Sanford V Levinson
- W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Centennial Chair
- Professor of Government
Sanford V Levinson: Publications
Search Publications
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article
Splitting the Atom of False Scientism in Constitutional Law
Arizona Law Review
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review
Randy Barnett’s Critique of Democracy (and Justice Marshall?)
Constitutional Commentary
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article
What One Can Learn from Foreign-Language Translations of the U.S. Constitution
Constitutional Commentary
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article
When Americans Think About Constitutional Reform: Some Data and Reflections
Ohio State Law Journal
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article
To Alter or Abolish
Southern California Law Review
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article
On the Inevitability of “Constitutional Design”
Arizona State Law Journal
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article
The Ten Year War: What if Lincoln Had Not Exited After Four Years?
Tulsa Law Review
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review
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article
Trash Talk at the Supreme Court: Reflections on David Pozen’s Constitutional Good Faith
Harvard Law Review Forum
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review
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article
The (Possible) Impact of Judaism and Israel on One Particular Career as a Legal Academic
Rutgers Journal of Law & Religion
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article
State Constitutions as Artifacts of Experimentations
Rutgers Law Journal
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article
“Who Counts?” “Sez Who?”
Saint Louis University Law Journal
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article
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article
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article
Taking States (and Metaphysics) Seriously
Michigan Law Review
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article
“Reflection and Choice”: A One-Time Experience?
Nebraska Law Review
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review
Philosophical Interventions: Reviews 1986-2011, by Martha C. Nussbaum
Toronto Law Journal
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book
Loyalty
New York University Press
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article
Meliorism v. "Bomb-Throwing" as Techniques of Reform
Tulsa Law Review
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article
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review
What Do We Talk About When We Talk About the Constitution?
Texas Law Review
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article
Reconsidering the Hanoverian King
Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
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review
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article
The Dangerous Thirteenth Amendment
Columbia Law Review
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article
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article
Jack Balkin as the Picasso of Constitutional Theorists [Symposium: Jack Balkin's Constitutional Text and Principle
University of Illinois Law Review
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article
Judicial Engagement in Enforcing Limits on Government Power
George Mason Law Review
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book
Framed: America's 51 Constitutions and the Crisis of Governance
New York: Oxford University Press
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review
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article
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article
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article
Who, If Anyone, Really Trusts “We the People”?
Ohio Northern University Law Review
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article
Has the Obama Presidency Vitiated the "Dysfunctional Constitution" Thesis?
Connecticut Law Review
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article
Courts as Participants in "Dialogue": A View from American States
University of Kansas Law Review
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article
Afterword: Full of Sound and Fury but Signifying Relatively Little?
Tennessee Law Review
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article
Compromise and Constitutionalism
Pepperdine Law Review
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article
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article
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article
States Can't Nullify Federal Law
Austin American-Statesman
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article
Selection Biases
Tulsa Law Review
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contribution
Morton Horwitz Wrestles with the Rule of Law
Transformations in American Legal History
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article
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article
Constitutional Dictatorship: Its Dangers and Its Design
Minnesota Law Review
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book
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book
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contribution
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review
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contribution
The Welfare State
A Companion to Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory
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article
Constitutional Crises
University of Pennsylvania Law Review
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article
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contribution
Constitution of the United States: Amendments to the Constitution
The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History
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article
What Should Citizens (As Participants in a Republican Form of Government) Know About the Constitution?
William and Mary Law Review
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article
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article
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article
For whom is the Heller Decision Important and Why?
Lewis & Clark Law Review
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article
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article
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article
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article
United States: Assessing Heller
International Journal of Constitutional Law
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article
Adapt U.S. Constitution to 21st Century Reality
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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article
Why Originalism?
The National Law Journal
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article
Political Party and Senatorial Succession: A Response to Vikram Amar on How Best to Interpret the Seventeenth Amendment
Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly
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contribution
Twenty-Seventh Amendment
Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States
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review
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contribution
Continuity in Government
Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States
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contribution
Article V
Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States
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contribution
Linda Greenhouse
Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States
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contribution
Twelfth Amendment
Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States
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contribution
Political Change and the "Creative Destruction" of Public Space
Cultural Human Rights
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review
Guns and the Constitution: A Complex Relationship
Reviews in American History
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article
Arms and Constitutional Design: An Essay for Laurence Tribe
Tulsa Law Review
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review
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article
No Vice
Boston Globe
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article
Impeachment: The Case Against
The Nation
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article
Afterword
Drake Law Review
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article
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article
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contribution
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article
Twenty-Year Legacy of South Dakota v. Dole: Dole Dialogue
South Dakota Law Review
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contribution
Our Papalist Supreme Court: Is Reformation Thinkable (or Possible)?
Law And The Sacred
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article
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article
Get Me Rewrite!
Boston Globe,
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article
Our Broken Constitution
The Los Angeles Times,
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article
It is Time to Repair the Constitution's Flaw
The Chronicle of Higher Education
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article
Against the Veto. Poison Pen
The New Republic
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contribution
Is Secession the Achilles Heel of 'Strong' Federalism?
Patterns Of Regionalism And Federalism
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contribution
Life Tenure and the Supreme Court: What Is to Be Done?
Reforming the Court: Term Limits for Supreme Court Justices
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contribution
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book
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article
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article
The Deepening Crisis of American Constitutionalism
Georgia Law Review
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article
Constitutional Norms in a State of Permanent Emergency
Georgia Law Review
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article
Law and the Humanities: An Uneasy Relationship
Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities
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contribution
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article
Is It Possible to Have a Serious Discussion About Religious Commitment and Judicial Responsibilities?
University of St. Thomas Law Journal
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article
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article
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article
Trial by Breyer
Austin American-Statesman,
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article
Age: The Unspoken Litmus Test for Bush as He Replaces O'Connor
Austin American-Statesman
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article
"Imposed Constitutionalism": Some Reflections
Connecticut Law Review
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article
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article
In Praise of Richard Weisberg and Engaged Scholarship
Cardozo Law Review
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article
Thinking About Polygamy [Symposium: The Meaning of Marriage]
San Diego Law Review
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article
Why Nuclear Disarmament May Be Easier to Achieve Than an End to Partisan Conflict over Judicial Appointments
University of Richmond Law Review
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contribution
Privacy
The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States
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contribution
Torture in Iraq and the Rule of Law in America
In the Name of Democracy: American War Crimes in Iraq and Beyond
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contribution
Privacy
The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States
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review
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article
Statues Stand for Flawed Vision of Unity
Austin American-Statesman
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article
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article
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article
Reply: Why I Still Won't Teach Marbury (Except in a Seminar)
University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law
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article
Speaking in the Name of the Law: Some Reflections on "Professional Responsibility"
St. Thomas Law Review
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article
Looking Abroad When Interpreting the U.S. Constitution: Some Reflections [Symposium: Globalization and the Judiciary]
Texas International Law Journal
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book
Torture: A Collection
Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press
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article
Superb History, Dubious Constitutional and Political Theory: Comments on Uviller and Merkel, The Militia and the Right to Arms
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
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review
Shards of Citizenship, Shards of Sovereignty: On the Continued Usefulness of an Old Vocabulary
Constitutional Commentary
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review
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article
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article
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article
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article
Why I Did Not Sign the Constitution: With a Chance to Endorse It, I Had to Decline
Writ: Findlaw's Legal Commentary
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article
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article
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article
The Supreme Court and Affirmative Action: Ruling by Ruling, We Inch Closer to Core Problem at Our Universities
AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN, June 25, 2003, at A11
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contribution
The Historians' Counterattack: Some Reflections on the Historiography of the Second Amendment
Guns, Crime, and Punishment in America
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book
Wrestling with Diversity
Durham, NC: Duke University Press
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article
Why I Do Not Teach Marbury (Except to Eastern Europeans) and Why You Shouldn't Either
Wake Forest Law Review
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article
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article
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article
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contribution
"Getting Religion": Religion, diversity, and Community in Public and Private Schools
School Choice: the Moral Debate
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article
What Follows Putting Reason in Its Place? "Now Vee May Perhaps to Begin. Yes?"
University of Pennsylvania Law Review
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article
What Are the Facts of Marbury v. Madison?
Constitutional Commentary
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review
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review
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article
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article
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article
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article
The Lawyer as Moral Counselor: How Much Should the Client Be Expected to Pay?
77 Notre Dame Law Review
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article
One Person, One Vote: A Mantra in Need of Meaning
North Carolina Law Review
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contribution
Arms, Right to Bear
The Oxford Companion to American Law
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contribution
The Louisiana Purchase as Seminal Constitutional Event
The Louisiana Purchase: Emergence of an American Nation
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article
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article
What is the Constitution's Role in Wartime?: Why Free Speech and Other Rights Are Not As Safe As You Might Think
Writ: FindLaw's Legal Commentary
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article
Bombs Bursting in Air, and Our Flag Still There: Why a Small Island Near Puerto Rico May Be the Harbinger of a Constitutional Crisis
Writ: FindLaw's Legal Commentary
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article
Return of Legal Realism
The Nation
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article
What We'll Remember in 2050: 9 Views on Bush v. Gore
Chronicle of Higher Education
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article
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article
Understanding the Constitutional Revolution
Virginia Law Review
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article
Who's Afraid of the Twelfth Amendment?
Florida State University Law Review
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article
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article
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article
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article
"Democracy in a New America": Some Reflections on a Title
North Carolina Law Review
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article
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contribution
Installing the Insular Cases into the Canon of Constitutional Law
Foreign in a Domestic Sense: Puerto Rico, American Expansion, and the Constitution
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contribution
Designing an Amendment Process
Constitutional Culture and Democratic Rule
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article
I Dissent! The Constitution Got Us Into This Mess
Washington Post
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article
The Twelfth Amendment: A Time Bomb
Writ: FindLaw's Legal Commentary
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article
2 Texans, Not 1
New York Times
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article
What Does the Confederate Statuary on the Capitol Grounds Say About Us?
Austin American-Statesman
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contribution
Widmar v. Vincent
Religion and American Law: An Encyclopedia
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contribution
Trials, Commissions, and Investigating Committees: The Elusive Search for Norms of Due Process
Truth v. Justice: The Morality of the Truth Commissions
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contribution
Religious Diversity and the Constitution
Encyclopedia of the American Constitution
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contribution
Militias, Modern
Encyclopedia of the American Constitution
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contribution
Legal Canons: An Introduction
Legal Canons
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contribution
Gun Control
Encyclopedia of the American Constitution
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contribution
Constitution as Civil Religion
Encyclopedia of the American Constitution
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contribution
Constitutional Theory (Update)
Encyclopedia of the American Constitution
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contribution
Constitutional Canons and Constitutional Thought
Legal Canons
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article
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article
Why Professor Lynch Asks the Right Questions
Seton Hall Law Review
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article
Why It's Smart to Think About Constitutional Stupidities
Georgia State University Law Review
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article
Diversity [1999 Owen J. Roberts Memorial Lecture]
University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law
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book
Legal Canons
New York: New York University Press
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article
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article
Constitutional Populism: Is It Time for "We the People" to Demand An Article Five Convention?
Widener Law Symposium Journal
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article
Transitions
Yale Law Journal
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article
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article
Roundtable Discussion
Widener Law Symposium Journal
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article
Silencing the Past: Public Monuments and the Tutelary State
Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal
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contribution
Law as Performance
Law and Literature: Current Legal Issues
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article
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contribution
Antigone and Creon
Constitutional Stupidities, Constitutional Tragedies
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contribution
How Stupid Can a Coasean Constitution Be?
Constitutional Stupidities, Constitutional Tragedies
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contribution
The Operational Irrelevance of Originalism
Liberty Under Law: American Constitutionalism, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
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contribution
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article
Some (Brief) Reflections About Law and Literature
Cardozo Studies in Law & Literature
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book
Constitutional Stupidities, Constitutional Tragedies
New York: New York University Press
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book
Written in Stone: Public Monuments in Changing Societies
Durham, NC: Duke University Press
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article
The Canons of Constitutional Law
Harvard Law Review
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article
The Second Amendment as Teaching Tool in Constitutional Law Classes
Journal of Legal Education
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article
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review
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contribution
Slavery in the Canon of Constitutional Law
Slavery & the Law
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article
Translation: Who Needs It?
Fordham Law Review
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review
Fan Letters
Texas Law Review
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article
On Political Boundary Lines, Multiculturalism, and the Liberal State
Indiana Law Journal
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contribution
Abstinence and Exclusion: What Does Liberalism Demand of the Religiously Oriented (Would Be) Judge?
Religion and Contemporary Liberalism
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article
High Court Puts UT at a Disadvantage
Austin American-Statesman
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article
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article
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article
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article
Experience and Legal Education
Cumberland Law Review
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article
Hopwood: Some Reflections on Constitutional Interpretation by an Inferior Court
Texas Forum on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights
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article
Introduction: Why Select a Favorite Case?
Texas Law Review
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article
The Limited Relevance of Originalism in the Actual Performance of Legal Roles
Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
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article
An Open Letter to Congressman Gingrich
Yale Law Journal
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article
The Political Implications of Amending Clauses
Constitutional Commentary
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article
Raoul Berger Pleads for Judicial Activism: A Comment
Texas Law Review
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contribution
The Rhetoric of the Judicial Opinion
Law's Stories: Narrative and Rhetoric in the Law
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article
How to Win Cites and Influence People
Chicago-Kent Law Review
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article
To Keep and Bear Arms: An Exchange
New York Times Review of Books
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article
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article
Dear Newt: "Supermajority" Goes Too Far
Legal Times
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article
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article
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article
Presidential Elections and Constitutional Stupidities
Constitutional Commentary
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review
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book
Responding to Imperfection: The Theory and Practice of Constitutional Amendment
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
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article
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article
National Loyalty, Communalism, and the Professional Identity of Lawyers
Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities
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article
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article
Authorizing Constitutional Text: On the Purported Twenty-seventh Amendment
Constitutional Commentary
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article
Constitutional Grammar
Texas Law Review
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review
The Multicultures of Belief and Disbelief
Michigan Law Review
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article
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article
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review
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article
Examining the Scholarly Ideas of Presidential Nominees
Chronicle of Higher Education
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article
Justice Needs Experience
Dallas Morning News
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article
The Court Needs Street Smarts
New York Times
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article
Presidential Power and Gays in the Military
Wall Street Journal
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review
Strategy, Jurisprudence, and Certiorari
Virginia Law Review
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article
Some Reflections on Multiculturalism, "Equal Concern and Respect," and the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment
University of Richmond Law Review
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article
Parliamentarianism, Progressivism, and 1937: Some Reservations about Professor West's Aspirational Constitution
Northwestern University Law Review
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article
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article
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article
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contribution
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article
Slavery in the Canon of Constitutional Law
Chicago-Kent Law Review
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contribution
Constitutionalism as Civil Religion
1992 Supplement to Encyclopedia of the American Constitution
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contribution
Enlivening the Text: Interpreting (or Inventing) the Constitution
The United States Constitution: Roots; Rights, and Responsibilities
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article
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article
The Audience for Constitutional Meta-Theory (or, Why and to Whom, Do I Write the Things I Do?)
University of Colorado Law Review
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review
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article
Religious Language and the Public Square
Harvard Law Review
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article
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review
Lingo Fracas
Nation
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article
Contempt of Court: The Most Important "Contemporary Challenge to Judging"
Washington & Lee Law Review
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contribution
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article
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article
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review
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article
Law, Music, and Other Performing Arts
University of Pennsylvania Law Review
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review
Conversing About Justice
Yale Law Journal
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review
Passion, System, and First Amendment Jurisprudence
Law & Social Inquiry
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article
"The Ambiguity of Political Virtue": A Response to Wolfast
Social Theory & Practice
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article
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article
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review
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article
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review
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article
Taking Oaths Seriously: A Comment on Carter and Sunstein
Yale Journal of Law & Humanities
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article
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article
Electoral Regulation: Some Comments
Hofstra Law Review
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article
The Embarrassing Second Amendment
Yale Law Journal
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article
Suffrage and Community: Who Should Vote?
Florida Law Review
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review
Two Jewish Justices: Outcasts in the Promised Land, by Robert A. Burt
Cardozo Law Review
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article
Some Reflections on the Rehabilitation of the Privileges and Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
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article
The Oliver Wendell Holmes History of the Supreme Court of the United States
Virginia Law Review
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article
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article
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article
Constitutional Rhetoric and the Ninth Amendment
Chicago-Kent Law Review
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article
Comment [Symposium on Interpreting the Ninth Amendment]
Chicago-Kent Law Review
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book
Constitutional Faith
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
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article
Public Lives and the Limits of Privacy
PS: Newsletter of the American Political Science Association
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article
Response: Comments on Harvey Mansfield's Review of Constitutional Faith
Yale Journal of Law & Humanity
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article
Some Reflections on the Rehabilitation of the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment
Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
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article
Why Papalism? A Response to Justice McCarthy
St. Louis University Public Law Review
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book
Interpreting Law and Literature
Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press
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article
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contribution
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article
Faith in the Republic: A Francis Lewis Law Center Conversation
Washington & Lee Law Review
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article
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review
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article
Some Reflections on the Posnerian Constitution
George Washington Law Review
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article
The Inescapability of Making Choices
Hamline Law Review
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article
Pledging Faith in the Civil Religion; or, Would You Sign the Constitution?
William & Mary Law Review
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review
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article
Could Meese Be Right This Time?
Tulane Law Review
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review
The Failure of the Word, by Richard Weisberg
Cardozo Law Review
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article
Constituting Communities Through Words that Bind: Reflections on Loyalty Oaths
Michigan Law Review
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article
Frivolous Cases: Do Lawyers Really Know Anything At All?
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
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article
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article
Professing Law: Commitment of Faith or Detached Analysis?
St. Louis University Law Journal
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review
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review
Dimensions of Tolerance: What Americans Believe, by Herbert McClosky & Alida Brill
Constitution Commentary
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review
Politics and Money: The New Road to Corruption, by Elizabeth Drew
Michigan Law Review
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article
What Do Lawyers Know (And What Do They Do With Their Knowledge)?
Southern California Law Review
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review
Freedom of Expression, by Martin H. Redish
Northwestern University Law Review
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contribution
Freedom of Speech and the Right of Access to Private Property Under State Constitutional Law
Developments in State Constitutional Law: The Williamsburg Conference
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review
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article
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article
On Interpretation: The Adultery Clause of the Ten Commandments
Southern California Law Review
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article
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article
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article
On Dworkin, Kennedy, and Ely: Decoding the Legal Past
Partisan Review
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article
Escaping Liberalism: Easier Said Than Done
Harvard Law Review
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article
Law [Symposium on American Thought in the 1980s]
American Quarterly
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article
The Turn Toward Functionalism in Constitutional Theory
Dayton Law Review
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contribution
Princeton Versus Free Speech: A Post Mortem
Regulating the Intellectuals: Perspectives on Academic Freedom in the 1980's
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review
Death Penalties, by Raoul Berger
The Nation
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review
The Politics of Law: a Progressive Critique, by David Kairys
Harvard Law Review
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review
Educational Policy-Making and the Courts: an Empirical Study of Judicial Activism, by Michael Rebell
American Journal of Education
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article
Under Cover: The Hidden Costs of Infiltration
Hastings Center Report
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article
Law as Literature
Texas Law Review
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article
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article
Judicial Review and the Problem of the Comprehensible Constitution
Texas Law Review
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contribution
Die Zulassung zum offentlichen Dienst und die Schranken der politischen Bestatigung der Beamten in der USA, in Extremisten und Offentlicher Dienst: Rechstlage und Praxis des Zugangs zum und der Entlassung aus dem Offentlichen Dienst in Westeuropa, USA
Extremisten und Offentlicher Dienst: Rechstlage und Praxis des Zugangs zum und der Entlassung aus dem Offentlichen Dienst in Westeuropa, USA, Jugoslawien und der EG
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article
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review
Democracy and Distrust, by John Hart Ely
Texas Law Review
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review
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review
Woe Unto You Lawyers!, by Fred Rodell
The Nation
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article
A.A.L.S. Law and Religion Panel: Law as Our Civil Religion
Mercer Law Review
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article
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review
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article
Bilingualism: A Symposium
The Nation
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article
Self-Evident Truths in the Declaration of Independence
Texas Law Review
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article
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article
U.S. Judges: The Case for Politics
The Nation
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article
Taking Law Seriously: Reflections on "Thinking Like a Lawyer"
Stanford Law Review
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review
The Mirage of Social Justice, by Freidrich Hayek
American Political Science Review
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review
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review
Lying, by Sissela Bok
The Nation
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article
How Not to Pick a Judge
The Nation
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review
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article
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review
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review
The Role of the Supreme Court in American Government, by Archibald Cox
New England Quarterly
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article
Fidelity to Law and the Assessment of Political Activity
Stanford Law Review
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review
Unequal Justice, by Jerold S. Auerbach
Vanderbilt Law Review
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article
New Perspectives on the Reconstruction Court
Stanford Law Review
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article
The Rediscovery of Law
Soundings
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review
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article
The Democratic Faith of Felix Frankfurter
Stanford Law Review
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article
Responsibility for Crimes of War
Philosophy and Public Affairs
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review
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review
Open Systems, by Henry S. Kariel
American Political Science Review
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book
Power and Community: Dissenting Essays in Political Science
New York: Pantheon Books
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review
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review
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review
The Case For Liberty, by Helen Day Miller
Yale Law Journal
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article