Books
Punish Treason, Reward Loyalty (forthcoming 2023).
American Constitutionalism (Vol II: Civil Rights and Liberties) (3d ed. 2021) (with Howard Gillman and Keith E. Whittington).
Constitutional Democracy in Crisis? (2018) (with Sanford Levinson and Mark Tushnet). Read Full Text.
American Constitutionalism: Volume V, The Constitution of the Confederate States (2018) (with Howard Gillmann).
American Constitutionalism (2d ed. 2017) (with Howard Gillman and Keith E. Whittington).
American Constitutionalism: Structures of Government (2d ed. 2017) (with Howard Gillman and Keith E. Whittington).
American Constitutionalism: Rights and Liberties (2d ed. 2017) (with Howard Gillman and Keith E. Whittington).
Editor, The Oxford Handbook of the U.S. Constitution (2015) (with Mark Tushnet & Sanford Levinson). Read Full Text.
A New Introduction to American Constitutionalism (2013). Read Full Text.
American Constitutionalism: Volume II, Rights and Liberties (2012) (with Howard Gillman & Keith E. Whittington). Read Full Text.
American Constitutionalism: Volume I, Structures of Government (2012) (with Howard Gillman & Keith E. Whittington). Read Full Text.
Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil (2006). Read Full Text.
Marbury versus Madison: Documents and Commentary (2002) (with Michael Perhac). Read Full Text.
Rethinking Abortion: Equal Choice, the Constitution, and Reproductive Politics (1996). Read Full Text.
Transforming Free Speech: The Ambiguous Legacy of Civil Libertarianism (1991). Read Full Text.
Book Chapters
The Unwritten Constitutions of the United States, in Amending America's Unwritten Constitution 25 (Richard Albert, Ryan C. Williams & Yaniv Roznai eds., 2022).
United States v. Vaello Madero on Puerto Rico and Precedent in Times of Constitutional Change, in SCOTUS 2022: Major Decisions and Developments of the US Supreme Court 163-71 (Morgan Marietta ed., 2022).
Kahler v. Kansas on the Insanity Defense, in SCOTUS 2020, at 91 (Morgan Marietta ed., 2021) (with Julia Bess Frank).
What's in Crisis? The Postwar Constitutional Paradigm, Transformative Constitutionalism and the Fate of Constitutional Democracy, in Constitutional Democracy in Crisis? (Mark Graber, Sanford Levinson & Mark Tushnet eds., 2018).
Counter-Stories: Maintaining and Expanding Civil Liberties in Wartime, in Constitution in Wartime: Beyond Alarmism and Complacency 95 (Mark Tushnet ed., 2018).
Race and American Constitutional Exceptionalism, in Comparative Constitutional Theory (Gary Jacobsohn & Miguel Schor eds., 2018).
Separation of Powers, in The Cambridge Companion to the United States Constitution (Karen Orren & John Compton eds., 2018).
Seeing, Seizing, and Searching Like a State: Constitutional Developments from the Seventeenth Century to the End of the Nineteenth Century, in The Cambridge Handbook of Surveillance Law (David C. Gray & Stephen E. Henderson eds., 2017).
Andrew Jackson, in The Presidents and the Constitution: A Living History (Ken Gormley ed., 2016).
James Madison's Republican Constitutionalism, in Constitutions and the Classics 327 (Denis Galligan ed., 2015).
Almost Legal: Disobedience and Partial Nullification in American Constitutional Politics and Law, in Nullification and Secession in Modern Constitutional Thought (Sanford Levinson ed., 2016).
Constitutional Law and American Politics, in The Oxford Handbook of Law and Politics (Keith E. Whittington et al. eds., 2010). Read Full Text.
John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil, in The Dred Scott Case: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Race and Law 49 (David Thomas Konig et al. eds., 2010).
Foreword: The Banality of Constitutional Evil, in Earl Maltz, Slavery and the Supreme Court, 1825-1861 (2009).
Legal, Strategic, or Legal Strategy: Deciding to Decide During the Civil War and Reconstruction, in The Supreme Court and American Political Development, (Ronald Kahn & Ken Kersch, eds. 2006). Read Full Text.
The Right to Vote and Other ‘Anomalies:’ Protecting and Expanding Civil Liberties in Wartime, in At War with Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (John Stack & Thomas Baker, eds. 2006).
From Republic to Democracy : The Judiciary and the Political Process, in The Judicial Branch (Kermit Hall & Kevin McGuire, eds. 2005).
Settling the West: The Annexation of Texas, the Louisiana Purchase and Bush v. Gore, in The Louisiana Purchase and American Expansion 1803-1898 (Sanford Levinson & Bartholomew H. Sparrow eds., 2005).
Bush v. Gore and the Annexation of Texas, in The Louisiana Purchase and American Expansion (Bartholomew Sparrow & Sanford Levinson, eds. 2005).
Counterstories: Protecting and Expanding Civil Liberties in Times of War, in The Constitution in Wartime: Beyond Alarmism and Complacency (Mark Tushnet, ed. 2005). Read Full Text.
Justice Thomas and the Perils of Amateur History, in Rehnquist Justice: Understanding the Court Dynamic (Earl Maltz ed., 2003).
The Law and Politics of Judicial Review, in Separation of Powers: Documents and Commentary (Katy Harriger ed., 2003).
Jewish Voices and Religious Freedom: A Jewish Critique of Critical Jewish Thinking, in Law and Religion: A Critical Anthology (Stephen M. Feldman ed., 2000).
Articles
Generational and Constitutional Change, 53 DPCE Online, no. 3, 1549 (2022). Read Full Text.
Justice Accused at 45: Reflections on Robert Cover's Masterwork, 37 Touro Law Review 1851 (2022) (with Sanford Levinson). Read Full Text.
Essentially Contested Constitutional Revolutions, 81 Maryland Law Review 205 (2021). Read Full Text.
Original Expectations, 52 Connecticut Law Review 1573 (2021). Read Full Text.
Korematsu's Ancestors, 74 Arkansas Law Review 425 (2021).
Book Review, Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present by Mary Ziegler , 108 Journal of America History 650 (2021).
The Post Civil-War Amendments as a Constitutional Revolution? 7 Constitutional Studies 2 (2021).
Ship Money: The Case that Time and Whittington Forgot, 35 Constitutional Commentary 47 (2020) Read Full Text.
McCulloch and the American Regime, 73 Arkansas Law Review 95 (2020) (reviewing David S. Schwartz, The Spirit of the Constitution: John Marshall and the 200-Year Odyssey of McCulloch v. Maryland (2019)).
Book Review, Entrenchment: Wealth, Power, and the Constitution of Democratic Societies, 107 Journal of American History 449 (2020).
Book Review, 37 Law & History Review 315 (2019) (reviewing Paul Finkelman, Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation's Highest Court (2018)).
Overruling McCulloch?, 72 Arkansas Law Review 79 (2019).
Functionalism and the Infield Fly Rule, 13 Florida International University Law Review 935 (2019). Read Full Text.
Foreword: Technological Change, Constitutional Flexibility, and Regime Stability, 79 Maryland Law Review 56 (2019). Read Full Text.
Book Review, 124 American Historical Review 1893 (2019) (reviewing Martha S. Jones, Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America (2018)).
The Constitutional Powers of Anti-Publian Presidents: Constitutional Interpretation in a Broken Constitutional Order, 21 Chapman Law Review 133 (2018) (with Sanford Levinson). Read Full Text.
Teaching the Forgotten Fourteenth Amendment and the Constitution of Memory, 62 St. Louis University Law Journal 639 (2018).
Liberals, 20th-Century American Constitutional Liberalism, and the Liberal Academy: A Comment of Laura Weinrib, The Taming of Free Speech: America's Civil Liberties Compromise, 18 Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies 88 (2018).
Book Review, 105 Journal of American History 144 (2018) (reviewing Susanna L. Blumenthal, Law and the Modern Mind: Consciousness and Responsibility in American Legal Culture (2016)).
The Collapse of the New Deal Conceptual Universe: The Schmooze Project, 77 Maryland Law Review 108 (2017). Read Full Text.
Book Review, 104 Journal of American History 187 (2017) (reviewing An Indispensable Liberty: The Fight for Free Speech in Nineteenth Century America (Mary M. Cronin ed., 2016)).
Judicial Supremacy Revisited: Independent Constitutional Authority in American Constitutional Law and Practice, 58 William & Mary Law Review 1549 (2017).
Judicial Supremacy and the Structure of Partisan Conflict, 50 Indiana Law Journal 141 (2016).
Young Jeffersonians and Adult Marshallians: Constitutional and Regime Transitions in Public Schools and Nation States, 1 Constitutional Studies 1 (2016).
The Second Freedmen's Bureau Bill's Constitution, 94 Texas Law Review 1361 (2016). Read Full Text.
The Declaration of Independence and Contemporary Constitutional Pedagogy, 89 Southern California Law Review 509 (2016). Read Full Text.
State Constitutions as National Constitutions, 69 Arkansas Law Review 371 (2016). Read Full Text.
Book Review, 33 Law & History Review 235 (2015) (reviewing J. David Alvis et al., The Contested Removal Power, 1789-2010 (2013).
Foreword: Private and Public Revisited Once Again, 75 Maryland Law Review 135 (2015). Read Full Text.
Harperooning, Groeing and Browning the First Amendment, 2015 University of Illinois Law Review Slip Opinions 75. Read Full Text.
The Declaration of Independence as Canon Fodder, 49 Tulsa Law Review 469 (2014) (book review). Read Full Text.
Beard and Uber-Beard, 29 Constitutional Commentary 293 (2014). Read Full Text.
Book Review, 2 American Political Thought 163 (2013) (reviewing Tamara R. Piety, Brandishing the First Amendment: Commercial Expression in America (2012)).
Executive Power: From the Constitutional Periphery to the Constitutional Core, 73 Maryland Law Review 1 (2013). Read Full Text.
The Coming Constitutional Yo-Yo?: Elite Opinion, Polarization, and the Direction of Judicial Decision Making, 56 Howard Law Journal 661 (2013). Read Full Text.
Redeeming and Living with Evil, 71 Maryland Law Review 1073 (2012). Read Full Text.
Subtraction by Addition? The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, 112 Columbia Law Review 1501 (2012). Read Full Text.
Constitutional Democracy, Human Dignity, and Entrenched Evil, 38 Pepperdine Law Review 889 (2011). Read Full Text.
Hollow Hopes and Exaggerated Fears: The Canon/Anticanon in Context, 125 Harvard Law Review Forum 33 (2011) Read Full Text.
Introduction to Law's Allure Symposium: Law and Politics—An Old Distinction, New Problems, 35 Law & Social Inquiry 1025 (2010) Read Full Text.
Book Review: Selection Biases, 45 Tulsa Law Review 575 (2010) (with Sanford Levinson). Read Full Text.
Constitutional Fits, 41 Journal of Social Philosophy 194 (2010).
A Tale Told by a President, 28 Yale Law & Policy Review: Inter Alia 13 (2010). Read Full Text.
Running Cars, Constitutions and Metaphors into the Ground, 18 The Good Society 35 (2009). Read Full Text.
Foreword: Our Paradoxical Religion Clauses, 69 Maryland Law Review 8 (2009). Read Full Text.
James Buchanan as Savior? Judicial Power, Political Fragmentation, and the Failed 1831 Repeal of Section 25, 88 Oregon Law Review 95 (2009). Read Full Text.
The Price of Fame: Brown as Celebrity, 69 Ohio State Law Journal 939 (2008). Read Full Text.
The Countermajoritarian Difficulty: From Congress to Courts to Constitutional Order, 4 Annual Reviews in Law & Social Science 361 (2008). Read Full Text.
False Modesty: Felix Frankfurter and the Tradition of Judicial Restraint, 47 Washburn Law Journal 23 (2007) Read Full Text.
No Better than They Deserve: Dred Scott and Constitutional Democracy, 34 Northern Kentucky Law Review 589 (2007).
Foreword: Making Sense of an Eighteenth Century Constitution in a Twenty-First Century World, 67 Maryland Law Review 1 (2007). Read Full Text.
Foreword: From the Countermajoritarian Difficulty to Juristocracy and the Political Construction of Judicial Power, 65 Maryland Law Review 1 (2006). Read Full Text.
Enumeration and Other Constitutional Strategies for Protecting Rights: the View from 1787/1791, 9 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 357 (2006). Read Full Text.
Does it Really Matter? Conservative Courts in a Conservative Era, 75 Fordham Law Review 675 (2006). Read Full Text.
Popular Constitutionalism, Judicial Supremacy, and the Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 81 Chicago-Kent Law Review 923 (2006). Read Full Text.
Constitutionalism and Political Science: Imaginative Scholarship, Unimaginative Teaching, 3 Perspectives on Politics 135 (2005). Read Full Text.
Dred Scott as a Centrist Decision, 83 North Carolina Law Review 1229 (2005).
The Jacksonian Makings of the Taney Court (2005). Read Full Text.
Lost and Not Yet Found: The New First Amendment, 14 The Good Society 19 (2005).
Ancients, Moderns, and Guns, 12 William & Mary Bill of Rights Law Review 307 (2004). Read Full Text.
Resolving Political Questions into Judicial Questions: Tocqueville's Thesis Revisited (2004). Read Full Text.
Establishing Judicial Review: Marbury v. The Judiciary Act of 1789, 38 Tulsa Law Review 609 (2003).
Social Democracy and Constitutional Theory: An Institutional Perspective, 69 Fordham Law Review 1969 (2001). Read Full Text.
Thick and Thin: Interdisciplinary Conversations on Populism, Law, Political Science, And Constitutional Change, 90 Georgetown Law Journal 233 (2001). Read Full Text.
Naked Land Transfers and American Constitutional Development, 53 Vanderbilt Law Review 73 (2000). Read Full Text.
The Jacksonian Origins of Chase Court Activism, 25 Journal of Supreme Court History 17 (2000).
Law and Sports Officiating: A Misunderstood and Justly Neglected Relationship, 16 Constitutional Commentary 293 (1999). Read Full Text.
The Clintonification of American Law: Abortion, Welfare, and Liberal Constitutional Theory, 58 Ohio State Law Journal 731 (1997).
Desperately Ducking Slavery: Dred Scott and Contemporary Constitutional Theory, 14 Constitutional Commentary 271 (1997). Read Full Text.
Conflicting Representations: Lani Guinier and James Madison on Electoral Systems, 13 Constitutional Commentary 291 (1996). Read Full Text.
Old Wine in New Bottles: The Constitutional Status of Unconstitutional Speech, 48 Vanderbilt Law Review 349 (1995). Read Full Text.
The Passive-Aggressive Virtues: Cohen v. Virginia and the Problematic Establishment of Judicial Power, 12 Constitutional Commentary 67 (1995). Read Full Text.
Judicial Recantation, 45 Syracuse Law Review 807 (1994). Read Full Text.
A Constitutional Conspiracy Unmasked: Why "No State" Does Not Mean "No State", 10 Constitutional Commentary 87 (1993). Read Full Text.
