Forthcoming

• The American Environmental Imagination (Harvard University Press, forthcoming)

Books

• The Meaning of Property: Freedom, Community and the Legal Imagination (Yale University Press, 2010)
• A Tolerable Anarchy: Rebels, Reactionaries, and the Making of American Freedom (Knopf, 2009) (paperback ed. Vintage, 2010)
• Democratic Vistas: Reflections on the Life of American Democracy (Yale University Press, 2004) (editor with Anthony T. Kronman & Cynthia Farrar)
• Being America: Liberty, Commerce, and Violence in an American World (Knopf 2003)
• For Common Things: Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today-1999

Articles and Essays

• Our Place in the World: A New Relationship for Environmental Ethics and Law, 62 Duke Law Journal 857-932 (2012)
• Some Pluralism About Pluralism: A Comment on Hanoch Dagan's "Pluralism and Perfectionism in Private Law", 113 Columbia Law Review Sidebar 9-19 (2013)
• American Natures: The Shape of Conflict in Environmental Law, 36 Harvard Environmental Law Review 169-228 (2012)
• The Liberty of Free Riders: The Minimum Coverage Provision, Mill's 'Harm Principle,' and American Social Morality, 38 American Journal of Law & Medicine 374-396 (2012) (with Neil Siegel)
• A Foxy Hedgehog: The Consistent Perception of Carol Rose, 19 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 1033-1037 (2011)
• The Politics of Nature: Climate Change, Environmental Law, and Democracy, 119 Yale Law Journal 1122-1209 (2010)
• A Few Questions About the Social-Obligation Norm, 94 Cornell Law Review 949-958 (2009)
• Language of Politics in America, in Law and Democracy in the Empire of Force (James B. White & H. Jefferson Powell eds., 2009)
• Presidential Popular Constitutionalism, 77 Fordham Law Review 1837-1871 (2009)
• What Has to Change for Forests to Be Saved? A Historical Example From the United States, 19 Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law 467-486 (2009)
• Climate Change and the Limits of the Possible, 18 Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum 289-306 (2008)
• Corn Futures: Consumer Politics, Health, and Climate Change, 38 Environmental Law Reporter 10851 (2008) (with James Salzman)
• People as Resources: Recruitment and Reciprocity in the Freedom-Promoting Approach to Property, 56 Duke Law Journal 1047-1117 (2007)
• Property and Empire: The Law of Imperialism in Johnson v. M'Intosh, 75 George Washington Law Review 329-371 (2007)
• Sovereigns, Trustees, Guardians: Private-Law Concepts and the Limits of Legitimate State Power, 70 Law & Contemporary Problems 165-211 (Summer 2007) (with Kimberly Fielding)
• The New Biopolitics: Autonomy, Demography and Nationhood, 2006 Brigham Young University Law Review 889-955
• History, Human Nature, and Property Regimes: Filling in the Civilizing Argument, 50 Saint Louis University Law Journal 735-750 (2006) (Comment on Carol Rose's 2005 Childress Lecture)
• The American Transformation of Waste Doctrine: A Pluralist Interpretation, 91 Cornell Law Review 653-698 (2006)
• The Limits of Courage and Principle, 104 Michigan Law Review 1501-1521 (2006) (reviewing Michael Ignatieff, The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror (2004))
• The New Biopolitics, Democracy 6-18 (Summer 2006)
• The New Biopolitics: Autonomy, Demography, and Nationhood, 2006 Brigham Young University Law Review 889-955
• The New Open Society: Has The New Utopia Promised By The Tech Boom's Cyber-Prophets Lived Up To Its Billing? Depends On The Book, American Prospect, Nov. 5, 2006 (reviewing Cass Sunstein, Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge (2006) and Yochai Benkler, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (2006))
• The Promise (and Limits) of Neuroeconomics, 58 Alabama Law Review 1-40 (2006)
• A Freedom-Promoting Approach to Property: A Renewed Tradition for New Debates, 72 University of Chicago Law Review 1237-1298 (2005)
• The Ethics of Empire, Again (Review Essay), 93 California Law Review 1773-1817 (2005) (reviewing, Noah Feldman, What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building (Princeton University Press, 2004))
• The New Liberal Imperialism: Assessing the Arguments, in Global Institutions and Responsibilities 323-338 (Christian Barry & Thomas W. Pogge eds., 2005)
• A World of Passions: How to Think About Globalization Now, 11 Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 1-49 (2004)
• Freedom's Next Fight, 15 American Prospect 54-55 (June 2004) (reviewing Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock down Culture and Control Creativity (2004))
• Liberal Empire: Assessing the Arguments, 17 Ethics and International Affairs (Fall 2003)
• Book Review, The Values of the Market 16 Ethics and International Affairs (Fall 2002)
• So Sue Me, New York Times Book Review, April 22, 2001, at 20 (reviewing Philip K. Howard, Lost Art of Drawing the Line: How Fairness Went Too Far (2001))

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

• A Terrible Beauty, Avidly (February 15, 2013)
• How the Ag-Gag Bill Would Make Criminals Out of Do-Gooders, Newsobserver.com (May 28, 2013)
• Open the Slaughterhouses, New York Times (April 9, 2013 at A23)
• How to be American Here in the Future, Huffington Post (November 9, 2012, 3:07pm)
• Whiteness in the Age of Obama, Huffington Post (November 26, 2012, 4:43pm)
• Intellectual Climate Change, The Guardian (London), Nov. 20, 2007
• A Way in the World, 23 Duke Law Magazine 33-34 (Spring 2005)
• Democracy and Disaster, Die Zeit, September 2005
• Neoliberalism Comes to Domestic Policy, La Vanguardia, January 20, 2005
• Where Do Progressives Go Now?, The Principles Project, January 2005
• A Vote for Kerry Is a Vote for the American Dream, Charleston Gazette, October 2004
• American Eating, American Politics, Die Zeit, October 2004
• Democratic Conscience, Democratic Sense, La Vanguardia, October 2004
• Democrats After the Election, Die Welt, November 2004
• Kerrys Dilemma, La Vanguardia, October 2004
• Questions for President Bush (contributor), New York Times op-ed page, October 8 , 2004
• Voting for John Kerry Guarantees Saving the American Dream, Charleston Gazette, October 11, 2004, at P5A
• Suspicious Minds, The Atlantic Monthly, January/February, 2003 at 82
• Civilization of Violence?, Die Zeit, August 2002
• The Pure Heart, Die Zeit, February 2002
• The Young American, Esquire, December, 2002, at 161
• After Innocence, Die Zeit, September 2001
• Gary Condit's Strong, Silent Act, New York Times op-ed page, August 26, 2001
• The Universal Nation, Prospect ( U.K.), October, 2001
• The Way We Say Goodnight, Shout, November 2001
• Us and Them, Die Zeit, August 2001
• America's Crisis of Legitimacy, Die Zeit, November 2000
• How to Go to the Polls Twice, New York Times op-ed page, November 3, 2000
• Once Again, America Needs to Believe in Its Courts, New York Times Op-ed page, November 26, 2000
• Planet Bush, Planet Gore, American Prospect, November 20, 2000, at 34
• Shades of Green, American Prospect, January 3, 2000, at 6
• The Dilemma of Irony, Die Zeit, August 2000
• The Politics of Adulthood, New York Times op-ed page, August 9, 2000
• A Holiday that Plays to Our Strengths, New York Times, November 25, 1999, (Op-ed) A37
• After Apathy, American Prospect, December 6 1999, at 12
• From Purity to Politics, American Prospect, January/February 1999, at 82
• If Wishing Only Made It So, American Prospect, May 1999, at 86
• The New Culture of Rural America, American Prospect, December 20, 1999, at 26
• Dolly and Madison, American Prospect, May-June 1998, at 88
• Rape of the Appalachians, American Prospect, November/December 1998, at 28
• The Age of Irony, American Prospect, July/August 1998, at 84
• The Chicago Acid Bath, American Prospect, January 1998
• The God of the Digerati, American Prospect, March 1998
• Wendell Berry: An Appreciation, Boston Book Review, July 1998
• The Libertarian Conceit, American Prospect, November 1997