Books
Parliamentary America: The Least Radical Means of Radically Repairing Our Broken Democracy (forthcoming 2024).
Law and Economics: Private and Public (2018) (with Todd J. Zywicki and Thomas Miceli). [Abstract]
Teacher's Manual to Law and Economics: Private and Public (2018) (with Todd Zywicki & Tom Miceli).
Public Choice Concepts and Applications in Law (2009) (with Todd J. Zywicki). [Abstract]
Constitutional Process: A Social Choice Analysis of Supreme Court Decision Making (2000) (paperback ed. with new afterword, 2002). [Abstract]
Public Choice and Public Law: Readings and Commentary (1997).
Book Chapters
A Public Choice Perspective, in Methodologies of Law and Economics 44 (Thomas S. Ulen ed., 2017).
A Social Choice View of Law and Economics, in Methodologies of Law and Economics 72 (Thomas S. Ulen ed., 2017) (with Megan McGinnis).
The Economics of Constitutional Law, in The Oxford Handbook of the U.S. Constitution 991 (Mark Tushnet et al. eds., 2015).
Private-Rights Litigation and the Normative Foundations of Durable Constitutional Precedent, in Precedent in the United States Supreme Court 77 (Christopher J. Peters ed., 2013). [Full Text]
An Introduction to Social Choice, in Elgar Handbook on Public Choice 88 (Daniel A. Farber & Ann Joseph O'Connell eds., 2010). [Full Text]
A Private-Rights Standing Model to Promote Public-Regarding Behavior by Government-Owned Corporations, in From Bureaucracy to Business Enterprise: Legal and Policy Issues in the Transformation of Government Services (Michael J. Whincop ed., 2002). [Full Text]
Articles
Modeling Narrowest Grounds, 89 George Washington Law Review 461 (2021). [Full Text]
Constitutional Law's Conflicting Premises, 96 Notre Dame Law Review 447 (2020). [Full Text]
Reflections on the Aftermath of Election 2016, 77 Maryland Law Review 271 (2017). [Full Text]
Obergefell, Fisher, and the Inversion of Tiers, 19 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 1043 (2017). [Full Text]
Election 2016 and the Structural Constitution: A Preliminary Framing, 76 Maryland Law Review Endnotes 4 (2016). [Full Text]
Spokeo v. Robins and the Constitutional Foundations of Statutory Standing, 68 Vanderbilt Law Review en banc 221 (2015). [Full Text]
Constitutional Law in Social Choice Perspective, 163 Public Choice 167 (2015). [Abstract]
Grains of Sand or Butterfly Effect: Standing, the Legitimacy of Precedent, and Reflections on Hollingsworth and Windsor, 65 Alabama Law Review 349 (2013). [Full Text]
Commerce Games and the Individual Mandate, 100 Georgetown Law Journal 1117 (2012) (with Leslie Meltzer Henry). [Full Text]
Direct (Anti-)Democracy, 80 George Washington Law Review 311 (2012). [Full Text]
Standing at the Crossroads: The Roberts Court in Historical Perspective, 83 Notre Dame Law Review 875 (2008). [Full Text]
The New Commerce Clause Doctrine in Game Theoretical Perspective, 60 Vanderbilt Law Review 1 (2007). [Full Text]
Defining Dicta, 57 Stanford Law Review 953 (2005) (with Michael Abramowicz). [Full Text]
A Beautiful Mend: A Game Theoretical Analysis of the Dormant Commerce Clause Doctrine, 45 William & Mary Law Review 1 (2003). [Full Text]
Book Review, Appellate Courts Inside Out, 101 Michigan Law Review 1764 (2003) (reviewing Jonathan Matthew Cohen, Inside Appellate Courts (2002)). [Full Text]
The Condorcet Jury Theorem and Judicial Decision Making: A Reply to Saul Levmore, 3 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 125 (2002). [Full Text]
Beyond Counting Votes: The Political Economy of Bush v. Gore, 54 Vanderbilt Law Review 1849 (2001) (with Michael Abramowicz). [Full Text]
From Lujan to Laidlaw: A Preliminary Model of Environmental Standing, 11 Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum 321 (2001). [Full Text]
The Case for Including Marks v. United States within the Canon of Constitutional Law, 17 Constitutional Commentary 321 (2001). [Full Text]
Why Should Lawyers Care About Institutional Data on Courts?, 83 Judicature 236 (2000). [Full Text]
Should Justices Ever Switch Votes?: Miller v. Albright in Social Choice Perspective, 7 Supreme Court Economic Review 87 (1999). [Full Text]
The Remand that Made the Court Expand, 16 Constitutional Commentary 581 (1999). [Full Text]
Restoring Positive Law and Economics: Introduction to Public Choice Theme Issue, 6 George Mason Law Review 709 (1998). [Full Text]
Mistretta versus Marbury: The Foundations of Judicial Review, 74 Texas Law Review 1281 (1996). [Full Text]
How Outcome Voting Promotes Principled Issue Identification: A Reply to Professor John Rogers and Others, 49 Vanderbilt Law Review 1045 (1996). [Full Text]
Standing Back from the Forest: Justiciability and Social Choice, 83 California Law Review 1309 (1995). [Full Text]
Poetic Law: A Statement on Intent, 48 Vanderbilt Law Review 195 (1995). [Full Text]
Standing and Social Choice: Historical Evidence, 144 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 309 (1995). [Full Text]
The Misguided Renaissance of Social Choice, 103 Yale Law Journal 1219 (1994). [Full Text]
The Public Choice Case Against the Item Veto, 49 Washington & Lee Law Review 385 (1992). [Full Text]