Soifer, Aviam

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This webpage lists all of the articles and books that the faculty member has physically donated to the Law Library's Faculty Archive.  Please see the Biography, ScholarSpace, and SSRN links above to find more publications by this faculty member.

Series A - Articles

• Parental Autonomy, Family Rights and the Illegitimate: A Constitutional Commentary 7 Conn. L. Rev. 1 (1974)
• Book Review of Slavery and the Law: A Study in Contradiction
  56 Tex. L. Rev. 7 (1978)
• Protecting Posterity 7 Nova L. Rev. 1 (1982)
• Truisms That Never Will Be True: The Tenth Amendment and The Spending Power 57 U. Colo. L. Rev. 5 (1986)
• Reviewing Legal Fictions 20 Ga. L. Rev. 4 (1986)
• The Paradox of Paternalism and Laissez-Faire Constitutionalism: United States Supreme Court, 1888-1921 5 Law and Hist. Rev. 1 (1987)
• Toward a Generalized Notion of the Right to Form or Join an Association: An Essay for Tom Emerson 38 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 4 (1987-1988)
• Beyond Mirrors: Lawrence Friedman's Moving Pictures 22 L. & Soc'y Rev. 5 (1988)
• Assaying Communities: Notes from the Tempest 21 Conn. L. R. 4 (1989)
• Freedom of Association: Indian Tribes, Workers, and Communal Ghosts 48 Md. L. R. 2 (1989)
• Moral Ambition, Formalism, and the "Free World" of DeShaney 57 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 6 (1989)
• On Being Overly Discrete and Insular: Involuntary Groups and the Anglo-American Judicial Tradition 20 Israel Y.B. on Hum. Rts. (1991)
• On Being Overly Discrete and Insular: Involuntary Groups and the Anglo-American Judicial Tradition 28 Wash. & Lee L. R. 2 (1991)
• Reflections on the 40th Anniversary of Hurstʻs Growth of American Law 17 Am. B. Found.  1 (1992)
• "The Task of Hearing What Has Already Been Said": History and Native American Legal Claims 23 Israel Y.B. on Hum. Rts. (1994)
• Facts, Things, and the Orphans of Girard Colelge: Francis Liber, Protopragmatist 16 Cardozo L. Rev. 6 (1995)
• Born Classified, Born Free: An Essay for Henry Schwarzschild 19 Cardozo L. Rev. 1369 (1997-1998)
• Redress, Progress and the Benchmark Problem 19 B.C. Third World L. J. (1998) 
• The Disability Term: Dignity, Default, and Negative Capability 47 UCLA L. Rev. 1279 (1999-2000)
• The Equitable Distribution of Injustice: Raising Twain 32 Conn. L. Rev. 1565 (1999-2000)
• Full and Equal Rights of Conscience 22 U. Haw. L. Rev. 469 (2000)
• Descent, 29 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 269 (2001-2002)

Series A-2 Articles

• Courting Anarchy 82 B.U. L. Rev. 699 (2002)
• Our Welfare : Doing Good and Being Happy 10 Am. U. J. Gender Soc. Pol'y & L. 57 (2002)
• Rethinking Fairness: Principled Legal Realism and Federal Jurisdiction 46 N.Y.L. Sch. L. Rev. 29 (2002-2003)
• Disabling the ADA: Essences, Better Angels, and Unprincipled Neutrality Claims 44 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1285 (2002-2003)
• If History Mattered: John Marshall and Reframing the Constitution 101 Mich. L. Rev. 2134 (2002-2003)
• Secular Sectarianism, Perilous Neutrality 38 Tulsa L. Rev. 755 (2002-2003)
• In Memorium: John Hart Ely, Ely the Transgressor
  117 Harv. L. Rev. 1753 (2003-2004)
• Covered Bridges 17 Yale J.L. & Human. 1 (2005)*
• Text-Mess: There Is No Textual Basis for Application of the Takings Clause to the States 28 U. Haw. L. Rev. 373 (2005-2006)
• For Judge David Alan Ezra 28 U. Haw. L. Rev. 2 (2006)*
• For CJ Richardson: Hawai'i's Bold and Gentle Dreamer 33 U. Haw. L. Rev. 17 (2010-2011)
• A Moon Court Overview: Rent for Space on Earth 33 U. Haw. L. Rev. 441 (2010-2011)
• William S. Richardson
  14 Haw. Bar J. 1 (2011)
• Federal Protection, Paternalism, and the Virtually Forgotten Prohibition of Voluntary Peonage 112 Colum. L. Rev. 1607 (2012)
• JVD 34 U. Haw. L. Rev. 2 (2012)
• The Spokesman Conundrum: “Is It Good for the Jews?” 40 L. & Soc. Inquiry 4 (2015)* 
• Of Swords, Shields, and a Gun to the Head: Coercing Individuals, But Not States 39 Seattle University Law Review 3 (2016)* 
• Optimism V. Hope: Larry Yackle, in Fairness 98 B. U. L. Rev. 1 (2018)

* Only digital copy available on ScholarSpace.

Series A-3 Articles

• Status, Contract, and Promises Unkept, 96 Yale L.J. 8 (1987)
• Brief Amicus Curiae of The American Civil Liberties Union and The ACLU of Oregon in Support of Respondents, Employment Division, Oregon Department of Human Resources, et el., vs. Alfred L. Smith, et al., No. 88-1213 Supreme Court of the United States (1989)
• Motion For Leave to File Brief Amici Curiae and Brief of Professors Barbara Babcock, Michael Churgin, Walter E. Dellinger, Sanford Levinson, Frank Michelman, Avi Soifer, Robert Weisberg, Charles Ogletree, Tracey Maclin, and Larry Yackle as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondent, State of Ohio vs. Ediberto Huertas, No. 89-1944 Supreme Court of the United States (1990)
• Fact and Fiction in Film (introduction), 15 Interdisc. 3 (1991)
• The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts and the 1780 Constitution
  1 Supreme Judic. Court Hist. Soc. J. (1992)
• Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear 28 Ga. L. Rev. 533 (1994)
• Memorial to Elizabeth B. Clark, 78 B.U.L. Rev. 2 (1998)
• Hear Today, God Tomorrow?: To Be in but Not of the Law with Moses, and Milner Ball 41 Ga. L. Rev. 3 (2007)
• De Facto Slavery and The "Syren Songs of Liberty and Equality": Carol Weisbrod, Much Obliged 40 Conn. L. Rev. 5 (2008)
• Developments In International Disability Sport Law Symposium, Dedication of Issue to Allan Macurdy, 27 B.U. Int'l L.J. 2 (2009)
• Federal Protection, Paternalism, and the Virtually Forgotten Prohibition of Voluntary Peonage 112 Colum. L. Rev. 7 (2012)
• Old Lines In New Battles: An Overlooked Yet Useful Statute To Confort Exploitation of Undocumented Workers by Employers and by ICE
  19 Nevada L.J. 2 (2018)
• Presidential Election Reform: A Current National Imperative 26 Lewis & Clark L. Rev 2 (2022)
• Remembrance Group, Gripes and Legal Frictions: Rule of Law or Awful Lore? 37 Touro L. Rev 4 (2022) //
• In Memoriam: The Many Sides of Hugh C. Macgill 35 Conn. L. Rev. 1 (2022)

Series A-4 Articles

• The Younger Doctrine: Reconstructing Reconstruction (with H. C. MacGill) 55 Tex. L. Rev. 7  (1977)
• Berger, Government by Judiciary
  54 N. Y. U. L. Rev. 3 (1979)
• Protecting Civil Rights: A Critique of Raoul Berger's History 54 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 3 (1979)
• Complacency and Constitutional Law, 42 Ohio St. L.J. 1 (1981)
• Brief for the Petitioner, Georgia Patsy vs. Board of Regents of the State of Florida, A Body Corporate, for and on Behalf of Florida International University, No. 80-1874 Supreme Court of the United States (1981)
• Compromise At The Boundaries of Bondage
  10 JHUP 2 (1982)
• Lawyers and Loyalty
  12 JHUP 4 (1984)
• Professor Mooney, Judge Deady, and the Celestial Kingdom 63 Or. L. Rev. 4 (1984)
• Confronting Deep Strictures: Robinson, Rickey, and Racism 6 Cardozo L. Rev. 4 (1985)
• MuSings 37 J. Legal Educ. 1 (1987)
• Clinics-in-Common: Creating Uncommon Professionals
  8 Psychological S. 4 (2011)
• Righting the Wrong Wrongs: A Cautionary Tale of Congress, Labor, and European Immigrants in the Gilded Age 24 Emp. Rts. & Emp. Pol’y J. 1 (2020)
• Listening and the Voiceless 4 Miss. C. L. Rev. 2 (1984)
• The Paradox of Texts and Constitutional Authority: For Rick Kay, Wallace Stevens Professor 52 Conn. L. Rev. 5 (2021) //

Series B- Books and Book Chapters

• Press Law in Modern Democracies by Pnina Lahav
  Call Number: K3255 .P73 1985
  ISBN: 0582284783
  Publication Date: 1984-01-01
  Chapter "Freedom of the Press in the United States"
• Law and the Company We Keep by Aviam Soifer
  Call Number: KF4520 .S67 1995
  ISBN: 0674512987
  Publication Date: 1995
• A Popular Guide to Minority Rights by Y. N. Kly (Editor)
  Call Number: K3242 .P66 1995
  ISBN: 0932863191
  Publication Date: 1995-01-01
  Chapter title "Non-Discrimination in U.S. Courts: A Non-Solution?"
• The Promises of Liberty by Alexander Tsesis (Editor)
  Call Number: KF4545.S5 P76 2010
  ISBN: 9780231141444
  Publication Date: 2010-09-30
  Chapter Title "Protecting Full and Equal Rights: The Floor and More"