Richard Delgado

Publications

• 2025
  49 SEATTLE U. L. REV. 745 (2026) · Seattle University Law Review · 2026
• Rodrigo's Extra Credit Assignment: Can Pleadings Be Both Plausible and Fair?
  12 TEX. A & M L. REV. 1025 (2025) · Texas A&M Law Review · 2025
• Doorbell Monitors, Pest Alarms, Neighborhood Chat Groups, and a Second Fundamental Contradiction
  75 CASE W. RES. L. REV. 521 (2024) · Case Western Reserve Law Review · 2024
• Interest Convergence in Immigration Law and Theory
  73 CASE W. RES. L. REV. 771 (2023) · Case Western Reserve Law Review · 2023
• Race or Class: New Directions for Critical Theory
  74 CASE W. RES. L. REV. 353 (2023) · Case Western Reserve Law Review · 2023
• The Consequences of Systemic Racism
  11 TEX. A & M L. REV. 175 (2023) · Texas A&M Law Review · 2023
• Delgado Replies
  10 TEX. A & M L. REV. 627 (2023) · Texas A&M Law Review · 2023
• Dobbs, Right-wing Revisionism, and Public Outrage: Rodrigo's Late-Night Chronicle
  72 AM. U. L. REV. (2023) · American University Law Review · 2023
• Against Equality: A Critical Essay for the NAACP and Others
  48 UC L. CONST. Q. 235 (2021) · UC Law Constitutional Quarterly · 2021
• Remedies for Police Shootings: A Comment on Slater
  21 BERKELEY J. AFR.-AM. L. & POL'Y 37 (2020) · Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy · 2020

• Do Judges Cry? An Essay on Empathy and Fellow-Feeling
  70 CASE W. RES. L. REV. 23 (2019) · Case Western Reserve Law Review · 2019
• Should Good People be Doctors? A Comment on Paul Butler and Anonymous
  72 SMU L. REV. F. (2019) · SMU Law Review Forum · 2019
• Legal Realism and the Controversy over Campus Speech Codes
  69 CASE W. RES. L. REV. 275 (2018) · Case Western Reserve Law Review · 2018
• Alternative Dispute Resolution: A Critical Reconsideration
  70 SMU L. REV. 595 (2017) · SMU Law Review · 2017
• The Unbearable Lightness of Alternative Dispute Resolution: Critical Thoughts on Fairness and Formality
  70 SMU L. REV. 611 (2017) · SMU Law Review · 2017
• Four Ironies of Campus Climate
  101 MINN. L. REV. 1919 (2017) · Minnesota Law Review · 2017
• What Do We Regret and Why?
  4 TEX. A & M L. REV. 123 (2016) · Texas A&M Law Review · 2016
• A New Southern Strategy of Multigroup Oppression: A Response to Standard White by Michael Morris
  Volume 7 CALIF. L. REV. ONLINE 78 (2016) · California Law Review Online · 2016
• Southern Dreams and a New Theory of First Amendment Legal Realism
  65 EMORY L.J. 303 (2015) · Emory Law Journal · 2015
• Panel II: The First Amendment Today
  Emory Law Journal · 2015
• Why Obama: An Interest Convergence Explanation of the Nation's First Black President
  33 MINN. J. L. & INEQ. 345 (2015) · Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality · 2015
• Delgado's Darkroom: Critical Reflections on Land Titles and Latino Legal Education
  45 N. M. L. REV. 275 (2014) · New Mexico Law Review · 2014
• Reforming Capitalism through Law and Regulation, 47 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1269 (2014)
  47 UIC L. REV. (2014) · UIC Law Review · 2014
• The Trayvon Martin Trial - Two Comments and an Observation, 47 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1371 (2014)
  47 UIC L. REV. (2014) · UIC Law Review · 2014
• Let's Get Married: An Essay in Honor of Mari Matsuda
  112 MICH. L. REV. FIRST IMPRESSIONS 58 (2014) · Michigan Law Review First Impressions · 2014
• Racial Templates
  112 MICH. L. REV. 1133 (2014) · Michigan Law Review · 2014
• Precious Knowledge: State Bans on Ethnic Studies, Book Traffickers (Librotraficantes), and a New Type of Race Trial
  91 N. C. L. REV. 1513 (2013) · North Carolina Law Review · 2013
• Naim v. Naim
  12 NV. L.J. FORUM 525 (2012) · Nevada Law Journal · 2012
• Centennial Reflections on the California Law Review's Scholarship on Race: The Structure of Civil Rights Thought
  100 CAL. L. REV. 431 (2012) · California Law Review · 2012
• Race, Sex, and the Division of Labor: A Comment on Joan Williams’s <em>Reshaping the Work-Family Debate</em>
  34 SEATTLE U. L. REV. 835 (2011) · Seattle University Law Review · 2011
• Rodrigo's Portent: California and the Coming Neocolonial Order
  87 WASH. U. L. REV. 1293 (2010) · Washington University Law Review · 2010

• Getting Real: A Reply to Dan Subotnik
  43 U. S. F. L. REV. (2009) · University of San Francisco Law Review · 2009
• A Comment on Rosenberg's New Edition of The Hollow Hope
  Northwestern University Law Review · 2008
• Law Enforcement in Subordinated Communities: Innovation and Response
  106 MICH. L. REV. 1193 (2008) · Michigan Law Review · 2008
• What If John Calmore Had a Latino/a Sibling
  86 N. C. L. REV. 769 (2008) · North Carolina Law Review · 2008
• Foreword: Latinos and the Law Symposium
  83 IND. L.J. (2008) · Indiana Law Journal · 2008
• The Sincerest Form of Flattery?
  43 U. S. F. L. REV. (2008) · University of San Francisco Law Review · 2008
• Rodrigo's Corrido: Race, Postcolonial Theory, and U.S. Civil Rights
  60 VAND. L. REV. 1689 (2007) · Vanderbilt Law Review · 2007
• You Are Living in a Gold Rush
  35 HOFSTRA L. REV. (2006) · Hofstra Law Review · 2006
• The Current Landscape of Race: Old Targets, New Opportunities
  104 MICH. L. REV. 1269 (2006) · Michigan Law Review · 2006
• Si Se Puede, But Who Gets the Gravy?
  11 MICH. J. RACE & L. 9 (2005) · Michigan Journal of Race and Law · 2005
• Liking Arms: Recent Books on Interracial Coalition as an Avenue of Social Reform
  88 CORNELL L. REV. 855 (2003) · Cornell Law Review · 2003
• White Interests and Civil Rights Realism: Rodrigo's Bittersweet Epiphany
  101 MICH. L. REV. 1201 (2003) · Michigan Law Review · 2003
• Where is My Body? Stanley Fish's Long Goodbye to Law
  99 MICH. L. REV. 1370 (2001) · Michigan Law Review · 2001
• Teaching Race through Law: "Resources for a Diverse America"
  89 CAL. L. REV. 1641 (2001) · California Law Review · 2001
• Race and Races: Constructing a New Legal Actor
  89 CAL. L. REV. 1589 (2001) · California Law Review · 2001
• Teaching the Law of Race
  89 CAL. L. REV. 1605 (2001) · California Law Review · 2001
• Teaching by the Book
  89 CAL. L. REV. 1625 (2001) · California Law Review · 2001
• Thinking about Race and Races: Reflections and Responses
  89 CAL. L. REV. 1653 (2001) · California Law Review · 2001
• Do You Believe in the Rule of Law?
  89 CAL. L. REV. 1633 (2001) · California Law Review · 2001

• Home Grown Racism: Colorado's Historic Embrace-and Denial- of Equal Opportunity in Higher Education
  70 U. COLO. L. REV. 703 (1999) · University of Colorado Law Review · 1999
• Symposium on the Relation between Scholarship and Teaching: Introduction
  73 CHI.-KENT. L. REV. 749 (1998) · Chicago-Kent Law Review · 1998
• Are Hate-Speech Rules Constitutional Heresy a Reply to Steven Gey
  146 U. PENN. L. REV. 865 (1998) · University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 1998
• WHY UNIVERSITIES ARE MORALLY OBLIGATED TO STRIVE FOR DIVERSITY: RESTORING THE REMEDIAL RATIONALE FOR AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
  68 U. COLO. L. REV. 1165 (1997) · University of Colorado Law Review · 1997
• Eliminate the "Middle Man"?
  30 AKRON L. REV. (1997) · Akron Law Review · 1997
• Rodrigo's Thirteenth Chronicle: Legal Formalism and Law's Discontents
  95 MICH. L. REV. 1105 (1997) · Michigan Law Review · 1997
• Alternative Dispute Resolution--Conflict as Pathology: An Essay for Trina Grillo
  81 MINN. L. REV. 1391 (1997) · Minnesota Law Review · 1997
• Black and White
  85 CAL. L. REV. 1647 (1997) · California Law Review · 1997
• Apologize and Move On?: Finding a Remedy for Pornography, Insult and Hate Speech
  67 U. COLO. L. REV. 93 (1996) · University of Colorado Law Review · 1996
• Outsider Scholars: The Early Stories
  71 CHI.-KENT. L. REV. 1001 (1996) · Chicago-Kent Law Review · 1996
• The Colonial Scholar: Do Outsider Authors Replicate the Citation Practices of the Insiders, but in Reverse
  71 CHI.-KENT. L. REV. 969 (1996) · Chicago-Kent Law Review · 1996
• Rodrigo's Eleventh Chronicle: Empathy and False Empathy
  84 CAL. L. REV. 61 (1996) · California Law Review · 1996
• Coughlin's Complaint: How to Disparage Outsider Writing, One Year Later
  82 VA. L. REV. 95 (1996) · Virginia Law Review · 1996
• Critical Race Theory: An Annotated Bibliography 1993, a Year of Transition
  66 U. COLO. L. REV. 159 (1995) · University of Colorado Law Review · 1995
• Stark Karst
  93 MICH. L. REV. 1460 (1995) · Michigan Law Review · 1995
• The Social Construction of Brown: Law Reform and the Reconstructive Paradox
  36 WM. & MARY L. REV. 547 (1995) · William & Mary Law Review · 1995
• The Neoconservative Case Against Hate-Speech Regulation -- Lively, D'Souza, Gates, Carter, and the Toughlove Crowd
  47 VAND. L. REV. 1807 (1994) · Vanderbilt Law Review · 1994
• Imposition
  35 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1025 (1994) · William & Mary Law Review · 1994
• Scorn
  35 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1061 (1994) · William & Mary Law Review · 1994
• Hateful Speech, Loving Communities: Why Our Notion of a Just Balance Changes so Slowly
  82 CAL. L. REV. 851 (1994) · California Law Review · 1994
• Pressure Valves and Bloodied Chickens: An Analysis of Paternalistic Objections to Hate Speech Regulation
  82 CAL. L. REV. 871 (1994) · California Law Review · 1994
• Rodrigo's Eighth Chronicle: Black Crime, White Fears. On the Social Construction of Threat
  80 VA. L. REV. 503 (1994) · Virginia Law Review · 1994
• Rodrigo's Ninth Chronicle: Race, Legal Instrumentalism, and the Rule of Law
  143 U. PENN. L. REV. 379 (1994) · University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 1994
• Foreword: Essays on Hate Speech
  82 CAL. L. REV. 847 (1994) · California Law Review · 1994
• Commmets on Mary Becker
  64 U. COLO. L. REV. 1051 (1993) · University of Colorado Law Review · 1993
• Rodrigo's Second Chronicle: The Economics and Politics of Race
  91 MICH. L. REV. 1183 (1993) · Michigan Law Review · 1993
• On Telling Stories in School: A Reply to Farber and Sherry
  46 VAND. L. REV. 665 (1993) · Vanderbilt Law Review · 1993
• The Inward Turn in Outsider Jurisprudence
  34 WM. & MARY L. REV. 741 (1993) · William & Mary Law Review · 1993
• Rodrigo's Third Chronicle: Care, Competition, and the Redemptive Tragedy of Race
  81 CAL. L. REV. 387 (1993) · California Law Review · 1993
• Critical Race Theory: An Annotated Bibliography
  79 VA. L. REV. 461 (1993) · Virginia Law Review · 1993
• A Comment on Aleinikoff
  63 U. COLO. L. REV. 383 (1992) · University of Colorado Law Review · 1992
• Legal Scholarship: Insiders, Outsiders, Editors
  63 U. COLO. L. REV. 717 (1992) · University of Colorado Law Review · 1992
• Shadowboxing: An Essay on Power
  77 CORNELL L. REV. 813 (1992) · Cornell Law Review · 1992
• Images of the Outsider in American Law and Culture: Can Free Expression Remedy Systemic Social Ills
  77 CORNELL L. REV. 1258 (1992) · Cornell Law Review · 1992
• High Country Runner Spends Summer By the River (Poem)
  63 U. COLO. L. REV. 944 (1992) · University of Colorado Law Review · 1992
• Rodrigo's Chronicle
  101 YALE L.J. 1357 (1992) · Yale Law Journal · 1992
• Imperial Scholar Revisited: How to Marginalize Outsider Writing, Ten Years Later
  140 U. PENN. L. REV. 1349 (1992) · University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 1992
• Derrick Bell's Chronicle of the Space traders: Would the U.S. Sacrifice People of Color if the Price Were Right?
  62 U. COLO. L. REV. 321 (1991) · University of Colorado Law Review · 1991
• Affirmative Action as a Majoritarian Device: Or, Do You Really Want To Be a Role Model?
  89 MICH. L. REV. 1222 (1991) · Michigan Law Review · 1991
• Brewer's Plea: Critical Thoughts on Common Cause
  44 VAND. L. REV. (1991) · Vanderbilt Law Review · 1991
• Our Better Natures: A Revisionist View of Joseph Sax's Public Trust Theory of Environmental Protection,and Some Dark Thoughts on the Possibility of Law Reform
  44 VAND. L. REV. 1209 (1991) · Vanderbilt Law Review · 1991
• Recasting the American Race Problem
  79 CAL. L. REV. 1389 (1991) · California Law Review · 1991
• Moves
  139 U. PENN. L. REV. 1071 (1991) · University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 1991
• Norms and Normal Science: Toward a Critique of Normativity In Legal Thought
  139 U. PENN. L. REV. 933 (1991) · University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 1991
• Judicial Influences and the Inside-Outside Dichotomy: A Comment on Professor Nagel
  61 U. COLO. L. REV. 711 (1990) · University of Colorado Law Review · 1990
• Recent Developments in Legal Theory: How to Compare Apples and Oranges
  7 CONST. COMMENT. 209 (1990) · Constitutional Commentary · 1990
• When a Story Is Just a Story: Does Voice Really Matter?
  76 VA. L. REV. 95 (1990) · Virginia Law Review · 1990

• Storytelling for Oppositionists and Others: A Plea for Narrative
  87 MICH. L. REV. 2411 (1989) · Michigan Law Review · 1989
• God and Gadamer: Politics and Conflict in the Heavenly Family
  6 CONST. COMMENT. 7 (1989) · Constitutional Commentary · 1989
• Derrick Bell and the Ideology of Racial Reform: Will We Ever Be Saved?
  97 YALE L.J. 923 (1988) · Yale Law Journal · 1988
• Fact, Norm, and Standard of Review—The Case of Homosexuality
  10 U. DAYTON L. REV. (1985) · University of Dayton Law Review · 1985
• The Author Replies
  3 MINN. J. L. & INEQ. 261 (1985) · Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality · 1985
• Rotten Social Background: Should the Criminal Law Recognize a Defense of Severe Environmental Deprivation
  3 MINN. J. L. & INEQ. 9 (1985) · Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality · 1985
• When Religious Exercise Is Not Free: Deprogramming and the Constitutional Status of Coercively Induced Belief
  37 VAND. L. REV. 1071 (1984) · Vanderbilt Law Review · 1984
• Imperial Scholar: Reflections On a Review of Civil Rights Literature
  132 U. PENN. L. REV. 561 (1984) · University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 1984
• Beyond Sindell: Relaxation of Cause-In-Fact Rules for Indeterminate Plaintiffs
  70 CAL. L. REV. 881 (1982) · California Law Review · 1982
• Active Rationality in Judicial Review
  64 MINN. L. REV. 467 (1980) · Minnesota Law Review · 1980

• A Response to Professor Dressler
  63 MINN. L. REV. 361 (1979) · Minnesota Law Review · 1979
• God, Galileo, and Government: Toward Constitutional Protection for Scientific Inquiry
  53 WASH. L. REV. 349 (1978) · Washington Law Review · 1978
• Ascription of Criminal States of Mind: Toward a Defense Theory for the Coercively Persuaded (Brainwashed) Defendant
  63 MINN. L. REV. 1 (1978) · Minnesota Law Review · 1978
• The Legal Education of Chicano Students: A Study in Mutual Accommodation and Cultural Conflict
  5 N. M. L. REV. 177 (1975) · New Mexico Law Review · 1975
• Mexican Americans As a Legally Cognizable Class under Rule 23 and the Equal Protection Clause
  50 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 393 (1975) · Notre Dame Law Review · 1975
• Minority Students and the Legal Curriculum: An Experiment at Berkeley
  63 CAL. L. REV. 751 (1975) · California Law Review · 1975
• College Searches and Seizures: Students, Privacy, and the Fourth Amendment
  26 UC L.J. 57 (1974) · UC Law Journal · 1974
• Parental Preferences and Selective Abortion: A Commentary on Roe v. Wade, Doe v. Bolton, and the Shape of Things to Come
  1974 WASH. U. L. REV. 203 (1974) · Washington University Law Review · 1974
• The Supreme Court of California 1972-1973
  62 CAL. L. REV. 309 (1974) · California Law Review · 1974
• Underprivileged Communications: Extension of the Psychotherapist-Patient Privilege to Patients of Psychiatric Social Workers
  61 CAL. L. REV. 1050 (1973) · California Law Review · 1973