OUR FACULTY

• Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty
• Visiting Faculty
• Special Faculty Appointments
• Pence Law Library Faculty
• Adjunct Faculty (Summer 2012)
• Adjunct Faculty (Spring 2012)
• Adjunct Faculty (Fall 2011)
• Emeritus Law Faculty

Amanda Frost writes and teaches in the fields of federal courts, civil procedure, statutory interpretation, judicial ethics, and transparency in government. Her articles have appeared in the Duke Law Journal, the Northwestern Law Review, the UCLA Law Review, and the Virginia Law Review, among others. Her non-academic writing has been published in Slate, the National Law Journal, and the L.A. Times, and she authors the “Academic round-up” column for SCOTUSblog. Before entering academia, Professor Frost clerked for Judge A. Raymond Randolph on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and spent five years as a staff attorney at Public Citizen, where she litigated cases at all levels of the federal judicial system. She has also worked for the Senate Judiciary Committee and spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar studying transparency reform in the European Union. Professor Frost has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, UCLA Law School, and the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany.

• Selected Publications

  • Amanda Frost, Congress in Court, 59 UCLA L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2012).
  • Amanda Frost & Stefanie A. Lindquist, Countering the Majoritarian Difficulty, 96 Va. L. Rev. 719 (2010). SSRN Link
  • Amanda Frost, The Limits of Advocacy, 59 Duke L.J. 447 (2009). SSRN Link
  • Amanda Frost, Overvaluing Uniformity, 94 Va. L. Rev. 1567 (2008). SSRN Link
  • Amanda Frost, Certifying Questions to Congress, 101 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1 (2007). SSRN Link
  • Amanda Frost, The State Secrets Privilege and Separation of Powers, 75 Fordham L. Rev. 1931 (2007). SSRN Link
  • Amanda Frost, Keeping Up Appearances: A Process-Oriented Approach to Judicial Recusals, 53 Kan. L. Rev. 531 (2005). SSRN Link

• • More Publications...

• • Amanda Frost, Power of Attorneys: Congress Must Begin to Fight for its Own Interests in Court, Slate (Jan. 18 2012).
  • Amanda Frost, Op-Ed, Kagan’s Not Camera-Shy, L.A. Times (July 9, 2010).
  • Amanda Frost, Mark Tushnet on Why the Constitution Doesn’t Matter (Book review of Mark Tushnet’s "Why The Constitution Matters"), 14 Greenbag 2d 99 (01-01-10).
  • Amanda Frost, Defending the Majoritarian Court, 2010 Mich. St. L. Rev. 757 (2010).
  • Amanda Frost, Only a Partial Win, Op-Ed Natl. L.J. (June 15, 2009).
  • Amanda Frost & Justin Florence, Reforming the State Secrets Privilege, 3 Advance 111 (Spring 2009).
  • Amanda Frost, One Dollar for Every West Virginian: The Crazy Judicial Corruption Case that the Supreme Court Should Hear, Slate (Oct. 10, 2008).
  • Amanda Frost, Restoring Faith in Government: Transparency Reform in the United States and the European Union, 9 Eur. Pub. L. 87 (Mar. 2003).
  • Amanda Frost, Judicial Review of FDA Preemption Determinations, 54 Food & Drug L.J. 367 (1999).

• Selected Presentations

  • Amanda Frost, Presentation, Congress in Court (UCLA Law School's faculty workshop, Sep. 2011).
  • Amanda Frost, Presentation, Congress in Court (Vanderbilt Law School's faculty workshop, Mar. 2011).
  • Amanda Frost, Presentation, The Limits of Advocacy (University of of Texas Law School’s Faculty Workshop, Austin, Tex., Apr. 17, 2009). SSRN Link
  • Amanda Frost, Panelist, Judicial Elections and Due Process (American Constitution Society, Feb. 26, 2009).
  • Amanda Frost, Presentation, The Limits of Advocacy (Notre Dame Law School’s Faculty Workshop, South Bend, Ind., Nov. 14, 2008).
  • Amanda Frost, Presentation, Overvaluing Uniformity (Harvard Law School’s faculty workshop, Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 6, 2007).
  • Amanda Frost, Testimony, Senate Hearings for the Samuel Alito Supreme Court Nomination (Wash., D.C., Jan. 21, 2006).
  • Amanda Frost, Presentation, Restoring Faith in Government: Transparency Reform in the United States and the European Union (“Colloque sur Gouvernance et Identités en Europe,” Sponsored by the Sorbonne, Universite Paris I., Paris, Fr., Dec. 2001).

• Selected Media Appearances

  • The Diane Rehm Show, "The Constitution Today – Separation of Powers" (National Public Radio Oct. 19, 2010) (Interview).
  • Roundtable on Judicial Decisions of Judge Sonia Sotomayor (C-Span July 1, 2009).
  • Alito Confirmation Hearings - Recusal Law Reform (C-Span Jan. 13, 2006).