Constitutional History

Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Remembering Movement Lawyers and Viewing Constitutional History from the Bottom Up, University of Georgia, American Constitution Society, C-Span Book TV (Apr. 20, 2011).

Tomiko Brown-Nagin, The Civil Rights Canon: Above and Below, 123 Yale L. J. 2698 (2014) (reviewing Bruce Ackerman, We The People: The Civil Rights Movement…

Cass R. Sunstein, Why the Unconstitutional Conditions Doctrine is an Anachronism (with Particular Reference to Religion, Speech, and Abortion), 70 B.U. L. Rev. 593 (1990).

Vicki C. Jackson, “Constituent Power” or Degrees of Legitimacy?, 12 Vienna J. on Int’l Const. L. 319 (2018) (reviewing Yaniv Roznai, Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments (2017)).

Michael J. Klarman, Has the Supreme Court Been More a Friend or Foe to African Americans?, 140 Daedalus 101 (2011).

Michael Klarman, The Constitution As a Coup Against Public Opinion (2019).

Mark Tushnet, Institutions Protecting Constitutional Democracy: Some Conceptual and Methodological Preliminaries, 70 U. Toronto L.J. 95 (2020).

Mark Tushnet, Book Review, 123 Am. Hist. Rev. 1671 (2018) (reviewing William Davenport Mercer, Diminishing the Bill of Rights: Barron v. Baltimore and the Foundations…

Mark Tushnet, Constitutional Interpretation Outside the Courts, 37 J. Interdisc. Hist. 415 (2007) (reviewing David P. Currie, The Constitution of Congress (1997, 2001, 2005 &…

Mark Tushnet, Book Review, 37 J. Interdisc. Hist. 298 (2006) (reviewing Calvin H. Johnson, Righteous Anger at the Wicked States: The Meaning of the Founders’…

Mark Tushnet, Book Review, 76 Historian 109 (2014)(reviewing David J. Bodenhamer, The Revolutionary Constitution (2012)).

Laurence H. Tribe, America’s Constitutional Narrative 141 Daedalus 18 (2012).

Lawrence Lessig, The Brilliance in Slaughterhouse: A Judicially Restrained and Original Understanding of “Privileges or Immunities”, 26 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 1 (2024).

Kristen A. Stilt, The End of ‘One Hand’: The Egyptian Constitutional Declaration and the Rift Between the ‘People’ and the Supreme Council of the Armed…

Gerald L. Neuman, Citizenship, in The Oxford Handbook of the United States Constitution 587 (Mark Graber, Sanford Levinson, & Mark Tushnet eds., 2015).

Gregory Ablavsky & W. Tanner Allread, We the (Native) People?: How Indigenous Peoples Debated the U.S. Constitution, 123 Columbia Law Review 243 (2023).

Stephen Breyer, Our Democratic Constitution, 77 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 245 (2002).

Stephen G. Breyer, Preface, 115 Yale L. J. 1975 (2006).