Constitutional History

Lawrence Lessig, Understanding Federalism’s Text, 66 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1218 (1998).

Lawrence Lessig, Should We Convene?, 62 N.Y. Rev. Books 77, July 9, 2015.

Lawrence Lessig, The Puzzling Persistence of Bellbottom Theory: What a Constitutional Theory Should Be, 85 Geo. L.J. 1837 (1997).

Lawrence Lessig, Copyright’s First Amendment, 48 UCLA L. Rev. 1057 (2001).

Lawrence Lessig, What an Originalist Would Understand “Corruption” to Mean, 102 Calif. L. Rev. 1 (2014).

Kenneth W. Mack, How a Decades-long Conversation Shaped the Young United States, Wash. Post, May 14, 2021, (reviewing Akhil Reed Amar, The Words That Made…

Kristen Stilt, Contextualizing Constitutional Islam: The Malayan Experience, 13 Int’l J. Const. L. 407 (2015).

Kristen Stilt, Constitutions in Authoritarian Regimes: The Egyptian Constitution of 1971, in Constitutions in Authoritarian Regimes 111 (Tom Ginsburg & Alberto Simpser eds., Cambridge Univ.

Jeannie Suk Gersen, The Manifold Threats of the Texas Abortion Law, NewYorker.com (Sept. 5, 2021).

Jeannie Suk Gersen, The Importance of Teaching Dred Scott, NewYorker.com (June 8, 2021).

Jeannie Suk Gersen, Can the Constitution Reach Trump’s Corruption?, NewYorker.com (June 9, 2020).

John F. Manning, The Necessary and Proper Clause and Its Legal Antecedents, 92 B.U. L. Rev. 1349 (2012) (book review).

John F. Manning, Federalism and the Generality Problem in Constitutional Interpretation, 122 Harv. L. Rev. 2003 (2009).

John F. Manning, Deriving Rules of Statutory Interpretation from the Constitution, 101 Colum. L. Rev. 1648 (2001).

John F. Manning, Textualism and the Role of the Federalist in Constitutional Adjudication, 66 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1337 (1998).

John F. Manning, The Independent Counsel Statute: Reading “Good Cause” in Light of Article II, 83 Minn. L. Rev. 1285 (1999).

John F. Manning, The Role of the Philadelphia Convention in Constitutional Adjudication, 80 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1753 (2012).

John C.P. Goldberg, On the Merits: A Response to Professor Sherry, 50 Vand. L. Rev. 537 (1997).

John C.P. Goldberg, Style and Skepticism in The Path of the Law, 63 Brook. L. Rev. 225 (1997).

Jill Lepore, We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution (2025).

Jill Lepore, Will the Supreme Court Now Review More Constitutional Amendments?, New Yorker (Mar. 10, 2024).