Law & Political Theory

Martha Minow, Reclaiming Freedom While Democracy Decays and AI Surges, SSRN (Feb. 25, 2026).

J. Mark Ramseyer, A Monitoring Theory of the Underclass: With Examples from Outcastes, Koreans, and Okinawans in Japan (Jan. 24, 2020).

J. Mark Ramseyer, Book Review, 57 J. Asian Stud. 883 (1998) (reviewing Peter J. Katzenstein, Cultural Norms and National Security: Police and Military in Postwar…

J. Mark Ramseyer, Book Review, 69 Pac. Aff. 412 (1996) (reviewing Peter F. Cowhey & Mathew D. McCubbins, Structure and Policy in Japan and the…

J. Mark Ramseyer, Junichiro Wada, the Japanese election system: Three analytical perspectives, Pub. Choice, Oct. 1997, at 213 (book review).

Yoshiro Miwa & J. Mark Ramseyer, Toward a Theory of Jurisdictional Competition: the Case of the Japanese FTC, 1 J. Competition L. & Econ. 247…

Henry E. Smith, Law and Economics: Realism or Democracy?, 32 Harv. J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 127 (2009).

Henry E. Smith, Mind the Gap: The Indirect Relation Between Ends and Means in American Property Law, 94 Cornell L. Rev. 959 (2009).

Henry E. Smith, Property as the Law of Things, 125 Harv. L. Rev. 1691 (2012).

Benjamin I. Sachs, Law, Organizing, and Status Quo Vulnerability, 96 Tex. L. Rev. 351 (2017).

Guy-Uriel E. Charles, Can Mature Democracies Be Perfected?, 9 Election L. J. 157 (2010).

Martha Minow, Not Born a Democracy: Constitutional Preconditions, 67 William & Mary Law Review 135 (2025).

Adrian Vermeule, Common Good Constitutionalism (2022).

Guy-Uriel E. Charles, Luis E. Fuentes-Rohwer & Farris Peale, Reconstructing (The Law of) Democracy, SSRN (July 2, 2025).

Vicki C. Jackson, Pockets of Proportionality: Choice and Necessity, Doctrine and Principle, in Comparative Judicial Review 357 (Erin F. Delaney & Rosalind Dixon eds, 2018).

Duncan Kennedy, Authoritarian Constitutionalism in Liberal Democracies, in Authoritarian Constitutionalism 161 (Helena Alviar & Günter Frankenberg eds., 2019).

Jack M. Balkin, William M. Treanor, Dorothy E. Roberts, Catharine A. MacKinnon, Bruce Ackerman, Sanford Levinson & Michael J. Klarman, Does the Constitution Deserve Our…

Frank I. Michelman, Israel’s “Constitutional Revolution”: A Thought from Political Liberalism, 19 Theoretical Inquiries L. 745 (2018).