Paul Brest
Professor of Law, Emeritus and Former Dean

Publications & Cases

Recent Publications

Paul Brest, Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking: Cases and Materials, 2nd ed., Boston: Little, Brown, 1416 p., 1983
Paul Brest, with Iris Brest and Larry Horton., Options in Office Computer Systems, 3 California Lawyer 34-36 (Nov. 1983)
Paul Brest, State Action and Liberal Theory: A Casenote on Flagg Brothers v. Brooks, 130 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1296-1330 (1982).
Paul Brest, The Substance of Process, 42 Ohio State Law Journal 131-142 (1981).
Paul Brest, The Fundamental Rights Controversy: The Essential Contradictions of Normative Constitutional Scholarship, 90 Yale Law Journal 1063-1109 (1981).
Paul Brest, The Misconceived Quest for the Original Understanding, 60 Boston University Law Review 204-238 (1980).
Paul Brest, Accomodation of Majoritarianism and Rights of Human Dignity, 53 Southern California Law Review 761-764 (1980).
Paul Brest, Reflections on Motive Review, 15 San Diego Law Review 1141 (1978).
Paul Brest, Government by Judiciary: The Transformation of the 14th Amendment by Raoul Berger, 1977, New York Times Book Review, Dec. 11, 1977, p.11
Paul Brest, Disaster by Decree: The Supreme Court Decisions on Race and the Schools by Lino A. Graglia (Book Review), 55 Texas Law Review 569 (1977).
Paul Brest, The Supreme Court 1975 Term. Foreword: In Defense of the Antidiscrimination Principle, 90 Harvard Law Review 1-55 (1976).
Paul Brest, The Conscientious Legislator's Guide to Constitutional Interpretation, 27 Stanford Law Review 585 (1975).
Paul Brest, Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking: Cases and Materials, Boston: Little, Brown, 1975.
Paul Brest, An Approach to the Problem of Unconstitutional Motivation, 1971 Supreme Court Review 95 (1971).
Paul Brest, Interdistrict Disparities in Educational Resources (Book Review), 23 Stanford Law Review 591 (1971).
Paul Brest, Intelligence Gathering on Campus, in Law and Discipline on Campus, Ann Arbor, MI., Institute of Legal Education, 1971.
Paul Brest, Palmer v. Thompson: An Approach to the Problem of Unconstitutional Motivation, 1971 Supreme Court Review 95 (1971).
Paul Brest, The Federal Government's Power to Protect Negroes and Civil Rights Workers Against Privately Inflicted Harm, 1 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 2 (1966).