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ANDREW KOPPELMAN

2023

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Stanford Law Students’ Infantile Protests, Chronicle of Higher Education (Apr. 3, 2023).

• The Anti-Vax Tribalism of Republican Judges, The Hill (Apr. 8, 2023).

• Religion and the Lawbreaking Supreme Court, The Hill (Mar. 6, 2023).

• The Professional Utopians: On J. Bradford DeLong’s ‘Slouching Towards Utopia’, Los Angeles Review of Books (Mar. 27, 2023).

• The Phony Rape Exception to Abortion Bans, The Hill (Feb. 3, 2023).

• The Supreme Court Lets Domestic Abusers Have Their Guns, American Prospect (Feb. 21, 2023).

• Why Jack Balkin Is Kindling, Balkinization (Jan. 21, 2023).

Working Papers

• Religious Liberty as a Judicial Autoimmune Disorder: The Supreme Court Repudiates its Own Authority in Kennedy v. Bremerton, ___ Hastings Law Review ___ (forthcoming), Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 23-24 (2023).

• The Use and Abuse of Tradition: A Comment on DeGirolami’s Traditionalism Rising, ___ Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues ___ (forthcoming), Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 23-11 (2023).

• Madison’s Non Sequitur: A Comment on Vincent Phillip Muñoz, Religious Liberty and the American Founding, ___ American Political Thought: A Journal Of Ideas, Institutions, And Culture (forthcoming), Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 23-06 (2023).

• The Fluidity of Political Legitimacy: On Michelman’s Constitutional Essentials, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 23-03, ___ Philosophy & Social Criticism ___ (forthcoming 2023).

2022

Books

• Burning Down the House: How Libertarian Philosophy Was Corrupted by Delusion and Greed (2022).

Articles

• Bostock and Textualism: A Response to Berman and Krishnamurthi, 98 Notre Dame Law Review Reflection 89 (2022).

• Michael Perry and Human Rights, 23 Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues 485 (2022).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• How the Respect for Marriage Act Will Heal One of America’s Most Toxic Divisions, The Hill (Dec. 4, 2022).

• Do Professors Have a Right to Mistreat Students?, Chronicle of Higher Education (Dec. 9, 2022).

• Nozick vs. Kant on Libertarianism, Philosophical Salon (Dec. 19, 2022).

• The Grotesque, Wonderful Respect for Marriage Act, American Prospect (Nov. 21, 2022).

• The Libertarian Party Is Collapsing. Here’s Why, The Hill (Oct. 9, 2022).

• The Continuing, Destructive Power of Libertarianism, The Hill (Oct. 23, 2022).

• How Charles Koch Successfully Peddled the Snake Oil of Climate Change Denial, Daily Beast (Oct. 24, 2022).

• Making History End, Again, Los Angeles Review of Books (Sept. 10, 2022).

• Religion and Samuel Alito’s Time Bomb, The Hill (Sept. 11, 2022).

• Elena Kagan and the Supreme Not-A-Court, The Hill (Sept. 25, 2022).

• Religion and the Wrong Defense of Abortion Rights, The Hill (Aug. 13, 2022).

• The Abortion Emergency in the Federal Courts, The Hill (Aug. 28, 2022).

• The Supreme Court and the New Religious Aristocracy, The Hill (July 03, 2022).

• The Neglected Common Ground on Abortion, The Hill (July 17, 2022).

• Climate Change and the Supreme Court’s Version of Police Abolitionism, The Hill (July 31, 2022).

• If an Embryo Is Now a Person, Mortality Rates Just Soared in Alabama, Washington Post (July 6, 2022) (Co-authored by: Daniel Wikler).

• Biden’s Gay Rights/Religious Liberty Opportunity, The Hill (June 5, 2022).

• Originalism and the Football Coach’s Prayer, The Hill (May 7, 2022).

• Akhil Amar and the Dobbs Draft, The Hill (May 22, 2022).

• Bad Political Philosophy Can Kill You, The Hill (Apr. 24, 2022).

• Anti-Vaccine Judges Attack the Navy, The Hill (Mar. 14, 2022).

• Josh Hammer and Originalism’s Entropy, The Hill (Feb. 14, 2022).

• Ketanji Brown Jackson and the Job of a Public Defender, The Hill (Feb. 27, 2022).

• The Libertarian Myth at the Heart of Legal Challenges to Biden’s Vaccine Mandates, The Hill (Jan. 2, 2022).

• Scandalous Suppression at a Law Review, Chronicle of Higher Education (Jan. 12, 2022).

• Debating the Emory Law Journal Controversy, Academe Blog (Jan. 14, 2022) (Co-authored by: John K. Wilson).

• The Supreme Court’s Embarrasing OSHA Decision, Smerconish (Jan. 25, 2022).

• Abortion and the 13th Amendment, The Hill (Jan. 30, 2022).

Working Papers

• “It is Tash Whom He Serves”: Deneen and Vermeule on Liberalism, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 22-33, ___ Notre Dame Law Review ___ (forthcoming 2023).

• The Emerging First Amendment Right to Mistreat Students, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 22-31, ___ Case Western Law Review ___ (forthcoming 2022).

• Rawls, Inequality, and Welfare State Capitalism, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 22-10, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 22-07 (2022).

• The Increasingly Dangerous Variants of the “Most-Favored-Nation” Theory of Religious Liberty, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 22-01 (2022).

• Justice Alito, Originalism, and the Aztecs, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 22-02 (2022).

2021

Articles

• Why Do (Some) Originalists Hate America?, 63 Arizona Law Review 1033 (2021).

• In Praise of Evil Thoughts, 37 Social Philosophy & Policy 52 (2020).

• Do Transgender Students Have Rights to Equal Treatment in the Classroom?, American Prospect (Apr. 12, 2021).

• Between the Trenches of the Culture Wars, But Not with Ill Will: An Exchange, Public Discourse (Jan. 8, 2021) (Co-authored by: Adam J. MacLeod).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Neil Gorsuch’s Terrifying Paragraph, The Hill (Dec. 5, 2021).

• Has the Supreme Court Been Infected with Long Trump Syndrome?, The Hill (Nov. 2, 2021).

• Yes, This Is a Witch Hunt, Chronicle of Higher Education (Nov. 17, 2021).

• How Religious Liberty Was Distorted in the Age of COVID-19, The Hill (Nov. 21, 2021).

• Halfway to the Right, New York Review of Books (Oct. 7, 2021).

• Yale Law’s Bullying, Coercive Diversity Leaders, Chronicle of Higher Education (Oct. 18, 2021).

• Yale Law Needs to Learn to Watch Its Language, The Hill (Oct. 24, 2021).

• The Supreme Court’s Texas Abortion Decision Is a Threat to Constitutional Rights (All of Them), The Hill (Sept. 7, 2021).

• Linda Greenhouse and the Religious Right, The Hill (July 16, 2021).

• Gay Rights, Religion, and Giving Peace a Chance, Berkley Forum (July 26, 2021).

• Ending the Same-Sex Marriage Wars, The Hill (June 13, 2021).

• The Supreme Court Creates a New Religious Aristocracy, The Hill (Apr. 19, 2021).

• Abuse As a Constitutional Right: The Meriwether Case, The Hill (Apr. 5, 2021).

• Joe Manchin as a Hollywood Western Hero, The Hill (Mar. 9, 2021).

• Socialists for Capitalism, Niskanen Center (Feb. 2, 2021).

• A Time for Pity and Contempt, The Hill (Jan. 2, 2021).

• Why Trump Can’t Be Prosecuted, The Hill (Jan. 12, 2021).

• No, It Would Not Be Unconstitutional for Trump’s Impeachment Trial to Take Place After He’s Out of Office, Law & Crime (Jan. 13, 2021) (Co-authored by: Steven Lubet).

• Is This Law Professor Really a Homicidal Threat?, Chronicle of Higher Education (Jan. 19, 2021).

• Cancel Culture Comes for the Moderates, The Hill (Jan. 24, 2021).

Working Papers

• Michael Perry and Human Rights, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 21-24, ___ Emory Law Journal ___ (forthcoming 2021).

• Bostock and Textualism: A Response to Berman and Krishnamurthi, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 21-22 (2021).

2020

Books

• Gay Rights vs. Religious Liberty? The Unnecessary Conflict (2020).

Articles

• The Great Awokening and Overlapping Consensus, Public Discourse (Dec. 9, 2020).

• Gay Rights, Religious Liberty, and the Misleading Racism Analogy, 2020 BYU Law Review 1.

• Bostock, LGBT Discrimination, and the Subtractive Moves, 105 Minnesota Law Review Headnotes 1 (2020).

• Liberal Conservatism, New Rambler Review (Aug. 26, 2020).

• Bostock: What Two Conservatives Realized and Three Dissenters Missed, American Prospect (June 15, 2020).

• “The Function of the Independent Lawyer as a Guardian of Our Freedom”: The Great Stevens Dissent in Walters, 114 Northwestern University Law Review 1771 (2020).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• That Op-Ed About Jill Biden Is Awful. Northwestern’s Response Might Be Worse., Chronicle of Higher Education (Dec. 16, 2020) (Co-authored by: Steven Lubet).

• Mitch McConnell Might Not Endanger the Planet, The Hill (Nov. 6, 2020).

• What Georgia Voters Need to Know, The Hill (Nov. 12, 2020).

• COVID-19, Masks and the Freedom to Drive Drunk, The Hill (Nov. 29, 2020).

• Void the Police Contracts, The Hill (Sept. 13, 2020).

• What Is Systemic Racism, Anyway?, USA Today (Sept. 23, 2020).

• The Real Danger Amy Coney Barrett Poses to ObamaCare, The Hill (Sept. 27, 2020).

• Supreme Court Rulings Make the World Safer for Both LGBT People and Religious Freedom, USA Today (July 21, 2020).

• Gay Rights, Religion and What’s Wrong with Principles, The Hill (July 22, 2020).

• States Must Protect Their Residents from Criminals — Even Ones Wearing Federal Uniforms, The Hill (July 28, 2020).

• Is the Roberts Court Going to Let Coronavirus Kill Us?, Just Security (Apr. 17, 2020) (Co-authored by: Steven Lubet).

2019

Articles

• The Real Trouble with Emoluments, American Prospect (Sept. 19, 2019) (Co-authored by: Steven Lubet).

• This Isn’t About You: A Comment on Smith’s Pagans and Christians in the City, 56 San Diego Law Review 393 (2019).

Working Papers

• LGBT Discrimination and the Subtractive Moves, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 19-19 (2019).

2018

Articles

• Tebbe and Reflective Equilibrium, 31 Journal of Civil Rights & Economic Development 125 (2018).

• American Evil: A Response to Kleinfeld on Punishment, 50 Arizona State Law Journal 179 (2018).

• Why the Mueller Investigation Is Constitutional, The American Prospect (May 30, 2018) (Co-authored by: Steven Lubet).

Contributions to Books

• The Joys of Mutual Contempt, in Religious Freedom, Lgbt Rights, and The Prospects for Common Ground 111 (William Eskridge, Jr. & Robin Fretwell Wilson eds. 2018).

• What Kind of Human Right is Religious Liberty?, in Research Handbook on Law and Religion (Rex Ahdar ed. 2018).

2017

Articles

• Unparadoxical Liberalism, 54 San Diego Law Review 257 (2017).

• Corrupting the National Book Award?, Balkinization (Oct. 26, 2017).

• Why the Trump Administration Will Lose Its Case Against Gay Rights, Fortune (Jul. 29, 2017).

• How Could Religious Liberty Be a Human Right?, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 17-15, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 17-08, International Journal of Constitutional Law (forthcoming 2017).

• Introduction: The Moral Demands of Commercial Speech, 25 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 761 (2017).

• Kent Greenawalt, Defender of the Faith, 95 Texas Law Review 821 (2017) (reviewing Kent Greenawalt, EXEMPTIONS: NECESSARY, JUSTIFIED, OR MISGUIDED?).

• If Liberals Knew Themselves Better, Conservatives Might Like Them Better, 20 Lewis & Clark Law Review 1201 (2017).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Masterpiece Cakeshop and How “Religious Liberty” Became So Toxic, VOX (Dec. 6, 2017).

• Does Jason Chaffetz Understand His Job?, CNN.com (Feb. 11, 2017) (Co-authored by: Steven Lubet).

2016

Articles

• Lupu, Tuttle, and Singling out Religion, 111 Northwestern University Law Review Online 41 (2016).

• Greenawalt and the Place of Religion: Comment on the McElroy Lecture, University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, March 16, 2016, 93 University of Detroit Mercy Law Review 369 (2016).

• A Free Speech Response to the Gay Rights/Religious Liberty Conflict, Northwestern University Law Review (2016).

• Kathleen Brady, the Distinctiveness of Religion in American Law: Rethinking Religion Clause Jurisprudence, Journal of Religion (forthcoming).

• A Zombie in the Supreme Court: The Elane Photography Cert Denial, 7 Alabama Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Law Review 77 (2015).

• Revenge Pornography and First Amendment Exceptions, 65 Emory Law Journal 661 (2016).

• Unparadoxical Liberalism, San Diego Law Review (forthcoming).

2015

Articles

• Does Respect Require Antiperfectionism? Gaus on Liberal Neutrality, 22 Harvard Review of Philosophy 53 (2015).

• Is Hobby Lobby Worse for Religious Liberty Than Smith?, 9 St. Thomas Journal of Law & Public Policy 223 (2015) (Co-authored by: Frederick Mark Gedicks).

• Gay Rights, Religious Accommodations, and the Purposes of Antidiscrimination Law, 88 Southern California Law Review 619 (2015).

• The Piety of My Negative Judaism, 16 Rutgers Journal of Law & Religion 303 (2015).

• Six Overrulings, 113 Michigan Law Review 1043 (2015).

• Nonexistent and Irreplaceable: Keep the Religion in Religious Freedom, 142 Commonweal (Apr. 10, 2015).

• “Religion” as a Bundle of Legal Proxies: Reply to Micah Schwartzman, 51 San Diego Law Review 1079 (2014).

• Theorists, Get Over Yourselves: A Response to Steven D. Smith, 41 Pepperdine Law Review 937 (2014).

• Beyond Levels of Scrutiny: Windsor and "Bare Desire to Harm", 64 Case Western Reserve Law Review 1045 (2014).

2014

Articles

• Left-Evangelicalism and the Constitution, reviewing THE EVANGELICAL ORIGINS OF THE LIVING CONSTITUTION CONSTITUTION by John W. Compton, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014, Pp. 272, $45.00, 128 Harvard Law Review Forum 1 (2014).

• Did the Law Professors Blow It in the Health Care Case?, 2014 University of Illinois Law Review 1273.

• Ronald Dworkin, Religion, and Neutrality, 94 Boston University Law Review 1241-1253 (2014).

• The Costs of the Public Good of Religion Should Be Borne by the Public, 67 Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc 185-187 (2014) (Co-authored by: Frederick Mark Gedicks).

• Invisible Women: Why an Exemption for Hobby Lobby Would Violate the Establishment Clause, 67 Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc 51-66 (2014) (Co-authored by: Frederick Mark Gedicks).

• The Hobby Lobby Decision was a Victory for Human Rights, New Republic Online (June 30, 2014).

• The Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby Decision Just Got a Whole Lot Worse, New Republic Online (July 4, 2014).

• Obamacare Opponents are Hurting 4.5 Million Workers to Win a Political War, New Republic Online (July 23, 2014).

• Critical Exchange on Human Rights as Social Construction, Contemporary Political Theory doi:10.1057/cpt.2014.10 (May 20, 2014).

• Stanley Fish as Lord Grantham, 9 Fiu Law Review 57-58 (2013).

• Invisible Women: Why an Exemption for Hobby Lobby Would Violate the Establishment Clause, 67 Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc 51 (2014) (Co-authored by: Frederick Mark Gedicks).

• “Freedom of the Church” and the Authority of the State, 21 Journal of Contemporary Issues 145-164.

• Did the Law Professors Blow It in the Health Care Case?.

2013

Books

• The Tough Luck Constitution and the Assault on Health Care Reform (Oxford University Press 2013).

Articles

• Religion’s Specialized Specialness, 79 University of Chicago Law Review Dialogue 71 (2013).

• Darwell, Habermas, and the Fluidity of Respect, 26 Ratio Juris 523 (2013).

• Keep It Vague: The Many Meanings of Religious Freedom, 140 Commonweal (November 15, 2013).

• Why Scalia Should Have Voted to Overturn DOMA, 108 Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy 131 (2013).

• Endorsing the Endorsement Test, 7 Charleston Law Review 710-725 (2013).

• Veil of Ignorance: Tunnel Constructivism in Free Speech Theory, 107 Northwestern University Law Review 647-730 (2013).

• And I Don’t Care What It Is: Religious Neutrality in American Law, 39 Pepperdine Law Review 1115 (2013).

Contributions to Books

• "Necessary," "Proper", and Health Care Reform, in The Health Care Case: The Supreme Court's Decision and Its Implications 105-119 (Nathaniel Persily, Gillian E. Metzger, and Trevor W. Morrison eds. 2013).

Working Papers

• “Freedom of the Church” and the Authority of the State.

• Reading Lolita at Guantanamo Or, This Page Cannot Be Displayed.

• Conscience, Volitional Necessity, and Religious Exemptions.

• Judging the Case Against Same-Sex Marriage.

• And I Don’t Care What It Is: Religious Neutrality in American Law.

2012

Books

• Defending American Religious Neutrality (Harvard University Press 2013).

Articles

• Originalism, Abortion, and the Thirteenth Amendment, 112 Columbia Law Review 1917-1945 (2012).

• Justice Stevens, Religious Enthusiast, 106 Northwestern University Law Review 567-586 (2012).

• Respect and Contempt in Constitutional Law, or, Is Jack Balkin Heartbreaking?, 71 Maryland Law Review 1126-1143 (2012).

• Response [to Elizabeth M. Glazer]: Sexual Disorientation, 100 Georgetown Law Journal 1083-1091 (2012).

• Waldron, Responsibility-Rights, and Hate Speech, 43 Arizona State Law Journal 1201-1221 (2011).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Roberts’ Crafty Victory, SALON.COM (July 5, 2012).

• Uninsured Still Being Screwed, SALON.COM (July 2, 2012).

• Origins of a Healthcare Lie, Salon (May 31, 2012).

Working Papers

• The Story of Welsh v. United States: Elliott Welsh’s Two Religious Tests.

• Darwall, Habermas, and the Fluidity of Respect.

• “Necessary,” “Proper,” and Health Care Reform.

• Another Solipsism: Rae Langton on Sexual Fantasy.

• Justice Stevens, Religious Enthusiast.

• Respect and Contempt in Constitutional Law, Or, Is Jack Balkin Heartbreaking?.

• Bad News for Everybody: Lawson and Kopel on Health Care Reform and Originalism.

2011

Books

• Andrew Koppelman, Richard W. Garnett are the editors of First Amendment Stories (Foundation Press 2012) (Co-authored by: Richard W. Garnett).

Articles

• Bad News for Mail Robbers: The Obvious Constitutionality of Health Care Reform, Yale Law Journal Online.

• Why Jack Balkin is Disgusting, 27 Constitutional Commentary 177-187 (2010).

Contributions to Books

• The Story of Welsh v. United States: Elliott Welsh’s Two Religious Tests, in First Amendment Stories 294-318 (Andrew Koppelman and Richard W. Garnett eds. 2012).

Working Papers

• How Shall I Praise Thee? Brian Leiter on Respect for Religion.

• Bad News for Mail Robbers: The Obvious Constitutionality of Health Care Reform.

2010

Articles

• The Nonproblem of Fundamentalism, 18 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 915-923 (2010).

Contributions to Books

• Forced Labor, Revisited: The Thirteenth Amendment and Abortion, in The Promises of Liberty: The History and Contemporary Relevance of The Thirteenth Amendment (Alexander Tsesis eds. 2010).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Defense of Marriage Act’s Achilles Heel, Los Angeles Times (July 14, 2010).

Working Papers

• DOMA, Romer, and Rationality.

• Careful With That Gun: Lee, George, Wax, and Geach on Gay Rights and Same-Sex Marriage.

• Forced Labor, Revisited: TheThirteenth Amendment and Abortion.

• The New American Civil Religion: Lesson for Italy.

• No Respect: Brian Leiter on Religion.

2009

Books

• A Right to Discriminate? How the Case of Boy Scouts of America V. James Dale Warped the Law of Free Association (Yale University Press 2009) (Co-authored by: Tobias Barrington Wolff).

Articles

• The Limits of Constructivism: Can Rawls Condemn Female Genital Mutilation?, 71 Review of Politics 459-482 (2009) Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1022132.

• Phony Originalism and the Establishment Clause , 103 Northwestern University Law Review 727-750 (2009) Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1022132.

• Religious Establishment and Autonomy , 25 Constitutional Commentary 291-295 (2009) Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1022132.

• Corruption of Religion and the Establishment Clause , 50 William And Mary Law Review 1831-1935 (2009).

• The Troublesome Religious Roots of Religious Neutrality, 84 Notre Dame Law Review 865-886 (2009).

• Naked Strong Evaluation (book review of Charles Taylor, A Secular Age), 56 Dissent 105 (Winter 2009).

Working Papers

• Why Jack Balkin is Disgusting.

2008

Articles

• Expressive Association and the Ideal of the University in the Solomon Amendment Litigation , 25 Social Philosophy and Policy 92-122 (2008) (Co-authored by: Tobias Barrington Wolff ).

• Is Pornography “Speech”?, 14 Legal Theory 71-89 (2008).

• The Limits of Strategic Litigation, 17 Law & Sexuality 1-5 (2008).

• Why Phyllis Schlafly is Right (But Wrong) About Pornography, 31 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 105-125 (2008).

• Eros, Civilization, and Harry Clor , 31 New York University Review of Law & Social Change 855-864 (2007).

• Free Speech and Pornography: A Response to James Weinstein, 31 New York University Review of Law & Social Change 899-910 (2007).

Working Papers

• Is Pornography 'Speech'? (2008).

• Why Phyllis Schlafly is Right (But She's Wrong) About Pornography (2008).

2007

Articles

• On Affirmative Action and “Truly Individualized Consideration”, 101 Northwestern University Law Review 1469-1481 (2007) (Co-authored by: Donald Rebstock ).

• Reading Lolita at Guantanamo or, This Page Cannot Be Displayed, 57 Syracuse Law Review 209-225 (2007).

• Justice for Large Earlobes! A Comment on Richard Arneson’s “What is Wrongful Discrimination?” , 43 San Diego Law Review 809-815 (2006).

• The Difference the Mini-DOMAs Make , 38 Loyola University Chicago Law Journal 265-278 (2007).

• You Can’t Hurry Love: Why Antidiscrimination Protections for Gay People Should Have Religious Exemptions , 72 Brooklyn Law Review 125-146 (2006).

Contributions to Books

• The Defense of Marriage Act: Federal Level, in Defending Same-sex Marriage 141-160 (Mark Strasser ed. 2007).

2006

Books

• Same Sex, Different States: When Same-sex Marriages Cross State Lines (Yale University Press 2006).

Articles

• On Affirmative Action and "Truly Individualized Consideration" , 2006 Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy 6 (Co-authored by: Donald Rebstock ).

• Reading Lolita at Guantanamo, Dissent (Spring 2006).

• Is It Fair to Give Religion Special Treatment?, 2006 University of Illinois Law Review 571.

• Drug Policy and the Liberal Self, 100 Northwestern University Law Review 279-293 (2006).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• States Will Have to Recognize Same-Sex Relationships , Chicago Sun Times (November 18, 2006).

• Clean water is symbol of the power of the people, San Francisco Chronicle (July 23, 2006 ) (Co-authored by: David Dana).

2005

Articles

• Interstate Recognition of Same-Sex Marriages and Civil Unions: A Handbook for Judges, 153 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 2143-2194 (2005).

• The Decline and Fall of the Case Against Same-Sex Marriage, 2 University of St. Thomas Law Journal 5-32 (2004).

• Does Obscenity Cause Moral Harm?, 105 Columbia Law Review 1635-1679 (2005) Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1022132.

• Interstate Recognition of Same-Sex Civil Unions After Lawrence v. Texas, 65 Ohio State Law Journal 1265-1282 (2004).

• Should Noncommercial Associations Have an Absolute Right to Discriminate?, 67 Law & Contemporary Problems 27-57 (2004).

• Are the Boy Scouts Being as Bad as Racists? Judging the Scouts' Antigay Policy, 18 Public Affairs Quarterly 363 (2004).

• The Fluidity of Neutrality, 66 Review of Politics 633-648 (2004).

Contributions to Books

• The Rule of Lawrence, in In the Future of Gay Rights in America 151-168 (Harry Hirsch ed. 2005).

• The Legal Debate Over Same-Sex Marriages, in 2005 Encyclopedia Britannica Book of The Year 206.

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Darwin Inherits Galileo's Detractors, Chicago Tribune (August 21, 2005).

2004

Articles

• Civil Conflict and Same-Sex Civil Unions, 14 The Responsive Community 20-25 (2004).

• How "Decentralization" Rationalizes Oligarchy: John McGinnis and the Rehnquist Court, 20 Constitutional Commentary 11-37 (2003).

• Lawrence's Penumbra, 88 Minnesota Law Review 1171 (2004).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Perspectives on Same Sex Marriage: An Amendment that Would Freeze the Will of the People, San Francisco Chronicle (February 10, 2004) (Co-authored by: Steven Lubet) .

2003

Articles

• Defending the Sex Discrimination Argument for Lesbian and Gay Rights: A Reply to Edward Stein, 1 The Dukeminier Awards: Best Sexual Orientation Law Review Articles of 2001 49-68 (2002).

• No Expressly Religious Orthodoxy: A Response to Steven D. Smith, 78 Chicago-kent Law Review 729-738 (2003).

• The Right to Privacy?, 2002 University of Chicago Legal Forum 105-117 (2002).

Contributions to Books

• Discrimination Against Gays Is Sex Discrimination, in Marriage And Same-sex Unions: A Debate 209-220 (Lynn D. Wardle, Mark Strasser, William C. Duncan, and David Orgon Coolidge eds. 2003).

• Reply to "The Constitutionality of Legal Preferences for Heterosexual Marriage", in Marriage and Same-sex Unions: A Debate 241-243 (Lynn D. Wardle, Mark Strasser, William C. Duncan, and David Orgon Coolidge eds. 2003).

• Homosexual Conduct: A Reply to the New Natural Lawyers, in Same Sex: Debating The Ethics, Science And Culture of Homosexuality (1997) .

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Distorting the Same-Sex Marriage Decision, Chicago Tribune (November 23, 2003) .

2002

Books

• The Gay Rights Question In Contemporary American Law (University of Chicago Press 2002).

Articles

• Signs of the Times: Dale v. Boy Scouts of America and the Changing Meaning of Nondiscrimination, 23 Cardozo Law Review 1819 (2002).

• Secular Purpose, 88 Virginia Law Review 87-166 (2002).

2001

Articles

• Defending the Sex Discrimination Argument for Lesbian and Gay Rights: A Reply to Edward Stein, 49 Ucla Law Review 519-538 (2001).

• Measured Endorsement, 60 Maryland Law Review 713-760 (2001) (Co-authored by: Shari Seidman Diamond) .

• On the Moral Foundations of Legal Expressivism, 60 Maryland Law Review 777-784 (2001) .

• Talking to the Boss: On Robert Bennett and the Counter-Majoritarian Difficulty, 95 Northwestern University Law Review 955-960 (2001) .

Contributions to Books

• The Miscegenation Analogy in Europe, or, Lisa Grant meets Adolph Hitler, in Legal Recognition of Same-sex Partnerships: A Study of National, European And International Law 623-633 (Robert Wintemute and Mads Andenaes eds. 2001).

2000

Articles

• Why Gay Legal History Matters, 113 Harvard Law Review 2035-2060 (2000).

• Feminism and Libertarianism: A Response to Richard Epstein, 1999 University of Chicago Legal Forum 115-132 (1999).

Contributions to Books

• Full Faith and Credit Clause, in The Constitution and Its Amendments 51-52 (Roger K. Newman ed. 1999).

• Baehr v. Lewin, in Encyclopedia of The American Constitution, 2nd ed. 147 (Leonard W. Levy and Kenneth L. Karst eds. 2000).

1999

Articles

• Akhil Amar and the Establishment Clause, 33 University of Richmond Law Review 393-405 (1999) .

1997

Articles

• Is Marriage Inherently Heterosexual?, 42 American Journal of Jurisprudence 51-96 (1997).

1995

Articles

• Gaze in the Military: A response to Professor Woodruff, 64 Umkc Law Review 179-193 (1995-1996).

1994

Articles

• Why Discrimination against Lesbians and Gay Men is Sex Discrimination, 69 New York University Law Review 197-287 (May 1994).

1992

Articles

• Sex Equality and/or the Family: From Bloom vs. Okin to Rousseau vs. Hegel, 4 Yale Journal of Law & The Humanities 399-432 (1992).