Books

• The Constitutional Convention as an Amending Device (1981).

Articles and Essays

• Cultural Values and Government, 102 Northwestern Law Review 479-481 (2008)
• Why me?, 5 Journal of Appellate Practice and Process 95-105 (2003).
• And The Winners Are, 47 Am. Law. 47, (reviewing Darien McWhirter's Legal 100)
• Appendix - The Constitutional Separation of Powers Between the President and Congress, 63 Law & Contemporary Problems 513 (Winter/Spring 2000).
• Marshall's Question, 2 Green Bag 2d 367 (1999) (with H. Jefferson Powell).
• Too-Independent Counsel, N.Y. Times, Feb. 24, 1999, at 21.
• When Independent Means Unaccountable; Special Counsels Have Gone Too Far if Realm of Politics Seems Better Choice, L.A. D.J., Feb. 26, 1999, at 6.
• Remarks on Jeffrey Rosen's Paper, 66 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1293 (1998).
• The Attorney General's First Separation of Powers Opinion, 13 Const. Commentary 309 (1996) (with Jefferson Powell).
• After the Cold War: Presidential Power and the Use of Military Force, 50 U. Miami L. Rev. 107 (1995).
• Memorandum for Bernard N. Nussbaum Re: Presidential Signing Statements , 48 Ark. L. Rev. 346 (1995)
• "And Judges In Every State Shall Be Bound Thereby"; The Historic Constitutional Role of the State Judicial Systems, N.C. St. B.Q., Winter 1994, at 26.
• The Constitutionality of the Bank Bill: The Attorney General's First Constitutional Law Opinions, 44 Duke L.J. 110 (1994) (with Jefferson Powell).
• Abortion and the Supreme Court: The Retreat from Roe v. Wade, 138 U. Pa. L. Rev. 83 (1989) (with Sperling), reprinted in A Consitutional Law Anthology 125 (Michael J. Glennon ed., 1992).
• Activism Has its Place: On Abortion, the GOP Drops all Pretense of Restraint, L.A. D.J., Jan. 27, 1992, at 6.
• Congress, the Court, and the Bill of Rights, 23 Cumb. L. Rev. 91 (1992) (with others).
• Gag Me with a Rule: Bush and Abortion Counseling, New Republic, Jan. 6, 1992, at 14.
• Say Amen, Or Else--Piety and the Law, Washington Post, Nov. 3, 1991, at CI, reprinted as Remembering the Bible Teacher: An Essay on Prayer and the Constitution Duke L. Mag., Winter 1992, at 4.
• Advice and Consent to Supreme Court Nominations, in Encyclopedia of the American Constitution 10 (Leonard W. Levy et al. eds., Supp. I 1991) (with Madeline Morris).
• Article V Conventions, in Encyclopedia of the American Constitution 28 (Leonard W. Levy et al. eds., Supp. I 1991).
• Conservatives Play Doctor, N.Y. Times, May 25, 1991, at 23.
• Madison's Guardians: Brandeis, Black and Brennan, Comm. Law., Fall 1991, at 3.
• School Prayer, in Encyclopedia of the American Constitution 475 (Leonard W. Levy et al. eds., Supp. I 1991).
• The Right to be Wrong, N.Y. Times, Sept 1, 1991, Sec. 7, at 1 (reviewing Anthony Lewis, Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment (1991)).
• Who Controls the Legal Culture?, Times Literary Supp., April 2, 1991, at 7.
• Should We Compromise on Abortion?, Am. Prospect, Summer 1990, at 30.
• Souter and the Constitution: A Few Choice Questions for the Supreme Court Nominee, Wash. Post, Sept. 9, 1990, at D1.
• Testimony Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Washington, D.C., Concerning Constitutional and Statutory Responses to the Supreme Court Decision in Texas v. Johnson, in 1990 First Amendment Law Handbook 107 (James L. Swanson & Christian L. Castle eds., 1990).
• Case Closed, New Republic, Jan. 9, 1989, at 14.
• Day in Court, New Republic, May 8, 1989, at 11.
• Presentation 26 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 1726 (1988-1989)
• The Death Penalty and Original Intent, 26 Amer. Crim. L. Rev. 68 (1989).
• Before the Federalist, published in Italian as Prima del Federalist: La Convenzone Constitusionale del 1787, in Il Federalista: 200 Anni Dopo 11 (G. Negri ed., 1988).
• L. Caplan, The Tenth Justice: The Solicitor General and the Rule of Law, New Republic, Feb. 15, 1988, at 36.
• Original Intent, Sexual Equality and Executive Powers: Notes from the Founding, 120 F.R.D. 209 (1988).
• Pledge Allegiance to the Law, N.Y. Times, June 21, 1988, at 22.
• 1987: The Constitution and "The Curse of Heaven", 29 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 145 (1987).
• Con Con Con, New Republic, Apr. 7, 1986, at 10.
• The Sound of Silence: An Epistle on Prayer and the Constitution, 96 Yale L.J. 1631 (1986).
• The Amending Process in Canada and the United States: A Comparative Perspective, Law & Contemp. Probs., Autumn 1982, at 283, reprinted in Reshaping Confederation: The 1982 Reform of the Canadian Constitution 283 (P. Davenport & R. Leach eds., 1984).
• Constitutional Politics: A Rejoinder, 97 Harv. L. Rev. 446 (1983).
• The Legitimacy of Constitutional Change: Rethinking the Amendment Process, 97 Harv. L. Rev. 386 (1983).
• Government Control of Religion?, Washington Post, Nov. 7, 1982, at B5 (with William Van Alstyne).
• My Turn: Another Route to the ERA, Newsweek, Aug. 2, 1982, at 8, reprinted as The Future of the Equal Rights Amendment Duke L. Mag., Winter 1982, at 33.
• Concerning Constitutional Conventions, 2:1 Duke Docket 5 (1980).
• Foreword: The Burger Court: Reflections on the First Decade, Law & Contemp. Probs., Summer 1980, at 1.
• The Recurring Question of the "Limited" Constitutional Convention, 88 Yale L.J. 1623 (1979).
• Who Controls a Constitutional Convention?--A Response, 1979 Duke L.J. 999.
• Spearing the Chief, 83 Yale L.J. 1745 (1974) (reviewing C. Black, Impeachment: A Handbook).
• Subchapter II. Law Enforcement and Criminal Investigation, 10 Wake Forest L. Rev. 353 (1974).
• Of Rights and Remedies: The Constitution as a Sword, 85 Harv. L. Rev. 1532 (1972).
• Study of the Implementation of the Criminal Justice Act in Mississippi, submitted as a report to the Department of Justice and the Judicial Conference of the United States and printed in Oaks, The Criminal Justice Act in the Federal District Courts (1968).
• School Segregation and Professor Avins' History: A Defense of Brown v. Board of Education, 38 Miss. L.J. 248 (1967).

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

• Harmonic Convergence at the High Court, Slate, June 21, 2009
• The Purse Isn't Congress' Only Weapon, New York Times, March 14, 2007, at A23 (with Christopher H. Schroeder)
• What Congress Gets To Know: How To End The Standoff On Executive Privilege And The U.S. Attorney Scandal, Slate.com, March 26, 2007 (with Christopher H. Schroeder)