Constitutional History

Frank I. Michelman, Why Not Just Say No? An Essay on the Obduracy of Constitution Fixation, 94 B.U. L. Rev. 1141 (2014).

Frank I. Michelman, Brennan and Democracy: The 1996-97 Brennan Center Symposium Lecture, 86 Calif. L. Rev. 399 (1998).

Frank I. Michelman, The Unbearable Lightness of Tea Leaves: Constitutional Political Economy in Court, 94 Tex. L. Rev. 1403 (2016).

Frank I. Michelman, Thirteen Easy Pieces, 93 Mich. L. Rev. 1297 (1995) (reviewing Sanford Levinson, Responding to Imperfection: The Theory and Practice of Constitutional Amendment…

Frank I. Michelman, Anti-Negativity as Form, 21 Law & Soc. Inquiry 83 (1996).

Frank I. Michelman, Constitutional Authorship by the People, 74 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1605 (1999).

Frank I. Michelman, “Protecting the People from Themselves,” or How Direct can Democracy Be?, 45 UCLA L. Rev. 1717 (1998).

Frank I. Michelman, Socioeconomic Rights in Constitutional Law: Explaining America Away, 6 Int’l J. Const. L. 663 (2008).

Daphna Renan, “Institutional Settlement” in a Provisional Constitutional Order, 108 Calif. L. Rev. 1995 (2020).

Carol S. Steiker & Jordan M. Steiker, Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment (Harvard Univ. Press 2016).

Christine A. Desan, Writing Constitutional History beyond the Institutional/Ideological Divide, 16 Law & Hist. Rev. 391 (1998).

Christine A. Desan, Remaking Constitutional Tradition at the Margin of the Empire: The Creation of Legislative Adjudication in Colonial New York, 16 L. & Hist.

Christine A. Desan, From Blood to Profit: The Transformation of Value in the American Constitutional Tradition, 20 J. Pol’y Hist. 26 (2008).

Christine A. Desan, The Market as a Matter of Money: Denaturalizing Economic Currency in American Constitutional History, 30 Law & Soc. Inquiry 1 (2005).

Christine A. Desan, The Constitutional Commitment to Legislative Adjudication in the Early American Tradition, 111 Harv. L. Rev. 1381 (1998).

Charles Donahue, Book Review, 37 J. Legal Educ. 444 (1987) (reviewing
Brian Tierney, Religion, Law, and the Growth of Constitutional Thought, 1150-1650 (1982)).

Alan Dershowitz, Confirming Justice—Or Injustice?: A Guide to Judging RBG’s Successor (2020).

Alan M. Dershowitz, Rights from Wrongs: A Secular Theory of the Origins of Rights (Basic Books 2004).

Annette Gordon-Reed, Foreword, in Peter S. Onuf & Francis D. Cogliano, Thomas Jefferson Survives: American Independence in His Time and Ours (forthcoming 2026).

Annette Gordon-Reed, The Enlightenment in Early America, 66 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 671 (2025).

Annette Gordon-Reed, “Federalisms” and Union: The Interbellum Constitution, 91 U. Chi. L. Rev. 899 (2024) (reviewing Alison L. LaCroix, The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and…