Starting Down the Alito Paper Trail

Whatever else may be said about the Alito nomination (and ZiefBrief is sure there will be no end to the saying of it), here at last is a well-known nominee with a lengthy paper. Pundits, scholars, and U.S. Senators will have much to absorb in the days ahead. Here are some early offerings:

• How Appealing’s Howard Bashman’s columns about the Third Circuit and Judge Alito from the Legal Intelligencer
• NPR's coverage of the Alito nomination
• Vikas Bajaj, "A Look at Alito's Legal Career," from the October 31 New York Times
• [UPDATE 11/9/05] For a look at Alito's judicial temperament in a 2003 Law.com posting check out The Mild-Mannered Scalia

There are also a few readily-available law review articles:

• "Forward," 1 Seton Hall Circuit Review 1 (Spring 2005)
• "Change in continuity at the Office of Legal Counsel." (Executive Branch Interpretation of the Law). 15 Cardozo Law Review 507 (1993)
• "Debate; after the independent counsel decision: is separation of powers dead?" (Second Annual Lawyers Convention of the Federalist Society: the Constitution and Federal Criminal Law). 6 American Criminal Law Review 1667 (1989) [With Charles Fried and Paul M Bator.]
• "Documents and the privilege against self-incrimination." 48 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 27 (1986)
• "Equal protection and classifications based on family membership." 80 Dickinson Law Review 410 (1976)

[Update: Nov. 6] Yale Law Journal has just posted a PDF version of Alito's first published piece of legal scholarship: Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Note, The Released Time Cases Revisited: A Study of Group Decisionmaking by the Supreme Court, 83 Yale Law Journal 1202 (1974). The Pocket Part, Yale Law Journal's online companion, has opened an online discussion of the Alito Note. [Thanks to Howard Bashman's How Appealing for the tip!]