of Personal Liberty: Introduction to A Permanent State of Emergency', 58 Monthly Review 6 (2006) (No. 6, 2006)
Universal Rights and Wrongs, Monthly Review (2006)
The Most Impertinent Question, 29 Litigation 9-11 (2003) (No. 3)
Introduction, in The Federal Courthouse Door: A Federal Jurisdiction Guide (2002)
The Lawyer and Faustian Bargains, 28 Litigation 27-28 (2002)
Terrorism and Human Rights, Monthly Review (2001)
Lawyers, Jails and the Law's Fake Bargains, 53 Monthly Review (July-August 2001)
Litigators' Ethics, 67 Tennessee Law Review (2000)
Two Trials in and about Chattanooga-Lynching and Federal Judicial Power, 26 Litigation 49-50 (2000)
Rationing Justice--What Thomas More Would Say, 2 Journal of the Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics 187-197 (1999)
The Power of Myth: Justice, Signs & Symbols in Criminal Trials, 26 Litigation 25-30 (1999)
What Would Thomas More Think?, 2 Journal of the Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics (1999)
Book Review, 33 Cuba Update 33 (1995) (reviewing Debra Evenson, Revolution in the Balance: Law and Society in Contemporary Cuba (1994))
Defending, 74 Texas Law Review 101-110 (1995) (reprinted as Defending...still in How Can Your Represent Those People? 185-198 (Abbe Smith & Monroe H. Freedman eds., 2013)
Lawyers and Social Justice, 78 Judicature 253-255 (1995) (reviewing Jack Greenberg, Crusaders in the Courts: How a Dedicated Band of Lawyers Fought for the Civil Rights Revolution (1994))
Paul Touvier and the Crime Against Humanity, 30 Texas International Law Journal 286-310 (1995) (with others)
What to do When Your Case is Front Page News, 14 Review of Litigation 595-618 (1995) (panel discussion)
Haymarket: Whose Name the Few Still Say with Tears, A Dramatization in Eleven Scenes, 2 Hybrid 11-32 (1994)
Pretrial Case Management Under the Amended Rules: Too Many Words for a Good Idea, 14 Review of Litigation 137-157 (1994)
Criminal Justice Reform: Sources and Nature of Norms, 63 Revue Internationale de Droit Penal 1443 (1993)
Moderator, The Use and Misuse of Expert Evidence in the Courts, 77 Judicature (1993)
Academic Freedom, in The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of The United States (Kermit L. Hall et al. eds., 1992)
Conscientious Objection, in The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of The United States (Kermit L. Hall et al. eds., 1992)
Book Review, 17 Litigation 49 (1991) (reviewing Douglas Laycock, The Death of the Irreparable Injury Rule (1991))
Cross Examination of Expert Witnesses, in Expert Witnesses (Faust F. Rossi ed., 1991)
The Expert Who Walked Off Angry (under name of Edward Michaels), 17 Litigation 27-30 (1991)
The Extradition Requirement of Double Criminality in Complex Cases: Illustrating the Rationale of Extradition, 62 Revue Internationale de Droit Penal 163 (1991)
The Lawyer Who Broke the Retaining Wall (under name of Edward Michaels), 18 Litigation 27 (1991)
The Prosecutor Whose Sword Was Taken Away (under name of Edward Michaels), 17 Litigation 6-11 (1991)
2020 Vision: A Bifocal View, 74 Judicature 89-92 (1990)
Book Review, 90 Columbia Law Review 255 (1990) (reviewing James S. Leibman, Federal Habeas Corpus Practice and Procedure (1988))
Discovering Your Litigator's Voice, 16 Litigation 1-2 (1990)
Habeas Corpus and the Penalty of Death, 90 Columbia Law Review 255-276 (1990) (reviewing James S. Liebman, Federal Habeas Corpus Practice and Procedure (1988))
It Does the Crime But Not the Time: Corporate Criminal Liability in Federal Law, 17 American Journal of Criminal Law 211-234 (1990)
Lawyers and Death Cases, 16 Litigation 1 (1990)
One Man's Freedom, One Mans Faith, 16 Litigation 1-2 (1990)
Query: Judges or Lawyers-Who Are the Keepers of the Flame?, 74 Judicature 125-127 (1990)
Voices Heard in Jury Argument: Litigation and the Law School Curriculum, 9 Review of Litigation 177-202 (1990)
Willfulness and Ignorance in Federal Criminal Law, 37 Cleveland State Law Review 525-548 (1990)
Judges, Lawyers and the Penalty of Death, 23 Loyola Law Review 147-150 (1989)
Lawyers, Money, Race and Gender, 16 Litigation 1 (1989)
Warrior Bards (1989) (with Kevin McCarthy)
Jury Argument: You, the Facts, and the Law, 14 Litigation 19-22 (1988)
Original Understanding and the Constitution, 22 Akron Law Review 1-12 (1988)
What the Constitution Means by Executive Power, 43 Miami Law Review 177-188 (1988) (with others)
Book Review, 73 American Bar Association Journal 146 (1987) (reviewing Derrick Bell, And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice (1987))
Constitutional Rights of Criminal Tax Defendants: A Bicentennial Survey and Modest Proposal, 41 Tax Lawyer 13-36 (1987)
New Frontiers: The Expansion of International Criminal Law, 22 Texas International Law Journal 411-417 (1987) (reviewing International Criminal Law (M. Bassiouni ed., 1986))
Crime Talk, Rights Talk, and Double-Talk: Thoughts on Reading Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice, 65 Texas Law Review 101-151 (1986) (reviewing Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice (Sandford H. Kadish, ed., 1983))
The Hobbs Act and RICO in Takeover Litigation, 2 BNA Civil RICO Report 2 (1986)
The Trial of John Peter Zenger (1986)
Book Review: Talk-Show Advocacy, 12 Litigation 61-63 (1985) (reviewing Sonya Hamlin, What Makes Juries Listen: A Communications Expert Looks at the Trial (1985))
Book Review, 17 UC Davis Law Review 1035-1047 (1984) (reviewing Harold J. Berman, Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition (1983))
Mail Fraud, Morals and U.S. Attorneys, 11 Litigation 22-54 (1984)
The Right of Property and the Law of Theft, 62 Texas Law Review 1443-1476 (1984)
Whose Rights? What Danger?, 94 Yale Law Journal 970-995 (1984) (reviewing Norman Dorsen, Our Endangered Rights: The ACLU Report on Civil Liberties Today (1984))
International Exchange of Information in Criminal Cases, 4 Michigan Yearbook of International Legal Studies 61-84 (1983) (with A. J. Doyle Jr.)
Crime on Camera, 9 Litigation 24-27 (1982)
The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and the Pursued Refugee: Lessons from Letelier v. Chile, 3 Michigan Yearbook of International Legal Studies 421-450 (1982)
Book Review: The McCarthy Era, History as a Snapshot, 15 Harvard Civil Liberties-Civil Rights Review (1980) (reviewing David Caute, The Great Fear: The Anti-Communist Purge Under Truman and Eisenhower (1979))
Can We Be Equal and Free?, in The Unfinished Revolution (Crocker Snow ed., 1976)
Book Review, 1 Litigation (1975) (reviewing John M. Sink, Political Criminal Trials: How to Defend Them (1974))
Book Review, 86 Harvard Law Review 785-795 (1973) (reviewing Albert A. Ehrenzweig, Psychoanalytic Jurisprudence: On Ethics, Aesthetics, and "Law"-On Crime, Tort, and Procedure (1971))
Book Review: Reconsidering RFK, The New York Review of Books (1972) (reviewing Victor S. Navasky, Kennedy Justice (1971))
The Grand Jury as the New Inquisition, 50 Michigan State Bar Journal 693-700 (1971) (with Madeline R. Levy)
Socialist Law and Legal Institutions, in Law Against the People: Essays to Demystify Law, Order, and the Courts (Robert Lefcourt ed., 1971)
Foreword: Waiver of Constitutional Rights: Disquiet in The Citadel, 84 Harvard Law Review 1-28 (1970)
Judicial Power, the Political Question Doctrine, and Foreign Relations, 17 UCLA Law Review 1135-1179 (1970) (reprinted in The Vietnam War and International Law, Vol. 3 (Richard A. Falk ed., 1972)
The Rights of the Selective Service Registrant, in The Rights of Americans: What They Are - What They Should Be (Norman Dorsen ed., 1970)
Book Review, 67 Michigan Law Review 612-622 (1969) (reviewing Abe Fortas, Concerning Dissent and Civil Disobedience (1968))
New Frontiers, 78 Yale Law Journal 892-902 (1969) (reviewing Norman Dorsen, Frontiers of Civil Liberties (Pantheon Books (1968))
Selective Service: Some Certain Problems and Some Tentative Answers, 37 George Washington Law Review 510-535 (1969) (with Robert J. Zweben)
Book Review, 56 California Law Review 236-242 (1968) (reviewing Samuel Gorovitz, Freedom & Order In The University (1967))
In Memoriam, 56 California Law Review 573-574 (1968)
Lawyer's Role in Resistance, 27 Guild Practitioner 196-200 (1968)
New Frontiers, 78 Yale Law Journal 597 (1968) (reviewing Norman Dorsen, Frontiers of Civil Liberties (1968))
Book Review, 77 Yale Law Journal 597-603 (1967) (reviewing John H. Bunzel, Anti-Politics in America: Reflections on the Anti-Political Temper and Its Distortions of the Democratic Process (1967))
Book Review, 4 Law in Transition Quarterly 163-171 (1967) (reviewing Edmund G. Williamson & John L. Cowan, The American Student's Freedom of Expression (1966))
Symposium: Student Rights and Campus Rules, 54 California Law Review 1-22 (1966)
Automatic Extinction of Cross-Demands: Compensatio From Rome to California, 53 California Law Review 224-278 (1965)
Book Review, 53 California Law Review 914-920 (1965) (reviewing Ronald P. Sokol, A Handbook of Federal Habeas Corpus (1965)) (with I. Heyman)

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

The Supreme Court, Rights, and Judicial Abdication, MR Online (June 27, 2022)
Rap Brown Law Today, MR Online (December 4, 2019)
We Won’t Always Have Paris, MR Online (June 1, 2017)
Inconsistency, Illegality, and Judge Gorsuch, MR Online (March 23, 2017)
How I Learned to Litigate at the Movies, Salt of the Earth, ABA Journal (January 1, 2008, at 53, 62)
Remembering Clint Jencks (March 1 1918-December 15, 2005), MRzine (January 25, 2006)
Letter of the Law: A Reply, Los Angeles Daily Journal (January 11, 1995)
Moving Backward in Sentencing and Intent, National Law Journal (January 1, 1993)

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