Legal Theory & Philosophy

Jill Lepore, Revisiting the Origins of American Democracy, New Yorker (Oct. 16, 2005).

Jill Lepore, Prior Convictions, New Yorker (Apr. 7, 2008).

Jill Lepore, The Commandments, New Yorker (Jan. 9, 2011).

Crescente Molina, Is There Value in Keeping a Promise?, 15 J. Ethics & Soc. Phil. 85 (2019).

Crescente Molina, Promises, Rights, and Deontic Control, 39 L. & Phil. 409 (2020).

Cass R. Sunstein, Voluntary Agreements, 28 J. Econ. Methodology 401 (2021).

Mark V. Tushnet, Institutions for Realizing Popular Constitutionalism, 47 Revus: J. for Const. Theory & Phil. L. 1 (2022).

Frank I. Michelman, Welfare Rights in a Constitutional Democracy, 1979 Wash. U. L. Q. 659 (1979).

Frank I. Michelman, Universal Resident Suffrage: A Liberal Defense, 130 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1581 (1982).

Frank I. Michelman, The Meanings of Legal Equality, 3 Harv. Blackletter J. 24 (1986).

Frank I. Michelman, Justification (and Justifiability) of Law in a Contradictory World, 28 Nomos 71 (1986).

Frank I. Michelman, Process and Property in Constitutional Theory, 30 Clev. St. L. Rev. 577 (1981).

Frank I. Michelman, Pollution as a Tort: A Non-Accidental Perspective on Calabresi’s Costs, 80 Yale L.J. 647 (1971) (reviewing Guido Calabresi, The Costs of Accidents:…

Frank I. Michelman, Politics and Values or What’s Really Wrong with Rationality Review, 13 Creighton L. Rev. 487 (1979).

Frank I. Michelman, Law’s Republic, 97 Yale L.J. 1493 (1988).

Frank I. Michelman, In Pursuit of Constitutional Welfare Rights: One View of Rawls’ Theory of Justice, 121 U. Pa. L. Rev. 962 (1973).

Frank I. Michelman, Alumni Distinguished Lecture in Jurisprudence – Conceptions of Democracy in American Constitutional Argument: The Case of Pornography Regulation, 56 Tenn. L. Rev.

Frank I. Michelman, Bringing the Law to Life: A Plea for Disenchantment, 74 Cornell L. Rev. 256 (1989).

Frank I. Michelman, Constancy to an Ideal Object, 56 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 406 (1981).

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

John C.P. Goldberg & Benjamin C. Zipursky, A Precedent-Based Critique of Legal Positivism, (Harv. Pub. L. Working Paper No. 22-06, April 7, 2022).

Frank I. Michelman, The Priority of Liberty: Rawls and “Tiers of Scrutiny”, in Rawls’s Political Liberalism 175 (Thom Brooks & Martha C. Nussbaum eds., 2015).

Frank I. Michelman, The Property Clause Question, 19 Constellations 152 (2012).

Frank I. Michelman, Tushnet’s Realism, Tushnet’s Liberalism, 90 Geo. L.J. 199 (2001).

Frank I. Michelman, Democracy-Based Resistance to a Constitutional Right of Social Citizenship: A Comment on Forbath, 69 Fordham L. Rev. 1893 (2001).

Frank I. Michelman, Constitutional Essentials: On the Constitutional Theory of Political Liberalism (2022).

Frank I. Michelman, The Question of Constitutional Fidelity: Rawls on the Reason of Constitutional Courts, in Public Reason in Constitutional Courts, 90 (Silje A. Langvatn,…

Frank I. Michelman, A Brief Anatomy of Adjudicative Rule-Formalism, 66 U. Chi. L. Rev. 934 (1999).

Andrew S. Gold & Henry E. Smith, Sizing up Private Law, 70 U. Toronto L.J. 389 (2020).

John C.P. Goldberg, Seeing Negligence for What It Is, 2021 JOTWELL 1 (2021) (reviewing Nicolas Cornell, Looking and Seeing in New Conversations in Philosophy Law…

Frank Michelman, On Regulating Practices with Theories Drawn from Them: A Case of Justice as Fairness, in Theory and Practice (Ian Shapiro & Judith Wagner…

Frank I. Michelman, Legitimacy and Moral Support, 17 Int’l J. Const. L. 1059 (2019).

Frank I. Michelman, ‘Constitution (Written or Unwritten)’: Legitimacy and Legality in the Thought of John Rawls, 31 Ratio Juris 379 (2018).

Frank I. Michelman, At the Liberal Edge in Prague, 43 Phil. & Soc. Criticism 254 (2017).

Frank I. Michelman, RSB, the Social Contract, and a Bridge Across the Gap: Delgado Talks to Rawls, 33 Law and Ineq. 417 (2015).

Frank I. Michelman, The Ghost of the Declaration Present: The Legal Force of the Declaration of the Declaration of Independence Regarding Acts of Congress, 89…

Frank Michelman, Human Rights and the Limits of Constitutional Theory, 13 Ratio Juris 63 (2000).

Frank I. Michelman, Legitimacy, The Social Turn and Constitutional Review: What Political Liberalism Suggests, 98 KritV, CritQ, RCrit. Kritische Vierteljahresschrift für Gesetzgebung und Rechtswissenschaft 183…

Frank I. Michelman, Proportionality Outside the Courts (With Special Reference to Popular and Political Constitutionalism), in Proportionality: New Frontiers, New Challenges 30 (Vicki Jackson &…

Frank I. Michelman, A Constitutional Horizon?, 42 Phil. & Soc. Criticism 640 (2016).

Frank I. Michelman, Reply to Ming-Sung Kuo, 7 Int’l. J. Const. L 715 (2009).

Frank I. Michelman, Morality, Identity and “Constitutional Patriotism”, 76 Denv. U. L. Rev. 1009 (1999).

Frank I. Michelman, Liberties, Fair Values, and Constitutional Method, 59 U. Chi. L. Rev. 91 (1992).

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

Frank I. Michelman, Super Liberal: Romance, Community, and Tradition in William J. Brennan, Jr.’s Constitutional Thought, 77 Va. L. Rev. 1261 (1991).

Frank I. Michelman, Legalism and Humankind, 9 Soc. Phil. & Pol’y 190 (1992).

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…