Alexander Volokh
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 Ph.D. 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 the 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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Overprotecting Public Employee Pensions: The Contract Clause and the California Rule
Abandoning the California rule would give governments flexibility to deal with changing circumstances
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Developments in Criminal Justice and Corrections
Criminal Justice and Corrections Chapter of Annual Privatization Report 2014
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Challenging Government-Sponsored Private Regulation of Competitors
Government-sponsored private regulation raises concerns about self-interested bias and anti-competitive behavior
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Developments in Criminal Justice and Corrections
Annual Privatization Report 2013 examines criminal justice and corrections trends
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Environmental Information
The Toxics Release Inventory, Stakeholder Participation, and the Right to Know - Part I
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Race to the Top
The Innovative Face of State Environmental Management
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Strategies to Keep Schools Safe
Policy Study 234
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School Violence Prevention
Strategies to Keep Schools Safe
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Punitive Damages and Environmental Law
Rethinking the Issues
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Environmental Enforcement
In Search of Both Effectiveness and Fairness
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Recycling Hazardous Waste
How RCRA has Recyclers Running Around in CERCLAS
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The FDA vs. Recycling
Has Food Packaging Law Gone Too Far?