Journal Articles and Working Papers

Genteel Culture, Legal Education, and Constitutional Controversy in Early National Virginia,” LAW & HISTORY REVIEW 41, no. 4 (2023)

"Life and Afterlife in the Steel Seizure Case,” BUFFALO LAW REVIEW 70, no. 2 (2022), 875-911.

Review of Edward A. Purcell, Jr., Antonin Scalia and American Constitutionalism: The Historical Significance of a Judicial Icon (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2020), LAW & HISTORY REVIEW39, no. 3 (2021), 612-15.

“Response: Our Imperial Federal Courts,” Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc 74 (2021), 125-43 (responding to Christian Burset, “Advisory Opinions and the Problem of Legal Authority”).

“Normativity and Objectivity in Historical Writing (My Dinner with Schlegel),” Buffalo Law Review 69, no. 1 (2021), 133–52 (invited conference essay).

“Presidential Whim,” Ohio Northern University Law Review 46, no. 3 (2020), 489–514 (invited symposium essay).

“The Constitutional Convention and Constitutional Change: A Revisionist History,” Lewis & Clark Law Review 24 (2020), 1-51.

“The Legislature at War: Bandits, Runaways and the Emergence of a Virginia Doctrine of Separation of Powers,” Law & History Review 37, no. 2 (2019), 493-538 (peer-reviewed).

“How to Think Constitutionally About Prerogative: A Study of Early American Usage,” Buffalo Law Review 66 (2018), 557-668.

“The Josiah Philips Attainder and the Institutional Structure of the American Revolution,” Howard Law Journal 60 (2017), 413–58.
*Selected for 2016 Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop.

“On the Place of Judge-Made Law in a Government of Laws,” Critical Analysis of Law 3 (2016), 243–60 (peer-reviewed).

“Due Process as Choice of Law: A Study in the History of a Judicial Doctrine,” William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 24 (2016), 1047–106.

“Bills of Attainder,” Houston Law Review 53 (2016), 767–908.

“Judicial Review and Non-Enforcement at the Founding,” University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 17 (2014), 479–568.
 * Selected for 2014 Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum.

“Collaborative Departmentalism,” Buffalo Law Review 61 (2013), 345–411.

“Reason, the Common Law, and the Living Constitution,” Legal Theory 17 (2011), 279–300 (peer-reviewed) (review of David Strauss, The Living Constitution (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)).

“The Democratic Common Law,” The Journal Jurisprudence 10 (2011), 437–86.

Books

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: SOURCES AND PROBLEMS (ChartaCourse 2017) (digital casebook)