The Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers series is organized by the Law School and covers constitutional law, statutory interpretation, intellectual property, family law, jurisprudence, civil procedure, voting rights, legal history, criminal law and procedure, privacy, and international law. Links to full-text are provided.
Submissions from 2005
When 2 or 3 Come Together, Kelsi Brown Corkran and Tracey L. Meares
Partisan Fairness and Resistricting Politics, Adam B. Cox
Partisan Gerrymandering and Disaggregated Redistricitng, Adam B. Cox
The Phantom Philosophy? An Empirical Investigation of Legal Interpretation, William K. Ford and Jason J. Czarnezki
The New Censorship: Institutional Review Boards, Philip Hamburger
Against Prediction: Sentencing, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age, Bernard E. Harcourt
Policing L.A.'s Skid Row: Crime and Real Estate Development in Downtown Los Angeles [An Experiment in Real Time], Bernard E. Harcourt
Broken Windows: New Evidence from New York City and a Five-City Social Experiment, Bernard E. Harcourt and Jens Ludwig
Disrespecting the "Opinions of Mankind", Eugene Kontorovich
The Business of Democracy is Democracy, John P. McCormick and Arthur J. Jacobson
Political Trials in Domestic and International Law, Eric A. Posner
Emergencies and Democratic Failure, Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule
Should Coercive Interrogation Be Legal?, Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule
Endorsement Retires: From Religious Symbols to Anti-Sorting Principles, Adam M. Samaha
Executive Exposure: Government Secrecy, Constitutional Law, and Platforms for Judicial Elaboration, Adam M. Samaha
Undue Process: Congressional Referral and Judicial Resistance in the Schiavo Controversy, Adam M. Samaha
Exclusionary Amenities in Residential Communities, Lior Strahilevitz
Information Asymmetries and the Rights to Exclude, Lior Strahilevitz
Administrative Law Goes to War, Cass R. Sunstein
Chevron Step Zero, Cass R. Sunstein
Frugal and (Sometimes) Wrong, Cass R. Sunstein
Irreversible and Catastrophic, Cass R. Sunstein
Justice Breyer's Democratic Pragmatism, Cass R. Sunstein
Ranking Law Schools: A Market Test?, Cass R. Sunstein
Is Capital Punishment Morally Required? The Relevance of Life-Life Tradeoffs, Cass R. Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule
Absolute Voting Rules, Adrian Vermeule
Libertarian Panics, Adrian Vermeule
Political Constraints on Supreme Court Reform, Adrian Vermeule
Reparations as Rough Justice, Adrian Vermeule
Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Decision Architectures, Tim Wu
Submissions from 2004
Monogamy's Law: Compulsory Monogamy and Polyamorous Existence, Elizabeth Emens
The Sympathetic Discriminator: Mental Illness and the ADA, Elizabeth Emens
On Gun Registration, the NRA, Adolf Hitler, and Nazi Gun Laws: Exploding the Gun Culture Wars, Bernard E. Harcourt
Unconstitutional Police Searches and Collective Responsibility, Bernard E. Harcourt
You Are Entering a Gay- and Lesbian-Free Zone: On the Radical Dissents of Justice Scalia and Other (Post-) Queers, Bernard E. Harcourt
Mitigation and the Americans with Disabilities Act, Jill Elaine Hasday
The Canon of Family Law, Jill Elaine Hasday
Nationalizing International Criminal Law: The International Criminal Court as a Roving Mixed Court, Jenia Iontcheva
Disaggregating 'War', Derek Jinks
Protective Parity and the Law of War, Derek Jinks
The Declining Significance of POW Status, Derek Jinks
How to Influence States: Socialization and International Human Rights Law, Derek Jinks and Ryan Goodman
Is the President Bound by the Geneva Conventions?, Derek Jinks and David Sloss
Directions in Sexual Harrassment Law: Afterword, Catharine A. MacKinnon
The Uniqueness of Foreign Affairs, Jide Nzelibe
The Right to Destroy, Lior Strahilevitz
"Black on Brown", Cass R. Sunstein
Group Judgments: Deliberation, Statistical Means, and Information Markets, Cass R. Sunstein
The Right to Marry, Cass R. Sunstein
Dollars and Death, Cass R. Sunstein and Eric A. Posner
Optimal War and Jus Ad Bellum, Alan O. Sykes and Eric A. Posner
Constitutional Amendments and the Constitutional Common Law, Adrian Vermeule
Selection Effects in Constitutional Law, Adrian Vermeule
Submajority Rules (in Legislatures and Elsewhere), Adrian Vermeule
Three Strategies of Interpretation, Adrian Vermeule
Submissions from 2003
Children's Associational Rights? Why Less Is More, Emily Buss
The Speech Enhancing Effect of Internet Regulation, Emily Buss
Developing a Taste for Not Being Discriminated Against, Mary Anne Case
Legislating Chevron, Elizabeth Garrett
Rethinking Racial Profiling: A Critique of the Economics, Civil Liberties, and Constitutional Literature and of Criminal Profiling More Generally, Bernard E. Harcourt
Insuring against Terrorism - and Crime, Saul Levmore and Kyle D. Logue
Transfer Regulations and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis, Eric A. Posner
Accommodating Emergencies, Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule
Transitional Justice as Ordinary Justice, Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule
Beyond the Precautionary Principle, Cass R. Sunstein
Ideological Voting on Federal Courts of Appeals: A Preliminary Investigation, Cass R. Sunstein
Why Does the American Constitution Lack Social and Economic Guarantees?, Cass R. Sunstein
Libertarian Paternalism Is Not an Oxymoron, Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
Mead in the Trenches, Adrian Vermeule
The Constitutional Law of Congressional Procedure, Adrian Vermeule
The Judiciary Is a They, Not an It: Two Fallacies of Interpretive Theory, Adrian Vermeule
Submissions from 2002
Parental Rights, Emily Buss
Is the Party Over? The Court and the Political Process, Elizabeth Garrett
U.S. Civil Litigation and International Terrorism, Jack L. Goldsmith and Ryan Goodman
The Principle and Practice of Women's "Full Citizenship": A Case Study of Sex-Segregated Public Education, Jill Elaine Hasday
Activists Vote Twice, Joseph Isenbergh
Taxation without Coordination, Julie Roin
Truth in Government: Beyond the Tax Expenditure Budget, Julie Roin
Above the Law: Research Methods, Ethics, and the Law of Privilege, Geoffrey R. Stone
Must Like Cases Be Treated Alike?, David A. Strauss
The Common Law Genius of the Warren Court, David A. Strauss
Conformity and Dissent, Cass R. Sunstein
Hazardous Heuristics, Cass R. Sunstein
Is There a Constitutional Right to Clone?, Cass R. Sunstein
The Rights of Animals: A Very Short Primer, Cass R. Sunstein
Military Tribunals and Legal Culture: What a Difference Sixty Years Makes, Cass R. Sunstein and Jack L. Goldsmith
Interpretation and Institutions, Cass R. Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule
Submissions from 2001
Lessons for the Future of Affirmative Action from the Past of the Religion Clauses?, Mary Anne Case
The Allocation of the Commons: Parking and Stopping on the Commons, Richard A. Epstein
Institutional Lessons from the 2000 Presidential Election, Elizabeth Garrett
The Future of Campaign Finance Reform Laws in the Courts and in Congress, Elizabeth Garrett
The Internet and the Legitimacy of Remote Cross-Border Searches, Jack L. Goldsmith
Treaties, Human Rights, and Conditional Consent, Jack L. Goldsmith and Curtis A. Bradley
Parenthood Divided: A Legal History of the Bifurcated Law of Parental Relations., Jill Elaine Hasday
Of Artifical Intelligence and Legal Reasoning, Cass R. Sunstein
Social and Economic Rights? Lessons from South Africa, Cass R. Sunstein
Does Commerce Clause Review Have Perverse Effects?, Adrian Vermeule
Submissions from 2000
Common Law, Common Ground, and Jefferson's Principle, David A. Strauss
