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JOHN O. MCGINNIS
2024
Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press
- Mother’s Milk of the Revolution, Law & Liberty (Mar. 7, 2024).
- Justice Breyer’s Problematic ‘Pragmatism', Law & Liberty (Mar. 21, 2024).
- The Rise and Fall of Chevron, Law & Liberty (Feb. 8, 2024).
- Archetype of Illiberalism, Law & Liberty (Feb. 22, 2024).
- A Search for the Economics GOAT, Law & Liberty (Jan. 11, 2024).
- Third-Rate Governance for First-Rate Universities, Law & Liberty (Jan. 25, 2024).
2023
Articles
- An Originalist Approach to Prospective Overruling, 99 Notre Dame Law Review 425 (2023) (Co-authored by: Michael Rappaport).
- Two Paradoxes of Crypto, 26 Chapman Law Review 445 (2023).
- The Counter-Reformation of American Administrative Law, 58 Wake Forest Law Review 387 (2023) (Co-authored by: Xiaorui Yang).
- The Contextual Textualism of Justice Alito, Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy Per Curiam (Spring 2023).
- Were the Founders Themselves Originalists?, 46 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 1 (2023).
Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press
- Jurors vs. Bureaucrats, Law & Liberty (Dec. 14, 2023).
- A Year in the Life of a Disordered World, Law & Liberty (Dec. 28, 2023).
- The Dramatic Fall of a Crypto King, Law & Liberty (Nov. 9, 2023).
- Addressing the Rot in Our Universities, Law & Liberty (Nov. 30, 2023).
- Public Enemy Number One?, Law & Liberty (Oct. 12, 2023).
- Unmooring the Constitution, Law & Liberty (Oct. 26, 2023).
- The Finished Constitution, Law & Liberty (Sept. 28, 2023) (Co-authored by: Mike Rappaport).
- How Students for Fair Admissions Will Improve Legal Ed, Law & Liberty (Aug. 10, 2023).
- A President of Many Talents, Law & Liberty (Aug. 24, 2023).
- The Court's Defense of the ‘Forgotten Man, Law & Liberty (July 27, 2023).
- AI’s Future: Liberty or License?, Law & Liberty (June 1, 2023).
- A Dialogue Between Originalism and Natural Law?, Law & Liberty (June 15, 2023).
- The Order of Representative Democracy, Law & Liberty (May 18, 2023).
- Chicago’s Hard-Left Choice, City Journal (Apr. 5, 2023).
- Religious Freedom Is for Everyone, Law & Liberty (Apr. 6, 2023).
- A Child’s Primer for Liberty, Law & Liberty (Apr. 20, 2023).
- Solving the Problem of Nonoriginalist Precedent, Law & Liberty (Mar. 9, 2023).
- Architect of the New Deal’s Administrative State?, Law & Liberty (Mar. 23, 2023).
- Between Liberalism and Democracy, Law & Liberty (Feb. 9, 2023).
- Guido Calabresi’s Synthesis, Law & Liberty (Feb. 23, 2023).
- Propagandist of the Revolution, Law & Liberty (Jan. 12, 2023).
- What Humanity Adds, Law & Liberty (Jan. 26, 2023).
2022
Articles
- Comparing the Court and the Fed: Democratic Dilemmas of Elite Institutions, 57 Wake Forest Law Review 173 (2022).
- Presidential Polarization, 83 Ohio State Law Journal 5 (2022) (Co-authored by: Michael B. Rappaport).
- Lawyers for Radical Change, City Journal 76 (Spring 2022).
- The Democratic Limits of International Human Rights Law, 45 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 55 (2022).
Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press
- The Dangers of Woke Law, Law & Liberty (Nov. 10, 2022).
- The Kids Are Not Alright, City Journal (Nov. 15, 2022).
- Revisiting the Logic of Court Packing, Law & Liberty (Nov. 29, 2022).
- Amy Coney Barrett’s Modest Way to End Racial Preferences, Wall Street Journal (Oct. 16, 2022).
- Meritocracy and Multiculturalism, Law & Liberty (Oct. 27, 2022).
- Land of Limping, City Journal (Sept. 15, 2022).
- Two Concepts of Democracy, Law & Liberty (Sept. 15, 2022).
- Betting on the Future of Liberty, Law & Liberty (Sept. 29, 2022).
- Prison Abolitionism and the Academy’s Decline, Law & Liberty (Aug. 4, 2022).
- Thinking Like a Republican Citizen, Law & Liberty (Aug. 25, 2022).
- The Fading Values of the Frontier, Law & Liberty (July 7, 2022).
- Bruen’s Originalism, Law & Liberty (July 21, 2022).
- The Workhorse of the Early Court, Law & Liberty (June 9, 2022).
- The Death of Separationism and the Life of School Choice, Law & Liberty (June 23, 2022).
- A Republic, or a Juristocracy?, City Journal (June 29, 2022).
- A Return to Fundamentals, City Journal (May 3, 2022).
- Right and Wrong Ways to Reform the University, Law & Liberty (May 12, 2022).
- How Institutions Crumble, Law & Liberty (May 26, 2022).
- Originalism for the Common Good, Law & Liberty (Apr. 28, 2022).
- Our Fragmenting Democracy, Law & Liberty (Mar. 10, 2022).
- Healing Democracy from the Bottom-Up, American Institute For Economic Research (Mar. 17, 2022).
- The Promises and Limits of Rationality, Law & Liberty (Mar. 24, 2022).
- Entrenching the Culture of Originalism, Law & Liberty (Mar. 31, 2022).
- Our Crypto Future, Law & Liberty (Feb. 10, 2022).
- Precedent Does Not Protect Preferences, Law & Liberty (Feb. 24, 2022).
- Flexing Their Muscle, City Journal (Jan. 6, 2022).
- The Global Recession of Classical Liberalism, American Institute for Economic Research (Jan. 8. 2022).
- Defending the Consensus Constitution, Law & Liberty (Jan. 13, 2022).
- Jabbing the Administrative State, Law & Liberty (Jan. 20, 2022).
- Chicago’s Toxic Trio, City Journal (Jan. 26, 2022).
2021
Articles
- The Fulton Opinion and the Originalist Future of Religious Freedom, Law & Liberty (June 24, 2021).
- It Is a Sordid Thing, This Divvying Us Up by Race, Law & Liberty (June 10, 2021).
- Biden’s SCOTUS Commission Comes as a Wolf, Law & Liberty (May 13, 2021).
- What Did the Three-Fifths Clause Really Mean?, Law & Liberty (May 27, 2021).
- Of, By, and For the Party, Law & Liberty (Apr. 8, 2021).
- Akhil Amar’s 1789 Project, Law & Liberty (Apr. 29, 2021).
- Chicago’s Monumental Mistake, City Journal (Mar. 15, 2021).
- Unifying Antitrust Enforcement for the Digital Age, 78 Washington & Lee Law Review 305 (2021) (Co-authored by: Linda Sun).
- Should a New President Change Old SCOTUS Positions?, Law & Liberty (Feb. 4, 2021).
- Why Mary Sarah Bilder Gets Originalism Wrong, Law & Liberty (Feb. 11, 2021).
- Minimum Wage, Maximum Harms, Law & Liberty (Feb. 18, 2021).
- Sinking in Luxury, Sloth, and Vice, Law & Liberty (Feb. 25, 2021).
- The Power of Interpretation: Minimizing the Construction Zone, 96 Notre Dame Law Review 919 (2021) (Co-authored by: Michael B. Rappaport).
- The Power of Interpretation: Minimizing the Construction Zone, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 21-01, ___ Notre Dame Law Review ___ (forthcoming 2021) (Co-authored by: Michael B. Rappaport).
- Chicago Teachers, Checked Out, City Journal (Jan. 13, 2021).
- Academic Freedom in Chicagoland, Law & Liberty (Jan. 14, 2021).
- The Illiberals’ Scientific Dilemma, Law & Liberty (Jan. 21, 2021).
- How the Filibuster Strengthens the Republic, Law & Liberty (Jan. 28, 2021).
Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press
- The Global Recession of Classical Liberalism, Law & Liberty (Dec. 31, 2021).
- Why Democracy Needs the Rich, City Journal (Autumn 2021).
- Where Have All the Amendments Gone?, Law & Liberty (Nov. 1, 2021) (Co-authored by: Mike Rappaport).
- Originalism Tested, Law & Liberty (Nov. 3, 2021).
- The Limits of the Egalitarian Vision, Law & Liberty (Nov. 25, 2021).
- Constitutional Change and Continuity, Law & Liberty (Nov. 30, 2021) (Co-authored by: Mike Rappaport).
- A Justice for All Seasons, Law & Liberty (Oct. 14, 2021) (Co-authored by: Mike Rappaport).
- The Pitfalls of Justice Breyer’s Rambling Consequentialism, Law & Liberty (Sept. 9, 2021).
- Do Eviction Moratoriums Violate the Contract Clause?, Law & Liberty (Sept. 30, 2021).
- Abandoning the Consumer Welfare Standard, Law & Liberty (Aug. 26, 2021).
- The Enduring Value of Calhoun, Law & Liberty (July 8, 2021).
- Why the Lawyers Cartel Is Pushing for Woke Law Schools, Wall Street Journal (July 15, 2021).
- Will the Court Tame the Administrative State?, Law & Liberty (July 22, 2021).
Working Papers
- Presidential Polarization, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 21-05 (2021) (Co-authored by: Michael B. Rappaport).
2020
Articles
- Alito’s Way, Law & Liberty (Dec. 3, 2020).
- Constitutional Fidelity, City Journal (Dec. 9, 2020).
- Our Complex Liberties, Law & Liberty (Dec. 10, 2020).
- ‘Poetic Truths’ Are Everywhere, Law & Liberty (Dec. 17, 2020).
- 2020: A Mixed Bag for Classical Liberalism, Law & Liberty (Dec. 31, 2020).
- Gun Rights Delayed Can Be Gun Rights Denied, 2020 University of Illinois Law Review Online 302.
- Are Democrats Cornered in Illinois?, City Journal (Nov. 8, 2020).
- Digitizing Trust, Law & Liberty (Nov. 12, 2020).
- Gun Rights Delayed Are Gun Rights Denied, Law & Liberty (Nov. 19, 2020).
- Why Wokeism Threatens the Rule of Law, Law & Liberty (Nov. 27, 2020).
- Destroying Monuments—and Constitutions, Law & Liberty (Oct. 1, 2020).
- Laurence Tribe Gets the VP’s Vote Wrong, Law & Liberty (Oct. 8, 2020).
- Blinded by Scientism, Law & Liberty (Oct. 15, 2020).
- A Clash of Constitutions, Law & Liberty (Oct. 22, 2020).
- It’s Now the Barrett Court, City Journal (Oct. 27, 2020).
- The New Court’s Docket, Law & Liberty (Oct. 29, 2020).
- The Pragmatic Case for a Unitary Executive, Law & Liberty (Sept. 3, 2020).
- Can Modern Originalism Save American Constitutionalism?, Law & Liberty (Sept. 10, 2020).
- Scalia’s Wisdom and Wit, Law & Liberty (Sept. 17, 2020).
- When Authority Vanishes, City Journal (Aug. 14, 2020).
- Originalism: More Than a Presumption, Law & Liberty (Aug. 20, 2020).
- Mark Tushnet's Anti-Constitutionalism, Law & Liberty (Aug. 27, 2020).
- Roberts and Thomas Battle Over Burke, Law & Liberty (July 2, 2020).
- What Does the Chief Justice Maximize?, Law & Liberty (July 9, 2020).
- Why the Religion Cases Matter Most, Law & Liberty (July 16, 2020).
- Is America Prepared for the Next Cold War?, Law & Liberty (July 23, 2020).
- Unleashing the Freedom to Innovate, Law & Liberty (July 30, 2020).
- Errors of Will and of Judgment, Law & Liberty (June 25, 2020).
- Undermining Competitive Federalism, Law & Liberty (June 4, 2020).
- The Rotten Roots of Neo-Brandeisian Antitrust, Law & Liberty (June 10, 2020).
- The Assault on Neutral Principles, Law & Liberty (June 18, 2020).
- Rules for the Virus, Law & Liberty (May 7, 2020).
- Book Review: ‘Never Trump’ and the New GOP, Law & Liberty (May 14, 2020).
- Why Universities Need the New Title IX Rules, Law & Liberty (May 21, 2020).
- Faithless Electors and Faithful Judges, Law & Liberty (May 28, 2020).
- Adrian Vermeule: Unwitting New Originalist, Law & Liberty (Apr. 9, 2020).
- Technology’s Good War, City Journal (Apr. 15, 2020).
- Gender Diversity, Law & Liberty (Apr. 16, 2020).
- The Chevron Doctrine’s Shrinking Domain, Law & Liberty (Apr. 23, 2020).
- Bitcoin’s Nature and Its Future, 43 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 59 (2020).
- Why Democrats Aren’t Naming Names, Law & Liberty (Feb. 6, 2020).
- The Political Economy of the Free Exercise Clause, Law & Liberty (Feb. 13, 2020).
- Bitcoin: Order without Law in the Digital Age, 94 Indiana Law Journal 1497 (2019) (Co-authored by: Kyle W. Roche).
Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press
- Democrats’ Fear and Loathing Over Trump-Appointed Judges Totally Unfounded, New York Post (Dec. 12, 2020).
- Trump’s Judges Will Bring America Together, Wall Street Journal (Sept. 24, 2020) (Co-authored by: Michael B. Rappaport).
- Justice-FTC Antitrust Feud Is the Wrong Kind of Competition, Wall Street Journal (Aug. 13, 2020) (Co-authored by: Linda Sun).
- The Supreme Court’s Wise Decision: Honoring Citizens United on Its Big Birthday, New York Daily News (Jan. 20, 2020).
Working Papers
- Unilateralism and Polarization: How Changes in Our Structural Constitution Have Caused Political Divisiveness, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 20-02, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 20-440 (2020) (Co-authored by: Michael B. Rappaport).
2019
Articles
- Why Inequality Should Not Be an Object of Social Policy, Law & Liberty (Oct. 3, 2019).
- A Harvard Law Professor Examines the Hoffa Case to Make Amends, Law & Liberty (Oct. 11, 2019).
- Reviving the Contract Clause: An Acid Test for Originalism, Law & Liberty (Oct. 17, 2019).
- Conversations with the Notorious RBG, Law & Liberty (Oct. 24, 2019).
- The Hidden Costs of Chicago’s Teacher Strike, Law & Liberty (Oct. 31, 2019).
- Meritocrats: The New Class Enemy, Law & Liberty (Sept. 5, 2019).
- How Progressive Free Speech Law Makes Some Citizens More Equal than Others, Law & Liberty (Sept. 12, 2019).
- How Originalism Changes Legal Analysis, Law & Liberty (Sept. 19, 2019).
- California Closes the Frontier of Technology and Commerce, Law & Liberty (Sept. 27, 2019).
- Silent Originalism and the Reweighting of Precedent, Law & Liberty (Aug. 22, 2019).
- Holmes: An Uncommon Common Lawyer, but No Constitutionalist, Law & Liberty (Aug. 30, 2019).
- The Court and the Fed: Our Own Aristocratic Element, Law & Liberty (July 3, 2019).
- The ‘Independence’ of the Court and the Fed, Law & Liberty (July 11, 2019).
- Originalism, the U.S. Constitution, and the Continuity of Fusionism, Law & Liberty (July 15, 2019).
- The Parallel Democratic Dilemmas of the Court and the Fed, Law & Liberty (July 18, 2019).
- Why Justice Thomas Is Wrong About Precedent, Law & Liberty (July 25, 2019).
- The Crisis of Left Jurisprudence, Law & Liberty (May 7, 2019).
- How the Framers Embraced Conventional Rules and Avoided Substantive Intent, Law & Liberty (May 17, 2019).
- Game of Thrones Reminds Us That Virtue Is Not Enough, Law & Liberty (May 21, 2019).
- The Three Fault Lines of Contemporary Originalism, Law & Liberty (May 30, 2019).
- Protecting the Originalist Constitution, 42 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 81 (2019).
- Unifying Original Intent and Original Public Meaning, 113 NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 1371 (2019) (Co-authored by: Michael B. Rappaport).
Working Papers
- The Court, the Fed, and Our Mixed Regime, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 19-15 (2019).
2018
Articles
- Law Professor: Progressives Are Regulating Away the Equality-Boosting Benefits of Uber, Airbnb and Google, Time (Aug. 10, 2018).
- A Philosophy of Expedience, City Journal (Jun. 11, 2018).
- The Constitution and the Language of the Law, 59 William & Mary Law Review 1321 (2018) (Co-authored by: Michael B. Rappoport).
- Bridging C.P. Snow’s Two Cultures, City Journal (Spring 2018).
- The Troubling Apotheosis of the Notorious RBG, Law & Liberty (Feb. 23, 2018).
Working Papers
- The Sharing Economy as an Equalizing Economy, Notre Dame Law Review (2018) at Volume 94.
- The Legal Turn in Originalism: A Discussion, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 18-350 (2018) (Co-authored by: Michael B. Rappaport, Ilya Shapiro, Kevin C. Walsh & Ilan Wurman).
2017
Articles
- Neil Gorsuch’s Good Start, City Journal (Jun. 27, 2017).
- Resolved: The Constitution Is Designed for a Moral and Religious People and It Is Wholly Unsuited for the Government of Any Other, 49 Connecticut Law Review 995 (2017) (Co-authored by: Eugene B. Meyer, William H. Pryor, Jr., & Robert P. George).
- Reforming Constitutional Review of State Economic Legislation, 14 Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy 517 (2016).
Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press
- Why Attorney General Sessions Should Change Litigating Positions, The Library of Law & Liberty (Aug. 14, 2017).
- Choking Choke Point: A Return to the Rule of La, The Library of Law & Liberty (Aug. 24, 2017).
- The Constitution Permits People to Exercise Two Rights at the Same Time, The Library of Law & Liberty (Aug. 21, 2017).
- The Expressive Society and Masterpiece Cakeshop, THE LIBRARY of LAW & LIBERTY (Jul. 17, 2017).
- Originalist Scholarship Relying on the Language of the Law–Part I, THE LIBRARY of LAW & LIBERTY (Jul. 31, 2017).
- Originalist Scholarship Relying on the Language of the Law–Part II, THE LIBRARY of LAW & LIBERTY (Aug. 3, 2017).
- The Indispensability of Judicial Dissent, THE LIBRARY of LAW & LIBERTY (Aug. 6, 2017).
- Our Declaration of Independence from Foreign Law, The Library of Law & Liberty (Jul. 3, 2017).
- Is the Court’s Originalist Jurisprudence Mostly Symbolic?, The Library of Law & Liberty (Jul. 7, 2017).
- Why Bitcoin Is Booming, Wall Street Journal (Jul. 9, 2017) (Co-authored by: Kyle W. Roche).
- The Good Justice Is Just a Judge by Another Name, The Library of Law & Liberty (Jul. 10, 2017).
- The New Left’s Dangerous Old Antitrust Ideas, The Library of Law & Liberty (Jun. 21, 2017).
- Why Trinity Lutheran Is the Most Important Case of the 2016 Term, The Library of Law & Liberty (Jun. 26, 2017).
- Is the Democrats' Decision to Filibuster Gorsuch Irrational?, Library of Law And Liberty (Mar. 28, 2017).
- The President’s Conduct Is No License for Others’ Unlawfulness, Library of Law & Liberty (Feb. 20, 2017).
2016
Articles
- Dworkinian Antitrust, 102 Iowa Law Review 1 (2016) (Co-authored by: Andrew R. Meerkins).
- Scalia’s Final Vote, City Journal (Nov. 16, 2016).
- Liberals Versus Political Speech, City Journal (Spring 2016).
- Neutral Principles and Some Campaign Finance Problems, 57 William And Mary Law Review 841 (2016).
- Neutral Principles and Some Campaign Finance Problems, William & Mary Law Review (forthcoming).
- How Innovation Makes Us More Equal, 39 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 47 (2016).
2015
Articles
- Originalism, Hypothesis Testing, and Big Data, Proceedings of 15th Annual Conference of The International Association of Artificial Intelligence & Law 201 (2015) (Co-authored by: Branden Stein).
- John Roberts’s Principled Mistake, City Journal (June 29, 2015).
- Staging Scalia, City Journal (May 25, 2015).
- Public Choice Originalism: Bork, Buchanan, and the Escape from the Progressive Paradigm, 10 Journal of Law, Economics and Policy 669 (2014).
- Constitutional Revolution: A Study of How the Federalist Society Helped to Revive and Spread the Originalist View of the Constitution, Wall Street Journal (March 26, 2015) (reviewing Amanda Hollis-Brusky, IDEAS WITH CONSEQUENCES: THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY AND THE CONSERVATIVE COUNTERREVOLUTION).
- Why Progressives Mislead, 25 No. 1 City Journal (Winter 2015).
Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press
- College Tenure Has Reached Its Sell-By Date, Wall Street Journal (Aug. 11, 2015) (Co-authored by: Max M. Schanzenbach).
- Law and Innovation, Washington Times (July 26, 2015).
2014
Articles
- An Originalist Future, 15 Engage: Journal of The Federalist Society Practice Groups 34 (2014) (Co-authored by: Michael B. Rappaport).
- Law’s Algorithm, 66 Florida Law Review 991 (2014) (Co-authored by: Steven Wasick).
- The Great Disruption: How Machine Intelligence Will Transform the Role of Lawyers in the Delivery of Legal Services, 82 Fordham Law Review 3041 (2014) (Co-authored by: Russell G. Pearce).
- Machines v. Lawyers, City Journal (Spring 2014).
- Robert Bork: Intellectual Leader of the Legal Right, 80 The University of Chicago Law Review Dialogue 235-242 (2014).
- John O. McGinnis, Akhil Reed Amar, David Barron, Hon. C. Boyden Gray, and Victoria Nourse are the panelistss for The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies: 2012 National Lawyers Convention, Showcase Panel II: Separation of Powers, 59 Loyola Law Review 573-621 (2013) (Co-authored by: Akhil Reed Amar, David Barron, Hon. C. Boyden Gray, and Victoria Nourse).
Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press
- How to End the Government Shutdown Option, Wall Street Journal (Dec. 29, 2014) (Co-authored by: Michael B. Rappaport).
Working Papers
- Public Choice Originalism: Bork, Buchanan and the Escape from the Progressive Paradigm.
2013
Books
- Originalism and the Good Constitution (Harvard University Press 2013) (Co-authored by: Michael B. Rappaport).
- Accelerating Democracy: Transforming Governance Through Technology (Princeton University Press 2013).
- Originalism and the Good Constitution (Harvard University Press 2013) (Co-authored by: M. Rappaport).
Articles
- The Constitution and Information Politics, 61 Drake Law Review 1055-1084 (2013).
Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press
- The BRAIN Initiative: A Bright idea, THE AMERICAN INTEREST (October 15, 2013).
- The Legal Historian as Entomologist, ONLINE LIBRARY of LAW AND LIBERTY.
Working Papers
2012
Articles
- Better Policy Through Better Information, Cato Unbound (May 16, 2012).
- Federalism as a Discovery Process and a Catalyst for Humility, 35 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 115-120 (2012).
- A Politics of Knowledge, National Affairs (Winter 2012).
Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press
- First Thing We Do, Let’s Kill All the Law Schools, Wall Street Journal, 15 (January 17, 2012) (Co-authored by: Russell D. Mangas).
2011
Articles
- Laws for Learning in an Age of Acceleration, 53 William and Mary Law Review 305-350 (2011).
- Accelerating AI, 104 Northwestern University Law Review 1253-1269 (2010).
- Originalism and Precedent, 34 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 121-127 (2011) (Co-authored by: Michael B. Rappaport).
2010
Articles
- Originalism and the Good Constitution, 98 Georgetown Law Journal 1693 (2010) (Co-authored by: Michael Rappaport).
- The Case Against Public Sector Unions, 162 Policy Review 3 (2010) (Co-authored by: Max Schanzenbach).
- Accelerating AI, Northwestern Colloquy.
- In Praise of Supreme Court Filibusters, 33 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 39-46 (2010) (Co-authored by: Michael B. Rappaport ).
Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press
- When Justice Comes Naturally , Wall Street Journal (August 27, 2010 ).
- David Souter’s Bad Constitutional History, Wall Street Journal, A15 (June 14, 2010) (Co-authored by: Michael B. Rappaport ).
- Confidential Conundrum, Wall Street Journal, 15 (May 28, 2010).
2009
Articles
- Medellín and the Future of International Delegation , 118 Yale Law Journal 1712-1760 (2009).
- Losing the Law War: The Bush Administration’s Strategic Errors, 25 Georgia State University Law Review 377-396 (2008).
- Original Methods Originalism: A New Theory of Interpretation and the Case Against Construction, 103 Northwestern University Law Review 751-802 (2009) (Co-authored by: Michael B. Rappaport ).
- Reconciling Originalism and Precedent , 103 Northwestern University Law Review 803-856 (2009) (Co-authored by: Michael B. Rappaport ).
- Democracy and International Human Rights Law, 84 Notre Dame Law Review 1739-1798 (2009) (Co-authored by: Ilya Somin ).
- Judging Facts Like Law, 25 Constitutional Commentary 69-130 (2008) (Co-authored by: Charles W. Mulaney ).
Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press
- Power Grabs (reviewing Harvey Silverglate’s Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent), National Review (October 5, 2009).
- The Decider: One Justice Routinely Tips the Supreme Court into a Majority. What Principles Guide His Thinking, Wall Street Journal (August 27, 2009).
2008
Articles
- The Condorcet Case for Supermajority Rules , 16 Supreme Court Economic Review 39-115 (2008) (Co-authored by: Michael Rappaport ).
- A Pragmatic Defense of Originalism , 31 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 917-935 (2008) (Co-authored by: Michael B. Rappaport).
- Original Interpretive Principles as the Core of Originalism, 24 Constitutional Commentary 371-382 (2007) (Co-authored by: Michael Rappaport ).
- The Federalist Approach to the First Amendment , 31 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 127-132 (2008).
Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press
- Who Will Be President?, Wall Street Journal, A13 (July 11, 2008).
- McCain and the Supreme Court , Wall Street Journal, page A14 (February 4, 2008) (Co-authored by: Steven G. Calabresi).
Working Papers
- The Desirable Constitution and the Case for Originalism (Co-authored by: Michael B. Rappaport).
2007
Articles
- Executive Power in the War on Terror , 146 Policy Review 63-75 (December 2007/January 2008).
- It’s the Spending, Stupid , National Review Online (December 19, 2007) (Co-authored by: Michael B. Rappaport).
- Originalism and Supermajoritarianism: Defending the Nexus, 102 Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy 18 (2007) (Co-authored by: Michael Rappaport ).
- Majority and Supermajority Rules: Three Views of the Capitol , 85 Texas Law Review 1115-1183 (2007).
- Should International Law Be Part of Our Law? , 59 Stanford Law Review 1175-1247 (2007) (Co-authored by: Ilya Somin ).
- Remarks on the Installation of Mark Movsesian as Max Schmertz Distinguished Professor of Law , 35 Hofstra Law Review 31-36 (2006).
- The Comparative Disadvantage of Customary International Law , 30 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 7-14 (2006).
- A Pragmatic Defense of Originalism, 2007 Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy 1 (2007) (Co-authored by: Michael B. Rappaport ).
- A Pragmatic Defense of Originalism, 101 Northwestern University Law Review 383-397 (2007) (Co-authored by: Michael B. Rappaport ).
Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press
- Coming to Order: How the Supreme Court Really Works, Wall Street Journal (March 15, 2007).
2006
Articles
- Contemporary Foreign and International Law in Constitutional Construction, 69 Albany Law Review 801-808 (2006).
- The Judicial Filibuster, The Median Senator, and the Countermajoritarian Difficulty, 2005 Supreme Court Review 257-306 (Co-authored by: Michael Rappaport).
- Age of the Empirical, 137 Policy Review 47-58 (June/July 2006).
- Foreign to Our Constitution, 100 Northwestern University Law Review 303-329 (2006).
Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press
- What Happens on Election Day Day (reviewing Alan Wolfe’s Does Democracy Still Work and Sanford Levinson’s Our Undemocratic Constitution) , Wall Street Journal (November 7, 2006).
- A Justice Is Weighed in the Balance, Wall Street Journal, page D8 (January 31, 2006).
2005
Articles
- The Patterns and Implications of Political Contributions by Elite Law School Faculty, 93 Georgetown Law Journal 1167-1212 (2005) (Co-authored by: Matthew A. Schwartz, and Benjamin Tisdell).
- Judges in the Culture Wars Crossfire, ABA Journal (October 2005) (Co-authored by: Erwin Chemerinsky, Christine Durham, Tom Feeney, Michael Tigar, and Robert Utter) .
- Supermajority Rules and the Judicial Confirmation Process, 26 Cardozo Law Review 543-578 (2005) (Co-authored by: Michael B. Rappaport).
- The World Trade Organization as a Structure of Liberty, 28 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 81-88 (2004).
- Federalism vs. States' Rights: A Defense of Judicial Review in a Federal System, 99 Northwestern University Law Review 89-130 (2004) (Co-authored by: Ilya Somin).
- Individualism and World Order, The National Interest 41-51 (Winter 2004/05).
- Lawrence v. Texas and Judicial Hubris, 102 Michigan Law Review 1555-1614 (2004) (Co-authored by: Nelson Lund).
Contributions to Books
- The Appointments Clause, in The Heritage Guide To The United States Constitution (Edwin Meese, David F. Forte, and Matthew Spalding eds. 2005).
Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press
- At Law School, Unstrict Scrutiny, Wall Street Journal, page D10 (July 27, 2005) .
2004
Articles
- Response: Against Global Governance in the WTO, 45 Harvard International Law Journal 353-365 (2004) (Co-authored by: Mark L. Movsesian).
- The World Trade Constitution (2004) (Co-authored by: Mark Movsesian) .
- Decentralizing Constitutional Provisions Versus Judicial Oligarchy: A Reply to Professor Koppelman, 20 Constitutional Commentary 39-59 (2003).
- The Limits of International Law in Protecting Dignity, 27 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 137-144 (2003).
- The Political Economy of International Antitrust Harmonization, 45 William And Mary Law Review 549-594 (2003).
Contributions to Books
- The Political Economy of International Antitrust Harmonization, in Competition Laws in Conflict: Antitrust Jurisdiction in the Global Economy (Richard A. Epstein and Michael S. Greve eds. 2004).
- Calvin Coolidge, in Presidential Leadership (James Taranto and Leonard Leo eds. 2004).
Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press
- More Than a Penny for Their Thoughts (reviewing Richard Vedder's Going Broke by Degrees), Wall Street Journal (November 17, 2004) .
- Whose Constitution Is It, Anyway? Judicial Review Has Its Limits, Wall Street Journal (August 11, 2004).
- Hey, Big Spenders: Here's a Law That Could Stop You!, Wall Street Journal (February 3, 2004) (Co-authored by: Michael B. Rappaport).
2003
Articles
- The Appropriate Hierarchy of Global Multilateralism and Customary International Law: The Example of the WTO, 44 Virginia Journal of International Law 229-284 (2003).
- From Bad to Worse: Affirmative Action and Prescription Drugs and What They Have to Do With Each Other, National Review (July 28, 2003).
- Lawyers As the Enemies of Truth, 26 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 231-234 (2003).
- Continuity and Coherence in the Rehnquist Court, 47 Saint Louis University Law Journal 875-887 (2003).
- Rehnquist's Court Renewed Civic Virtues, Time Magazine (June 30, 2003).
- The Senator and the Chief Justice, National Review Online (June 17, 2003).
- Symmetric Entrenchment: A Constitutional and Normative Theory, 89 Virginia Law Review 385-445 (2003) (Co-authored by: Michael B. Rappaport).
2002
Articles
- Our Supermajoritarian Constitution, 80 Texas Law Review 703-806 (2002) (Co-authored by: Michael B. Rappaport).
- Reviving Tocqueville's America: The Rehnquist Court’s Jurisprudence of Social Discovery, 90 California Law Review 485-571 (2002).
- Presidential Review as Constitutional Restoration, 51 Duke Law Journal 901-961 (2001).
- Popular Sovereignty and the Electoral College, 29 Florida State University Law Review 995-1004 (2001).
- The Symbiosis of Constitutionalism and Technology, 25 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 3-14 (2001).
Op-Eds/Blog Posts/Popular Press
- Now is the Time to Retool, National Law Journal, A12 (December 16, 2002) (Co-authored by: Michael B. Rappaport) .