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Emilie K. Aguirre

Forthcoming

  • Converging on Disclosure, Duke Law Journal Online () (with Veronica Root Martinez)
  • Disrupting Venture Innovation, Journal of Corporation Law () (with Michael J. Burstein)

Works in Progress

  • Narrative Inversion: How Win-Win Framing and Measurement Shape Conflict Over Social Initiatives () (under review) (with Julie Yen)
  • Organizing for Multiple Objectives () (with others)
  • Guarding Purpose () (with Veronica Root Martinez)
  • Profiting from Prediction () (with others)

Articles & Essays

Aslihan Asil

Forthcoming

Works in Progress

Jennifer L. Behrens

Articles & Essays

Stuart M. Benjamin

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Brendan Carr and the Fog of War, Volokh Conspiracy ()
  • The FCC Chair's Unprecedented, and Constitutionally Problematic, Response to Jimmy Kimmel, Volokh Conspiracy ()
  • The New Administrative State?, 108 Judicature (, at 68) (with others)
  • Donald Trump Promising a Position to RFK Jr. Isn't Illegal, Volokh Conspiracy ()
  • The Supreme Court's Reasoning Prohibits the Deplatforming Limits That the Parties Care About, Volokh Conspiracy ()

Donald H. Beskind

Books

Robert Bishop

Works in Progress

Joseph Blocher

Forthcoming

  • Bad Facts: The Supreme Court’s Embrace of History and the Erosion of Fact-Finding (Harvard University Press, ) (with Brandon L. Garrett)
  • Historians as Experts in Constitutional Law, 79 Stanford Law Review () (with Brandon L. Garrett)
  • Standards of Fact Review in Constitutional Litigation, 127 Columbia Law Review () (with Brandon L. Garrett)
  • The Common Use Test and the Question of Constitutional Coverage, 125 Michigan Law Review ()
  • The History and Tradition of Firearms Localism, 105 Texas Law Review () (with Patrick J. Charles)
  • 'Form Is of Some Consequence’: How the Peculiar Style of Amendments Has Shaped American Constitutional LawFlorida Law Review () (with Lawrence A. Zelenak)
  • Cumulative Burdens on Second Amendment Rights, 106 Boston University Law Review () (with Hayley Lawrence)
  • Historical Facts and Constitutional Law: New Challenges for Originalist Doctrine, 75 Duke Law Journal () (with others)
  • Rights, then History: Choosing History and Tradition Based on Expected Case Outcomes, Notre Dame Law Review Online ()
  • The Ambitions of History and Tradition in and Beyond the Second Amendment, 174 University of Pennsylvania Law Review () (with Reva Siegel)
  • The Role of Speech Institutions When Both Speech and Institutions Are Threatened, in The Elgar Companion to Free Expression (Ashutosh Bhagwat & Alan Chen eds., )

Works in Progress

  • Cheap Violence: Weapons and the Law () (with Brandon L. Garrett)

Books

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Brett Kavanaugh Is Leading the Supreme Court’s Embrace of Alternative Facts, Slate () (with Brandon L. Garrett)
  • Instead of Gun Regulation, Let’s Try Innovation, The Hill () (with Christopher Buccafusco)

Rachel Brewster

Articles & Essays

Chris Buccafusco

Forthcoming

  • Style MarksUniversity of Chicago Law Review () (with Sari Mazzurco)

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Copyright Maximalism for the Public Good?, JOTWELL () (reviewing Benjamin Sobel, Copyright Accelerationism, 100 Chicago Kent Law Review (forthcoming 2025))
  • A Matter of Respect: It’s Time for Atlanta To Embrace a Shift in the Braves Name, Sports Business Journal () (with Marty Buccafusco)
  • Instead of Gun Regulation, Let’s Try Innovation, The Hill () (with Joseph Blocher)
  • The Textualist Supreme Court Misreads the Copyright Act Once Again, JOTWELL () (reviewing Peter Karol, What's The Use? The Structural Flaw Undermining Warhol v. Goldsmith, Journal of the Copyright Society (forthcoming 2024))
  • How Copyright Is Killing Creativity — Except Taylor Swift’s, The Hill () (with Glynn S. Lunney, Jr.)

Samuel W. Buell

Works in Progress

Books

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • The Supreme Court Assumes Joe Biden Won’t Abuse Its Horrific Immunity Ruling, Slate () (with Darrell A.H. Miller)

Doriane Coleman

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Wrong About Me and Wrongheaded About Duke, Chronicle (Duke) ()
  • Why Elite Women’s Sports Need to Be Based on Sex, Not Gender, Washington Post ()
  • XY Athletes in Women’s Olympic Boxing: The Paris 2024 Controversy Explained, Quillette ()

James D. Cox

Books

  • Securities Regulation: Cases and Materials (Aspen Law & Business, Wolters Kluwer, Aspen Publishing 2022-, 1991, 2d ed. 1997, 3d ed. 2001, 4th ed. 2004, 5th ed. 2006, 6th ed. 2009, 7th ed. 2013, 8th ed. 2017, 9th ed. 2019, 10th ed. 2022, 11th ed. ) (with others)

Articles & Essays

John M. de Figueiredo

Works in Progress

Elisabeth de Fontenay

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Deborah A. DeMott

Books

Articles & Essays

Kate Evans

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Congress Must Hold the Line: ICE Cannot Be Allowed to Break Into Our Homes, The Hill () (with Elana Fogel)
  • Protect Your Constitutional Rights: Don’t Fall for the Laken Riley Act’s Security Theater, The Hill () (with others)

Nita A. Farahany

Works in Progress

Gina-Gail S. Fletcher

Forthcoming

  • Regulating DeFi Platforms, 111 Minnesota Law Review () (with others)
  • Coordinated Retail Trading, William & Mary Law Review ()
  • Corporate Complicity in Voter Suppression: From Selma to Today, in Race, Racism, and the Law (Guy-Uriel Charles & Aziza Ahmed eds., ) (with H. Timothy Lovelace, Jr.)
  • The Limits of Transparency: Regulating AI in the Financial Markets, in Research Handbook of Artificial Intelligence & the Law (K. Johnson & C. Reyes eds., )

Works in Progress

  • Profiting from Prediction () (with others)
  • Disclosure and Manipulation ()
  • The Issuer Problem With Arbitration () (with Nicole Iannarone)

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Racial Goals & Private Companies: What's Legal & What's Not, JOTWELL ()  (reviewing Atinuke Adediran, Racial Targets, 118 Northwestern University Law Review 1455 (2024))

Michael D. Frakes

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

Brandon L. Garrett

Forthcoming

  • Bad Facts: The Supreme Court’s Embrace of History and the Erosion of Fact-Finding (Harvard University Press, ) (with Joseph Blocher)
  • The Oxford Handbook of AI and Criminal Justice (Oxford University Press, ) (editor)
  • Historians as Experts in Constitutional Law, 79 Stanford law Review () (with Joseph Blocher)
  • Standards of Fact Review in Constitutional Litigation, 127 Columbia Law Review () (with Joseph Blocher)
  • Historical Facts and Constitutional Law: New Challenges for Originalist Doctrine, 75 Duke Law Journal () (with others)
  • Applying a Cost-Benefit Analysis to Geofence Searches, 65 Jurimetrics () (with others)

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Brett Kavanaugh Is Leading the Supreme Court’s Embrace of Alternative Facts, Slate () (with Joseph Blocher)
  • Principles for Just and Rational Policing, 108 Judicature (, at 18) (with others)

Crystal Grant

Articles & Essays

Sara Sternberg Greene

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • The War on Fraud Is Really a War on the Poor, The Hill ()
  • Why the Government Wants Us to Save — And Why It’s Not Working, Salon ()

Lisa Kern Griffin

Forthcoming

  • Honest Mistakes: Truth, Lies, and the Misleading Law of Questioning (Cambridge University Press, )

Ben K. Grunwald

Works in Progress

Laurence R. Helfer

Forthcoming

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Has the U.S. Actually Withdrawn From the World Health Organization?, Just Security () (with Jean Galbraith)

Donald L. Horowitz

Forthcoming

  • Ethnic Vote Pooling and Centripetal Politics () (with Helen Ting M.H.)
  • Territorial Configurations and Ethnic Divisions, in The Law and Politics of Federalism (Erin F. Delaney, )

Jayne Huckerby

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Suing the Taliban at the ICJ over Abuses of Afghan Women Isn’t a Panacea. Countries Must Do More Now, Just Security ()

Jennifer Jenkins

Books

Richard Katskee

Articles & Essays

Coalter G. Lathrop

Books

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • In Its Hunt for Critical Minerals, the US Is Misconstruing What Is and Is Not America’sThe Conversation ()
  • Reclaiming Authority: Forcing Seabed Mining Contractors to Choose Between the ISA and the USA, EJIL:Talk! () (with Franka Nodewald)
  • Crisis as Catalyst: Seabed Minerals and the (Un)Making of International Law, Just Security ()
  • The Latest Trump Threat to International Law: Unilaterally Mining the Area, EJIL:Talk! ()

Nancy Lauer

Articles & Essays

Margaret H. Lemos

Articles & Essays

David F. Levi

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

Marin K. Levy

Forthcoming

Works in Progress

  • Rulemaking All the Way Down () (with Zachary D. Clopton)
  • Circuit Precedent () (with William Baude)
  • Raising the Judicial Alarm () (with Trevor Morrison)

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • (In Defense of) Judicial Institutionalism, JOTWELL () (reviewing Rachel Bayefsky, Judicial Institutionalism, 109 Cornell Law Review (forthcoming 2024))

H. Timothy Lovelace, Jr.

Forthcoming

  • Historical Facts and Constitutional Law: New Challenges for Originalist Doctrine, 75 Duke Law Journal () (with others)
  • Corporate Complicity in Voter Suppression: From Selma to Today, in Race, Racism, and the Law (Guy-Uriel Charles & Aziza Ahmed eds., ) (with Gina-Gail S. Fletcher)

Articles & Essays

  • Book Review, 59 Law & Society Review 458-460 ()  (reviewing Dylan C. Penningroth, Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights (2023))

Veronica Root Martinez

Forthcoming

Works in Progress

  • Reforming the Corporation: Why Surface Fixes Keep Corporations in Crisis ()
  • Guarding Purpose () (with Emilie Aguirre)
  • Profiting from Prediction () (with others)
  • Crime and Punishment: Corporate Criminal Prosecution and Corporate Misconduct () (with Syrena Shirley)
  • Building a Culture of Ethical Inclusion ()
  • Collaborative Compliance () (with Kevin E. Davis)
  • From Artificial to Deliberative Compliance () (with Geeyoung Min)
  • Middle Management: A Mission Critical Risk ()
  • The Corporate Trauma of Corporate Purpose () (with Elize Maizel)

Books

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Binance Probe Exemplifies the Perils of ‘Surface Remediation’, Bloomberg Law ()
  • How Boards Can Make the Most of Compliance Consultants, The CLS Blue Sky Blog ()
  • The Miscalculation of Corporate DEI Risk, Compliance & Enforcement () (with Lisa M. Fairfax)
  • Independent Monitorships, Corporate Culture, and the Limits of Compliance Reform, The CLS Blue Sky Blog ()
  • Purpose-Driven Compliance, Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance ()
  • Are Corporate Monitors Really “Off the Table”? Not Quite., Compliance & Enforcement ()
  • A Reflection on the OECD’s Report (Part II): Governments’ Assessments of Corporate Anti-Corruption Compliance, Compliance & Enforcement () (with Liz Carrasco)
  • A Reflection on the OECD’s Report (Part I): Companies’ Assessments of Anti-Corruption Compliance, Compliance & Enforcement () (with Liz Carrasco)

Tim Meyer

Forthcoming

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

Yaron Nili

Forthcoming

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Michelle Benedict Nowlin

Shu-yi Oei

Forthcoming

Works in Progress

Ashlee Paxton-Turner

Forthcoming

Jonathan Petkun

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

Keith Porcaro

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Rising Legal Tech Giants Will Dominate—Not Democratize—Practice, Bloomberg Law ()

H. Jefferson Powell

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Symmetry and Constitutional Adjudication, Balkinization () (reviewing Zachary Price, Constitutional Symmetry: Judging in a Divided Republic (2024))

Jedediah Purdy

Issues Edited

Articles & Essays

  • A Democratic Rule of Law, 87 Law and Contemporary Problems 293-329 ()
  • Foreword, 88 Law and Contemporary Problems i-iii () (with Justin Deystone)
  • Foreword, 87 Law and Contemporary Problems i-v () (with Madhav Khosla)

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • What Are We Living Through in Trump 2.0? Here Are 3 Possibilities, New York Times () (with others)
  • What Are We Living Through?: Three Competing Narratives of the Second Trump Administration, Boston Review () (with David Pozen)
  • Ecology in an Era of Fragmentation, 72 Dissent (, at 115)
  • On Constitutional Crisis, the Rule of Law, and the Fate of Democracy, LPE Blog ()
  • NC Voters Need to Know More About Judicial Candidates’ Stances, Not Less, News & Observer () (with Emily Coward)
  • Harris Can Win on the Economy, but She Needs a Stronger Message, New York Times () (A version of this article appears in print on September 15, 2024, Section SR, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: Harris Needs a Stronger Message on the Economy)
  • The Creed: How Did American Come to Worship the Constitution?, 319 The Nation (, at 64) (reviewing Aziz Rana, The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them (2024))

Shitong Qiao

Forthcoming

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Arti K. Rai

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • The Future of Scientific Innovation, The Regulatory Review () (with Tasneem Mohammad)
  • Patent Puzzles After the Supreme Court’s 2024 Administrative Law Cases: Stare Decisis, Rulemaking, and Discretion, PatentlyO ()

Mara Revkin

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

Emily Ryo

Forthcoming

  • Representation in Removal Proceedings, Indiana Law Journal () (with others)
  • Weaponizing Immigration Detention, Iowa Law Review () (with others)

Articles & Essays

Bailey Sanders

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

Richard L. Schmalbeck

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays

  • Make the GSTT Exemption Portable Between Spouses, 186 Tax Notes Federal 311-316 () (with Jay A. Soled)

Steven L. Schwarcz

Forthcoming

Works in Progress

  • Strategizing & Critiquing Liability Management ()
  • Unifying Business Law ()
  • ‘Unclogging’ the Equity of Redemption: Collapsing Deceptive Corporate Structures () (with Emma Vaughn-Matthews)
  • Assigning Future ‘Rights’: A Modern Conception of Nemo Dat ()

Issues Edited

Articles & Essays

Laura M. Scott

Articles & Essays

Jonathan Seymour

Articles & Essays

Neil S. Siegel

Articles & Essays

  • Balkin Amid Balkanization: Constitutional Construction, the Uses of History, and Interpretive Discretion in a Divided Country, 13 Texas A&M Law Review 625-644 ()

Jonathan B. Wiener

Forthcoming

  • Advanced Introduction to Risk Regulation (Edward Elgar Publications, ) (with K. Arden Rowell)
  • Planetary Policies for Defense Against Asteroids and Protection Against Contamination, in Space Risk Management: Securing Progress for Humanity (Saquib Hyat-Khan & Kurt Engemann eds/, ) (with others)
  • Space as Province, Property, and Planetary Protection: Risk and the Rise of the Interplanetary, in Province of All Mankind”? Property in Outer Space Under Public and Private International Law & Philosophy (Samantha Besson ed., )
  • Artificial General Intelligence and Existential Risk: Lessons from Climate Change Policy () (with K. Arden Rowell)
  • Unintended Consequences and Solar Radiation Modification () (with others)

Articles & Essays

Ernest A. Young

Forthcoming

Works in Progress

  • Our Federal Executive ()

Books

Articles & Essays

Lawrence A. Zelenak

Forthcoming

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

  • Moore Thoughts, TaxProf Blog ()

Alex Zhang

Forthcoming

  • Chinese Legal Research in a Nutshell (West Academic Publishing, )

Works in Progress

Articles & Essays