Updated draft of Eminent Domain article uploaded to SSRN

Just uploaded the final draft of my Eminent Domain article to SSRN. The article is titled Equal Protection from Eminent Domain. Protecting the Home of Olech’s Class of One. I will shortly send it off to the Loyola Law Review. So far, I have had an amazing experience working with them, and I have full faith that their staff will make this article as perfect as possible.

Many thanks to Randy Barnett, Dana Berliner, Kathryn Ciano, Steven Eagle, Adam Mossoff, Clark Neily, Yaakov Roth, Ilya Shapiro, and Ilya Somin for their comments and suggestions. I was quite fortunate to have so many scholars in the area offer their expertise.

And, to continue my tradition of dedicating each article to a founding father, this article goes out to the namesake of my J.D., the father of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, and an opponent to a Constitution without a Bill of Rights; George Mason!

I am really excited about the prospects for this article. The equal protection clause, combined with the class of one from Village of Willowbrook v. Olech, can serve as a potent weapon to challenge eminent domain abuse. Hopefully some litigator somewhere will pick up this article and state a claim in court based on my framework.

Excerpts of my Omniveillance article will be reprinted in a textbook.

I just received a copyright request to republish about 5 pages from my Omniveillance article. It will be published in Legal Issues In Electronic Commerce, edited by Prof. R. L. Campbell. They want to reprint pp.313-316, 391-392. I should receive a copy of the textbook in December, 2009. Sadly I won’t get paid, but this is still pretty cool!

Opening Pandora’s Box. The Privileges or Immunities Clause and the Constitution in 2020.

This is a concept I have been pondering for months now. In light of the almost-certain cert grant in NRA v. Chicago, and the Constitution in 2020 Conference at Yale Law School next week (which I will be attending), I am going to post some of my interim thoughts on this topic.