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JAMES E. PFANDER

2023

Working Papers

• Federal Tort Liability After Egbert v. Boule: A Textual Case for Restoring the Officer Suit at Common Law, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 23-32 (2023).

• Public Law Litigation in Eighteenth Century America: Diffuse Law Enforcement for a Partisan World, 92 Fordham Law Review ___ (forthcoming), Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 23-25 (2023).

• Judicial Review of Unconventional Enforcement Regimes, 102 Texas Law Review ___ (forthcoming), Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 23-18 (2023).

2022

Articles

• The Words That Made Original Jurisdiction, 37 Constitutional Commentary 27 (2022).

• Law, Equity, and Supplemental Jurisdiction, 97 Notre Dame Law Review 2115 (Co-authored by: Peter C. Douglas).

• The Past and Future of Procedure Scholarship, 23 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 2495 (2022).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• To Reform Policing Accountability, States Need Not Wait on Supreme Court and Congress, USA Today (Feb. 5, 2022) (Co-authored by: Alexander A. Reinert & Joanna C. Schwartz).

2021

Books

• Principles of Federal Jurisdiction, 4th ed. (2021).

• Cases Without Controversies: Uncontested Adjudication in Article Iii Courts (2021).

Articles

• Public Rights and Article III: Judicial Oversight of Agency Action, 82 Ohio State Law Journal 493 (2021) (Co-authored by: Andrew Borrasso).

• The Past and Future of Procedure Scholarship, 169 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 2551 (2021).

• New Federalism and Civil Rights Enforcement, 116 Northwestern University Law Review 737 (2021) (Co-authored by: Alexander A. Reinert & Joanna C. Schwartz).

• Zones of Discretion at Common Law, 116 Northwestern University Law Review Online 148 (2021).

• Going Rogue: The Supreme Court's Newfound Hostility to Policy-Based Bivens Claims, 96 Notre Dame Law Review 1835 (2021) (Co-authored by: Joanna C. Schwartz & Alexander A. Reinert).

• Equal Footing and the States “Now Existing”: Slavery and State Equality Over Time, 89 Fordham Law Review 1975 (2021) (Co-authored by: Elena Joffroy).

• Constitutional Torts and the Problem of Government Policy: An Essay for Marshall Shapo, 115 Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy 240 (2020).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Recovering Equity, Jotwell (Nov. 4, 2021).

• Cases Without Controversies: An Author Responds (With Gratitude) (I), Balkinization (Aug. 25, 2021).

• Cases Without Controversies: An Author Responds (With Gratitude) (II), Balkinization (Aug. 26, 2021).

2020

Articles

• The Past and Future of Equitable Remedies: An Essay for Frank Johnson, 71 Alabama Law Review 723 (2020) (Co-authored by: Wade Formo).

• The Common Law Origins of Ex parte Young, 72 Stanford Law Review 1269 (2020) (Co-authored by: Jacob Wentzel).

• The Myth of Personal Liability: Who Pays When Bivens Claims Succeed, 72 Stanford Law Review 561 (2020) (Co-authored by: Alex Reinert and Joanna C. Schwartz).

Contributions to Books

• Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida: Sovereignty and the Eleventh Amendment Imag(in)ed, in Painting Constitutional Law: Xavier Cortada’s Images of Constitutional Rights 170 170 (M.C. Mirow & Howard M. Wasserman eds. eds. 2021) (Co-authored by: M.C. Mirow & Howard M. Wasserman).

• Seminole Tribe v. Florida: Sovereignty and the Eleventh Amendment Imag(in)ed, in Painting Constitutional Law: Xavier Cortada’s Images of Constitutional Rights (Howard Wasserman & Matthew Mirow eds. forthcoming 2021) NORTHWESTERN PUBLIC LAW RESEARCH PAPER No. 20-01.

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• The Simple Way Congress Can Stop Federal Officials from Abusing Protesters, Politico (June 10, 2020) (Co-authored by: Joanna Schwartz & Alexander Reinert).

Working Papers

• Zones of Discretion at Common Law, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 20-27 (2020).

2019

Articles

• Due Process and National Injunctions, JOTWELL (Dec. 11, 2019).

• Constructive Constitutional History and Habeas Corpus Today, 107 California Law Review 1005 (2019).

• Dicey’s Nightmare: An Essay on the Rule of Law, 107 California Law Review 737 (2019).

2018

Articles

• Standing, Litigable Interests, and Article III’s Case-or-Controversy Requirement, 65 Ucla Law Review 170 (2018).

• Standing, Litigable Interests, and Article III’s Case-or-Controversy Requirement, 65 Ucla Law Review 170 (2018).

• Statutory Interpretation for Courts and Lawyers, JOTWELL (Mar. 26, 2018) reviewing VICTORIA NOURSE, MISREADING LAW, MISREADING DEMOCRACY (2016).

Contributions to Books

• Suits Against Officeholders, in Cambridge Companion To The United States Constitution 360 (Karen Orren & John Compton eds. 2018).

2017

Books

• Constitutional Torts and The War on Terror (Oxford University Press 2017).

Articles

• Adverse Interests and Article III: A Reply, 111 Northwestern University Law Review 1067 (2017) (Co-authored by: Daniel Birk).

• Scalia’s Legacy: Originalism and Change in the Law of Standing, 6 British Journal of American Legal Studies 85 (2017).

• Standing to Sue: Lessons from Scotland's Actio Popularis, 66 Duke Law Journal 1493 (2017).

Contributions to Books

• Non-Contentious Jurisdiction in the Courts of the United States, in Voluntary (non-contentious) Jurisdiction Around The World (V.V. Argounov ed. 2017) (Co-authored by: Daniel Birk).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• The Habeas Privilege and Enemy Combatants, LAWFARE (Dec. 5, 2017).

2016

Articles

• A Non-Contentious Account of Article III’s Domestic Relations Exception, 92 Notre Dame Law Review 117 (2016) (Co-authored by: Emily Damrau).

• A Declaratory Theory of State Accountability, 102 Virginia Law Review 153 (2016).

• A Non-Contentious Account of Article III's Domestic Relations Exception, Notre Dame Law Review (forthcoming) (Co-authored by: Emily K. Damrau).

• Leading Cases: United States, 5 International Journal of Procedural Law 324 (2015).

Legal Documents

• Brief of Professors Gregory Sisk and James Pfander as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondent, Simmons V. Himmelreich, No. 15-109 (U.S. 2016) (Co-authored by: Gregory C. Sisk).

2015

Articles

• Article III Judicial Power, the Adverse-Party Requirement, and Non-Contentious Jurisdiction, 124 Yale Law Journal, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2424511 1346 (2015) (Co-authored by: Daniel D. Birk).

• In Search of the Probate Exception, 67 Vanderbilt Law Review 1533 (2014) (Co-authored by: Michael J.T. Downey).

2014

Articles

• Morris v. Allen and the Lost History of the Anti-Injunction Act of 1793, 108 Northwestern University Law Review 187-24 (2013) (Co-authored by: Nassim Nazemi).

Working Papers

• Article III Judicial Power, the Adverse-Party Requirement, and Non-Contentious Jurisdiction (Co-authored by: Daniel D. Birk).

2013

Books

• Civil Procedure: A Modern Approach, 6th edition (West 2013) (Co-authored by: Martin H. Redish, Richard L. Marcus, and Edward F. Sherman).

Articles

• The Anti-Injunction Act and the Problem of Federal-State Jurisdictional Overlap, 92 Texas Law Review 1-73 (2013) (Co-authored by: Nassim Nazemi).

• The Chief Justice, the Appointment of Inferior Officers, and the "Court of Law" Requirement, 107 Northwestern University Law Review 1125-1180 (2013).

• Preface: Martin H. Redish Festschrift, 107 Northwestern University Law Review 443-445.

• Response: W(h)ither Bivens?, 161 University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online 231 (2013).

Working Papers

• Morris v. Allen and the Lost History of the Anti-Injunction Act of 1793.

• The Anti-Injunction Act and the Problem of Federal-State Jurisdictional Overlap.

2012

Books

• Principles of Federal Jurisdiction, 2nd edition (Thomson/West 2011).

Articles

• Bivens, the Judgment Bar, and the Perils of Dynamic Textualism, 8 University of St. Thomas Law Journal 417 (2011-12) (Co-authored by: Neil Aggarwal).

• Interlocutory Review by Agreement of the Parties: A Preliminary Analysis, 105 Northwestern University Law Review 1043-1095 (2012) (Co-authored by: David R. Pekarek Krohn).

Working Papers

• The Chief or the Court: Article II and the Appointment of Inferior Judicial Officers.

2011

Books

• Federal Courts: Cases, Comments and Questions, 7th edition (West 2012) (Co-authored by: Martin H. Redish, and Suzanna Sherry).

Articles

• Resolving the Qualified Immunity Dilemma: Constitutional Tort Claims for Nominal Damages, 111 Columbia Law Review 1601 (2011).

• Article III and the Scottish Judiciary, 124 Harvard Law Review 1613-1687 (2011) (Co-authored by: Daniel D. Birk).

• Public Wrongs and Private Bills: Indemnification and Government Accountability in the Early Republic, 85 New York University Law Review 1862-1939 (2011) (Co-authored by: Jonathan L. Hunt).

• Collateral Review of Remand Orders: Reasserting the Supervisory Role of the Supreme Court, 159 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 493-542 (2011).

Working Papers

• Resolving the Qualified Immunity Dilemma: Constitutional Tort Claims for Nominal Damages.

2010

Articles

• Reclaiming the Immigration Constitution of the Early Republic: Prospectivity, Uniformity, and Transparency, 96 Virginia Law Review 359-441 (2010) (Co-authored by: Theresa Wardon).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• The Gap Between Two Cultures, Chicago Daily Law Bulletin (July 26, 2010).

• Iqbal and Common Law Schizophrenia, Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, 5 (May 18, 2010).

• Detention and the Common Law Method , Chicago Daily Law Bulletin (April 19, 2010).

• One Step Forward, Two Steps Back , Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, 5 (February 19, 2010).

Working Papers

• Collateral Review of Remand Orders: Reasserting the Supervisory Role of the Supreme Court.

• Public Wrongs and Private Bills: Indemnification and Government Accountability in the Early Republic.

• Interlocutory Review by Agreement of the Parties: A Preliminary Analysis.

• Reclaiming the Immigration Constitution of the Early Republic.

2009

Books

• One Supreme Court: Supremacy, Inferiority, and the Judicial Power of the United States (Oxford University Press 2009).

• Civil Procedure: A Modern Approach, 5th edition (West 2009) (Co-authored by: Martin H. Redish, Richard L. Marcus, and Edward F. Sherman ).

Articles

• Rethinking Bivens: Legitimacy and Constitutional Adjudication, 98 Georgetown Law Journal 117-151 (2009) (Co-authored by: David Baltmanis ).

• Triangulating Standing , 53 Saint Louis University Law Journal 829-841 (2009).

Working Papers

• The Story of Bivens v. Six Unknown-Named Agents of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics .

2008

Articles

• Judicial Compensation and the Definition of Judicial Power in the Early Republic , 107 Michigan Law Review 1-51 (2008) Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1022132.

• Forum Shopping and the Infrastructure of Federalism, 17 Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review 355-370 (2008).

• Protective Jurisdiction, Aggregate Litigation, and the Limits of Article III, 95 California Law Review 1423-1472 (2007).

2007

Articles

• Removing Federal Judges , 74 University of Chicago Law Review 1227-1250 (2007).

• Federal Supremacy, State Court Inferiority, and the Constitutionality of Jurisdiction-Stripping Legislation , 101 Northwestern University Law Review 191-238 (2007).

Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press

• Time to Bring Back the Capitol Jail?, Chicago Tribune (August 1, 2007) (Co-authored by: Abner J. Mikva ).

2004

Articles

• Article I Tribunals, Article III Courts, and the Judicial Power of the United States, 118 Harvard Law Review 643-776 (2004).

2001

Articles

• Marbury, Original Jurisdiction, and the Supreme Court’s Supervisory Powers, 101 Columbia Law Review 1515-1612 (2001).

2000

Articles

• Jurisdiction-Stripping and the Supreme Court's Power to Supervise Inferior Tribunals, 78 Texas Law Review 1433-1512 (2000).

1999

Articles

• Supplemental Jurisdiction and Section 1367: The Case for a Sympathetic Textualism, 148 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 109-161 (1999).

1998

Articles

• History and State Suability: An "Explanatory" Account of the Eleventh Amendment, 83 Cornell Law Review 1269-1382 (1998).