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Alexander Volokh

Associate Professor of Law
Emery Law School
Bio
Alexander "Sasha" Volokh is an associate professor of law at Emory Law School. He joined the Emory Law faculty in Fall 2009.
Professor Volokh earned his BS from UCLA and his JD and PhD in economics from Harvard University. He clerked for Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit and for Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Samuel Alito. Before coming to Emory, he was a visiting associate professor at Georgetown University Law Center and a visiting assistant professor at University of Houston Law Center. His academic work has been published in the Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, NYU Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Michigan Law Review, American Law and Economics Review, and International Review of Law and Economics, among other places.
His interests include law and economics, administrative law and the regulatory process, privatization, corrections, antitrust and regulated industries, environmental law and policy, and legal history.
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- Are Federal Contractors Immune from Tort Suits Just Because the Government Is?
Reviewing recent developments in government contractor immunity
Alexander Volokh
May 9, 2013 - Recent Developments in the Federal Civil-Rights Liability of Federal Private Prisons
Subsection of Annual Privatization Report 2013: Criminal Justice and Corrections
Alexander Volokh
May 6, 2013 - Developments in Criminal Justice and Corrections
Annual Privatization Report 2013 examines criminal justice and corrections trends
Leonard Gilroy, Harris Kenny, Alexander Volokh and Andrew Livingston
May 6, 2013 - Supreme Court Clarifies Standards for Qualified Immunity in Civil Rights Cases -- Or Does It?
Despite Filarsky ruling, qualified immunity in the privatization context will likely remain confusing
Alexander Volokh
April 5, 2013 - What a Recent Labor-Relations Decision Teaches Us About the Meaning of “Public” and “Private”
Alexander Volokh
March 21, 2013 - Supreme Court Antitrust Ruling Supports Public-Private Neutrality, Reduces Barriers to Privatization
Alexander Volokh
February 21, 2013 - Environmental Information
The Toxics Release Inventory, Stakeholder Participation, and the Right to Know - Part I
Alexander Volokh, Kenneth Green and Lynn Scarlett
December 1, 1998 - Race to the Top
The Innovative Face of State Environmental Management
Alexander Volokh, Lynn Scarlett and Scott Bush
February 1, 1998 - Strategies to Keep Schools Safe
Policy Study 234
Alexander Volokh and Lisa Snell
January 1, 1998 - School Violence Prevention
Strategies to Keep Schools Safe
Alexander Volokh and Lisa Snell
October 1, 1997 - Punitive Damages and Environmental Law
Rethinking the Issues
Alexander Volokh
September 1, 1996 - Environmental Enforcement
In Search of Both Effectiveness and Fairness
Alexander Volokh and Roger J. Marzulla
August 1, 1996 - How Government Building Codes and Construction Standards Discourage Recycling
Alexander Volokh
March 1, 1996 - Recycling Hazardous Waste
How RCRA has Recyclers Running Around in CERCLAS
Alexander Volokh
October 1, 1995 - The FDA vs. Recycling
Has Food Packaging Law Gone Too Far?
Alexander Volokh
October 1, 1995
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