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David E. Bernstein (born 1967) is an American legal scholar at the
George Mason University School of Law The Antonin Scalia Law School is the law school of George Mason University, Virginia's largest public research university. It is located in Arlington, Virginia, roughly west of Washington, D.C., and east-northeast of George Mason University's ...
in Arlington, Virginia, where he has taught since 1995. His primary areas of scholarly research are constitutional history and the admissibility of expert testimony. Bernstein is a contributor to the legal blog The Volokh Conspiracy. Bernstein is a graduate of the
Yale Law School Yale Law School (YLS) is the law school of Yale University, a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. It was established in 1824. The 2020–21 acceptance rate was 4%, the lowest of any law school in the United ...
, where he was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law, Economics and Public Policy, a Claude Lambe Fellow of the
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, and a senior editor of the''
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''. He received his undergraduate degree from
Brandeis University Brandeis University () is a Private university, private research university in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States. It is located within the Greater Boston area. Founded in 1948 as a nonsectarian, non-sectarian, coeducational university, Bra ...
.


Publications

;Books * ''Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America'', Bombardier Press, 2022, * ''Lawless: The Obama Administrations Unprecedented Assault on the Constitution and the Rule of Law'', Encounter, 2015, * ''A Conspiracy Against Obamacare: The Volokh Conspiracy and the Health Care Case'' (co-author with several others), Palgrave MacMillan, 2013. * ''Rehabilitating ''Lochner'': Defending Individual Rights against Progressive Reform'', University of Chicago Press, 2011,
''You Can't Say That: The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from Antidiscrimination Laws''
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, 2003, * ''The New Wigmore: Expert Evidence'' (treatise, with Kaye and Mnookin) Aspen Publishers, 2004,
''Only One Place of Redress: African Americans, Labor Regulations and the Supreme Court from Reconstruction to the New Deal''
Duke University Press, 2001,

* ''Phantom Risk: Scientific Inference and the Law'' (co-editor, with Foster and Huber) The MIT Press, 1999, ;Selected law review articles and review essays * The Modern American Law of Race, 94 ''S. Cal. L. Rev.'' 171 (2021) * Antidiscrimination Laws and the Administrative State: A Skeptic's Look at Administrative Constitutionalism, 94 ''Notre Dame L. Rev''. 1381 (2019) * "Constitutional Hardball Yes, Asymmetric Not So Much", 118 Colum. L. Rev. Online 207 (2018) * "The Due Process Right to Earn a Living: A Brighter Future Ahead?", 126 Yale L.J. F. 287 (2016) * "Substantive Due Process: It's Complicated", 95 Tex. L. Rev. See Also 1 (2016) * "The Misbegotten Judicial Resistance to the Daubert Revolution", 89 Notre Dame L. Rev. 27 (2014) * "The Mainstreaming of Libertarian Constitutional Thought", 76 L. & Contemp. Probs. 43 (2014)(with Ilya Somin) * "The Misbegotten Judicial Resistance to the Daubert Revolution", 89 ''Notre Dame L. Rev.'' 27 (2013) * "Excluding Unfit workers: Social Control Versus Social Justice in the Age of Economic Reform," 72 ''L. & Contemp. Probs.'' 177 (2009) (with Thomas C. Leonard) * "Revisiting Yick Wo v. Hopkins", 2008 ''Ill. L. Rev''. 1393 * "Expert Witnesses, Adversarial Bias, and the (Partial) Failure of the Daubert Revolution", 93 ''Iowa L. Rev''. 451 (2008) * "The Red Menace Revisited", 100 ''Nw. U. L. Rev''. 1295 (2006) * "Learning the Wrong Lessons from an American Tragedy", 104 ''Mich. L. Rev''. 1961 (2006) * "Judicial Power and Civil Rights Reconsidered", 114 ''Yale L.J''. 593 (2004) (with Ilya Somin) * "Lochner's Feminist Legacy", 101 ''Mich. L. Rev''. 1960 (2003) * "Lochner's Legacy's Legacy", 82 ''Tex L. Rev''. 1 (2003) * "Lochner Era Revisionism, Revised: Lochner and the Origins of Fundamental Rights Constitutionalism", 82 ''Geo. L.J.'' 1 (2003) * "Lochner, Parity, and the Chinese Laundry Cases", 41 ''Wm. & Mary L. Rev''. 211 (1999) (symposium) * "The Breast Implant Fiasco", 87 ''Calif. L. Rev''. 457 (1999) * "Philip Sober Restraining Philip Drunk: Buchanan v. Warley in Historical Perspective", 51 ''Vand. L. Rev''. 799 (1998) * "The Law and Economics of Post-Civil War Restrictions on Interstate Migration by African-Americans", 74 ''Tex. L. Rev''. 781 (1998)


References


External links


Profile at the George Mason University School of Law website

David E. Bernstein Personal homepage
Wayback Machine archived link. April 21, 2015.
Social Science Research Networks
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