David E. Bernstein

Publications

• The Supreme Court’s Mysterious 1920s Due Process Education Trilogy
  26 J. CONTEMP. LEGAL ISSUES 41 (2025) · The Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues · 2025
• Racial Classifications in Higher Education Admissions Before and After <em>SFFA</em>
  77 SMU L. REV. 263 (2024) · SMU Law Review · 2024

• Antidiscrimination Laws and the Administrative State: A Skeptic's Look at Administrative Constitutionalism
  94 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 1381 (2019) · Notre Dame Law Review · 2019
• Prevailing Wage Legislation and the Continuing Significance of Race
  44 J. LEGIS. 154 (2018) · Journal of Legislation · 2018
• The Abuse of Executive Power: Getting Beyond the Streetlight Effect .
  11 FIU L. REV. 289 (2016) · FIU Law Review · 2016
• The Mainstreaming of Libertarian Constitutionalism
  77 LAW & CONTEMP. PROBS. 43 (2015) · Law and Contemporary Problems · 2015
• Defending Daubert: It's Time to Amend Federal Rule of Evidence 702
  57 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1 (2015) · William & Mary Law Review · 2015
• From Progressivism to Modern Liberalism: Louis D. Brandeis as a Transitional Figure in Constitutional Law
  89 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 2029 (2014) · Notre Dame Law Review · 2014
• The Misbegotten Judicial Resistance to the Daubert Revolution
  89 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 27 (2013) · Notre Dame Law Review · 2013

• Excluding Unfit Workers: Social Control Versus Social Justice in the Age of Economic Reform
  72 LAW & CONTEMP. PROBS. 177 (2009) · Law and Contemporary Problems · 2009
• Free Speech & (and) Election Law: Freedom of Speech vs. Anti-Discrimination Laws
  31 N. C. CENT. L. REV. 207 (2009) · North Carolina Central Law Review · 2009
• Getting to Causation in Toxic Tort Cases
  74 BROOK. L. REV. (2008) · Brooklyn Law Review · 2008
• Learning the Wrong Lessons from "An American Tragedy": A Critique of the Berger-Twerski Informed Choice Proposal
  104 MICH. L. REV. 1961 (2006) · Michigan Law Review · 2006
• Lochner v. New York: A Centennial Retrospective
  83 WASH. U. L. REV. 1469 (2005) · Washington University Law Review · 2005
• Judicial Power and Civil Rights Reconsidered
  114 YALE L.J. 591 (2004) · Yale Law Journal · 2004
• Keeping Junk Science out of Asbestos Litigation
  31 PEPP. L. REV. (2003) · Pepperdine Law Review · 2003
• <em>Lochner</em>'s Feminist Legacy
  101 MICH. L. REV. 1960 (2003) · Michigan Law Review · 2003
• Antidiscrimination Laws and the First Amendment
  66 MO. L. REV. (2001) · Missouri Law Review · 2001
• The Right of Expressive Association and Private Universities' Racial Preferences and Speech Codes
  9 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 619 (2001) · William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal · 2001

• Sex Discrimination Laws Versus Civil Liberties
  1999 U. CHI. LEGAL F. (1999) · University of Chicago Legal Forum · 1999
• Lochner, Parity, and the Chinese Laundry Cases
  41 WM. & MARY L. REV. 211 (1999) · William & Mary Law Review · 1999
• The Breast Implant Fiasco
  87 CAL. L. REV. 457 (1999) · California Law Review · 1999
• Philip Sober Controlling Philip Drunk: "Buchanan v. Warley" in Historical Perspective
  51 VAND. L. REV. 797 (1998) · Vanderbilt Law Review · 1998
• Junk Science in the United States and the Commonwealth
  21 YALE J. INT'L L. 123 (1996) · Yale Journal of International Law · 1996
• Loser-Pays: Where Next?
  55 MD. L. REV. 1161 (1996) · Maryland Law Review · 1996
• The Admissibility of Scientific Evidence After <i>Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.</i>
  15 CARDOZO L. REV. 2139 (1994) · Cardozo Law Review · 1994
• Licensing Laws: A Historical Example of the Use of Government Regulatory Power against African Americans
  31 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 89 (1994) · San Diego Law Review · 1994
• Roots of the Underclass: The Decline of Laissez-Faire Jurisprudence and the Rise of Racist Labor Legislation
  43 AM. U. L. REV. (1993) · American University Law Review · 1993
• The Supreme Court and "Civil Rights," 1886-1908
  100 YALE L.J. 725 (1990) · Yale Law Journal · 1990