Steven Semeraro
Associate Professor of Law
J.D., Stanford Law School, with distinction;
B.A., Rutgers, with highest honors
Telephone: 619.374.6911
Email: ssemeraro@tjsl.edu
Professor Semeraro joined the Thomas Jefferson School of Law faculty in 1999, became Associate Dean in 2002 and returned to the general faculty in 2007. In 1987, he clerked for the Honorable Stephanie K. Seymour, United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He then practiced with a private firm in Washington, D.C., until 1994, when he joined the United States Department of Justice, Antitrust Division. While there, he led civil antitrust investigations of the optical disc and credit card industries. In 1996, he served as a Special Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern Division of Virginia, where he prosecuted criminal cases. In 2003, he authored the Law Professors’ Amicus Brief in the U.S. Supreme Court case Verizon v. Trinko. He previously taught as an adjunct professor at American University’s Washington College of Law and at Georgetown Law School. He has published numerous articles primarily in the fields of antitrust and criminal law.
Scholarship
The Antitrust of Two-Sided Network Markets: A Response to Professor Levitin, UCLA Law Review on-line compendium (forthcoming 2008) Credit Card Inter-change Fees: Debunking Six Myths, Banking and Financial Services Policy Report, (forthcoming 2008)
Enforcing Fourth Amendment Rights Through Federal Habeas Corpus, 34 Search & Seizure L. Rep. 49 (2007)
Credit Card Interchange Fees: Three Decades of Antitrust Uncertainty, 14 Geo. Mason L Rev. 941 (2007)
Enforcing Fourth Amendment Rights Through Federal Habias Corpus, 58 Rutgers L. Rev. 983 (2006)
Two Theories of Habeas Corpus, 71 Brooklyn L. Rev. 1233 (2006)
Reconfirming Habeas Corpus: reviewing Eric M Freedman, Habeas Corpus: Rethinking the Great Writ of Liberty (New York University Press 2001) (published online), reprinted 27 Thomas Jefferson L. Rev. 317 (2005)
A Reasoning Process Review Model for Federal Habeas Corpus, 94 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 897 (2004)
Forced Sharing, Efficiency, and Fairness: An Examination of the Essence of Antitrust, 52 Kan. L. Rev. 57 (2003)
Speta on Antitrust and Local Competition Under the Telecommunications Act: A Comment Respecting the Accommodation of Antitrust and Telecom Regulation, 71 Antitrust L.J. (2003)
An Essay on Property Rights in Milestone Homerun Baseballs, 56 So. Meth. U.L. Rev. 2281 (2003)
The Antitrust-Telecom Connection, 40 San Diego L. Rev. A. 555 (2003)
Regulating Information Platforms: The Convergence to Antitrust, 1 J. On Telecomm. & High Tech. L. 143 (2002)
Responsibility in Capital Sentencing, 39 San Diego L. Rev. 79 (2002)
From Blueprints to Baseball: A Survey of Current Baseball Stadium Financing Projects – San Diego, 34 Urban Lawyer 389 (2002)
Criminal Law: Substantive Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure, in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, Social Sciences and Humanities: Law, § 6.31.2.4 (UNESCO-Eolss, 2002) (published online, http://www.eolss.net) (with Marjorie Cohn & Ruth B. Philips)
Telecommunications Law: The United States Model for Economic Regulation of Telecommunications Providers, in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, Social Sciences and Humanities: Law, § 6.31.2.9 (UNESCO-Eolss, 2002) (published online, http://www.eolss.net)
Demystifying Antitrust State Action Doctrine, 24 Harv. J.L. & Public Policy 203 (2000)
Abortion Clinic Protest and the First Amendment, 8 St. Louis U. Pub. L. Rev. 221 (1993)
The Process of Death: Reflections on Capital Punishment Issues in the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, 66 Den. L. Rev. 563 (1989)
Distinguishing International From Domestic Predation: A New Approach To Predatory Dumping, 23 Stan. J. Int'l. L. 621 (1987)
Toward An Optimal System of Successor Liability For Hazardous Waste Cleanup, 6 Stan. Envtl. L.J. 226 (1987)
List of Works
Download a list of Professor Semeraro's shorter works.
Subjects Include:
Antitrust, Criminal Law, Health Care & Competition Law, Intellectual Property, Telecommunications Law.
Return to the Top
 |
All documents are in PDF format. Please download the free Acrobat Reader from Adobe to view them. |