Martin D. Carcieri

Associate Professor

Contact Info:
Office: HSS 133
Office Hours: MW 1-2
Phone:(415) 338-7526
Email: carcieri@sfsu.edu
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Martin D. Carcieri is a tenured Associate Professor of Political Science, specializing in Constitutional Law and Political Theory. He holds a B.A. and M.A. from Cal State Los Angeles, a J.D. from UC Hastings, and a Ph.D. from UC Santa Barbara, and taught previously at the University of North Florida and the University of Tennessee.

Dr. Carcieri teaches undergraduate courses in American Political Theory, Legal Issues, Constitutional Law, and Jurisprudence, as well as graduate seminars on the First Amendment, the Fourth Amendment, the Judicial Process, the U.S. Drug War, and John Rawls. His work has been cited in four State appellate court decisions and in amicus curiae briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court in four landmark cases. His twenty journal articles include:

• Obama, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Drug War - Akron Law Review, Volume 44, pp. 303-331, Winter 2011;
• Rawls and Reparations - Michigan Journal of Race and Law, Volume 15, pp. 267-316, Spring 2010;
• Gonzales v. Raich: Congressional Tyranny and Irrelevance in the War on Drugs, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law,Volume 9, pp. 1131-1165, Fall 2007;
• Grutter v. Bollinger and Civil Disobedience, University of Dayton Law Review, Volume 31, pp. 345-380, Spring 2006 (the UDLR created a symposium around this article);
• Gonzales v. Raich: An Opening for Rational Drug Law Reform, Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy, Volume 1, pp. 307-386, Spring 2005;
• The Michigan Affirmative Action Cases and Public Personnel Decisions, Review of Public Personnel Administration, Volume 24, pp. 70-76, March 2004 (recognized as one of ROPPA’s thirty all time most widely cited articles, January 2007);
• A Twenty-First Century Intervention in the Trial of Socrates, Classical Outlook, Volume 80, Number 4, pp. 137-142, Summer 2003;
• The Sixth Circuit and Grutter v. Bollinger: Diversity and Distortion, Texas Review of Law and Politics, Volume 7, pp. 127-152, Fall 2002;
• Bush v. Gore and Equal Protection, South Carolina Law Review, Volume 53, pp. 63-82, Fall 2001;
• Due Process and the Florida Civil Rights Initiative, Temple Law Review, Volume 74, pp. 595-632, Fall 2001 (Annual Issue on Developments in State Constitutional Law);
• The Wages of Taking Bakke Seriously: Federal Judicial Oversight of the Public University Admissions Process, Brigham Young Education and Law Journal, Volume 2001, pp. 161-178;
• The Wages of Taking Bakke Seriously: The Untenable Denial of the Primacy of the Individual, Tennessee Law Review, Volume 67, pp. 949-969, Summer 2000;
• A Progressive Reply to the ACLU on Proposition 209, Santa Clara Law Review, Volume 39, pp. 141-183, November, 1998;
• Democracy and Education in the Thought of Jefferson and Madison, Journal of Law and Education, Volume 26, pp. 1-30, January, 1997.

Long time San Franciscans, Dr. and Mrs. Carcieri are very happy to be home with family, old and new friends, and the cool, dry ocean breezes of the Northern California coast. They live in Pacifica, CA.