Directory

Bibliography

Books

The Foundations of American Law: A Companion to the 1L Year (Carolina Academic Press, 2024)
The Practice of American Constitutional Law (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
Targeting Americans: The Constitutionality of the U.S. Drone War (Oxford University Press, 2016)
The President as Commander in Chief: An Essay in Constitutional Vision (Carolina Academic Press, 2014)
Legal Affinities: Explorations in the Legal Form of Thought (Carolina Academic Press, 2013) (editor with others)
Law and Democracy in the Empire of Force (University of Michigan Press, 2009) (editor with James B. White)
No Law: Intellectual Property in the Image of an Absolute First Amendment (Stanford University Press, 2009) (with David L. Lange)
William Rawle, A View of the Constitution of the United States of America (original ed. 1825, 2d ed. 1829) (H. Jefferson Powell ed., Carolina Academic Press 2009)
Constitutional Conscience: The Moral Dimension of Judicial Decision (University of Chicago Press, 2008)
A Community Built on Words: The Constitution in History and Politics (University of Chicago Press, 2002, rev. ed. 2005)
The President's Authority Over Foreign Affairs: An Essay in Constitutional Interpretation (Carolina Academic Press, 2002)
William Howard Taft, Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers (original ed. 1916) (H. Jefferson Powell ed., Carolina Academic Press 2002)
The Constitution and the Attorneys General (Carolina Academic Press, 1999)
The Moral Tradition of American Constitutionalism: A Theological Interpretation (Duke University Press, 1993)
Languages of Power: A Source Book of Early American Constitutional History (Carolina Academic Press, 1991)

Articles & Essays

Imagining the United States: Reflections From Constitutional Law, 85 Law and Contemporary Problems 1-18 (2022)
John Marshall Harlan and Constitutional Adjudication: An Anniversary Rehearing, 9 Belmont Law Review 62-148 (2021)
Judges as Superheroes: The Danger of Confusing Constitutional Decisions with Cosmic Battles, 72 South Carolina Law Review 917-948 (2021)
Law as a Language, Law as an Art: Reflections on James Boyd White’s Keep Law Alive, 10 British Journal of American Legal Studies 154-170 (2021)
The Emergence of the American Constitutional Law Tradition, 103 Judicature 24-32 (2019)
Passion and Personhood: Reading John Noonan's Persons and Marks of the Law, 29 Western Legal History 167-172 (2018)
The United States as an Idea: Constitutional Reflections, 49 Loyola University Chicago Law Journal 705-716 (2018)
Professor Greenawalt's Unfashionable Idea, 115 Columbia Law Review 790 (2015)
Slow Reading and Living Speech: James Boyd White on What a Constitutional Law Opinion is For, in Living in a Law Transformed: Encounters with the Works of James Boyd White ch. 5 (Julen Etxabe & Gary Watt eds., 2014)
The Humanity of Law, in Legal Affinities: Explorations in the Legal Form of Thought 101-120 (Patrick McKinley Brenann, H. Jefferson Powell & Jack Sammons eds, 2013)
William Rawle and Secession: Legal Rights and Political Wrongs, in Union and States' Rights: A History and Interpretation of Interposition, Nullification, and Secession 150 Years After Sumter 111-126 (Neil H. Cogan ed., 2013)
A Dialogue Between a Theologian and a Lawyer, 75 Law & Contemporary Problems 221-231 (No. 4, 2012) (with Stanley Hauerwas)
Reasoning About the Irrational: The Roberts Court and the Future of Constitutional Law, 86 Washington Law Review 217-280 (2011)
The Conflicted Assumptions of Modern Constitutional Law, 5 Journal of Law, Philosophy & Culture 167-194 (2011)
The Regrettable Clause: United States v. Comstock and the Powers of Congress, 48 San Diego Law Review 713-722 (2011)
Book Review, 97 Journal of American History 499 (2010) (reviewing, Thomas H. Cox, Gibbons v. Ogden, Law and Society in the Early Republic (2009))
Further Reflections on Not Being "Not an Originalist", 7 University of Saint Thomas Law Journal 288-309 (2010)
Humanity of Law, 55 Villlanova Law Review 1161-1176 (2010)
On Not Being "Not an Originalist", 7 University of Saint Thomas Law Journal 259-280 (2010)
'William Bradford,' 'Edmund Randolph,' and 'William Wirt', in The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law 66-67 (Roger K. Newman ed., 2009)
A Response to Professor Knight, 'Are Empiricists Asking the Right Questions about Judicial Decisionmaking?', 58 Duke Law Journal 1725-1730 (2009)
Law as a Tool, in Law and Democracy in the Empire of Force 250-264 (James B. White & H. Jefferson Powell eds, 2009)
The Story of Curtiss-Wright Export Corporation, in Presidential Power Stories 195-232 (Christopher H. Schroeder & Curtis A. Bradley eds., 2009)
A Teacher, 105 Michigan Law Review 1393-95 (2007)
Foreword, in Civilizing Authority: Society, State and Church (Patrick McKinley Brennan ed., 2007)
Constitutional Virtues, 9 Green Bag 379-389 (2006)
For Lash: Who Asks the Right Questions, 63 Washington & Lee Law Review 11-14 (2006) (Tribute to Lewis H. Larue)
Grand Visions in an Age of Conflict, 115 Yale Law Journal 2067-2092 (2006)
Preface, in Constitutional Fate: Theory of the Constitution (2006) (rev. ed. 2006)
The Executive and the Avoidance Canon, 81 Indiana Law Journal 1313-1318 (2006)
'Calder v. Bull,' and 'Higher Law', in The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States 135-36 (Kermit L. Hall ed., 2005)
Should Creed or Constitution Guide the Judiciary?, in Powerweb: Legal Environment of Business (Fred H. Maidment ed., 2005)
The Constitutional Importance of Books, 13 Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Minority Issues 13-18 (2004)
The Three Independences, 38 University of Richmond Law Review 603-614 (2004)
Reflections on a Conversation, 19 Georgia State University Law Review 931-945 (2003) (Symposium on H. Jefferson Powell, The President's Authority over Foreign Affairs (2002))
Overcoming Democracy: Richard Posner and 'Bush v. Gore', 17 Journal of Law & Politics 333 (2002)
The Desirability of Politics, 5 Green Bag 2d 279 (2002)
Attorney General Taney and the South Carolina Police Bill, 5 Green Bag 2d 75 (2001)
The Earthly Peace of the Liberal Republic, in Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought 73 (Michael W. McConnell, Robert F. Cochran, Jr., & Angela Carmella eds., 2001)
The Right to Self-Government After Bush v. Gore (2001) (Duke Law School Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper No. 26, December 2001) (with Paul D. Carrington)
William Wirt and the Invention of the Public Lawyer, 4 Green Bag 2d 297 (2001)
Convenient Shorthand: The Supreme Court and the Language of State Sovereignty, 71 University of Colorado Law Review 645 (2000) (with Benjamin J. Priester)
The Judge, 78 North Carolina Law Review 1709 (2000) (Tribute to the Honorable Sam J. Ervin, III)
With Disdain for the Constitutional Craft: The Proposed Victims' Rights Amendment, 78 North Carolina Law Review 371 (2000) (with Robert P. Mosteller)
Marshall's Question, 2 Green Bag 2d 367 (1999) (with Walter Dellinger)
The Founders and the President's Authority Over Foreign Affairs, 40 William & Mary Law Review 1471 (1999)
The President's Authority Over Foreign Affairs: An Executive Branch Perspective, 67 George Washington Law Review 527 (1999)
Who's Afraid of Thomas Cromwell?, 74 Chicago-Kent Law Review 393 (1999)
Laying it on the Line: A Dialogue on Line Item Vetoes and Separation of Powers, 47 Duke Law Journal 1171 (1998) (with Jed Rubenfeld)
The Lawfulness of Romer v. Evans, 77 North Carolina Law Review 241 (1998)
The Province and Duty of Political Departments (1998) (reviewing, David P. Currie, The Constitution in Congress: The Federalist Period (1997))
Book Review, 82 Journal of American History 1561 (1996) (reviewing, William R. Casto, The Supreme Court in the Early Republic (1995))
Book Review, 40 American Journal of Legal History 377 (1996) (reviewing Scott Douglas Gerber, To Secure These Rights: The Declaration of Independence and Constitutional Interpretation (1995))
Loyalty to the Law: Politics and the Practice of Public Lawyering in the United States, 72 Notre Dame Law Review 78 (1996)
The Attorney General's First Separation of Powers Opinion, 13 Constitutional Commentary 309 (1996) (with Walter Dellinger)
Creation as Apocalyptic: A Homage to William Stringfellow, in Radical Christian and Exemplary Lawyer 31 (Andrew W. McThenia Jr. ed., 1995) (republished in, Hauerwas, Dispatches from the Front: Theological Engagements with the Secular 107 (1995) (with Stanley Hauerwas)
Enumerated Means and Unlimited Ends, 94 Michigan Law Review 651 (1995)
Constitutional Investigations, 72 Texas Law Review 1731 (1994)
Joseph Story, in The Supreme Court Justices: A Biographical Dictionary 435 (Melvin I. Urofsky ed., 1994) (rev. ed. 2006)
The Constitutionality of the Bank Bill: The Attorney General's First Constitutional Law Opinions, 44 Duke Law Journal 110 (1994) (with Walter Dellinger)
The Principles of '98: An Essay in Historical Retrieval, 80 Virginia Law Review 689 (1994)
"Cardozo's Foot": The Chancellor's Conscience and Constructive Trusts, 56 Law & Contemporary Problems 7 (Summer 1993)
Book Review, 80 Journal of American History 1081 (1993) (reviewing Alan Watson, Joseph Story and the Comity of Errors (1992))
Book Review, 79 Journal of American History 1592 (1993) (reviewing, A Culture of Rights: The Bill of Rights in Philosophy, Politics and Law--1791 and 1991 (Michael J. Lacey & Knud Haakonssen eds., 1991))
Book Review, 49 William & Mary Quarterly 184 (1993) (reviewing Martin Diamond, As Far as Republican Principles Will Admit: Essays (1992))
Enslaved to Judicial Supremacy?, 106 Harvard Law Review 1197 (1993) (reviewing Robert A. Burt, The Constitution in Conflict (1992))
The Oldest Question of Constitutional Law, 79 Virginia Law Review 633 (1993)
The Political Grammar of Early Constitutional Law, 73 North Carolina Law Review 949 (1993)
Calder v. Bull, Higher Law, in The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States 114 (Kermit L. Hall ed., 1992) (rev. ed. 2005)
Transparency, Opacity and Openness in Narrative, 40 Journal of Legal Education 161 (1990)
Social Theory as Exegetical Tool, Forum 27 (Dec. 1989)
Book Review, 46 William & Mary Quarterly 828 (1989) (reviewing Leonard Levy, Original Intent and the Framers Constitution (1988))
Rationality of the Common Law, 64 Notre Dame Law Review 767 (1989) (reviewing Melvin A. Eisenberg, The Nature of the Common Law (1988))
Reimagining the Marshall Court, 87 Michigan Law Review 1527 (1989) (reviewing G. White, The Marshall Court and Cultural Change (1988))
The Uses of State Constitutional History: A Case Note, 54 Albany Law Review 283 (1989)
Faith in the Republic: A Francis Lewis Law Center Conversation, 45 Washington & Lee Law Review 467 (1988) (with others)
Reviving Republicanism, 98 Yale Law Journal 1703 (1988)
The Gospel According to Roberto: A Theological Polemic, 1988 Duke Law Journal 1013 (1988) (reprinted in 5 Modern Theology 97 (1989))
How the Constitution Structures Government: The Founders' Views, in A Workable Government: The Constitution after 200 Years 13 (Burke Marshall ed., 1987)
Rules for Originalists, 73 Virginia Law Review 659 (1987)
The Ambiguities of Pledging Faith, 29 William & Mary Law Review 169 (1987)
The Modern Misunderstanding of Original Intent, 54 University of Chicago Law Review 1513 (1987) (reviewing Raoul Berger, Federalism: The Founders' Design (1987))
Book Note, 4 Law and History Review 214 (1986) (reviewing Peter Charles Hoffer & William B Scott, Criminal Proceedings in Colonial Virginia (1984))
Consensus and Objectivity in Early Constitutional Interpretation: An Unproven Thesis, 65 Texas Law Review 859 (1986) (reviewing Christopher Wolfe, The Rise of Modern Judicial Review (1986))
Constitutional Law as Though the Constitution Mattered, 35 Duke Law Journal 915-927 (1986) (reviewing Walter F. Murphy, American Constitutional Interpretation (1986))
Parchment Matters: A Meditation on the Constitution as Text, 71 Iowa Law Review 1427 (1986)
Reaching the Limits of Traditional Constitutional Scholarship, 80 Northwestern Law Review 1128 (1986) (reviewing Laurence Tribe, Constitutional Choices (1985))
The Rehnquist Court: A Dissenting Opinion, 25 Iowa Advocate 27 (1986)
Joseph Story's Commentaries on the Constitution: A Belated Review, 94 Yale Law Journal 1285 (1985)
The Original Understanding of Original Intent, 98 Harvard Law Review 885 (1985) (reprinted in A Constitutional Law Anthology (Michael J. Glennon ed., 1997))
The Compleat Jeffersonian: Justice Rehnquist and Federalism, 91 Yale Law Journal 1317 (1982)
The Byzantine Army, 2 Miniature Parade 17 (1969)

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

Is the Constitution Obsolete?, North State Journal (March 21, 2024)
History, Rights, and Constitutional Law, Fifteeneightyfour Blog (July 12, 2022)
History Tells Us Black Americans Need Better Legal Protection, Law360 (July 19, 2020)
The Brokenness of A Gift to the World: Why the Episcopal Church Should Reject the Recent Proposal for Full Communion with the United Methodist Church (June 16, 2017)
The State of the Judiciary, 101 Judicature (January 1, 2017, at 52) (with others)
The Targeted Killing of American Citizens, OUPblog (September 26, 2016)
The Targeted Killing of American Citizens, OUPblog (September 22, 2016)
In Praise of Eternal Youth, Duke Law Magazine (October 1, 201521-22)
EPA Plan Needs a Debate Based on Reason, Boston Globe (April 11, 2015) (with others)

Multimedia

The Contracts Experience(DVD course materials) (2002) (with others)

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