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Wayne McCormack

Professor of Law

Wayne McCormack Professor McCormack joined the Utah faculty in 1978, served as associate dean for academic affairs (1978-82), (1984-87), and (1993-94), and coordinated the University of Utah's involvement with the 2002 Olympic Winter Games (1997-2002). He is the author of numerous articles and books, including Federal Courts (Matthew Bender 1984), Constitutional Law: Principles and Policies (Michie, 1992, 1996; Lexis/Nexis 2002) (with Barron, Dienes, and Redish), Understanding the Law of Terrorism (Lexis/Nexis 2007), and Legal Responses to Terrorism (Lexis/Nexis 2005 & 2008).

Professor McCormack teaches constitutional law, terrorism and the international law of crimes, and civil procedure.

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Scholarship Highlights


Emergency Powers and Terrorism, 185 Military L. Rev. 69 (2005)

Inchoate Terrorism: Liberalism Meets Fundamentalism, 37 Geo. J. Int’l L. 1 (2005)

Lochner, Liberty, and Human Rights, N.Y.U.J. Law & Liberty (2005)

Military Detentions and the Judiciary: al-Qaida, the KKK, and Supra-State Law, 5 San Diego J. Int’l Law 7 (2004)

Patriot, Privacy and Politics, Houston Lawyer (Jan/Feb 2004)

Property and Liberty -- Institutional Competence and the Functions of Rights, 51 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1 (1994)

The Political Question Doctrine -- Jurisprudentially, 70 U. Det. L. Rev. 793 (1993)

Economic Substantive Due Process and the Right of Livelihood, 82 Ky. L.J. 397 (1993)

Subsidies for Expression and the Future of Free Exercise, 1993 B.Y.U.L. Rev. 327

The Justiciability Myth, 14 Hast. Con. L.Q. 201 (1987)

Land Use Planning and Management of State School Lands, 1983 Utah L. Rev. 525

Regulatory Problems in the Modern University Setting, 1980 Utah L. Rev. 461

Race and Politics in the Supreme Court: Bakke to Basics, 1979 Utah L. Rev. 491

Immunities of State Officials Under Section 1983, 8 Rut.-Cam. L. Rev. 63 (1976) (with Kirkpatrick)

Expansion of Federal Question Jurisdiction and the Prisoner Complaint Caseload, 1975 Wis. L. Rev. 523

Developments in the Availability of Federal Remedies Against State Activities, 16 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1 (1974)

The Purpose of Due Process: Fair Hearing or Vehicle for Judicial Review?, 52 Texas L. Rev. 1257 (1974)

Federalism and Section 1983: Limitations Upon Judicial Enforcement of Constitutional Protections
Part I, 60 Va. L. Rev. 1 (1974)
Part II, 60 Va. L. Rev. 250 (1974)

Intergovernmental Immunities and the Eleventh Amendment, 51 N. Car. L. Rev. 485 (1973)

Federal Court Intervention in Military Courts -- Interrelationship of Defenses and Comity, 6 Ga. L. Rev. 532 (1972)

Justiciability of Legal Objections to the American Military Effort in Vietnam, 46 Texas L. Rev. 1033 (1968) (with Schwartz)

Contact

Fax: (801) 581-6897
Email: mccormackw@law.utah.edu

S.J. Quinney College of Law
University of Utah
332 S. 1400 E., Room 101
Salt Lake City, UT 84112


Education

B.A., Stanford University (1966)

J.D., University of Texas (1969)


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