Directory

Bibliography

Books

  • Sensing Injustice: A Lawyer's Life in the Battle for Change (Monthly Review Press, )
  • Mythologies of State and Monopoly Power (Monthly Review Press, )
  • Nine Principles of Litigation and Life (American Bar Association, )
  • Trial Stories () (editor with Angela J Davis)
  • Thinking About Terrorism: The Threat to Civil Liberties in Times of National Emergency (American Bar Association, )
  • Mastering the Craft of Trial Advocacy (Professional Education Group, ) (1998-2006)
  • Examining Witnesses (American Bar Association, 2d ed. )
  • Fighting Injustice (American Bar Association, )
  • Federal Appeals: Jurisdiction and Practice (West Group, 3d Ed. ) (with Jane B. Tigar)
  • Law and the Rise of Capitalism (Monthly Review Press, )
  • Persuasion: The Litigators Art (American Bar Association, )
  • Examining Witnesses (American Bar Association Press, )
  • Federal Appeals: Jurisdiction and Practice (Shepard's/McGraw-Hill, 2d Ed. )
  • Federal Appeals: Jurisdiction and Practice (Shepard's/McGraw-Hill, )
  • Law and Rise of Capitalism (Monthly Review Press, ) (with Madeleine R. Levy)
  • Practice Manual: Selective Service Law Reporter (Public Law Education Institute, )

Articles & Essays

  • Judge James A. Wynn, Originalism, and the Juridical/Judicial Role, 100 North Carolina Law Review Forum 231-239 ()
  • The Point Is to Change It, 73 Monthly review () (reviewing Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous People’s History of the United States (2015), David Vine, The United States of War: A Global History of America’s Endless Conflicts, From Columbus to the Islamic State (2021))
  • John French Sloan and the Word Pictures in Your Case, 46 Litigation 62-63 ()
  • Susan Sontag and the Pictures in Your Case, 44 Litigation 56-57 ()
  • William Wordsworth and the Creation of Memory, 44 Litigation 57-58 ()
  • Lecture: Thoughts About Legal Ethics and Criminal Defense, 16 Hitosubasi Journal of Law & International Studies 241-275 (No. 1 ) (translated by Keiichi Muraoka)
  • Plea Bargaining for Leniency, 10 Hakuō Law Review 253-270 () (translated by Keiichi Muraoka)
  • Sartre and How the Witnesses See Your Case, 43 Litigation 57-58 (Spring )
  • Claude Monet and the Theory of Your Case, Litigation 57 (Fall )
  • The Essential Monroe Freedman, in Four Works, 44 Hofstra Law Review 659-668 () (previously published in 23 Professional Lawyer (2015))
  • Resisting Wholesale Electronic Invasion of the Fourth Amendment, Champion 20-25 (August )
  • Missing McVeigh, 112 Michigan Law Review 1091-1110 () (reviewing Jody Lynee Madeira, Killing McVeigh: The Death Penalty and the Myth of Closure (2012))
  • The National Security State: The End of Separation of Powers, Monthly Review 136-159 ()
  • A Jurisprudence of Insurgency: Lawyers as Companions of Unimagined Change, 2 Journal of Jurisprudence & Interdisciplinary Studies 10-15 ()
  • Crisis in the Legal Profession: Dont Mourn, Organize!, 37 Ohio Northern Law Review 539-574 ()
  • Foreword, in Wrestling with Free Speech, Religious Freedom, and Democracy in Turkey: The Political Trials and Times of Fethullah Gulen ()
  • Foreword  in David Vine, Island of Shame xi-xvi (2011)
  • Respecting Atticus Finch and Scout, an essay for the ABA Conference on Professional Responsibility ()
  • Ways of Seeing, Ways of Judging, an essay for the Central District of California Judicial Conference ()
  • What Are We Doing to the Children: An Essay in Juvenile (In)justice, 7 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 849-866 ()
  • The Reichstag Fire Trial, 1933-2008: The Production of Law and History, 60 Monthly Review 24-49 () (with John Mage)
  • Introduction , in Francis L. Wellman, The Art of Cross-Examination (ABA Classics 2009, 1st ed.1904)
  • Narratives of Oppression, 17 Human Rights Brief 34-38 ()
  • A Sanctuary in the Jungle: Terry Lynn Nichols and His Oklahoma City Bombing Trial, in Trial Stories 149-204 (Michael E. Tigar & Angela J. Davis eds., ) (with James E. Coleman Jr.)
  • Crossing the Bridge Between Academy and Practice, 13 North Carolina State Bar Journal 14-16 (Winter )
  • The Vioxx Litigation: Two Case Studies, in Trial Stories 399-476 (Michael E. Tigar & Angela J. Davis eds., )
  • A Closer Look at Terrorist Groups, T.M.C Asser Institute ()
  • A System of Wholesale Denial of Rights, 59 Monthly Review 4 (September )
  • Appellate Courts, 2007 Federal Courts Law Review 1-4 () (reviewing Daniel J. Meador et al., Appellate Courts: Structures, Functions, Processes, and Personnel (2d ed., 2006))
  • Book Review, 2007 Federal Courts Law Review 2 () (reviewing Daniel J. Meader, Thomas E. Baker & Joan E. Steinman, Appellate Courts Structures, Functions, Processes and Personnel (2d ed. 2001))
  • Immunities: Augusto Pinochet to Slobodan Milosevic, T.M.C. Asser Institute/Washington College of Law ()
  • The CIty Upon the Hill, in Raise the Bar: Real World Solutions for a Troubled Profession (Lawrence J. Fox ed., )
  • What Lawyers, What Edge?, 36 Hofstra Law Review 521-537 ()
  • Paradigms in Teaching Criminal Law, keynote lecture AALS Midyear Meeting ()
  • The Twilight of Personal Liberty: Introduction to A Permanent State of Emergency', 58 Monthly Review 6 () (No. 6, 2006)
  • Universal Rights and Wrongs, Monthly Review ()
  • The Most Impertinent Question, 29 Litigation 9-11 () (No. 3)
  • Introduction, in The Federal Courthouse Door: A Federal Jurisdiction Guide ()
  • The Lawyer and Faustian Bargains, 28 Litigation 27-28 ()
  • Terrorism and Human Rights, Monthly Review ()
  • Lawyers, Jails and the Law's Fake Bargains, 53 Monthly Review (July-August )
  • Litigators' Ethics, 67 Tennessee Law Review ()
  • Two Trials in and about Chattanooga-Lynching and Federal Judicial Power, 26 Litigation 49-50 ()
  • Rationing Justice--What Thomas More Would Say, 2 Journal of the Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics 187-197 ()
  • The Power of Myth: Justice, Signs & Symbols in Criminal Trials, 26 Litigation 25-30 ()
  • What Would Thomas More Think?, 2 Journal of the Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics ()
  • Book Review, 33 Cuba Update 33 () (reviewing Debra Evenson, Revolution in the Balance: Law and Society in Contemporary Cuba (1994))
  • Defending, 74 Texas Law Review 101-110 () (reprinted as Defending...still in How Can Your Represent Those People? 185-198 (Abbe Smith & Monroe H. Freedman eds., 2013)
  • Lawyers and Social Justice, 78 Judicature 253-255 () (reviewing Jack Greenberg, Crusaders in the Courts: How a Dedicated Band of Lawyers Fought for the Civil Rights Revolution (1994))
  • Paul Touvier and the Crime Against Humanity, 30 Texas International Law Journal 286-310 () (with others)
  • What to do When Your Case is Front Page News, 14 Review of Litigation 595-618 () (panel discussion)
  • Haymarket: Whose Name the Few Still Say with Tears, A Dramatization in Eleven Scenes, 2 Hybrid 11-32 ()
  • Pretrial Case Management Under the Amended Rules: Too Many Words for a Good Idea, 14 Review of Litigation 137-157 ()
  • Criminal Justice Reform: Sources and Nature of Norms, 63 Revue Internationale de Droit Penal 1443 ()
  • Moderator, The Use and Misuse of Expert Evidence in the Courts, 77 Judicature ()
  • Book Review, 17 Litigation 49 () (reviewing Douglas Laycock, The Death of the Irreparable Injury Rule (1991))
  • Cross Examination of Expert Witnesses, in Expert Witnesses ()
  • The Expert Who Walked Off Angry (under name of Edward Michaels), 17 Litigation 27-30 ()
  • The Extradition Requirement of Double Criminality in Complex Cases: Illustrating the Rationale of Extradition, 62 Revue Internationale de Droit Penal 163 ()
  • The Lawyer Who Broke the Retaining Wall (under name of Edward Michaels), 18 Litigation 27 ()
  • The Prosecutor Whose Sword Was Taken Away (under name of Edward Michaels), 17 Litigation 6-11 ()
  • 2020 Vision: A Bifocal View, 74 Judicature 89-92 ()
  • Academic Freedom, in Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of The United States ()
  • Book Review, 90 Columbia Law Review 255 () (reviewing James S. Leibman, Federal Habeas Corpus Practice and Procedure (1988))
  • Conscientious Objection, in Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States ()
  • Discovering Your Litigator's Voice, 16 Litigation 1-2 ()
  • Habeas Corpus and the Penalty of Death, 90 Columbia Law Review 255-276 () (reviewing James S. Liebman, Federal Habeas Corpus Practice and Procedure (1988))
  • It Does the Crime But Not the Time: Corporate Criminal Liability in Federal Law, 17 American Journal of Criminal Law 211-234 ()
  • Lawyers and Death Cases, 16 Litigation 1 ()
  • One Man's Freedom, One Mans Faith, 16 Litigation 1-2 ()
  • Query: Judges or Lawyers-Who Are the Keepers of the Flame?, 74 Judicature 125-127 ()
  • Voices Heard in Jury Argument: Litigation and the Law School Curriculum, 9 Review of Litigation 177-202 ()
  • Willfulness and Ignorance in Federal Criminal Law, 37 Cleveland State Law Review 525-548 ()
  • Judges, Lawyers and the Penalty of Death, 23 Loyola Law Review 147-150 ()
  • Lawyers, Money, Race and Gender, 16 Litigation 1 ()
  • Warrior Bards () (with Kevin McCarthy)
  • Jury Argument: You, the Facts, and the Law, 14 Litigation 19-22 ()
  • Original Understanding and the Constitution, 22 Akron Law Review 1-12 ()
  • What the Constitution Means by Executive Power, 43 Miami Law Review 177-188 () (with others)
  • Book Review, 73 American Bar Association Journal 146 () (reviewing Derrick Bell, And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice (1987))
  • Constitutional Rights of Criminal Tax Defendants: A Bicentennial Survey and Modest Proposal, 41 Tax Lawyer 13-36 ()
  • New Frontiers: The Expansion of International Criminal Law, 22 Texas International Law Journal 411-417 () (reviewing International Criminal Law (M. Bassiouni ed., 1986))
  • Crime Talk, Rights Talk, and Double-Talk: Thoughts on Reading Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice, 65 Texas Law Review 101-151 () (reviewing Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice (Sandford H. Kadish, ed., 1983))
  • Essay: Crime-Talk, Rights-Talk and Double-Talk: Thoughts on Reading Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice, 65 Texas Law Review 101 ()
  • The Hobbs Act and RICO in Takeover Litigation, 2 BNA Civil RICO Report 2 ()
  • The Trial of John Peter Zenger ()
  • Book Review: Talk-Show Advocacy, 12 Litigation 61-63 () (reviewing Sonya Hamlin, What Makes Juries Listen: A Communications Expert Looks at the Trial (1985))
  • Book Review, 17 UC Davis Law Review 1035-1047 () (reviewing Harold J. Berman, Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition (1983))
  • Mail Fraud, Morals and U.S. Attorneys, 11 Litigation 22-54 ()
  • The Right of Property and the Law of Theft, 62 Texas Law Review 1443-1476 ()
  • Whose Rights? What Danger?, 94 Yale Law Journal 970-995 () (reviewing Norman Dorsen, Our Endangered Rights: The ACLU Report on Civil Liberties Today (1984))
  • International Exchange of Information in Criminal Cases, 4 Michigan Yearbook of International Legal Studies 61-84 () (with A. J. Doyle Jr.)
  • Crime on Camera, 9 Litigation 24-27 ()
  • The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and the Pursued Refugee: Lessons from Letelier v. Chile, 3 Michigan Yearbook of International Legal Studies 421-450 ()
  • Book Review: The McCarthy Era, History as a Snapshot, 15 Harvard Civil Liberties-Civil Rights Review () (reviewing David Caute, The Great Fear: The Anti-Communist Purge Under Truman and Eisenhower (1979))
  • Can We Be Equal and Free?, in The Unfinished Revolution (Crocker Snow ed., )
  • Book Review, 1 Litigation () (reviewing John M. Sink, Political Criminal Trials: How to Defend Them (1974))
  • Book Review, 86 Harvard Law Review 785-795 () (reviewing Albert A. Ehrenzweig, Psychoanalytic Jurisprudence: On Ethics, Aesthetics, and "Law"-On Crime, Tort, and Procedure (1971))
  • Judicial Power, the Political Question Doctrine, and Foreign Relations, in The Vietnam War and International Law, Vol. (Richard A. Falk ed., )
  • Book Review: Reconsidering RFK, The New York Review of Books () (reviewing Victor S. Navasky, Kennedy Justice (1971))
  • The Grand Jury as the New Inquisition, 50 Michigan State Bar Journal 693-700 () (with Madeline R. Levy)
  • Socialist Law and Legal Institutions, in Law Against the People (Robert Lefcourt ed., )
  • Foreword: Waiver of Constitutional Rights: Disquiet in The Citadel, 84 Harvard Law Review 1-28 ()
  • Judicial Power, the Political Question Doctrine, and Foreign Relations, 17 UCLA Law Review 1135-1179 ()
  • The Rights of the Selective Service Registrant, in The Rights of Americans ()
  • Book Review, 67 Michigan Law Review 612-622 () (reviewing Abe Fortas, Concerning Dissent and Civil Disobedience (1968))
  • New Frontiers, 78 Yale Law Journal 892-902 () (reviewing Norman Dorsen, Frontiers of Civil Liberties (Pantheon Books (1968))
  • Selective Service: Some Certain Problems and Some Tentative Answers, 37 George Washington Law Review 510-535 () (with Robert J. Zweben)
  • Book Review, 56 California Law Review 236-242 () (reviewing Samuel Gorovitz, Freedom & Order In The University (1967))
  • Book Review, 78 Yale Law Journal 597 () (reviewing Norman Dorsen, Frontiers of Civil Liberties (1968))
  • In Memoriam, 56 California Law Review 573-574 ()
  • Lawyer's Role in Resistance, 27 Guild Practitioner 196-200 ()
  • Book Review, 77 Yale Law Journal 597-603 () (reviewing John H. Bunzel, Anti-Politics in America: Reflections on the Anti-Political Temper and Its Distortions of the Democratic Process (1967))
  • Book Review, 4 Law in Transition Quarterly 163-171 () (reviewing Edmund G. Williamson & John L. Cowan, The American Student's Freedom of Expression (1966))
  • Symposium: Student Rights and Campus Rules, 54 California Law Review 1-22 ()
  • Automatic Extinction of Cross-Demands: Compensatio From Rome to California, 53 California Law Review 224-278 ()
  • Book Review, 53 California Law Review 914-920 () (reviewing Ronald P. Sokol, A Handbook of Federal Habeas Corpus (1965)) (with I. Heyman)

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • The Supreme Court, Rights, and Judicial Abdication, MR Online ()
  • Rap Brown Law Today, MR Online ()
  • We Won’t Always Have Paris, MR Online ()
  • Inconsistency, Illegality, and Judge Gorsuch, MR Online ()
  • How I Learned to Litigate at the Movies, Salt of the Earth, ABA Journal (, at 53, 62)
  • Remembering Clint Jencks (March 1 1918-December 15, 2005), MRzine ()
  • Letter of the Law: A Reply, Los Angeles Daily Journal ()
  • Moving Backward in Sentencing and Intent, National Law Journal ()
Michael E. Tigar portrait
Michael E. Tigar portrait