Robert W. Gordon
Professor of Law

Publications & Cases

Recent Publications

Deborah L. Rhode, Lawrence M. Friedman, Robert W. Gordon, et al., The Economics of Legal Education: A Concern of Colleagues, Letter to the American Bar Association Task Force on Legal Education, (March, 2013).
Robert W. Gordon, Book Review: Melvin I. Urofsky, Louis D. Brandeis: A Life, 60 Journal of Legal Education 549 (2011).
Robert W. Gordon, How the Justices Get What They Want, Book Review of Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court by Jeff Shesol; and, Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices by Noah Feldman, The New York Review of Books, Dec. 8, 2011.
Catherine L. Fisk and Robert W. Gordon, Foreword: "Law as...": Theory and Method in Legal History, 1 UC Irvine Law Review 519 (2011).
Lawrence M. Friedman, Robert W. Gordon, Sophie Pirie, and Edwin Whatley, Law, Lawyers, and Legal Practice in Silicon Valley: a Preliminary Report in Law in Many Societies: A Reader, Lawrence M. Friedman, Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo, Manuel A. Gómez, editors, Stanford: Stanford Law Books, 2011.
Robert W. Gordon, Morton J. Horwitz, editors, Law, Society, and History: Themes in the Legal Sociology and Legal History of Lawrence M. Friedman, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Robert W. Gordon, Are Lawyers Friends of Democracy? in The Paradox of Professionalism: Lawyers and the Possibility of Justice, Scott L. Cummings, editor, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Robert W. Gordon, The Geologic Strata of the Law School Curriculum, 60 Vanderbilt Law Review 339 (2007).
Robert W. Gordon, The Path of the Lawyer, 110 Harvard Law Review 1013 (1997).