Allan Ides
James P. Bradley Professor of Constitutional Law

Contact Information
Phone: (213) 736-1464
Fax: (213) 380-3769
E-mail: allan.ides@lls.edu

919 Albany St.
Los Angeles, CA 90015-1211


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 Schol 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 2d Ed. 2006)

Constitutional Law: National Power and Federalism (with Christopher N. May) (Aspen, 4d Ed. 2007)

Constitutional Law: Individual Rights (with Christopher N. May) (Aspen, 4d 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

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