Faculty - University of Virginia School of Law

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mgilbert@virginia.edu
(434) 243-8551
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ASSISTANT
Donna Green

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Michael D. Gilbert

Associate Professor of Law
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 2008
J.D., University of California at Berkeley School of Law, 2005
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B.S., Tulane University, 1999

Michael Gilbert joined the faculty in 2009. He teaches courses on legislation, election law, direct democracy, and judicial decision-making. His recent papers examine judicial independence, campaign finance disclosure, and the interpretation of ballot initiatives. Prior to joining the faculty Gilbert clerked for Judge William A. Fletcher on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco. He received his Ph.D. from the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his J.D. from Berkeley Law School, where he served as articles editor of the California Law Review. At Berkeley, he was an Olin Fellow in Law and Economics and the recipient of a grant from the National Science Foundation.

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Publications

Judicial Independence and Social Welfare, 112 Michigan Law Review (forthcoming 2013).
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Campaign Finance Disclosure and the Information Tradeoff, 98 Iowa Law Review (forthcoming 2013).
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Interpreting Initiatives, 97 Minnesota Law Review (forthcoming 2013) (prepared for symposium entitled A More Perfect Union? Democracy in the Age of Ballot Initiatives, Oct. 26, 2012, University of Minnesota).
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Disclosure, Credibility, and Speech, 27 Journal of Law and Politics 627 (2012) (prepared for symposium entitled Disclosure, Anonymity, and the First Amendment, Oct. 29, 2011, University of Virginia).
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Does Law Matter? Theory and Evidence from Single Subject Adjudication, 40 Journal of Legal Studies 333 (2011).
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Direct Democracy, Courts, and Majority Will, 9 Election Law Journal 211 (2010) (reviewing Kenneth P. Miller, Direct Democracy and the Courts).
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A Theory of Direct Democracy and the Single Subject Rule, 110 Columbia Law Review 687 (2010) (coauthored with Robert D. Cooter).
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Reply to Hasen and Matsusaka, 110 Columbia Law Review Sidebar 59 (2010) (coauthored with Robert D. Cooter).
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Less Can Be More: Conflicting Ballot Proposals and the Highest Vote Rule, 38 Journal of Legal Studies 383 (2009) (coauthored with Joshua M. Levine).
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Single Subject Rules and the Legislative Process, 67 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 803 (2006).
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