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Melissa D. Mortazavi

Second Century Presidential Professor

Publications

What Lawyers Could Learn from the Corporate Practice of Medicine
What Lawyers Could Learn from the Corporate Practice of Medicine
Washington University Journal of Law & Policy (2025)
Melissa D. Mortazavi, What Lawyers Could Learn from the Corporate Practice of Medicine, 77 Wash. Univ. J. L. & Pol. 212 (2025).
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.ou.edu/fac_articles/655/


Where Neutrality Stops and Reality Begins: Why Considering Identity is Vital to Lead and Class Counsel Selection
Where Neutrality Stops and Reality Begins: Why Considering Identity is Vital to Lead and Class Counsel Selection
Hastings Law Journal (2023)
Melissa Mortazavi, Where Neutrality Stops and Reality Begins: Why Considering Identity is Vital to Lead and Class Counsel Selection, 74 Hastings L.J. 1403 (2023).
Available at: https://repository.uclawsf.edu/hastings_law_journal/vol74/iss5/6//


Torts And Personhood
Torts and Personhood
Arkansas Law Review (2023)
Melissa Mortazavi, Torts and Personhood, 76 Ark. L. Rev. 387 (2023).
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.ou.edu/fac_articles/240/


Incivility as Identity
Incivility as Identity
Michigan State Law Review (2020)
Melissa Mortazavi, Incivility as Identity, 2020 Mich. St. L. Rev. 939 (2020).
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.ou.edu/fac_articles/233/


Code of Silence
Code of Silence
Cardozo Law Review (2019)
Melissa Mortazavi, Code of Silence, 40 Cardozo L. Rev. 2171 (2019).
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.ou.edu/fac_articles/231/


Institutional Independence: Lawyers and the Administrative State
Institutional Independence: Lawyers and the Administrative State
Fordham Law Review (2019)
Melissa Mortazavi, Institutional Independence: Lawyers and the Administrative State, 87 Fordham L. Rev. 1937 (2019).
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.ou.edu/fac_articles/234/


Food, Fracking, and Folly
Food, Fracking, and Folly
Arizona State Law Journal (2018)
Melissa Mortazavi, Food, Fracking, and Folly, 50 Ariz. St. L.J. 617 (2018).
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.ou.edu/fac_articles/232/


Rulemaking Ex Machina
Rulemaking Ex Machina
Columbia Law Review Online (2017)
Melissa Mortazavi, Rulemaking Ex Machina, 117 Colum. L. Rev. Online 202 (2017).
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.ou.edu/fac_articles/236/


Tainted: Food, Identity, and the Search for Dignitary Redress
Tainted: Food, Identity, and The Search for Dignitary Redress
Brooklyn Law Review (2016)
Melissa Mortazavi, Tainted: Food, Identity, and The Search for Dignitary Redress, 81 Brook. L. Rev. 1463 (2016).
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.ou.edu/fac_articles/237/


A No-Fault Remedy for Legal Malpractice?
A No-Fault Remedy for Legal Malpractice?
Hofstra Law Review (2015)
Melissa Mortazavi, A No-Fault Remedy for Legal Malpractice?, 44 Hofstra L. Rev. 471 (2015).
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.ou.edu/fac_articles/229/


Blind Spot: The Inadequacy of Neutral Partisanship
Blind Spot: The Inadequacy of Neutral Partisanship
UCLA Law Review Discourse (2015)
Melissa Mortazavi, Blind Spot: The Inadequacy of Neutral Partisanship, 63 UCLA L. Rev. Discourse 16 (2015).
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.ou.edu/fac_articles/230/


Tort as Democracy: Lessons from the Food Wars
Tort as Democracy: Lessons from the Food Wars
Arizona Law Review (2015)
Melissa Mortazavi, Tort as Democracy: Lessons from the Food Wars, 57 Ariz. L. Rev. 929 (2015).
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.ou.edu/fac_articles/239/


The Cost Of Avoidance: Pluralism, Neutrality, And The Foundations Of Modern Legal Ethics
The Cost of Avoidance: Pluralism, Neutrality, and the Foundations of Modern Legal Ethics
Florida State University Law Review (2014)
Melissa Mortazavi, The Cost of Avoidance: Pluralism, Neutrality, and The Foundations of Modern Legal Ethics, 42 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 151 (2014).
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.ou.edu/fac_articles/238/


Consuming Identities: Law, School Lunches, And What It Means to be American
Consuming Identities: Law, School Lunches, And What It Means to be American
Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy (2014)
Melissa Mortazavi, Consuming Identities: Law, School Lunches, And What It Means to be American, 24 Cornell J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 1 (2014).



Lawyers, Not Widgets: Why Private-Sector Attorneys Must Unionize to Save The Legal Profession
Lawyers, Not Widgets: Why Private-Sector Attorneys Must Unionize to Save The Legal Profession
Minnesota Law Review (2012)
Melissa Mortazavi, Lawyers, Not Widgets: Why Private-Sector Attorneys Must Unionize to Save The Legal Profession, 96 Minn. L. Rev. 1482 (2012).
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.ou.edu/fac_articles/235/


Are Food Subsidies Making Our Kids Fat? Tensions Between the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act and the Farm Bill
Are Food Subsidies Making Our Kids Fat? Tensions Between the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act and the Farm Bill
Washington and Lee Law Review (2011)
Melissa D. Mortazavi, Are Food Subsidies Making Our Kids Fat? Tensions Between the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act and the Farm Bill, 68 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1699 (2011).


A Radical Assertion (reviewing Milan Markovic, Charging Abortion)
A Radical Assertion (reviewing Milan Markovic, Charging Abortion)
JOTWELL (2024)
Melissa D. Mortazavi, A Radical Assertion (reviewing Milan Markovic, Charging Abortion), 2024 JOTWELL: J. THINGS WE LIKE 1 (2024).
Available at:  mortazavi


Homogenous Diversity (reviewing Benjamin Barton, The Credentialed Court: Inside the Cloistered Elite World of American Justice)
Homogenous Diversity (reviewing Benjamin Barton, The Credentialed Court: Inside the Cloistered Elite World of American Justice)
JOTWELL (2022)
Melissa D. Mortazavi, Homogenous Diversity (reviewing Benjamin Barton, The Credentialed Court: Inside the Cloistered Elite World of American Justice), 2022 JOTWELL: J. THINGS WE LIKE 1 (2022).
Available at:  mortazavi


An Honor or a Curse? The Untold Story of Shortlisted Female Jurists (reviewing Renee Knake Jefferson & Hannah Brenner Johnson, Shortlisted: Women in the Shandows of the Supreme Court)
An Honor or a Curse? The Untold Story of Shortlisted Female Jurists (reviewing Renee Knake Jefferson & Hannah Brenner Johnson, Shortlisted: Women in the Shandows of the Supreme Court)
JOTWELL (2020)
Melissa D. Mortazavi, An Honor or a Curse? The Untold Story of Shortlisted Female Jurists (reviewing Renee Knake Jefferson & Hannah Brenner Johnson, Shortlisted: Women in the Shandows of the Supreme Court), 2020 JOTWELL: J. THINGS WE LIKE 1 (2020).
Available at:  mortazavi


Professional Responsibility as a Limitation on Executive Power (reviewing Bruce Green and Rebecca Roiphe, Can the President Control the Department of Justice?)
Professional Responsibility as a Limitation on Executive Power (reviewing Bruce Green and Rebecca Roiphe, Can the President Control the Department of Justice?)
JOTWELL (2018)
Melissa D. Mortazavi, Professional Responsibility as a Limitation on Executive Power (reviewing Bruce Green and Rebecca Roiphe, Can the President Control the Department of Justice?), 2018 JOTWELL: J. THINGS WE LIKE 1 (2018).
Available at:  mortazavi