Neil S. Siegel
 

Works in Progress

Our Customary Constitution: The Role of Historical Gloss and Constitutional Conventions in Constructing the Separation of Powers (book project with Curtis A. Bradley)

Forthcoming

Why the Nineteenth Amendment Matters Today: An Essay for the Centennial, 27 DUKE JOURNAL OF GENDER LAW & POLICY (forthcoming 2020)

Foreword, 3 AMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY SUPREME COURT REVIEW (forthcoming 2019) (October 2018 Term)

Historical Practice, Madisonian Liquidation, and the Originalism Debate,106 VIRGINIA LAW REVIEW (forthcoming 2020) (with Curtis A. Bradley)

The Pregnant Captain, the Notorious REG, and the Vision of RBG: The Story of Struck v. Secretary of Defense,in REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS AND JUSTICE STORIES (Kate Shaw, Reva Siegel, and Melissa Murray eds., forthcoming, 2019)

Books

United States Constitutional Law (Foundation Press, 2019) (with Daniel A. Farber)

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  Articles and Essays

  • Law is Not Enough, 45 OHIO NORTHERN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 197 (2019) 
    

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    After the Trump Era: A Constitutional Role Morality for Presidents and Members of Congress, 107 GEORGETOWN LAW JOURNAL 109 (2018)

  • Political Norms, Constitutional Conventions, and President Donald Trump, 93 INDIANA LAW JOURNAL 177 (2018)
  • Reciprocal Legitimation in the Federal Courts System: Racial Segregation, Reapportionment, and Obergefell Appendix A, 70 VANDERBILT LAW REVIEW 1183 (2017)
  • Historical Gloss, Constitutional Conventions, and the Judicial Separation of Powers, 105 GEORGETOWN LAW JOURNAL 255 (2017) (with Curtis A. Bradley)
  • The Distinctive Role of Justice Samuel Alito: From a Politics of Restoration to a Politics of Dissent, 126 YALE LAW JOURNAL FORUM 164 (2016)
  • The Taxing Clause, NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER, INTERACTIVE CONSTITUTION (2016) (with Steven J. Willis)
  • The Power to Tax, Not to Destroy: An Effects Theory of the Taxing Clause, NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER, INTERACTIVE CONSTITUTION (2016)
  • The Necessary and Proper Clause, NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER, INTERACTIVE CONSTITUTION (2016) (with Gary Lawson)
  • The Necessary and Proper Clause and the Collective Action Principle, NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER, INTERACTIVE CONSTITUTION (2016)
  • Direct and Indirect Taxes, NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER, INTERACTIVE CONSTITUTION (2016) (with Steven J. Willis)
  • Still Very Narrow after All These Years—And Rightly So, NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER, INTERACTIVE CONSTITUTION (2016)
  • After Recess: Historical Practice, Textual Ambiguity, and Constitutional Adverse Possession, 2014 SUPREME COURT REVIEW 1 (2014) (with Curtis A. Bradley)
  • Compelling Interests and Contraception, 47 CONNECTICUT LAW REVIEW 1025 (2015) (with Reva B. Siegel) (symposium on the 50th Anniversary of Griswold v. Connecticut)
  • Griswold at 50: Contraception as a Sex Equality Right, 124 YALE LAW JOURNAL FORUM (2015) (with Reva B. Siegel)
  • Constructed Constraint and the Constitutional Text, 64 DUKE LAW JOURNAL 1213 (2015) (with Curtis A. Bradley)
  • Struck by Stereotype: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Pregnancy Discrimination as Sex Discrimination, in THE LEGACY OF RUTH BADER GINSBURG (Scott Dodson ed., 2015) (with Reva B. Siegel)
  • Federalism as a Way Station: Windsor as Exemplar of Doctrine in Motion, 6 JOURNAL OF LEGAL ANALYSIS (2014)
  • None of the Law But One, 62 DRAKE L. REV. 1055 (2014) (constitutional law symposium on “The Obamacare Case and Its Significance for the 50th Anniversary of LBJ’s Great Society”))
  • Equality Arguments for Abortion Rights, 60 UCLA LAW REVIEW DISCOURSE 160 (2013) (with Reva B. Siegel)
  • The New Textualism, Progressive Constitutionalism, and Abortion Rights: A Reply to Jeffrey Rosen, 25 YALE JOURNAL OF LAW AND HUMANITIES 55 (2013)
  • Collective Action Federalism and Its Discontents, 92 TEXAS LAW REVIEW 1937 (2013)
  • More Law than Politics: The Chief, the “Mandate,” Legality, and Statesmanship, in THE HEALTH CARE CASE: THE SUPREME COURT’S DECISION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS (Nathaniel Persily, Gillian E. Metzger & Trevor W. Morrison eds., 2013))
  • Jack Balkin’s Rich Historicism and Diet Originalism: Health Benefits and Risks for the Constitutional System, 111 MICHIGAN LAW REVIEW 931 (April 2013) (reviewing JACK M. BALKIN, LIVING ORIGINALISM (2011))
  • Distinguishing the “Truly National” from the “Truly Local”: Customary Allocation, Commercial Activity, and Collective Action, 62 DUKE LAW JOURNAL 797 (2012) (symposium on law and custom)
  • Not the Power to Destroy: An Effects Theory of the Tax Power, 99 VIRGINIA LAW REVIEW 1195 (October 2012) (with Robert D. Cooter)
  • Free Riding on Benevolence: Collective Action Federalism and the Minimum Coverage Provision, 75 LAW &CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS 29 (2012) (Issue No. 3)
  • The Liberty of Free Riders: The Minimum Coverage Provision, Mill’s “Harm Principle,” and American Social Morality, 38 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF LAW & MEDICINE 374 (2012) (with Jedediah Purdy) (symposium on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act)
  • “Early-Bird Special” Indeed!: Why the Tax Anti-Injunction Act Permits the Present Challenges to the Minimum Coverage Provision, 121 YALE LAW JOURNAL ONLINE 389 (2012) (with Michael C. Dorf)
  • Four Constitutional Limits that the Minimum Coverage Provision Respects, 27 CONSTITUTIONAL COMMENTARY 591 (2011)
  • Collective Action Federalism: A General Theory of Article I, Section 8, 63 STANFORD LAW REVIEW 115 (2010) (with Robert D. Cooter), republished as revised in COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL DESIGN (Tom Ginsburg ed., 2012)
  • Struck by Stereotype: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Pregnancy Discrimination as Sex Discrimination, 59 DUKE LAW JOURNAL 771 (2010) (with Reva B. Siegel) (response by Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg)
  • Prudentialism in McDonald v. City of Chicago, 6 DUKE JOURNAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW & PUBLIC POLICY 16 (Special Issue 2010))
  • Interring the Rhetoric of Judicial Activism, 59 DEPAUL LAW REVIEW 555 (2010) (Clifford Symposium))
  • Pregnancy and the Anti-Stereotyping Principle: From Struck to Carhart, 70 OHIO STATE LAW JOURNAL 1095 (2009) (with Reva B. Siegel) (symposium on the jurisprudence of Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg)
  • “Equal Citizenship Stature”: Justice Ginsburg’s Constitutional Vision, 43 NEW ENGLAND LAW REVIEW 799 (2009) (symposium on the jurisprudence of Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg)
  • A Coase Theorem for Constitutional Theory, 2010 MICHIGAN STATE LAW REVIEW 583 (symposium: A Response to BARRY FRIEDMAN, THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE (2009))
  • The Virtue of Judicial Statesmanship, 86 TEXAS LAW REVIEW 959 (2008))
  • Dole’s Future: A Strategic Analysis, 16 SUPREME COURT ECONOMIC REVIEW 165 (2008)
  • International Delegations and the Values of Federalism, 70 LAW AND CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS 93 (2008)
  • Umpires at Bat: On Integration and Legitimation, 24 CONSTITUTIONAL COMMENTARY 701 (2007))
  • Theorizing the Law/Politics Distinction: Neutral Principles, Affirmative Action, and the Enduring Insight of Paul Mishkin, 95 CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW 1473 (2007) (with Robert C. Post))
  • Race-Conscious Student Assignment Plans: Balkanization, Integration, and Individualized Consideration, 56 DUKE LAW JOURNAL 781 (2006))
  • Some Modest Uses of Transnational Legal Perspectives in First-Year Constitutional Law, 56 JOURNAL OF LEGAL EDUCATION 201 (2006)
  • A Theory in Search of a Court, and Itself: Judicial Minimalism at the Supreme Court Bar, 103 MICHIGAN LAW REVIEW 1951 (2005)
  • A Prescription for Perilous Times, 93 GEORGETOWN LAW JOURNAL 1645 (2005)
  • Commandeering and Its Alternatives: A Federalism Perspective, 59 VANDERBILT LAW REVIEW 1629 (2006)
  • Why the Eleventh Amendment Always Matters, Even When Transaction Costs Are Zero: A Reply to Professor Farber, 18 CONSTITUTIONAL COMMENTARY 177 (2001)

  • Issues Edited

    • • ForewordThe Constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act: Ideas from the Academy, 75 LAW & CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS i (2012) (Issue No. 3)

      Comments

      • State Sovereign Immunity and Stare Decisis: Solving the Prisoners’ Dilemma Within the Court, 89 CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW 1165 (2001)
      • Sen and the Hart of Jurisprudence: A Critique of the Economic Analysis of Judicial Behavior, 87 CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW 1581 (1999)

      Recent Legal Blog Posts
       

    • In Defense of the Chief Justice's Execution of His Responsibilities in NFIB v. Sebelius, BALKINZATION (March 31, 2019)

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      Justice Frankfurter's Misplaced Legitimacy Concerns in the Reapportionment Cases, BALKINIZATION (March 28, 2019)

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      • The Anti-Constitutionality of Court-Packing, BALKANIZATION (March 26, 2019)

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        A Different Border Wall: Judgments of Legal Quality in Texas v. United States, BALKINIZATION (December 22, 2018)

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        Texas v. U.S.: Congress’s Inherent Power to Require No One to Do Anything, BALKINZATION (December 18, 2018) 

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        A Constitutional Role Morality for Presidents and Members of Congress, BALKANIZATION (February 7, 2018)

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        Political Norms, Constitutional Conventions, and President Trump, BALKANIZATION, January 21, 2018

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        Countermajoritarian Difficulties and the Political Branches: Contesting "Elections Have Consequences", ACSblog (April 7, 2017)

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        Norms and Conventions Meet Donald Trump, Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog (March 2, 2017)

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        The U.S. Constitution, Constitutional Conventions, and President Trump, Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog (March 1, 2017)

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        Reciprocal Legitimation in Response to President Trump, BALKANIZATION (February 14, 2017)

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        Judicial and Media Independence After the Next Attack, LAWFARE (February 9, 2017)

  • • The Distinctive Role of Justice Samuel Alito: From a Politics of Restoration to a Politics of Dissent, BALKANIZATION (October 19, 2016)
    • Reciprocal Legitimation in the Federal Courts System, BALKINIZATION (July 18, 2016)
    • The Supreme Court's Reassuring--and Concerning--Abortion Ruling, ACSblog (July 5, 2016)
    • Constitutional Conventions, the Judicial Separation of Powers, and Justice Scalia's Replacement, BALKINIZATION (February 14, 2016) (with Curtis Bradley)
    • John Roberts, Ted Olson, and the Judicial Separation of Powers, BALKINIZATION (January 26, 2016)
    • Obergefell, Judaism, and the Authority of Tradition, BALKINIZATION (September 09, 2015) Whole Woman’s Health: Casey, Res Judicata, and Supreme Court Review, BALKINIZATION (June 24, 2015)
    • Windsor: Encouraging Constitutional Change, Not (Just) Clearing the Channels of Political Change, BALKINIZATION (March 17, 2015)
    • Clear Text Versus Extra-Textual Considerations: Bond, Noel Canning, and King, BALKINIZATION (March 5, 2015)

    • Animus Versus Moral Opposition: Material and Expressive Considerations, BALKINIZATION (September 30, 2014)
       

      Popular Publications

      Anthony Kennedy is Not Stupid, SLATE, February 5, 2017 (with Dahlia Lithwick)

    • The Democrats Can't Block Gorusch, SLATE, February 1, 2017 (with Dahlia Lithwick)
    • The Harm in the GOP’s Pseudo-Principled Supreme Court Stance, THE HILL, April 15, 2016
    • The American People Will Decide the Supreme Court’s Future Anyway, THE HILL, March 3, 2016
    • Does CNN Deserve to be Reelected?, HUFFINGTON POST, November 8, 2012
    • Romney, Women, and the Supreme Court, HUFFINGTON POST, Nov. 5, 2012
    • Yes, the Justices Indeed “Make Law,” RALEIGH NEWS &OBSERVER, July 13, 2009
    • The Meaning of the Court’s Decision in the School Cases, CONTRA COSTA TIMES, July 2007
    • Detainees and the Constitution, RALEIGH NEWS & OBSERVER, Sept. 27, 2006, at A13
    • Beware the Anti-Freedom Amendment, RALEIGH NEWS &OBSERVER, June 9, 2006, at A15
    • Separating Childhood Heroes from Today’s Politics, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, Feb. 24, 2006, at A15
    • Taking Issue: Americans Deserve Answers, National Public Radio Online, Oct. 20, 2005, at www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4965299
    • Remembering Chief Justice Rehnquist, WASHINGTON POST, Sept. 5, 2005, at A30
    • Rigorous Questions Would Be Only Fair, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, July 21, 2005, at A19
    • The Conservative Choice Is a Moderate, RALEIGH NEWS &OBSERVER, July 6, 2005, at A13>
    • The Rhetoric Behind “Strict Constructionism,” DURHAM HERALD-SUN, June 19, 2005, at A11 (with Aziz Huq)
    • Why President Bush Should Not Take the 5th, HOUSTON CHRONICLE, June 17, 2005, at B11
    • Medical Marijuana: Read Between the Lines, RALEIGH NEWS &OBSERVER, June 14, 2005, at A11
    • Justices Create Confusion in Sentencing by Declaring Guidelines Advisory, DAILY JOURNAL, Jan. 18, 2005 (with Erwin Chemerinsky)
    • Nomination Could Bridge Divide, SUN SENTINEL (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), November 22, 2004, at 23A
    • The Election and the U.S. Supreme Court, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, November 2, 2004, at C21