David Bernstein is a University Professor and the Executive Director of the Liberty & Law Center at the Antonin Scalia Law School in Arlington, Virginia, where he has been teaching since 1995. He was a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University Law Center for the Spring 2003 semester and a Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan School of Law for the 2005-06 academic year.
Professor Bernstein is a graduate of the Yale Law School, where he was senior editor of the Yale Law Journal and a John M. Olin Fellow in Law, Economics, and Public Policy. He is the author of over sixty frequently-cited scholarly articles, book chapters, and think tank studies, including articles and review essays in the Yale Law Journal, Michigan Law Review (2), Northwestern University Law Review, Texas Law Review (2), Georgetown Law Journal (2), Vanderbilt Law Review, California Law Review, Iowa Law Review, North Carolina Law Review, Illinois Law Review, and Law and Contemporary Problems.
Professor Bernstein is the author of Rehabilitating Lochner: Defending Individual Rights Against Progressive Reform (University of Chicago Press 2011). He is also the author of You Can't Say That! The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from Antidiscrimination Laws (Cato Institute 2003), the co-author of The New Wigmore: Expert Evidence (Aspen Law and Business 2003), author of Only One Place of Redress: African Americans, Labor Regulations, and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal (Duke University Press Books 2001), and co-editor of Phantom Risk: Scientific Inference and the Law (MIT 1993). He is a former chairperson of the Association of American Law Schools Evidence section.
Professor Bernstein teaches Products Liability, Evidence, Constitutional Law I and II, and Scientific and Expert Evidence. Professor Bernstein is a contributor to the popular weblog, The Volokh Conspiracy.
Panel: Police Powers and the Pandemic
23rd Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference
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2020 National Student Symposium
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Lochner v. New York
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TeleforumPanel: Police Powers and the Pandemic
23rd Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference
With the many COVID-19 emergency measures undertaken by state and local officials as a backdrop,...
Panel III: Do Changing Norms Undermine Support for Our System of Government?
2020 National Student Symposium
On March 14, 2020, the Federalist Society held its 39th National Student Symposium. The Symposium...
Panel III: Do Changing Norms Undermine Support for Our System of Government?
2020 National Student Symposium
On March 14, 2020, the Federalist Society held its 39th National Student Symposium. The Symposium...
Roe v. Wade: A Legal History | Part Three: The Decision
Documentary short from Coronation Media and FedSoc Films
The majority opinion written by Justice Blackmun in Roe v. Wade declared that abortion was...
Roe v. Wade: A Legal History | Part Two: The Right to Privacy
Documentary short from Coronation Media and FedSoc Films
Though it is not explicitly mentioned in the Constitution, the concept of a fundamental right...