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Biographical Note

Professor Denvir is the editor of Legal Reelism: Movies as Legal Texts and it's companion website, Picturing Justice. Denvir has directed the law school's summer abroad programs in Prague and Dublin, and has been a visiting professor at the East China University of Politics and Law, in Shanghai, China, as well as at the Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade. In addition, Denvir has been a visiting scholar at the Board of Legal Studies, University of Kent at Canterbury.

Education

BA, Holy Cross College
LLB, New York University

Scholarship

Books & Book Chapters

Freeing Speech: The Constitutional War Over National Security (NYU Press, forthcoming 2010).
 
"What Movies Can Teach Law Students," in Freeman, Michael D. A., ed., Law in Popular Culture 183 (Oxford University Press, 2005).

Democracy's Constitution: Claiming the Privileges of American Citizenship (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001).

"Rumpole of the Bailey," in Jarvis, Robert M. & Joseph, Paul R., eds., Prime Time Law: Fictional Television As Legal Narrative 145 (Carolina Academic Press, 1998).

Legal Reelism: Movies as Legal Texts (editor) (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996).

"William Shakespeare and the Jurisprudence of Comedy," in Papke, David Ray, ed., Narrative and the Legal Discourse 183 (Liverpool: Deborah Charles Publication, 1991).

"The Slotting Function: How Movies Influence Political Decisions," 4 Vermont Law Review 799 (Symposium: Law in Film/Film in Law) (2004).

"Proudly Political," 37 University of San Francisco Law Review 27 (2002).

"Law, Lawyers, Film, and Television," 24 Legal Studies Forum 279 (2000).

"One Movie No Lawyer Should Miss," 30 University of San Francisco Law Review 1051 (1996).

"'Deep Dialogue'—James Joyce's Contribution to American Constitutional Theory," 3 Cardozo Studies in Law & Literature 1 (1991).

"Frank Capra's First Amendment," 15 Legal Studies Forum 255 (1991).

"Judging Justices: Rehnquist, Brennan, and the Question of Judicial Method," 22 University of Toledo Law Review 757 (Symposium: The Rehnquist Court) (1991).

"Comic Relief," 63 Tulane Law Review 1423 (1989).

"'Ronnie and Roberto': A Reply to Daniel Williams," 23 University of San Francisco Law Review 409 (1989).

"The Supreme Court: How It Was, How It Is," 13 Legal Studies Forum 205 (1989).

"William Shakespeare and the Jurisprudence of Comedy," 39 Stanford Law Review 825 (1987).

"Law's Empire," 22 University of San Francisco Law Review 89 (1987).

"Justice Brennan, Justice Rehnquist, and Free Speech," 80 Northwestern University Law Review 285 (1985).

"Justice Rehnquist and Constitutional Interpretation," 34 Hastings Law Journal 1011 (Public Interest Law: A Symposium) (1983).

"The Constitution, the Courts and Human Rights," (book reviews) 44 Ohio State Law Journal 139 (1983).

"Earl Warren: A Public Life," (book reviews) 5 Cardozo Law Review 239 (1983).

"Professor Dworkin and an Activist Theory of Constitutional Adjudication," 45 Albany Law Review 13 (1980).

"Towards a Political Theory of Public Interest Litigation," 54 North Carolina Law Review 1133 (1976).

Other Publications

"Are All Lawyers Crazy, Or Just the Ones in the Movies?" (Review), Los Angeles Daily Journal, February 19, 1999, at 8.

"The Big Picture: Nominated Films—Even 'Babe'—Contain Lessons for Lawyers," Los Angeles Daily Journal, March 22, 1996, at 6.

"…And Underneath All the Bluster, Rehnquist Is a Judicial Activist Too," Los Angeles Daily Journal, September 30, 1983, at 4.

"Controlling Welfare Bureaucracy: A Dynamic Approach," 50 Notre Dame Lawyer 457 (1975).

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