Public Health
Governance and Biosecurity: Strengthening Security and Oversight of the Nation's Biological Agent Laboratories (with Talley Kovacs and Marita Mike), 12 DePaul Journal of Health Care Law (2010)
Since the advent of the Anthrax attacks in the fall of 2001, the United States...
Strengthening Security and Oversight at Biological Research Laboratories, Congressional Testimony (2009)
With the advent of the Anthrax attacks in the fall of 2001, this Nation has...
The Alfonse and Gaston of Governmental Response to National Public Health Emergencies: Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina for the Federal Government and the States, 58 Administrative Law Review 611 (2006)
Hurricane Katrina renewed an old debate concerning which level of government should lead the response...
False Conflict: Who's in Charge of National Public Health Catastrophes, 31 Administrative and Regulatory Law News 2 (2006)
Hurricane Katrina renewed an old debate concerning which level of government should lead the response...
Choking BioShield: The Department of Homeland Security's Stranglehold on Biodefense Vaccine Development, (2006)
One of the bright milestones toward the development of a vibrant biodefense vaccine industry was...
Homeland Security
Governance and Biosecurity: Strengthening Security and Oversight of the Nation's Biological Agent Laboratories (with Talley Kovacs and Marita Mike), 12 DePaul Journal of Health Care Law (2010)
Since the advent of the Anthrax attacks in the fall of 2001, the United States...
The Posse Comitatus Act and Disaster Response (with Arianne Spaccarelli), Homeland Security and Emergency Management: a Legal Guide for State and Local Governments (2010)
The federal government’s failure to quickly send active duty troops and other military assets to...
Strengthening Security and Oversight at Biological Research Laboratories, Congressional Testimony (2009)
With the advent of the Anthrax attacks in the fall of 2001, this Nation has...
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet: The Inevitable Post-Hamdan Conflict Between the Supreme Court and the Political Branches, 66 Maryland Law Review 805 (2007)
On September 21, 2006, my colleagues, Professors Singer, Quint, and Young, and I led a...
Did the Founding Fathers do "A Heckuva Job"? Constitutional Authorization for the Use of Federal Troops to Prevent the Loss of a Major American City, 87 Boston University Law Review 397 (2007)
As the one year anniversary of the landfall of Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast...
Financial Regulation
Implementation of Title VII of the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Hearing before the United States Senate, Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry - 112th Cong., 1st Sess., Congressional Testimony (2011)
he Relationship of Unregulated OTC Derivatives to the Meltdown. It is now accepted wisdom that...
Overwhelming a Financial Regulatory Black Hole with Legislative Sunlight: Dodd-Frank’s Attack on Systemic Economic Destabilization Caused by an Unregulated Multi-Trillion Dollar Derivatives Market, 6 Journal of Business & Technology Law 125 (2011)
It is now accepted wisdom that it was the non-transparent, poorly capitalized and almost wholly...
Is Our Economy Safe? A Proposal for Assessing the Success of Swaps Regulation under the Dodd-Frank Act, (2010)
On July 21, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer...
Definitions Contained in Title VII of Dodd-Frank Act, File No. S7-16-1 (2010)
Comment letter in response to Definitions Contained in Title VII of Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform...
The Role of Derivatives in the Financial Crisis – Testimony before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, June 30, 2010, Congressional Testimony (2010)
It is now almost universally accepted that the unregulated multi-trillion dollar OTC CDS market helped...
Emergency Prepardeness
The Posse Comitatus Act and Disaster Response (with Arianne Spaccarelli), Homeland Security and Emergency Management: a Legal Guide for State and Local Governments (2010)
The federal government’s failure to quickly send active duty troops and other military assets to...
State and Federal Emergency Powers (with Arianne Spaccarelli), Homeland Security: Legal and Policy Issues. (2009)
As the federal and state response to Hurricane Katrina demonstrated, a failure to understand and...
Preparing Vulnerable Populations for a Disaster: Inner-City Emergency Preparedness - Who Should Take the Lead?, 10 DePaul Journal of Health Care Law 291 (2007)
Did the Founding Fathers do "A Heckuva Job"? Constitutional Authorization for the Use of Federal Troops to Prevent the Loss of a Major American City, 87 Boston University Law Review 397 (2007)
As the one year anniversary of the landfall of Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast...
Did the Founding Fathers Do "A Heckuva Job"? Constitutional Authorization for the Use of Federal Troops to Prevent the Loss of a Major American City, Schmooze 'tickets' (2006)
As the one year anniversary of the landfall of Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast...
Judicial Review
Judicial Review of Administrative Action and Responsible Government (with Warner W. Gardner), 63 Georgetown Law Journal 7 (1974)
Equal Protection
Comment: Relocation, Accidental Inequalities, and the Equal Protection Doctrine, 117 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 579 (1969)
Securities Regulation
Will the CFTC Defy Congress's Mandate to Stop Excessive Speculation in Commodity Markets and Aid and Abet Hyperinflation in World Food and Energy Prices: Analysis of the CFTC's Proposed Rules on Speculative Position Limits, (2011)
On January 26, 2011, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking...