O'Brien, David M(ichael)

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O'BRIEN, David M(ichael)

O'BRIEN, David M(ichael). American, b. 1951. Genres: Law, Politics/ Government, Public/Social administration. Career: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Spicer Professor, 1979-. Office of Administrative Assistant to the Chief Justice, Supreme Court of the United States, judicial fellow, 1981- 82, research associate, 1983-84; Russell Sage Foundation, visiting fellow, 1981-82. Fulbright Fellowships to Oxford, 1987-88, Japan, 1993-94, and Italy, 1999. Publications: Privacy, Law and Public Policy, 1979; The Public's Right to Know: The Supreme Court and the First Amendment, 1981; Views from the Bench: The Judiciary and Constitutional Politics, 1985; Storm Center: The Supreme Court in American Politics, 1986, 5th ed., 2000; What Process Is Due? Courts and Science Policy Disputes, 1987; Constitutional Law and Politics, 1991, 4th ed., 2000; (with B.H. Craig) Abortion and American Politics, 1993; (with S. Wayne) The Politics of American Government, 1994, 2nd ed., 1997; To Dream of Dreams: Religious Freedom in Postwar Japan, 1996. Contributor of articles to periodicals. Address: 916 Tilman Rd., Charlottesville, VA 22901-6338, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]

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