Nikolas Bowie

I. Glenn Cohen, Nikolas Bowie, Megan Jones & Eli Y. Adashi, Preventing Female Genital Mutilation in the United States: The Legal Threat to Effective Action,…

Nikolas Bowie, Improper Commands from President Trump’s Employees?, Take Care (Mar. 16, 2017).

Nikolas Bowie, An Unconstitutional Threat to Sanctuary Cities, Take Care (Mar. 21, 2017).

Nikolas Bowie, SCOTUS Warns Against Appointing “Unfit Characters”, Take Care (Mar. 24, 2017).

Nikolas Bowie, The First Amendment Belongs Only to Americans? Wrong, Take Care (Mar. 29, 2017).

Nikolas Bowie, Jared Kushner’s New SWAT Team More Like Neighborhood Watch, Take Care (Mar. 27, 2017).

Nikolas Bowie, What Happened on United Is Terrible, But What’s Going to Happen Everywhere Is Worse, Take Care (Apr. 11, 2017).

Nikolas Bowie, Trump Is Weakening His Only Defense of the Sanctuary Cities Order . . . by Enforcing It, Take Care (Apr. 26, 2017).

Nikolas Bowie, With Sanctuary Cities, the Apprentice is Now the Biggest Loser, Take Care (Apr. 26, 2017).

Nikolas Bowie, The Federal Statute on Sanctuary Cities Doesn’t Say What the Trump Administration Thinks It Says, Take Care (Apr. 27, 2017).

Students enrolling in Fall-Spring groups are required to submit a signed Writing Group Registration Form to the Registrar’s Office by October 14, 2022.…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam

Each student will be responsible for one in-class presentation and two 6-8 page papers.
This survey…

Exam Type: One-Day Take-Home This course provides an introduction to the structure of the U.S. Constitution and the rights and liberties it defines. Topics include…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam

Each student will be responsible for one in-class presentation and two 6-8 page papers.
This survey…

Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule This course provides an introduction to the structure of the U.S. Constitution and the…

Students enrolling in Fall-Spring groups are required to submit a signed Writing Group Registration Form to the Registrar’s Office by September 17, 2021.…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Any given place in the United States is governed by a diverse, overlapping, and conflicting set of governments, from…

Exam Type: One-Day Take-Home This course provides an introduction to the structure of the U.S. Constitution and the rights and liberties it defines. Topics include…

Nikolas Bowie, Can President Trump Rewrite the Past?, Take Care (May 3, 2017).

Nikolas Bowie, It Was Legal for the President to Fire Comey. That’s the Problem, Take Care (May 10, 2017).

Nikolas Bowie, Ten Minutes of History on: The Constitutionality of Funding HBCUs, Take Care (May. 12, 2017).

Nikolas Bowie, President Trump Shouldn’t Be Impeached If He Hasn’t Committed a Crime, Take Care (May 22, 2017).

Nikolas Bowie, Sessions Retreats, but Doesn’t Surrender, on Sanctuary Cities, Take Care (May 23, 2017).

Nikolas Bowie, The Highest Court in Massachusetts Declares the Commonwealth a Sanctuary State, Take Care (Jul. 24, 2017).

Nikolas Bowie, Can Trump Replace Rosenstein Without the Senate?, Take Care (Feb. 1, 2018).

Nikolas Bowie, An Impeachable Offense Is a Criminal Offense: A Response to Tribe and Matz, Take Care (Jun. 20, 2018).

Nikolas Bowie, The Recyclable Sentences of the Deregulatory First Amendment, Take Care, (July 5, 2018).

Nikolas Bowie, Brief of Professor Nikolas Bowie as Amicus Curiae in Support of New York’s Opposition to ICE’s Motion to Dismiss, New York v. U.S.

Nikolas Bowie, Opinion, Will Puerto Rico Still Be Allowed to Govern Itself?, N.Y. Times, Oct. 14, 2019.

Nikolas Bowie, Opionion, Don’t Be Confused by Trump’s Defense. What He Is Accused of Are Crimes, N.Y. Times, Jan. 27, 2020.

Nikolas Bowie, Opinion, Do We Have to Pay Businesses to Obey the Law?, N.Y. Times Mar. 20, 2021.

Nikolas E. Bowie and Norah Rast, The Imaginary Immigration Clause, 120 Mich. L. Rev. 1419 (2022).

Nikolas Bowie, Antidemocracy, 135 Harv. L. Rev. 160 (2021).

Nikolas Bowie, How the Supreme Court Dominates Our Democracy, Wash. Post, Jul. 16, 2021.

Nikolas Bowie, Opinion, The Challenges of Teaching the Constitution in the Age of Trump, Wash. Post, Jan. 18, 2021.

Nikolas Bowie, The Constitutional Right of Self-Government, 130 Yale L.J. 1652 (2021).

Nikolas Bowie, Corporate Personhood v. Corporate Statehood, 132 Harv. L. Rev. 2009 (2019) (reviewing Adam Winkler, We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil…

Nikolas Bowie, High Crimes Without Law, 132 Harv. L. Rev. F. 59 (2018).

Nikolas Bowie, Why the Constitution Was Written Down, 71 Stan. L. Rev. 1397 (2019).

Nikolas Bowie, Corporate Democracy: How Corporations Justified Their Right to Speak in 1970s Boston, 36 L. & Hist. Rev. 943 (2018).

Nikolas Bowie, The Government Could Not Work Doctrine, 105 Va. L. Rev. 1 (2019).

Nikolas Bowie, Corporate Democracy: The Origins of First Amendment Libertarianism in 1970s Boston, Am. Hist. Soc’y Ann. Meeting (Jan. 8, 2017).

Nikolas Bowie, Note, Congress’s Power to Define the Privileges & Immunities of Citizenship, 128 Harv. L. Rev. 1206 (2015).

Nikolas Bowie, Case Comment, Massachusetts v. United States Department of Health & Human Services, 126 Harv. L. Rev. 611 (2012).

Nikolas Bowie, Poison Ivy: The Problem of Tax Exemption in a Deindustrializing City; Yale and New Haven, 1967–1973, 3 Found. 61 (2009).