About the Authors
Allan Ides
Christopher N. May Professor of Law
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
Educational and Professional Background
BA, University of California Los Angeles
MA, Loyola Marymount University
JD, summa cum laude, Loyola Law School
Allan Ides graduated summa cum laude from Loyola Law School in 1979. He served as a law clerk to the Honorable Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr., Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 1979-80 and then clerked for the Honorable Byron R. White, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1980-81. Professor Ides joined the Loyola Law School faculty in the fall of 1982 and served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 1984-87. From 1989-97, Professor Ides was a member of the law school faculty at Washington & Lee in Lexington, Virginia. He returned to Los Angeles and to Loyola in Fall 1997. He has written extensively in the areas of Constitutional Law and Civil Procedure and is actively involved in various public service projects, ranging from civil rights litigation to the representation of individuals in deportation proceedings.
Recent Scholarship
- Civil Procedure: Cases and Problems (with Christopher N. May) (Aspen 3d Ed. 2006)
- Constitutional Law: National Power and Federalism: Examples & Explanations (with Christopher N. May) (Aspen, 4th Ed. 2007)
- Constitutional Law: Individual Rights: Examples & Explanations (with Christopher N. May) (Aspen, 4th Ed. 2007)
- "Bell Atlantic and the Principle of Substantive Sufficiency Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8(a)(2): Toward a Structured Approach to Pleading Practice," 243 F.R.D. 604 (2007)
- "The Unilateral Executive," Los Angeles Lawyer, September 2006 (with Karl Manheim)
- "The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 and the Commerce Clause," 20 Constitutional Commentary 441 (2004)
- "Habeas Standards of Review Under 28 U.S.C. 2254 (d) (1) : A Commentary on Statutory Text and Supreme Court Precedent," 60 Washington & Lee Law Review 677 (2003)
- "Tangled Up in Brown," 47 Howard Law Journal 3 (2003)
- "Economic Activity as a Proxy for Federalism: Intuition and Reason in United States v. Morrison," 18 Constitutional Commentary 563 (2002)
- "Judicial Supremacy and the Law of the Constitution," 47 UCLA Law Review 491 (December 1999)
Courses Taught
Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, International Human Rights
Christopher N. May
Professor Emeritus of Law
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
Educational and Professional Background
AB, cum laude, Harvard University
LLB, Yale University
While in law school, Christopher May was a member of the Board of Editors of the Yale Law Journal. After graduation, he served as director of research for the National Institute for Education in Law and Poverty in Chicago. May then served as staff attorney for the San Francisco Neighborhood Legal Assistance Foundation. He joined the Loyola Law School faculty in 1973 and served as associate dean from 1975-79. He is the recipient of the 1989 Alpha Sigma Nu National Book Award for his book In the Name of War: Judicial Review and the War Powers Since 1918 (Harvard University Press, 1989).
Recent Scholarship
- Constitutional Law: National Power and Federalism: Examples & Explanations (with Allan Ides) (Aspen, 4th ed. 2007)
- Constitutional Law: Individual Rights: Examples & Explanations (with Allan Ides) (Aspen, 4th ed. 2007)
- Civil Procedure: Cases and Problems (with Allan Ides) (Aspen, 3d ed., 2006)
Presidential Defiance of "Unconstitutional" Laws: Reviving the Royal Prerogative (Greenwood Press, 1998)
