Constitutional Law

Stephen E. Sachs & William Baude, Yes, The Founders Were Originalists, 36 Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities 346 (2026).

William Baude & Stephen E. Sachs, Brief of Professors William Baude and Stephen E. Sachs as Amici Curiae, Galette v. N.J. Transit Corp. (2025).

Stephen E. Sachs, Letter Brief of Professor Stephen E. Sachs as Amicus Curiae, King v. Bon Charge (2025).

Stephen E. Sachs, The Twelfth Amendment and the ERA, University of Chicago Law Review (forthcoming 2026).

Stephen Sachs, Good and Evil in the American Founding: The 2023 Vaughan Lecture on America’s Founding Principles, 48 Harv. J.L. Pub. Pol’y 275 (2025).

Stephen Sachs, Dobbs and the Originalists, 47 Harv. J.L. Pub. Pol’y 540 (2024).

Stephen E. Sachs, In Praise of Ignoring Facts, 33 Wm. & Mary Bill of Rts. J. 411 (2024).

Stephen E. Sachs, Dormant Commerce and Corporate Jurisdiction, 2023 Sup. Ct. Rev. 213 (2024).

William Baude, Jud Campbell & Stephen E. Sachs, General Law and the Fourteenth Amendment, 76 Stan. L. Rev. 1185 (2024).

Stephen E. Sachs, Is the “Speak Out Act” Unconstitutional, Reason (Dec. 9, 2022).

William Baude & Stephen E. Sachs, The “Common-Good” Manifesto, 136 Harv. L. Rev. 861 (2023) (reviewing Adrien Vermeule, Common Good Constitutionalism (2022)).

Stephen E, Sachs, Brief of Professor Stephen E. Sachs as Amicus Curiae in Support of Neither Party, Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co., 142 S.Ct.

Stephen E. Sachs, Originalism: Standard and Procedure, 135 Harv. L. Rev. 777 (2022).

Stephen E. Sachs, Saving Originalism’s Soul, Law & Liberty (Dec. 17, 2014).

Stephen E. Sachs, The Unlimited Jurisdiction of the Federal Courts, 106 VA. L. Rev. 1703 (2020).

William Baude & Stephen E. Sachs, The Misunderstood Eleventh Amendment, 169 U. PA. L. Rev. 609 (2021).

William Baude & Stephen E. Sachs, Originalism and the Law of the Past, 37 L. & Hist. Rev. 809 (2019).

William Baude & Stephen E. Sachs, Grounding Originalism, 113 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1455 (2019).

Stephen E. Sachs, Precedent and the Semblance of Law, 33 Const. Comment. 417 (2018).

William Baude & Stephen E. Sachs, The Law of Interpretation, 130 Harv. L. Rev. 1079 (2017).

Stephen E. Sachs, The Law and Morals of Interpretation, 13 Duke J. Const. L. & Pub. Pol’y 103 (2018).