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CONTACT
jjeffries@virginia.edu
(434) 924-3436
Room WB179E

ASSISTANT
Karen Bennett

SUBJECTS
Criminal law, constitutional law, federal courts, civil rights, civil procedure, First Amendment, Supreme Court

Publications


Books:

Civil Rights Actions: Enforcing the Constitution, (with Pamela S. Karlan, Peter W. Low, and George A. Rutherglen) (Foundation Press, 2000; 2d ed. 2007, 3d ed. 2013) (with annual supplements).

Federal Courts and the Law of Federal-State Relations (with Peter W. Low and Curtis A. Bradley) (Foundation Press, 7th ed. 2011) (with annual supplements).

Criminal Law: Cases and Materials (with Richard J. Bonnie, Anne M. Coughlin, and Peter W. Low) (Foundation Press, 3d ed. 2010).

Federal Courts and the Law of Federal-State Relations (with Peter W. Low) (Foundation Press, 1987; 2d ed. 1989; 3d ed. 1994; 4th. ed. 1998; 5th ed. 2004; 6th ed. 2008) (with annual supplements).

Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994; Fordham University Press, 2001 [paperback edition]).

Civil Rights Actions: Section 1983 and Related Statutes (with Peter W. Low) (Foundation Press, 1988; 2d ed. 1994) (with annual supplements).

The Trial of John W. Hinckley, Jr.: A Case Study in the Insanity Defense (with Peter W. Low & Richard J. Bonnie) (Foundation Press, 1986; 2d ed. 2000).

Criminal Law: Cases and Materials (with Peter W. Low & Richard J. Bonnie) (Foundation Press, 1982; 2d ed. 1986).

Model Penal Code and Commentaries: Part II (with Peter W. Low), 3 vols. (American Law Institute, 1980).


Articles:

"The Liability Rule for Constitutional Torts," 99 Va. L. Rev. 207 (2013).
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"What's Wrong with Qualified Immunity?" 62 Fla. L. Rev. 851 (2010).
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"Reversing the Order of Battle in Constitutional Torts," 2009 Sup. Ct. Rev. 115 (2010).
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“Structural Reform Revisited” (with George A. Rutherglen), 95 Cal. L. Rev. 1387 (2007).
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“Tribute to Justice Antonin Scalia,” 62 N.Y.U. Ann. Surv. Am. L. 11 (2006).
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"Training Business Lawyers," 1 Va. L. & Bus. Rev. 6 (2006).
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“Bakke Revisited,” 2003 Sup. Ct. Rev. 1 (2004).
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"A Political History of the Establishment Clause" (with James E. Ryan), 100 Mich. L. Rev. 279 (2001).
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"Disaggregating Constitutional Torts," 110 Yale L.J. 259 (2000).
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"The Right-Remedy Gap in Constitutional Law," 109 Yale L.J. 87 (1999).
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"Lewis F. Powell, Jr., and the Art of Judicial Selection," 112 Harv. L. Rev. 597 (1999).
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"The Athlete as Judge: Review of The Man Who Once Was Whizzer White," 66 U. Chi. L. Rev. 495 (1999).
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"The Non-Retrogression Principle in Constitutional Law" (with Daryl Levinson), 86 Cal. L. Rev. 1211 (1998).
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"In Praise of the Eleventh Amendment and Section 1983," 84 Va. L. Rev. 47 (1998).
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"The Federalization of Organized Crime: Advantages of Federal Prosecution" (with John Gleeson), 46 Hastings L.J. 1095 (1995).
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"Ineffective Assistance and Procedural Default in Habeas Corpus," (with William J. Stuntz) 57 U. Chi. L. Rev. 679 (1990).
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"Compensation for Constitutional Torts: Reflections on the Significance of Fault," 88 Mich. L. Rev. 82 (1989).
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"Damages for Constitutional Violations: The Relation of Risk to Injury in Constitutional Torts," 75 Va. L. Rev. 1461 (1989).
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"Punitive Damages and the Rule of Law: The Role of Defendant's Wealth" (with Kenneth S. Abraham), 18 J. Legal Stud. 415 (1989).
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"A Comment on the Constitutionality of Punitive Damages," 72 Va. L. Rev. 139 (1986).
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"Legality, Vagueness, and the Construction of Penal Statutes," 71 Va. L. Rev. 189 (1985).
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"Rethinking Prior Restraint," 92 Yale L.J. 409 (1983).
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"Defenses, Presumptions, and Burden of Proof in the Criminal Law" (with Paul B. Stephan III), 88 Yale L.J. 1325 (1979).
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"Commercial Speech: Economic Due Process and the First Amendment" (with Thomas H. Jackson), 65 Va. L. Rev. 1 (1979).
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"DICTA: Constitutionalizing the Criminal Law?" (with Peter W. Low), 29 Va. L. Wkly., No. 18 (1977).

"Equitable Adoption: They Took Him Into Their Home and Called Him Fred," 58 Va. L. Rev. 727 (1972).
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