Legal Theory & Philosophy

Duncan Kennedy, Freedom and Constraint in Adjudication: A Critical Phenomenology, 36 J. Legal Educ. 518 (1986).

Duncan Kennedy, Sexy Dressing Etc.: Essays on the Power and Politics of Cultural Identity (Harvard Univ. Press 1993).

Justin Desautels-Stein & Duncan Kennedy, Foreword: Theorizing Contemporary Legal Thought, 78 Law & Contemp. Probs. i (2015).

Deborah E. Anker, Grutter v. Bollinger: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Legitimization of the Role of Comparative and International Law in U.S. Jurisprudence, 127 Harv. L.

Howard S. Erlanger, Bryant Garth, Jane E. Larson, Elizabeth Mertz, Victoria Nourse & David B. Wilkins, Foreword: Is it Time for a New Legal Realism?,…

David B. Wilkins, Legal Realism for Lawyers, 104 Harv. L. Rev. 468 (1990).

David Rosenberg, The Hidden Holmes: His Theory of Torts in History (Harvard Univ. Press 1995).

David Rosenberg, The Path Not Taken, 110 Harv. L. Rev. 1044 (1997).

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

Carol S. Steiker, Murphy on Mercy: A Prudential Reconsideration, 27 Crim. Just. Ethics 45 (2008).

Christine A. Desan, Perfect Violence, 7 J.L. & Religion 99 (1989).

Charles Donahue, Jr., Comparative Legal History in North America, 65 Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis 1 (1997).

Charles Donahue, Jr., The Future of the Concept of Property Predicted from its Past, 22 Nomos 28 (1980).

Charles Donahue, ‘The Hypostasis of a Prophecy’: Legal Realism and Legal History, in Law and Legal Process: Substantive Law and Procedure in English Legal History…

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

Adriaan Lanni, Forum Response to Barbara Fried, Beyond Blame, Bos. Rev., July/Aug. 2013, at 24.

Annette Gordon-Reed & Peter S. Onuf, “Most Blessed of the Patriarchs”: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination (W.W. Norton & Co. 2016).

Adrian Vermeule, “Un État despotique qui a plusieurs despotes”: A Juristic Interpretation of The “Society of Tyrants” (Harvard Public Law Working Paper, forthcoming 2026).

Adrian Vermeule, The Constitution of Hierarchy, 17 Fudan J. Humans. & Soc. Scis. 547 (2024).

Adrian Vermeule, The Old Regime and the Loper Bright Revolution, 2024 The Supreme Court Review 235 (2025).

Adrian Vermeule, Democracy, Disagreement, and Authority: A Response to the Symposium on Common Good Constitutionalism, Am. J. Juris. (2025).