Douglas Kmiec
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Douglas Kmiec's Degrees
- Doctorate Law University of Southern California
- Bachelors Political Science Northwestern University
Why Is Douglas Kmiec Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Douglas William Kmiec is an American legal scholar, author, and former U.S. ambassador. He is the Caruso Family Chair and Professor of Constitutional Law at Pepperdine University School of Law. Kmiec came to prominence during the 2008 United States presidential election when, although a Republican, he endorsed Democrat Barack Obama. In July 2009, he was nominated by President Obama to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Malta. He was confirmed by the Senate and served for close to two years as ambassador to Malta. He resigned his post effective May 31, 2011.
Douglas Kmiec's Published Works
Published Works
- Deregulating Land Use: An Alternative Free Enterprise Development System (1981) (14)
- The Contract Clause: A Return to the Original Understanding (1987) (11)
- The Original Understanding of the Taking Clause Is Neither Weak nor Obtuse (1988) (10)
- Introduction to the 2006 Templeton Lecture: Hitting Home - The Supreme Court Earns Public Notice Opining on Public Use (2007) (4)
- The Attorney General's Lawyer: Inside the Meese Justice Department (1992) (4)
- The Second Conversation with Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr.: Lawyering and the Craft of Judicial Opinion Writing (2010) (3)
- The Procreative Argument for Proscribing Same-Sex Marriage (2007) (3)
- Regulatory Takings: The Supreme Court Runs Out of Gas in San Diego (1982) (2)
- The Coherence of the Natural Law of Property (2011) (2)
- Protecting Vital and Pressing Governmental Interests—A Proposal for a New Zoning Enabling Act (1986) (1)
- Is the American Democracy Compatible with the Catholic Faith (1996) (1)
- The Inaugural William French SmithMemorial Lecture: A Look at Supreme Court Advocacy with Justice Samuel Alito (2008) (1)
- "God's Litigator" A Review Essay of Mere Creatures of the State?: Education, Religion, and the Courts: A View from the Courtroom (1999) (1)
- Behind the Empty Cloud of Autonomous Reason - or Why It Doesn't Matter if the Natural Law of Veritatis Splendor is Real Law (1994) (1)
- Inserting The Last Remaining Pieces into the Takings Puzzle (1997) (1)
- The Higher Law Background of the Notre Dame Law School (1992) (1)
- The Supreme Court in Times of Hot and Cold War: Learning from the Sounds of Silence for a War on Terrorism (2003) (1)
- The Human Nature of Freedom and Identity - We Hold More than Random Thoughts (2007) (1)
- Failure to Act and the Separation of Powers-The Vice Presidency and the Need to Surmount Divided Power in Pursuit of a Workable Government (2017) (1)
- Natural Law Originalism for the Twenty-First Century: A Principle of Judicial Restraint, Not Invention (2007) (1)
- Debating Separation of Powers (1991) (1)
- Principle 4: Substantive Due Process (1989) (0)
- Law School Accreditation: Responsible Regulation or Barrier to Entry? (2007) (0)
- Liberty Misconceived: Hayek's Incomplete Relationship between Natural and Customary Law (1995) (0)
- Foreword: The Abolition of Public Racial Preference - An Invitation to Private Racial Sensitivity (2012) (0)
- The 2006 Federalist Society National Lawyers Convention on "Limited Government" (2007) (0)
- Rediscovering a Principled Commerce Power (2001) (0)
- Amortization of Nonconforming Use(s) (1989) (0)
- Judicial Selection and the Pursuit of Justice: The Unsettled Relationship between Law and Morality (1989) (0)
- A Tribute to Edward J. Murphy (1999) (0)
- The 1991 Civil Rights Act: A Constitutional, Statutory, and Philosophical Enigma (2014) (0)
- JFK, Notre Dame, and the Inspired Citizenship of William O. McLean (2013) (0)
- The Vice President-More than an Afterthought? (2017) (0)
- The Separation of Powers: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld - The Anti-Roberts (2007) (0)
- Recharting Criminal Procedure: The Supreme Court's 1983-84 Term (1984) (0)
- Property and Economic Liberty as Civil Rights: The Magisterial History of James W. Ely, Jr (1999) (0)
- Constitutional Analysis Tree (1989) (0)
- The Role of the Planner in a Deregulated World (1982) (0)
- Oh God! Can I Say that in Public? (2007) (0)
- Principle 2: Void for Vagueness (1989) (0)
- Values in Education: Speculations on the Role of the State, Schools and Families (2012) (0)
- Specific Parcel Rezoning (1989) (0)
- Introduction to Symposium: An Enigmatic Court? Examining the Roberts Court as It Begins Year Three (2008) (0)
- Principle 1: Delegation of Power (1989) (0)
- The Notre Dame Law School Commencement Address—Three Natural Law Challenges for Notre Dame Lawyers (1992) (0)
- Environmental Inequities--Observations on Mandelker's Environment and Equity--A Regulatory Challenge (1982) (0)
- Negotiated (Rezoning) Approvals (1989) (0)
- Merits or Demerits of the Public Funding of Private Education (2012) (0)
- Book Review: Interpreting the Bible and the ConstitutionInterpreting the Bible and the Constitution. By PelikanJaroslav. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. ISBN: 0-300-10267-4. Pp. 216. $30.00. (2005) (0)
- Of Balkanized Empires and Cooperative Allies: A Bicentennial Essay on the Seperation of Powers (1987) (0)
- Principle 6: Just Compensation (The Taking Clause) (1989) (0)
- Supreme Court Cases (1989) (0)
- The History, Philosophy, and Structure of the American Constitution (2004) (0)
- The Court Rediscovers Federalism (1997) (0)
- A Reverent Reflection of the Splendid Scholarship of Martin Redish—Does Reexamining Commercial Speech Shed Light on the Regrettable Reliance Upon Lie & Insult in Political Campaigns? (2017) (0)
- Overview of Legal Terms in Relation to Constitutional Principles (1989) (0)
- Standing Still - Did the Roberts Court Narrow, but Not Overrule, Flast to Allow Time to Re-think Establishment Clause Jurisprudence? (2008) (0)
- The Supreme Court's Most Extraordinary Term - Introduction (2001) (0)
- Overview of the Term: The Rule of Law & Roberts's Revolution of Restraint (2007) (0)
- In the Aftermath of Johnson and Eichman: The Constitution Need Not Be Mutilated To Preserve The Government's Speech and Property Interests in the Flag (1990) (0)
- The Second Annual William French Smith Memorial Lecture: A Conversation with Justice Clarence Thomas (2010) (0)
- Organization and Special Features of Book (1989) (0)
- Individual Rights and the American Constitution (3rd ed.) (2009) (0)
- The American Constitutional Order: Introduction to the History and Nature of American Constitutional Law (1999) (0)
- Lectures 13 : program 13 (2009) (0)
- The catholic, canon law conception of marriage and the present american experience (2000) (0)
- Why a Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy (2012) (0)
- The Catholic Vote in the Election of Donald J. Trump (2018) (0)
- The Role of the Senate in Judicial Confirmations (2002) (0)
- Interim Land Use Controls (Moratoria) (1989) (0)
- Prohibition of Use(s) (1989) (0)
- Observing the Separation of Powers: The President's War Power Necessarily Remains 'The Power to Wage War Successfully' (2007) (0)
- Combined 2010 Supplement for the Third Edition of The American Constitutional Order: History, Cases, and Philosophy; The History, Philosophy, and Structure of the American Constitution; and Individual Rights and the American Constitution (2010) (0)
- Principle 3: Procedural Due Process (1989) (0)
- Eminent Domain Post-Kelo: Hitting Home - The Supreme Court Earns Public Notice Opining on Public Use (Introduction to the 2006 Templeton Lecture) (2007) (0)
- Principle 8: Freedom of Religion (1989) (0)
- Commerce, the Tenth Amendment, and Guns in School. (1995) (0)
- Nondiscrimination or Deregulation: A U.S.-E.U. Comparison (2008) (0)
- Principle 7: Freedom of Speech (1989) (0)
- Book review: Zoning and the American Dream: Promises Still to Keep. Edited by Charles M. Haar and Jerold S. Kayden. (1991) (0)
- Excerpts from Cease-Fire on the Family: The End of the Culture War (2012) (0)
- Young Mr. Rehnquist's Theory of Moral Rights: Mostly Observed (2006) (0)
- Regulation for Aesthetic Purposes (1989) (0)
- Principle 5: Equal Protection (1989) (0)
- Of Focal Meanings and Compensating Juries - New Property Erodes New Liberty (2014) (0)
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