Judges on Judging: Views from the Bench

About

David M. OBrien is the Leone Reaves and George W. Spicer Professor at the University of Virginia. Prior to teaching at the University of Virginia he taught at the University of California Santa Barbara and the University of Puget Sound where he was chairman of the Department of Politics. He served as a research associate in the Office of the Administrative Assistant to the Chief Justice and in 19821983 as a judicial fellow at the Supreme Court. He also has been a visiting fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York (19811982); has been a Fulbright lecturer in constitutional studies at Oxford University England (19871988); has been a Fulbright researcher in Japan (19931994); has held the Fulbright Chair for Senior Scholars at the University of Bologna in Italy (1999); and was a visiting professor at Florida International University (2002) and at the Institut dEtudes Politique Université Lumière-Lyon II in Lyon France (2006). Among his many books are Storm Center: The Supreme Court in American Politics eleventh edition (2017) which won the American Bar Associations Silver Gavel Award; Constitutional Law and Politics: Struggles for Power and Governmental Accountability and Civil Rights and Civil Liberties tenth edition two volumes (2017); Animal Sacrifice and Religious Freedom: Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah (2004); To Dream of Dreams: Religious Freedom and Constitutional Politics in Postwar Japan (1996); Supreme Court Watch published annually since 1991; Congress Shall Make No Law: The First Amendment Unprotected Expression and the U.S. Supreme Court (2010); Judicial Roulette (1988); What Process Is Due? Courts and Science Policy Disputes (1987); The Publics Right to Know: The First Amendment and the Supreme Court (1981); and Privacy Law and Public Policy (1979). He has coauthored The Judicial Process: Law Court and Judicial Politics (2015) Courts and Judicial Policymaking (2008) Government by the People (22nd ed. 2008) and Abortion and American Politics (1993); edited or coedited several books including The Lanahan Readings on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties third edition (2010) and Judicial Independence in the Age of Democracy: Critical Perspectives from Around the World (2001); and contributed more than 100 articles and chapters in professional journals and books.