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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Did the Supreme Court Just Signal Mandatory Union Dues Will Become a Thing of the Past for Public Sector Employees?
A possible future overruling of the decision that allowed compulsory dues to public-employee unions for non-political purposes
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California Teachers’ Tenure and Seniority Protections Struck Down
Judgeâ??s decision badly reasoned, will probably be overturned on appeal
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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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Pension Protection and the Detroit Bankruptcy
Detroit's Chapter 9 proceeding can proceed, despite constitutional concerns about impairing public-employee pensions
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The Constitutional Protection of Public-Employee Pensions
Why the "California Rule" is counterproductive
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Philosophical Objections to Prison Privatization
Israeli Supreme Court strikes down privatization statute on "liberty" and "dignity" grounds
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Privatization and the Constitutional Delegation of Coercive Power in Germany
German Supreme Court upholds a (more-or-less) private delegation of the use of force
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The Revival of the Contract Clause
Constitutional issues in public pension reform