This list of articles is an entirely unscientific selection and is simply intended as a beginning.  Please e-mail me identifying additional articles dealing with Monell and its progeny.  I will be happy to include almost any published article, comment or note that a visitor thinks would be appropriate as well as unpublished pieces.  Feel free to suggest your own work.  Please include the author's name, the citation, and (if available) a url link.  I intend to err on the side of inclusion. 

 

Author	Title Citation	Year	Link
Achtenberg, David	Taking History Seriously: Municipal Liability Under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Debate Over Respondeat Superior 73 Fordham L. Rev. 2183	2005
Bandes, Susan	Introduction: The Emperor's New Clothes 48 DePaul L. Rev. 619	1999
Bandes, Susan	Monell, Parratt, Daniels, and Davidson: Distinguishing a Custom or Policy from a Random, Unauthorized Act 72 Iowa L. Rev. 101	1986
Beermann, Jack	Municipal Responsibility for Constitutional Torts 48 DePaul L. Rev. 627	1999
Blum, Karen	Municipal Liability 48 DePaul L. Rev. 687	1999
Brown, George	Municipal Liability under § 1983 and the Ambiguities of Burger Court Federalism 27 B.C.L.Rev. 883	1986
Brown, Mark	The Failure of Fault Under § 1983: Municipal Liability for State Law Enforcement 84 Cornell L. Rev. 1503	1999
Brown, Mark	Correlating Municipal Liability and Official Immunity Under § 1983 1989 U.Ill.L.Rev. 625	1989
Brown, Mark	Accountability in Government and § 1983 25 U.Mich.J.L. Ref. 53	1991
Chase, Oscar Chase, Arlo Monell	Monell: The Story Behind the Landmark 31 Urb. Law. 491	1999
Colbert, Douglas	Bifurcation of Civil Rights Defendants: Undermining Monellin Police Brutality Cases 44 Hastings L.J. 499	1993
Cushman, Steven	Municipal Liability under § 1983: Toward a New Definition of Municipal Policymaker 34 B.C.L. Rev. 693	1993
Frankel, Richard	Regulating Privatized Government Through § 1983 --U.Chi.L. Rev.--	2009
Gerhardt, Michael	Institutional Analysis of Municipal Liability Under § 1983 48 DePaul L. Rev. 669	1999
Gerhardt, Michael	The Monell Legacy: Balancing Federalism Concerns and Municipal Accountability under § 1983 62 S.Cal.L. Rev. 539	1989
Gilles, Myriam	Breaking the Code of Silence. Rediscovering "Custom" in § 1983 Municipal Liability 80 B.U.L. Rev. 17	2000
Hamilton, David	The Importance and Overuse of Policy and Custom Claims: A View from One Trench 48 DePaul L. Rev. 723	1999
Harrington, Eric	Judicial Misuse of History and § 1983: Toward a Purpose-Based Approach 85 Tex. L. Rev. 999	2007
Kaczorowski, Robert	Reflection on Monell's Analysis of the Legislative History of § 1983 31 Urb. Law. 407	1999
Kinports, Kit	The Buck Does Not Stop Here: Supervisory Liability in § 1983 Cases 1997 U. Ill. L. Rev. 147	1997
Kritchevsky, Barbara	Civil Rights Liability of Private Entities 26 Cardozo L. Rev. 81	2004
Kritchevsky, Barbara	Making Sense of State of Mind: Determining Responsibility in § 1983 Municipal Liability Litigation 60 G.W. L. Rev. 417	1992
Kritchevsky, Barbara	Reexamining Monell: Basing § 1983 Municipal Liability Doctrine on the Statutory Language 31 Urb. Law. 437	1999
Levin, Ronald	The § 1983 Municipal Immunity Doctrine 65 Geo. L. J. 1483	1977
Lewis, Harold Blumhoff, Theodore	Reshaping § 1983's Asymetry 140 Pa. L. Rev. 755	1982
Manley, Robert	Effective But Messy, Monell Should Endure 31 Urb. Law. 481	1999
Mead, Susanah	42 U.S.C. § 1983 Municipal Liability: The MonellSketch Becomes a Distorted Picture 65 N.C.L. Rev. 518	1987
Oliver, Solomon	Municipal Liability for Police Misconduct under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 after City of Oklahoma City v. Tuttle 64 Wash.U.L.Q. 151	1986
Oren, Laura	If Monell Were Reconsidered: Sexual Abuse and the Scope-of-Employment Doctrine in the Common Law 31 Urb. Law. 527	1999
Schnapper, Eric	Civil Rights Litigation After Monell 79 Colum. L. Rev 213	1979
Snyder, Barbara Rook	The Final Authority Analysis: A Unified Approach to Municipal Liability under § 1983 1986 Wis.L.Rev. 633	1986
Taylor, G. Flint	A Litigatior's View of Discovery and Proof in Police Misconduct Policy and Practice Cases 48 DePaul L. Rev. 747	1999
Turner, Ronald	Employer Liability for Supervisory Hostile Environmnet Sexual Harassment: Comparing Title VII's and § 1983's Regulatory Regimes 31 Urb Law. 503	1999
Whitman, Christina	Government Responsibility for Constitutional Torts 85 Mich.L. Rev. 225	1986