Selected Publications

• Marbury v. Madison, in Vicki Jackson & Judith Resnik, eds. Federal Court Stories, 29-26.  Foundation Press, 2009
• Morton Horwitz: Legal Historian as Lawyer and Historian, in Daniel W. Hamilton & Alfred L. Brothy, eds.  Transformations in American Legal History:  Essays in Honor of Morton J. Horwitz, 319-326.  Harvard Law School, 2009.
• Supreme Neglect.  107 Michigan L. Rev. 1059 (2009) (book review).
• Taking Text too Seriously: Modern Textualism, Original Meaning, and the Case of Amar's Bill of Rights. 106 Mich. L. Rev.487 (2007).
• Original Understanding and the Whatever, Why, and How of Judicial Review. 116 Yale L.J. Pocket Part 218 (2007).
• Process Theory, Majoritarianism, and the Original Understanding. 75 Ford. L. Rev. 2989. (2007).
• Kathleen M. Sullivan and William Treanor, Tribute to James Oakes, New York Law Journal, March 19, 2007, p. 2.
• Judicial Review before Marbury. 58 Stanford Law Review 455-562 (2005) [reprinted Fordham Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series No. 85]
• Deans and Stories: Leading Minds. 36 The University of Toledo Law Review 207-211 (2004).
• The War Powers Outside the Courts, in Mark Tushnet ed. The Constitution in Wartime, 143-160. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005
• Lochner's New Millenium: Copyright Term Extension, Constitutional Law, and Eldred v. Ashcroft, 112 Yale L.J. (2003) (with Paul Schwartz)
• The New Privacy, 101 Mich. L. Rev. 2163 (2003) (with Paul Schwartz) (book review)
• Jam for Justice Holmes: Reassessing the Significance of Mahon, 86 Georgetown Law Journal 813 (1998)
• Independent Counsel and Vigorous Prosecution and Investigation, 61 Law and Contemporary Problems 149 (1998)
• The Armstrong Principle, the Narratives of Takings, and Compensation Statutes, 38 William & Mary Law Review 1151 (1997)
• Learning from Lincoln, 65 Fordham Law Review 1781 (1997)
• Fame, the Founding, and the Power to Declare War, 82 Cornell Law Review 695 (1997)
• The Original Understanding of the Takings Clause and the Political Process, 95 Columbia Law Review 782 (1995)
• The Case of the Prisoners and the Origins of Judicial Review, 143 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 491 (1994)
• Prospective Overruling and the Revival of "Unconstitutional" Statutes, 93 Columbia Law Review 1902 (1993) (with Gene Sperling)
• Taking the Framers Seriously, 55 University of Chicago Law Review 1016 (1988) (review of Walter Berns, Taking the Constitution Seriously (1987))
• Note, The Origins and Original Significance of the Just Compensation Clause of the Fifth Amendment, 94 Yale Law Journal 694 (1985)

Recent Presentations

• Human Rights in a Constitutional Framework. First Justice Haim H. Cohn Lecture. College of Management, Rishon Lezion, Israel (May 24, 2006).
• Did Progressives Rewrite the Constitution? Debate with Professor Richard Epstein, University of Chicago Law School. Sponsored by Smith Family Foundation. CUNY Graduate School (June 6, 2006).
• Intellectual Property and the Constitution: The Case for Deference. Speaker, Plenary Session on Constitutional Law, AALS Meeting on Intellectual Property. Vancouver, British Columbia (June 14, 2006).
• The Scholarship of Morton Horwitz in Law and History. Panelist, AALS Legal History Section, AALS Annual Convention. Washington DC (January 5, 2007).
• Principal Paper, Property Rights. Siegan Conference on Economic Liberties and the Constitution. University of San Diego (November 16, 2007).
• Against Textualism. Conference on New Ideas About the New Originalism. Northwestern Law School (April 24, 2008).