Forthcoming

• The Constitution and the Commander in Chief (forthcoming 2013)
• The Humanity of Law, in Legal Affinities: Explorations in the Legal Form of Thought (Patrick McKinley Brenann, H. Jefferson Powell & Jack Sammons eds., forthcoming 2013)
• The Conflicted Assumptions of Modern Constitutional Law, 5 Journal of Law, Philosophy & Culture (forthcoming 2012)
• William Rawle and Secession: Legal Rights and Political Wrongs, in Union and States' Rights: 150 Years After Sumter, A Legal History of Interposition, Nullification, and Secession (Neil H. Cogan ed., forthcoming 2012)

Books

• Legal Affinities: Explorations in the Legal Form of Thought (Carolina Academic Press, 2013) (editor with Patrick McKinley Brenann & Jack L. Sammons)
• 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 (1991).

Articles and Essays

• A Dialogue Between a Theologian and a Lawyer, 75 Law and Contemporary Problems 221-231 (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 Regrettable Clause: United States v. Comstock and the Powers of Congress, 48 San Diego Law Review 713-722 (2011)
• 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, 445, 597-98 (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) (Tribute to Professor J.B. White)
• Foreword to Civilizing Authority: Society, State and Church (Patrick McKinley Brennan ed., 2007)
• Constitutional Virtues, 9 Green Bag 2d 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)
• 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, 329-40 (Kermit L. Hall ed., 2d ed. 2005)
• Should Creed or Constition Guide the Judiciary?, in Powerweb: Legal Environment of Business (Fred H. Maidment ed., 2005)
• Reflections on a Conversation, 19 Georgia State University Law Review 931-945 (2004). (Symposium on H. Jefferson Powell, The President's Authority over Foreign Affairs (2002))
• The Constitutional Importance of Books, in Beyond Excellence: Duke Law School Faculty Scholarship 2003, 13-18 (2004)
• The Three Independences, 38 University of Richmond Law Review 603-614 (2004).
• Overcoming Democracy: Richard Posner and Bush v. Gore, 17 Journal of Law & Politics 333 (2002).
• The Desirability of Politics, 6 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, (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 U. Colo. L. Rev. 645 (2000) (with Benjamin J. Priester).
• The Judge, 78 N.C. L. Rev. 1709 (2000) (Tribute to the Honorable Sam J. Ervin, III)
• With Disdain for the Constitutional Craft: The Proposed Victims' Rights Amendment, 78 N.C. L. Rev. 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 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1471 (1999).
• The President's Authority Over Foreign Affairs: An Executive Branch Perspective, 67 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 527 (1999).
• Who's Afraid of Thomas Cromwell?, 74 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 393 (1999).
• Laying it on the Line: A Dialogue on Line Item Vetoes and Separation of Powers, 47 Duke L.J. 1171 (1998) (with Jed Rubenfeld).
• The Lawfulness of Romer v. Evans, 77 N.C. L. Rev. 241 (1998).
• The Province and Duty of Political Departments,  65 U. Chi. L. Rev. 365 (1998) (reviewing, David P. Currie, The Constitution in Congress: The Federalist Period (1997))
• Book Review, 40 Am. J. Legal Hist. 377 (1996) (reviewing, Scott Douglas Gerber, To Secure These Rights: The Declaration of Independence and Constitutional Interpretation (1995))
• Book Review, 83 J. Amer. Hist. 1561 (1996) (reviewing, William R. Casto, The Supreme Court in the Early Republic (1995)).
• Loyalty to the Law: Politics and the Practice of Public Lawyering in the United States, 72 Notre Dame L. Rev. 78 (1996).
• The Attorney General's First Separation of Powers Opinion, 13 Const. Comm. 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) (with STanley Hauerwas) (republished in, Hauerwas, Dispatches from the Front: Theological Engagements with the Secular 107 (1995)
• Enumerated Means and Unlimited Ends, 94 Mich. L. Rev. 651 (1995).
• Constitutional Investigations, 72 Tex. L. Rev. 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 L.J. 110 (1994) (with Walter Dellinger).
• The Principles of '98: An Essay in Historical Retrieval, 80 Va. L. Rev. 689 (1994).
• "Cardozo's Foot": The Chancellor's Conscience and Constructive Trusts, Law & Contemp. Probs., Summer 1993, at 7.
• Book Review, 49 Wm. & Mary Q. (3d Ser.) 184 (1993) (reviewing Martin Diamond, As Far as Republican Principles Will Admit: Essays (1992))
• Book Review, 80 J. Amer. Hist 1081 (1993) (reviewing, Alan Watson, Joseph Story and the Comity of Errors (1992))
• Book Review, 79 J. Amer. Hist. 1592 (1993) (reviewing, A Culture of Rights: The Bill of Rights in Philosophy, Politics and Law--1791 and 1991 (1991))
• Enslaved to Judicial Supremacy?, 106 Harv. L. Rev. 1197 (1993) (reviewing Robert A. Burt, The Constitution in Conflict).
• The Oldest Question of Constitutional Law, 79 Va L. Rev. 633 (1993).
• The Political Grammar of Early Constitutional Law, 73 N.C. L. Rev. 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 J. Legal Educ. 161 (1990).
• Book Review, 46 Wm. & Mary Q. (3d Ser.) 828 (1989) (reviewing Leonard Levy, Original Intent and the Framers Constitution (1988))
• Rationality of the Common Law, 64 Notre Dame L. Rev. 767 (1989) (reviewing M. Eisenberg, The Nature of the Common Law).
• Reimagining the Marshall Court, 87 Mich. L. Rev. 1527 (1989) (reviewing G. White, The Marshall Court and Cultural Change).
• Social Theory as Exegetical Tool, Forum, Dec. 1989, at 27.
• The Uses of State Constitutional History: A Case Note, 54 Alb. L. Rev. 283 (1989).
• Faith in the Republic: A Francis Lewis Law Center Conversation, 45 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 467 (1988) (with others).
• Reviving Republicanism, 98 Yale L.J. 1703 (1988).
• The Gospel According to Roberto: A Theological Polemic, 1988 Duke L. J. 1013 (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 Va. L. Rev. 659 (1987).
• The Ambiguities of Pledging Faith, 29 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 169 (1987).
• The Modern Misunderstanding of Original Intent, 54 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1513 (1987) (reviewing R. Berger, Federalism: The Founders' Design).
• Book Note, 4 Law & Hist. Rev. 214 (1986) (reviewing P. Hoffer & W. Scott eds., Criminal Proceedings in Colonial Virginia).
• Consensus and Objectivity in Early Constitutional Interpretation: An Unproven Thesis, 65 Tex. L. Rev. 859 (1986) (reviewing C. Wolfe, The Rise of Modern Judicial Review).
• Constitutional Law as Though the Constitution Mattered, 1986 Duke L.J. 915 (reviewing W. Murphy, et al, American Constitutional Interpretation (1986)).
• Parchment Matters: A Meditation on the Constitution as Text, 71 Iowa L. Rev. 1427 (1986)
• Reaching the Limits of Traditional Constitutional Scholarship, 80 Nw. L. Rev. 1128 (1986) (reviewing L. Tribe, Constitutional Choices).
• The Rehnquist Court: A Dissenting Opinion, 25 Iowa Advocate 27 (1986).
• Joseph Story's Commentaries on the Constitution: A Belated Review, 94 Yale L.J. 1285 (1985).
• The Original Understanding of Original Intent, 98 Harv. L. Rev. 885 (1985), reprinted in A Constitutional Law Anthology (Michael J. Glennon ed., 1997).
• The Compleat Jeffersonian: Justice Rehnquist and Federalism, 91 Yale L.J. 1317 (1982).
• The Byzantine Army, 2 Miniature Parade 17 (1969)

Multimedia

• The Contracts Experience, (DVD course materials, 2002) (with John Weistart & Girardeau A. Spann).