AG Gonzales wroye his dissertation on Schmitt. Would have interesting if Dubya had nominated him to the SCOTUS to hear queries from the Senators on Schmitt.
Very good chapter in this book on German and Italian New Left appropriation of Schmittian anti-liberalism, "A Dangerous Mind: Carl Schmitt in Post-War European Thought, " by Jan-Werner Müller. http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300099320 "Carl Schmitt is at once one of the most sinister and one of the most interesting, and in his warped way stimulating and insightful, legal intellectuals of the twentieth century. A leader of anti-liberal thought, this reactionary Catholic and later Nazi thinker nevertheless managed to attract a strong posthumous following among the European New Left, and his thought remains fascinating, seductive, and dangerous—all as brilliantly shown in Müller's book. Liberals ignore Schmitt at their peril."—Richard A. Posner, judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and author of Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy
-- Michael Pugliese