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Roy A. Schotland

Professor Emeritus

A.B., Columbia; LL.B., Harvard

After graduation from law school, Professor Schotland served as a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan and was an associate with...

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After graduation from law school, Professor Schotland served as a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan and was an associate with the New York firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison. He has also taught law as a professor at the University of Virginia, as a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and came to Georgetown as Associate Dean. He is co-editor of Administrative Law, Cases and Comments (9th ed., 1995). His writings include Conflicts of Interest in the Securities Markets (ed.), Divergent Investing of Pension Assets, Campaign Financing of Elective Judges, and Proposals for Campaign Finance Reform. In addition, he has served as a consultant to the Federal Reserve Board, several Congressional committees and state pension systems, the Government of Bermuda, and the ABA on campaign finance. He is a member of the American Law Institute and Senior Advisor to the National Center for State Courts.

Recent Scholarship

Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

  • Roy A. Schotland, The Post-Citizens United Fantasy-Land, 20 Cornell J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 753-760 (2011).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [WWW]
  • Roy A. Schotland, Caperton Capers: Comment on Four of the Articles, 60 Syracuse L. Rev. 337-346 (2010).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Roy A. Schotland, A Plea for Reality, 74 Mo. L. Rev. 507-529 (2009).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Roy A. Schotland & Bert Brandenberg, Justice in Peril: The Endangered Balance Between Impartial Courts and Judicial Election Campaigns, 21 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 1229-1258 (2008).    [HEIN] [L] [W]

All Scholarship 2000 - Present

Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

  • Roy A. Schotland, The Post-Citizens United Fantasy-Land, 20 Cornell J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 753-760 (2011).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [WWW]
  • Roy A. Schotland, Caperton Capers: Comment on Four of the Articles, 60 Syracuse L. Rev. 337-346 (2010).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Roy A. Schotland, A Plea for Reality, 74 Mo. L. Rev. 507-529 (2009).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Roy A. Schotland & Bert Brandenberg, Justice in Peril: The Endangered Balance Between Impartial Courts and Judicial Election Campaigns, 21 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 1229-1258 (2008).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Roy A. Schotland, Martin S. Lederman, Bert Brandenberg, Richard Briffault, Michael DeBow, R. William Ide et al., Participants in Panel 2 at The Debate Over Judicial Elections: Judicial Elections, Speech During Campaigns, Republican Party of Minnesota v. White and its Consequences and Campaign Finance, 21 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 1372-1401 (2008).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Roy A. Schotland, Six Fatal Flaws: A Comment on Bopp and Neeley, 86 Denv. U. L. Rev. 233-249 (2008).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Roy A. Schotland, Impacts of White, 55 Drake L. Rev. 625-636 (2007).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
  • Roy A. Schotland, Judges' Pay: A Chasm Far Worse than Realized, and Worsening, 82 Ind. L.J. 1273-1283 (2007).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
  • Roy A. Schotland, New Challenges to States' Judicial Selection, 95 Geo. L.J. 1077-1103 (2007).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Roy A. Scotland & David B. Rottman, 2004 Judicial Elections, Spectrum: The J. of State Gov't, Winter 2005, at 17-19 (2005).    [W]
  • Roy A. Schotland, Act I: BCRA Wins in Congress. Act II: BCRA Wins Big at the Court. Act III: BCRA Loses to Reality, 3 Election L.J. 335-343 (2004).    [W]
  • Roy A. Schotland, Analyzing the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, 56 Admin. L. Rev. 867-870 (2004).    [HEIN] [L] [Gtown Law]
  • Roy A. Schotland, Mini-Memories of the Supreme Court, 1961 Term, 13 Minn. J. Global Trade 223-224 (2004).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Roy A. Schotland, 2002 Judicial Elections, Spectrum: The J. of State Gov't, Winter 2003, at 18-19.    [W]
  • Roy A. Schotland, Proposed Legislation on Judicial Election Campaign Finance, 64 Ohio St. L.J. 127-136 (2003).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
  • Roy A. Schotland, To the Endangered Species List, Add: Nonpartisan Judicial Elections, 39 Willamette L. Rev. 1397-1423 (2003).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Roy A. Schotland, Comment on Professor Carrington's Article "The Independence and Democratic Accountability of the Supreme Court of Ohio", 30 Cap. U. L. Rev. 489-498 (2002).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
  • Roy A. Schotland, In Bush v. Gore: Whatever Happened to the Due Process Ground?, 34 Loy. U. Chi. L.J. 211-243 (2002).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Roy A. Schotland & Barbara Reed, Judicial Campaign Conduct Committees, 35 Ind. L. Rev. 781-805 (2002).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
  • Roy A. Schotland, Michael DeBow, Jan Baran & Craig Enoch, Judicial Elections and Campaign Finance Reform, 33 U. Tol. L. Rev. 335-351 (2002).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
  • Roy A. Schotland, The Limits of Being "Present at the Creation", 80 N.C. L. Rev. 1505-1516 (2002).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
  • Roy A. Schotland, Myth, Reality Past and Present, and Judicial Elections, 35 Ind. L. Rev. 659-667 (2002).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
  • Roy A. Schotland, Financing Judicial Elections, 2000: Change and Challenge , 2001 L. Rev. M.S.U.-D.C.L. 849-899, abridged as Financing Judicial Elections in Financing the 2000 Election 213-237 (David B. Magleby ed., Wash., D.C.: Brookings Institution Press 2002).    [HEIN] [L]
  • Roy A. Schotland, Campaign Finance in Judicial Elections, 34 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. 1489-1512 (2001).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Roy A. Schotland, Summit on Improving Judicial Selection: Introduction: Personal Views, 34 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. 1361-1367 (2001).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Roy A. Schotland & David B. Rottman, What Makes Judicial Elections Unique?, 34 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. 1369-1373 (2001).    [HEIN] [L] [W]

Book Chapters and Collected Works

  • Roy A. Schotland, A Sporting Proposition - SEC v. Chenery, in Administrative Law Stories 168-188 (Peter L. Strauss ed., New York: Foundation Press 2006).    [BOOK]
  • Roy A. Schotland, Financing Judicial Elections, in Financing the 2000 Election 213-237 (David B. Magleby ed., Wash., D.C.: Brookings Institution Press 2002).    [BOOK]

U.S. Supreme Court Briefs

  • Brief of the Conference of Chief Justices as Amicus Curiae in Support of Neither Party, Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co., No. 08-22 (U.S. Jan. 5, 2009).    [Gtown Law]
  • Brief of Conference of Chief Justices as Amicus Curiae Supporting Respondents, Republican Party of Minnesota v. Kelly, No. 01-521 (U.S. Feb. 19, 2002).    [W] [Gtown Law]
  • Brief for William E. Brock and John McCain; Hispanic Republican Caucus; and University Law Professors Lynn A. Baker, Gordon Brewster Baldwin, Viet D. Dinh, Lino A. Graglia, Douglas W. Kmiec, Paul F. Rothstein, Roy A. Schotland, Charles A. Shanor, and Don Wallace, Jr. as Amici Curiae Supporting Respondents, California Democratic Party v. Jones, No. 99-401 (U.S. Mar. 30, 2000).    [W] [Gtown Law]

Selected Contributions to Other Publications

  • Roy A. Schotland, Iowa's 2010 Judicial Election: Appropriate Accountability or Rampant Passion?, 46 Ct. Rev. 118-128 (2009/2010).    [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
  • Roy A. Schotland & Bert Brandenberg, Keeping Courts Impartial Amid Changing Judicial Elections, Daedalus, Fall 2008, at 102-109.    [W]
  • Roy A. Schotland, Shrink Missouri: How Sham Reform Fooled the Voters and the Court and What It Means For BCRA, BNA Money & Pol. Rep., Sept. 29, 2003.    [WWW]
  • Roy A. Schotland, Republican Party of Minnesota v. White: Should Judges Be More Like Politicians?, 41 Judges' J. 7-10 (2002).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
  • Roy A. Schotland, Should Judges Be More Like Politicians?, 39 Court Rev. 8-11 (2002).    [L]

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