Eric Lane
		Eric J. Schmertz Distinguished Professor of Public Law and Public Service
		B.A., Brown University M.A., State University of New York at Stony Brook J.D., Fordham University LL.M., New York University
		Phone:  (516) 463-5886 Fax:  (516) 463-4800 E-mail:  lawezl@hofstra.edu

Publications

Books

An Introduction to Statutory Interpretation and Statutes, with Abner J. Mikva, Aspen Law & and Business (1997).

The Legislative Process, with Abner J. Mikva, Aspen Law & and Business (1st ed.,1995, 2nd. ed. 2002) (with yearly updates).

Council Members’ Guide to New York City Government, editor, Baruch College School of Public Affairs (2001).

Articles

The Impact of Term Limits on Lawmaking in the City of New York, __Election Law Journal __(2004).

Due Process in Problem Solving Courts, 30 Fordham Urban L. J. 955 (2003) (invited symposium).

The Muzak of Justice Scalia’s Revolutionary Call to Read Unclear Statutes Narrowly, 53 SMU L. Rev. 121 (2000) (with Abner J. Mikva) (invited symposium).

How to Read a Statute in New York: A Reply to Judge Kaye and More, 28 Hofstra L. Rev 85 (1999).

Men Are Not Angels: The Realpolitik of Direct Democracy, 34 Willamette L. Rev. 579 (1998) (invited symposium).

The Policy and Politics of Charter Making: The Story of New York City’s 1989 Charter, 42 N. Y. L. Sch. L. Rev. 2 (1998, with Frederick A. O. Schwarz) (invited symposium.).

Albany’s Travesty of Democracy, City Journal, Spring 1997, Vol. 7, No.2 at 48.

Legislative Process and Its Judicial Renderings: A Study in Contrast, 48 Univ. of Pittsburgh L. Rev. 639 (1987).

Legislative Oversight of an Executive Budget Process: Impoundments in New York, 5 Pace L. Rev. 211 (1985).

Human Rights Within The World Legal Order: A Reply to Sohn and McDougal, 10 Hofstra L. Rev. 747 (1982).

Mass Killing by Governments: Lawful in the World Legal Order? 12 N.Y.U.J. Int'l L & Pol. 199 (1979) (with published responses from Louis Sohn and Myres McDougal appearing in 9 Hofstra L. Rev.).

Political Surveillance in New York -An Administrative Challenge to Democratic Values, 55 U. Det. J. Urb. L. 1079 (1977-78).

Demanding Human Rights: A Change in the World Legal Order, 6 Hofstra L. Rev. 269 (1978).

Selected short pieces including When is a Rule a Rule, NYLS City Law, January/February 1997, Vol. 3, No. 1, at 1, and The Sorrows of Seabury or How Not to Read a Statute, NYLS City Law, October 1995, Vol. 1, No. 4, at 73.