Government & Politics

Ryan D. Doerfler, Who Cares How Congress Really Works?, 66 Duke L.J. 979 (2017).

Ryan D. Doerfler, The Scrivener’s Error, 110 Nw. U. L. Rev. 811 (2016).

William Baude & Ryan D. Doerfler, The (Not So) Plain Meaning Rule, 84 U. Chi. L. Rev. 539 (2017).

William Baude & Ryan D. Doerfler, Arguing with Friends, 117 Mich. L. Rev. 319 (2018),…

Ryan D. Doerfler, High-Stakes Interpretation, 116 Mich. L. Rev. 523 (2018),…

Ryan D. Doerfler, Can a Statute Have More Than One Meaning?, 94 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 213 (2019).

Ryan D. Doerfler, Executive Orders and Smart Lawyers Won’t Save Us, Jacobin (Dec. 01, 2019).

Ryan D. Doerfler & Samuel Moyn, Reform the Supreme Court, but Don’t Pack It, Atlantic (Aug. 8, 2020).

Ryan D. Doerfler, The “Ambiguity” Fallacy, 88 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1110 (2020).

Ryan D. Doerfler, The Supreme Court Rules Us. Here’s How to Curb Its Power., Wash. Post, Sep. 29, 2020.

Ryan D. Doerfler, Why Progressives in Congress Should Ignore Biden’s Supreme Court Commission, Wash. Post, May 20, 2021.

Ryan D. Doerfler & Samuel Moyn, Making the Supreme Court Safe for Democracy, New Republic, Oct. 13, 2020.

Ryan D. Doerfler & Samuel Moyn, Stephen Breyer’s Supreme Delusions, New Republic (Oct. 13, 2021)(reviewing Stephen Breyer, The Authority of the Court and the Peril…

Ryan D. Doerfler & Samuel Moyn, Court Reform Is Dead! Long Live Court Reform!, Atlantic (Dec. 12, 2021).

Ryan D. Doerfler & Samuel Moyn, Democratizing the Supreme Court, 109 Cal. L. Rev. 1703 (2021).

Ryan D. Doerfler & Samuel Moyn, The Ghost of John Hart Ely, 75 Vand. L. Rev. 769 (2022).

Ryan Doerfler & Elie Mystal, The Supreme Court Is Broken. How Do We Fix It?, Nation (June 6, 2022).

Ryan D. Doerfler, Go Big or Go Home: The Constitutionality of Recess Appointments Following Pro Forma Sessions of the Senate, 65 Admin. L. Rev. 975…

Nicholas Stephanopoulos, Redistricting Without Tradeoffs, 126 Columbia Law Review (forthcoming 2026).

Nicholas O. Stephanopoulos, Aligning Election Law (2024).

Nicholas Stephanopoulos, Ranked-List Proportional Representation, 2025 Wisconsin Law Review 561 (2025).