Donald J. Kochan

Law Review and Law Journal Publications

 

 

 

While Effusive, “Conclusory” is Still Quite Elusive: The Story of a Word, Iqbal, and a Perplexing Lexical Inquiry of Supreme Importance, 73 U. Pittsburgh L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2011-2012).

 

Thinking Like Thinkers: Is the Art and Discipline of An “Attitude of Suspended Conclusion” Lost on Lawyers?, 35 Seattle U. L. Rev. __(forthcoming 2011).

 

“Thinking” in a Deweyan Perspective: The Law School Exam as a Case Study for Thinking in Lawyering, 12 Nevada L.J. __ (forthcoming 2011-2012).

 

You Say You Want a (Nonviolent) Revolution, Well Then What?  Further Thoughts on the Soft Power and Persuasion of Translations for Governments Emerging Out of Peaceful Chaos, 114 West Virginia L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2012) (special issue).

 

On Equality: The Anti-Interference Principle, 45 U. Richmond L. Rev. 431 (2011).

 

“Learning” Research and Legal Education: A Brief Overview and Selected Bibliographical Survey, 40 Southwestern L. Rev. 449 (2011).

 

Legal Mechanization of Corporate Social Responsibility Through Alien Tort Statute Litigation: A Response to Professor Branson with Some Supplemental Thoughts, 8 Santa Clara J. Intl L. ___ (symposium) (forthcoming 2010).

 

Ripe Standing Vines and the Jurisprudential Tasting of Matured Legal Wines: Property and Public Choice in the Permitting Process, 24 BYU J. Pub. Law 49 (2010).

Black Tuesday and the Graying of the Legitimacy of Governmental Intervention: When Tomorrow is Just a Future Yesterday, 15 NEXUS L.J. ___ (symposium) (forthcoming 2010).

Much Ado About Pluralities: Pride and Precedent Amidst the Cacophony of Concurrences – and Re-Percolation After Rapanos, 15 Va. J. Soc. Pol’y & L. 299 (2008) (with Professors Mathew Parlow and Melissa Berry).

The Soft Power and Persuasion of Translations in the War on Terror: Words and Wisdom in the Transformation of Legal Systems, 110 W. Va. L. Rev. 545 (2008).

Miranda at 40: Applications in a Post-Enron, Post 9/11 World: Introduction, 10 Chapman L. Rev. 531 (2007). (symposium)

In the Heat of the Law, It’s Not Just Steam: Geothermal Resources and the Impacts on Thermophile Biodiversity, 13 Hastings W.-N.W.J. Envt’l L. & Pol’y 35 (2007) (with Tiffany Grant).

Runoff and Reality: Externalities and Traceability Problems in Urban Runoff Regulation, 9 Chapman L. Rev. 409 (2006) (symposium).

The Blogosphere and the New Pamphleteers, 11 NEXUS L.J. 99 (2006) (symposium).

Boyakasha, Fist to Fist: Respect and the Philosophical Link with Reciprocity in International Law and Human Rights, 38 G.W. Int’l. L. Rev. 349 (2006).

Sovereignty and the American Courts at the Cocktail Party of International Law: The Dangers of Domestic Judicial Invocations of Foreign and International Law, 29 Fordham Int’l L.J. 507 (2006).

The Unconstitutionality of Class-Based Statutory Limitations on Presidential Nominations: Can a Man Head the Women’s Bureau at the Department of Labor?, 37 Loyola U. Chi. L. Rev. 43 (2005).

No Longer Little Known But Now a Door Ajar: An Overview of the Evolving and Dangerous Role of the Alien Tort Statute in Human Rights and International Law Jurisprudence, 8 Chapman L. Rev. 103 (2005) (symposium).

The Political Economy of the Production of Customary International Law: The Role of NGOs and United States Courts, 21 Berkeley J. Int’l L. 240 (2004).

State Laws and the Independent Judiciary: An Analysis of the Effects of the Seventeenth Amendment on the Number of Supreme Court Cases Holding State Laws Unconstitutional, 66 Albany L. Rev. 1023 (2003).

“Public Use” and the Independent Judiciary: Condemnation in an Interest-Group Perspective, 3 Texas Rev. L. & Pol. 49 (1998).

Pages Per Term in the United States Reports and Converting Supreme Court Citations to Term Announced: A Statistical Research Tool, 1998 Mich. St. L. Rev. 1091 (1998).

Constitutional Structure as a Limitation on the Scope of the “Law of Nations” in the Alien Tort Claims Act, 31 Cornell Int’l L.J. 153 (1998) (Note).

The Other Side of the Coin: Implications for Policy Formation in the Law of Judicial Interpretation: A Review of A Matter of Interpretation by Antonin Scalia, 6 Cornell J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 463 (1997) (Book Note).

 

 

Donald J. Kochan

Associate Professor of Law
Chapman University School of Law
One University Drive
Orange, California 92866
Phone: (714) 628-2618
Fax: (714) 628-2576
kochan@chapman.edu

Associate Professor of Law

Chapman University School of Law