The Public Law Center has produced legal articles and book chapters, public statements, and research memoranda on various subjects, including ethics, community benefit agreements, revision of the comprehensive zoning ordinance, and neighborhood nuisances.
We invite users of the website to review these materials and share with us your thoughts and any suggestions you may have regarding future research projects.
Ethics
- David Marcello: Systemic Ethics Reform in Katrina's Aftermath
- David Marcello: Resilience and Opportunity Forum
Community Benefit Agreements
Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance
Legislative Drafting
- Clarity: “Teaching Plain Language Drafting in a Legislative and Administrative Advocacy Clinic”
- (Video) Introduction to Legislative Drafting with Professor David Marcello, Part One of Four
- (Video) Introduction to Legislative Drafting with Professor David Marcello, Part Two of Four
- (Video) Introduction to Legislative Drafting with Professor David Marcello, Part Three of Four
- (Video) Introduction to Legislative Drafting with Professor David Marcello, Part Four of Four
- EU Symposium Mind Map Diagram and Outline
- EU Strylowski Re Q&A, Pronouns, If-Then Tables
- EU Drafter's Mentality Common Law versus Civil Code
- EU ILDI 25 Table of Contents and Photos
- EU Words of Authority PP Slides (PDF)
- EU Wydick and Thornton Photo
Public Contracting
David Marcello Publications
All publications are authored by Professor David Marcello
Legal Origins and Evolution of Local Ethics Reform in New Orleans
32 New England Journal of Public Policy (2020)
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3723042
Administrative Practice Under the 1974 Constitution: A ‘Silver Anniversary’ Review
Louisiana Law Review, Vol. 62, p. 185, 2001
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1753204
The Case of the Serial Comma: What Can Plain-Language Drafting Tell Legislative Drafters?
19 The Scribes Journal of Legal Writing 127 (2020)
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3707770
Ethics Reform in New Orleans: Progress — And Problems Ten Years Post-Katrina
62 Loyola Law Review 435 (2016)
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2627866
Legislative Drafting: Teaching and Training Strategies in the U.S.
Ch. 5 in PROFESSIONAL LEGISLATIVE DRAFTERS: STATUS, ROLES, EDUCATION (Felix Uhlmann & Stefan Höfler eds., 2016)
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3053489
Direct Democracy in the United States
Tulane Public Law Research Paper No. 04-13
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1366056
Housing Redevelopment Strategies in the Wake of Katrina and Anti-Kelo Constitutional Amendments: Mapping a Path Through the Landscape of Disaster
Loyola Law Review, New Orleans, Vol. 53, No. 3, 2007
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1124960
The Ethics and Politics of Legislative Drafting
Tulane Law Review, Vol. 70, p. 2437, 1996
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1753214
