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Gary Lawson, Legal Indeterminacy: Its Cause and Cure, 19 HARV. J.L. & PUB. POL'Y 411 (1996).
Keith E. Whittington, Extrajudicial Constitutional Interpretation: Three Objections and Responses, 80 N.C. L. REV. 773 (2002).
Mitchell N. Berman, Constitutional Decision Rules, 90 VA. L. REV. 1 (2004).
Christopher R. Green, This Constitution: Constitutional Indexicals as a Basis for Textualist Semi-Originalism, 84 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 1607 (2009).
Michael Stokes Paulsen, Does the Constitution Prescribe Rules for Its Own Interpretation, 103 NW. U. L. REV. 857 (2009).
Amy Barrett, The Interpretation/Construction Distinction in Constitutional Law, 27 CONST. COMMENT. 1 (2010).
Peter J. Smith, How Different are Originalism and Non-Originalism, 62 HASTINGS L.J. 707 (2010).
Lawrence B. Solum, The Interpretation-Construction Distinction, 27 CONST. COMMENT. 95 (2010).
Lawrence B. Solum, The Unity of Interpretation, 90 B.U. L. REV. 551 (2010).
Keith E. Whittington, Constructing a New American Constitution, 27 CONST. COMMENT. 119 (2010).
Randy E. Barnett, “Interpretation and Construction,” HARV J.L & PUB. POL'Y (2011)
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Lee J. Strang, Originalism as Popular Constitutionalism: Theoretical Possibilities and Practical Differences, 87 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 253 (2011).
Jack M. Balkin, The Roots of the Living Constitution, 92 B.U. L. REV. 1129 (2012).
Gary Lawson, Dead Document Walking, 92 B.U. L. REV. 1225 (2012).
John O. McGinnis & Michael B. Rappaport, The Abstract Meaning Fallacy, 2012 U. ILL. L. REV. 737 (2012).
Rebecca E. Zietlow, Popular Originalism - The Tea Party Movement and Constitutional Theory, 64 FLA. L. REV. 483 (2012).
Jack M. Balkin, The New Originalism and the Uses of History, 82 FORDHAM L. REV. 641 (2013).
Randy E. Barnett, The Gravitational Force of Originalism, 82 FORDHAM L. REV. 411 (2013).
James E. Fleming, The Inclusiveness of the New Originalism, 82 FORDHAM L. REV. 433 (2013).
Lawrence B. Solum, Originalism and Constitutional Construction, 82 FORDHAM L. REV. 453 (2013).
Lawrence B. Solum, Originalism and the Unwritten Constitution, 2013 U. ILL. L. REV. 1935 (2013).
Keith E. Whittington, The Status of Unwritten Constitutional Conventions in the United States, 2013 U. ILL. L. REV. 1847 (2013).
Nelson Lund, Living Originalism: The Magical Mystery Tour, 3 TEX. A&M L. REV. 31 (2015).
Jack M. Balkin, The Construction of Original Public Meaning, 31 CONST. COMMENT. 71 (2016).
Richard S. Kay, Construction, Originalist Interpretation and the Complete Constitution, 19 U. PA. J. CONST. L. ONLINE 1 (2016-2017).
John O. McGinnis, The Duty of Clarity, 84 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 843 (2016).
Richard Ekins, Objects of Interpretation, 32 CONST. COMMENT. 1 (2017).
Cass R. Sunstein, Formalism in Constitutional Theory, 32 CONST. COMMENT. 27 (2017).
Keith E. Whittington, Originalism, Constitutional Construction, and the Problem of Faithless Electors, 59 ARIZ. L. REV. 903 (2017).
Randy E. Barnett & Evan D. Bernick, The Letter and the Spirit: A Unified Theory of Originalism, 107 GEO. L.J. 1 (2018).
William Baude, Constitutional Liquidation, 71 STAN. L. REV. 1 (2019).
Arthur W. Machen Jr., Elasticity of the Constitution, 14 HARV. L. REV. 200 (1900-1901).
Roscoe Pound, Mechanical Jurisprudence, 8 COLUM. L. REV. 605 (1908).
Edward S. Corwin, Constitution v. Constitutional Theory, 19 AM. POL. SCI. REV. 290 (1925).
E. F. Albertsworth, The Federal Supreme Court and the Super-Structure of the Constitution, 16 A.B.A. J. 565 (1930).
James M. Beck, The Future of the Constitution, 19 A.B.A. J. 493 (1933).
John J. Parker, Is the Constitution Passing, 19 A.B.A. J. 570 (1933).
Charles A. Beard, The Living Constitution, 185 ANNALS AM. ACAD. POL. & SOC. SCI. 29 (1936).
Stanley Reed, The Constitution of the United States, 22 A.B.A. J. 601 (1936).
Thomas Reed Powell, Changing Constitutional Phases, 19 B.U. L. REV. 509 (1939).
C. Perry Patterson, Supreme Court as a Constituent Convention, 23 TUL. L. REV. 431 (1948-1949).
Walton H. Hamilton, The Constitution--Apropos of Crosskey, 21 U. CHI. L. REV. 79 (1953).
Martin Diamond, Democracy and The Federalist: A Reconsideration of the Framers’ Intent, AM. POL. SCI. REV., Vol. 53, No. 1 (1959).
J. A. C. Grant, Our Common Law Constitution, 40 B.U. L. REV. 1 (1960).
Arthur Selwyn Miller, Notes on the Concept of the Living Constitution , 31 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 881 (1963).
Charles A. Reich, Mr. Justice Black and the Living Constitution, 76 HARV. L. REV. 673 (1963).
Willmoore Kendall, American Conservatism and the ‘Prayer’ Decision, MODERN AGE, Vol. 8, No. 3 (1964).
Robert H. Bork, Neutral Principles and Some First Amendment Problems, 47 IND. L. J. 1 (1971).
George W. Carey, Supreme Court, Judicial Review, and Federalist Seventy-Eight, MODERN AGE, Vol. 18, No. 4 (1974).
Martin Diamond, The Declaration and the Constitution: Liberty, Democracy, and the Founders, THE PUBLIC INTEREST, Vol. 41 (1975).
Thomas C. Grey, Do We Have an Unwritten Constitution, 27 STAN L. REV. 703 (1975).
William H. Rehnquist, Notion of a Living Constitution, 54 TEX. L. REV. 693 (1976).
Elliott Abrams, The Chains of the Constitution, COMMENTARY, Vol. 64, No. 6 (1977).
Martin Diamond, The Federalist on Federalism: Neither a National Nor a Federal Constitution, But a Composition of Both, 86 YALE L.J. 1273 (1977).
Owen M. Fiss, Foreword: The Forms of Justice, 93 HARV. L. REV. 1 (1979).
Henry P. Monaghan, Our Perfect Constitution, 56 N.Y.U. L. REV. 353 (1981).
Walter Berns, Judicial Review and the Rights and Laws of Nature, 1982 SUP. CT. REV. 49 (1982).
Harry H. Wellington, The Nature of Judicial Review, 91 YALE L.J. 486 (1982).
Thomas C. Grey, The Constitution as Scripture, 37 STAN. L. REV. 1 (1984).
Raoul Berger, Original Intention in Historical Perspective, 54 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 296 (1985).
Robert H. Bork, Styles in Constitutional Theory, 26 S. TEX. L.J. 383 (1985).
Edwin Meese III, Address before the DC Chapter of the Federalist Society Lawyer’s Division, (1985).
Edwin Meese III, Speech to the American Bar Association, (1985).
Raoul Berger, New Theories of Interpretation: The Activist Flight from the Constitution, 47 OHIO ST. L.J. 1 (1986).
Raoul Berger, “Original Intention” in Historical Perspective, 54 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 296 (1986)
Robert H. Bork, Constitution, Original Intent, and Economic Rights, The , 23 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 823 (1986).
William J. Brennan Jr., The Constitution of the United States: Contemporary Ratification, 27 S. TEX. L. REV. 433 (1986).
Charles Fried, Sonnet LXV and the Blank Ink of the Framers Intention, 100 HARV. L. REV. 751 (1987).
U.S. Department of Justice Office of Legal Policy, Original Meaning Jurisprudence: A Sourcebook (1987).
Earl M. Maltz, The Failure of Attacks on Constitutional Originalism, 4 CONST. COMMENT. 43 (1987).
Daniel A. Farber, The Originalism Debate: A Guide for the Perplexed, 49 OHIO ST. L.J. 1085 (1989).
David A. Strauss, Common Law Constitutional Interpretation, 63 U. CHI. L. REV. 877 (1996)
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Howard Gillman, The Collapse of Constitutional Originalism and the Rise of the Notion of the “Living Constitution” in the Course of American State-Building, 11 STUDIES IN AM. POL.L DEV. (1997).
Jeffrey Goldsworthy, Originalism in Constitutional Interpretation, 25 FED. L. REV. 1 (1997).
Frank H. Easterbrook, Textualism and the Dead Hand, 66 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 1119 (1998).
Gary L. McDowell, The Language of the Law and the Foundations of American Constitutionalism, WILLIAM AND MARY Q., Vol. 55, No. 3 (1998).
Randy E. Barnett, An Originalism for Nonoriginalists, 45 LOY. L. REV. 611 (1999).
Keith E. Whittington, The New Originalism, 2 GEO. J.L. & PUB. POL’Y 599 (2004)
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Keith E. Whittington, “The New Originalism,” GEO J.L. & PUB. POL'Y (2004)
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John O. McGinnis and Michael B. Rappaport, A Pragmatic Defense of Originalism, 101 NW. U. L. REV. 383 (2007).
Nancy Scherer and Banks Miller, The Federalist Society’s Influence on the Federal Judiciary, POL. RSCH. Q., Vol. 62, No. 2 (2008).
Jack M. Balkin, Framework Originalism and the Living Constitution, 103 NW. U. L. REV. 549 (2009).
Thomas B. Colby & Peter J. Smith, Living Originalism, 59 DUKE L.J. 239 (2009).
Walter Benn Michaels, A Defense of Old Originalism, 31 W. NEW ENG. L. REV. 21 (2009).
Jared A. Goldstein, The Tea Party Movement and the Perils of Popular Originalism, 53 ARIZ. L. REV. 827 (2011).
Larry Alexander, Originalism, the Why and the What, 82 FORDHAM L. REV. 539 (2013).
Mitchell N. Berman & Kevin Toh, On What Distinguishes New Originalism from Old: A Jurisprudential Take, 82 FORDHAM L. REV. 545 (2013).
Keith E. Whittington, Originalism: A Critical Introduction, 82 FORDHAM L. REV. 375 (2013).
Joel Alicea, “Originalism and the Rule of the Dead,” NATIONAL AFFAIRS (2015)
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Steven G. Calabresi, On Originalism and Liberty, CATO SUP. CT. REV. 17 (2015)
Lawrence B. Solum, “The Fixation Thesis: The Role of Historical Fact in Original Meaning,” NOTRE DAME L. REV. (2015): 1, 20-30
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William Baude, Originalism as a Constraint on Judges, 84 U. CHI. L. REV. 2213 (2017).
Earl Maltz, Some New Thoughts on an Old Problem - The Role of the Intent of the Framers in Constitutional Theory, 63 B.U. L. REV. 811 (1983).
Richard S. Kay, Adherence to the Original Intentions in Constitutional Adjudication: Three Objections and Responses, 82 NW. U. L. REV. 226 (1987-1988).
Raoul Berger, Originalist Theories of Constitutional Interpretation, 73 CORNELL L. REV. 364 (1988).
Gary Lawson, On Reading Recipes..and Constitutions, 85 GEO. L.J. 1823 (1997).
Gary Lawson, On Reading Recipes..and Constitutions, 85 GEO. L.J. 1823 (1997).
Robert M. Howard and Jeffrey A. Segal, An Original Look at Originalism, 36 L. & SOC’Y REV. 113 (2002).
Vasan Kesavan & Michael Stokes Paulsen, The Interpretive Force of the Constitution's Secret Drafting History, 91 GEO. L.J. 1113 (2003).
Caleb Nelson, Originalism and Interpretive Conventions, 70 U. CHI. L. REV. 519 (2003).
Larry Alexander & Saikrishna Prakash, Is That English You're Speaking - Why Intention Free Interpretation Is an Impossibility, 41 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 967 (2004).
Caleb Nelson, A Response to Professor Manning, 91 VA. L. REV. 451 (2005).
Christopher R. Green, Originialism and the Sense-Reference Distinction, 50 ST. LOUIS U. L.J. 555 (2006).
John F. Manning, What Divides Textualists from Purposivists, 106 COLUM. L. REV. 70 (2006).
Frank H. Easterbrook, Pragmatism’s Role in Interpretation, 31 HARV. J. L & PUB. POL’Y. 901 (2008).
Richard S. Kay, Original Intention and Public Meaning in Constitutional Interpretation, 103 NW. U. L. REV. 703 (2009).
John O. McGinnis & Michael B. Rappaport, Original Methods Originalism: A New Theory of Interpretation and the Case against Construction, 103 NW. U. L. REV. 751 (2009).
Lawrence B. Solum, District of Columbia v. Heller and Originalism, 103 NW. U. L. REV. 923 (2009).
Larry Alexander, Telepathic Law, 27 CONST. COMMENT. 139 (2010).
Joel Alicea & Donald L. Drakeman, The Limits of New Originalism, 15 U. PA. J. CONST. L. 1161 (2013).
Scott Soames, Deferentialism: A Post-Originalist Theory of Legal Interpretation, 82 FORDHAM L. REV. 597 (2013).
Robert J. Delahunty and John Yoo, Saving Originalism, 113 MICH. L. REV. 1081 (2015).
Kurt T. Lash, Originalism All the Way Down, 30 CONST. COMMENT. 149 (2015).
Stephen E. Sachs, Originalism as a Theory of Legal Change, 38 HARV. J. L & PUB. POL’Y. 817 (2015).
Stephen E. Sachs, Originalism without Text, 127 YALE L.J. 156 (2017).
Lawrence B. Solum, Originalist Methodology, 84 U. CHI. L. REV. 269 (2017).
John O. McGinnis and Michael B. Rappaport, “Unifying Original Intent and Original Public Meaning,” NW. U. L. REV. (2019)
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Bradley C. Canon, Defining the Dimensions of Judicial Activism, 66 JUDICATURE 236 (1983).
Robert H. Bork, Address at the University of San Diego Law School (1985).
Robert H. Bork, Styles in Constitutional Theory, 26 S. TEX. L.J. 383 (1985).
Robert H. Bork, Constitution, Original Intent, and Economic Rights, The , 23 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 823 (1986).
Lino A. Graglia, How the Constitution Disappeared, COMMENTARY Vol. 81, No. 2 (1986).
Randy E. Barnett, Foreword: Judicial Conservatism v. a Principled Judicial Activism, 10 HARV. J.L. & PUB. POL'Y 273 (1987).
Earl Maltz, Foreword: The Appeal of Originalism, 1987 UTAH L. REV. 773 (1987).
Michael W. McConnell, On Reading the Constitution , 73 CORNELL L. REV. 359 (1987-1988).
Antonin Scalia, “Originalism: The Lesser Evil,” U. CIN. L. REV. (1989): 849-866 verified
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Lino A. Graglia, Interpreting the Constitution: Posner on Bork, 44 STAN. L. REV. 1019 (1992).
Lino A. Graglia, It's Not Constitutionalism, It's Judicial Activism, 19 HARV. J.L. & PUB. POL'Y 293 (1996).
Richard S. Kay, Originalist Values and Constitutional Interpretation, 19 HARV. J.L. & PUB. POL'Y 335 (1996).
Michael W. McConnell, The Importance of Humility in Judicial Review: A Comment on Ronald Dworkin's Moral Reading of the Constitution, 65 FORDHAM L. REV. 1269 (1997).
Steven G. Calabresi, Textualism and the Countermajoritarian Difficulty, 66 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 1373 (1998).
Michael W. McConnell, Textualism and the Dead Hand of the Past, 66 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 1127 (1998).
Keith E. Whittington, Dworkin’s ‘Originalism’: The Role of Intentions in
Constitutional Interpretation, REV. OF POL., Vol. 62, No. 2 (2000).
Frank H. Easterbrook, Do Liberals and Conservatives Differ in Judicial Activism, 73 U. COLO. L. REV. 1401 (2002).
John O. McGinnis and Michael B. Rappaport, Our Supermajoritarian Constitution, 80 TEX. L. REV. 703 (2002).
Ernest A. Young, Judicial Activism and Conservative Politics, 73 U. COLO. L. REV. 1139 (2002).
Randy E. Barnett, Constitutional Legitimacy, 103 COLUM. L. REV. 111 (2003).
Keenan D. Kmiec, The Origin and Current Meanings of Judicial Activism, 92 CALIF. L. REV. 1441 (2004).
Steven G. Calabresi, The Originalist and Normative Case against Judicial Activism: A Reply to Professor Randy Barnett, 103 MICH. L. REV. 1081 (2005).
Jack M. Balkin, Original Meaning and Constitutional Redemption, CONST. COMMENT. (2007).
Douglas W. Kmiec, Natural Law Originalism for the Twenty-First Century - A Principle of Judicial Restraint, Not Invention, 40 SUFFOLK U. L. REV. 383 (2007).
Kurt T. Lash, Originalism, Popular Sovereignty, and Reverse Stare Decisis, 93 VA. L. REV. 1437 (2007).
Saikrishna B. Prakash, The Misunderstood Relationship between Originalism and Popular Sovereignty, 31 HARV. J.L. & PUB. POL'Y 485 (2008).
Joshua R. Furgeson, Linda Babcock, and Peter M. Shane, Behind the Mask of Method: Political Orientation and Constitutional Interpretive Preferences, 32 LAW & HUM. BEHAV. 502 (2008).
John O. McGinnis and Michael B. Rappaport, Originalism and the Good Constitution, 98 GEO. L. J. (2010).
Nelson Lund, Two Faces of Judicial Restraint (or are There More) in McDonald v. City of Chicago, 63 FLA. L. REV. 487 (2011).
Randy E. Barnett, Keynote Remarks: Judicial Engagement through the Lens of Lee Optical, 19 GEO. MASON L. REV. 845 (2012).
Richard A. Posner, The Rise and Fall of Judicial Self-Restraint, 100 CALIF. L. REV. 519 (2012).
Randy E. Barnett, The Wages of Crying Judicial Restraint, 36 HARV. J.L. & PUB. POL'Y 925 (2013).
Thomas B. Colby, Originalism and the Ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, 107 NW. U. L. REV. 1627 (2013).
Randy E. Barnett, The Judicial Duty to Scrutinize Legislation, 48 VAL. U. L. REV. 903 (2014).
Randy E. Barnett, We the People: Each and Every One, 123 YALE L.J. 2576 (2014).
Andrew G. I. Kilberg, We the People: The Original Meaning of Popular Sovereignty, 100 VA. L. REV. 1061 (2014).
Michael B. Rappaport, The Classical Liberal Constitution: An Originalist Assessment, 8 NYU J.L. & LIBERTY 800 (2014).
Christopher R. Green, Constitutional Truthmakers, 32 NOTRE DAME J.L. ETHICS & PUB. POL'Y 497 (2018).
Mark Pulliam, Unleashing the Least Dangerous Branch: Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes, 22 TEX. REV. L. & POL. 423 (2018).
Matthew J. Franck, James Bradley Thayer and the Presumption of Constitutionality: A Strange Posthumous Career, 8 AM. POL. THOUGHT 393 (2019).
Jacobus ten Broeck, Admissibility and Use by the United States Supreme Court of Extrinsic Aids in Constitutional Construction, 26 CALIF. L. REV. 287 (1938).
Charles Fairman, Does the Fourteenth Amendment Incorporate the Bill of Rights? The Original Understanding, 2 STAN. L. REV. 5 (1949).
John P. Frank and Robert F. Munro, The Original Understanding of ‘Equal Protection of the Laws, 50 COLUM. L. REV. 131 (1950).
Alexander M. Bickel, The Original Understanding and the Segregation Decision, 69 HARV. L. REV. 1 (1955).
John G. Wofford, The Blinding Light: The Uses of History in Constitutional Interpretation, 31 U. CHI. L. REV. 502 (1964).
Alfred H. Kelly, Clio and the Court: An Illicit Love Affair, 1965 SUP. CT. REV. 119 (1965).
Bradley C. Canon, Defining the Dimensions of Judicial Activism, 66 JUDICATURE 236 (1983).
Robert H. Bork, Styles in Constitutional Theory, 26 S. TEX. L.J. 383 (1985).
Robert H. Bork, Constitution, Original Intent, and Economic Rights, The , 23 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 823 (1986).
Randy E. Barnett, Foreword: Judicial Conservatism v. a Principled Judicial Activism, 10 HARV. J.L. & PUB. POL'Y 273 (1987).
Earl Maltz, Foreword: The Appeal of Originalism, 1987 UTAH L. REV. 773 (1987).
Michael W. McConnell, On Reading the Constitution, 73 CORNELL L. REV. 359 (1987-1988).
Antonin Scalia, Originalism: The Lesser Evil, 57 U. CIN. L. REV. 849 (1989)
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Michael W. McConnell, The Origins and Historical Understanding of Free Exercise of Religion, 103 HARV. L. REV. 1409 (1990).
Douglas Laycock, Text, Intent, and the Religion Clauses, 4 NOTRE DAME J.L. ETHICS & PUB. POL'Y 683 (1990).
Lino A. Graglia, Interpreting the Constitution: Posner on Bork, 44 STAN. L. REV. 1019 (1992).
Philip A. Hamburger, Constitutional Right of Religious Exemption: An Historical Perspective, 60 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 915 (1992).
John Harrison, Reconstructing the Privileges or Immunities Clause, 101 YALE L.J. 1385 (1992).
Michael J. Klarman, Brown, Originalism, and Constitutional Theory: A Response to Professor McConnell, 81 VA. L. REV. 1881 (1995).
Michael W. McConnell, Originalism and the Desegregation Decisions, 81 VA. L. REV. 947 (1995).
Lino A. Graglia, It's Not Constitutionalism, It's Judicial Activism, 19 HARV. J.L. & PUB. POL'Y 293 (1996).
Richard S. Kay, Originalist Values and Constitutional Interpretation, 19 HARV. J.L. & PUB. POL'Y 335 (1996).
David A. Strauss, Common Law Constitutional Interpretation, 63 U. CHI. L. REV. 877 (1996)
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Michael W. McConnell, The Importance of Humility in Judicial Review: A Comment on Ronald Dworkin's Moral Reading of the Constitution, 65 FORDHAM L. REV. 1269 (1997).
Melissa L. Saunders, Equal Protection, Class Legislation, and Colorblindness, 96 MICH. L. REV. 245 (1997).
Bret Boyce, Originalism and the Fourteenth Amendment, 33 WAKE FOREST L. REV. 909 (1998).
Steven G. Calabresi, Textualism and the Countermajoritarian Difficulty, 66 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 1373 (1998).
John F. Manning, Textualism and the Role of The Federalist in Constitutional Adjudication, 66 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 1337 (1998).
Thomas Y. Davies, Recovering the Original Fourth Amendment, 98 MICH. L. REV. 547 (1999).
Frank H. Easterbrook, Do Liberals and Conservatives Differ in Judicial Activism, 73 U. COLO. L. REV. 1401 (2002).
Gary Lawson, Delegation and Original Meaning, 88 VA. L. REV. 327 (2002).
Ernest A. Young, Judicial Activism and Conservative Politics, 73 U. COLO. L. REV. 1139 (2002).
Keenan D. Kmiec, The Origin and Current Meanings of Judicial Activism, 92 CALIF. L. REV. 1441 (2004).
Douglas G. Smith, Originalism and the Affirmative Action Decisions, 55 CASE W. RES. L. REV. 1 (2004).
Rachel E. Barkow, Originalists, Politics, and Criminal Law on the Rehnquist Court, 74 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 1043 (2005).
Steven G. Calabresi, The Originalist and Normative Case against Judicial Activism: A Reply to Professor Randy Barnett, 103 MICH. L. REV. 1081 (2005).
Michael Rappaport, The Original Meaning of the Recess Appointments Clause, 52 UCLA L. REV. 1487 (2005).
Bernadette A. Meyler, Towards a Common Law Originalism, 59 STAN. L. REV. 551 (2006).
Douglas W. Kmiec, Natural Law Originalism for the Twenty-First Century - A Principle of Judicial Restraint, Not Invention, 40 SUFFOLK U. L. REV. 383 (2007).
Kurt T. Lash, Originalism, Popular Sovereignty, and Reverse Stare Decisis, 93 VA. L. REV. 1437 (2007).
Saul Cornell, Heller, New Originalism, and Law Office History: “Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss”, 56 UCLA L. REV. 1095 (2008).
Saikrishna B. Prakash, The Misunderstood Relationship between Originalism and Popular Sovereignty, 31 HARV. J.L. & PUB. POL'Y 485 (2008).
Reva B. Siegel, Dead or Alive: Originalism as Popular Constitutionalism in Heller, 122 HARV. L. REV. 191 (2008).
John F. Stinneford, The Original Meaning of Unusual: The Eighth Amendment as a Bar to Cruel Innovation, 102 NW. U. L. REV. 1739 (2008).
Mitchell N. Berman, Originalism is Bunk, 84 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1 (2009)
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Steven M. Teles, Transformative Bureaucracy: Reagan’s Lawyers and the Dynamics of Political Investment, STUDIES IN AM. POL. DEV., Vol. 23, No. 1 (2009).
Ryan C. Williams, The One and Only Substantive Due Process Clause, 120 YALE L. J. 408 (2010).
Steven G. Calabresi and Julia Rickert, Originalism and Sex Discrimination, 90 TEX. L. REV. 1 (2011).
Randy E. Barnett, The Original Meaning of the Commerce Clause, 68 U. CHI. L. REV. 101 (2001).
Philip A. Hamburger, Privileges or Immunities, 105 NW. U. L. REV. 61 (2011).
Nelson Lund, Two Faces of Judicial Restraint (or are There More) in McDonald v. City of Chicago, 63 FLA. L. REV. 487 (2011).
Randy E. Barnett, Keynote Remarks: Judicial Engagement through the Lens of Lee Optical, 19 GEO. MASON L. REV. 845 (2012).
Richard A. Posner, The Rise and Fall of Judicial Self-Restraint, 100 CALIF. L. REV. 519 (2012).
Randy E. Barnett, The Wages of Crying Judicial Restraint, 36 HARV. J.L. & PUB. POL'Y 925 (2013).
Thomas B. Colby, Originalism and the Ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, 107 NW. U. L. REV. 1627 (2013).
Ryan C. Williams, Originalism and the Other Desegregation Decision, 99 VA. L. REV. 493 (2013).
Randy E. Barnett, We the People: Each and Every One, 123 YALE L.J. 2576 (2014).
Randy E. Barnett, The Judicial Duty to Scrutinize Legislation, 48 VAL. U. L. REV. 903 (2014).
Steven G. Calabresi and Michael W. Perl, Originalism and Brown v. Board of Education, 2014 MICH. ST. L. REV. 429 (2014).
Andrew G. I. Kilberg, We the People: The Original Meaning of Popular Sovereignty, 100 VA. L. REV. 1061 (2014).
David R. Upham, Interracial Marriage and the Original Understanding of the Privileges or Immunities Clause, 42 HASTINGS CONST. L.Q. 213 (2015).
Peter M. Shane, The Originalist Myth of the Unitary Executive, 19 U. PA. J. CONST. L. 323 2016).
David R. Upham, The Meaning of the Privileges and Immunities of Citizens on the Eve of the Civil War, 91 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 1117 (2016).
Logan E. Sawyer III, Principle and Politics in the New History of Originalism, 57 AM. J. LEGAL HIST. 198 (2017).
Lawrence B. Solum, Triangulating Public Meaning: Corpus Linguistics, Immersion, and the Constitutional Record, 2017 BYU L. REV. 1621 (2017).
John F. Stinneford, The Original Meaning of Cruel, 105 GEO. L.J. 441 (2016).
Christopher R. Green, Constitutional Truthmakers, 32 NOTRE DAME J.L. Ethics & PUB. POL'Y 497 (2018).
Jennifer L. Mascott, Who Are Officers of the United States, 70 STAN. L. REV. 443 (2018).
Mark Pulliam, Unleashing the Least Dangerous Branch: Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes, 22 TEX. REV. L. & POL. 423 (2018).
John S. Ehrett, Against Corpus Linguistics, 108 GEO. L.J. 50 (2019).
Andrew Kent, Ethan J. Leib, and Jed Handelsman Shugerman, Faithful Execution and Article II, 132 HARV. L. REV. 2111 (2019).
James A. Gardner, Positivist Foundations of Originalism: An Account and Critique, 71 B.U. L. REV. 1 (1991)
David A. Strauss, Common Law Constitutional Interpretation, 63 U. CHI. L. REV. 877 (1996)
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Richard H. Fallon Jr., Constitutional Precedent Viewed through the Lens of Hartian Positivist Jurisprudence, 86 N.C. L. REV. 1107 (2008).
Matthew D. Adler, Interpretive Contestation and Legal Correctness, 53 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1115 (2012).
Stephen E. Sachs, The Constitution in Exile as a Problem for Legal Theory, 89 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 2253 (2014).
William Baude, Is Originalism Our Law, 115 COLUM. L. REV. 2349 (2015).
Andre LeDuc, Paradoxes of Positivism and Pragmatism in the Debate about Originalism, 42 OHIO N.U. L. REV. 613 (2016).
Jeffrey A. Pojanowski & Kevin C. Walsh, Enduring Originalism, 105 GEO. L.J. 97 (2016).
Richard Primus, Is Theocracy Our Politics?, 116 COLUM. L. REV. ONLINE 44 (2016).
Charles L. Barzun, The Positive U-Turn, 69 STAN. L. REV. 1323 (2017).
William Baude & Stephen E. Sachs, The Law of Interpretation, 130 HARV. L. REV. 1079 (2017).
William Baude & Stephen E. Sachs, Grounding Originalism, 113 NW. U. L. REV. 1455 (2019).
Adrian Vermeule, The Publius Paradox, 82 MODERN L. REV. 1 (2019).
Henry Paul Monaghan, Stare Decisis and Constitutional Adjudication, 88 COLUM. L. REV. 723 (1988).
Gary Lawson, Stare Decisis and Constitutional Meaning: Panel II - The Constitutional Case against Precedent, 17 HARV. J.L. & PUB. POL'Y 23 (1994).
Gary Lawson, Stare Decisis and Constitutional Meaning: Panel II - The Constitutional Case against Precedent, 17 HARV. J.L. & PUB. POL'Y 23 (1994).
John Harrison, Power of Congress over the Rules of Precedent, The, 50 DUKE L.J. 503 (2000).
Caleb Nelson, Stare Decisis and Demonstrably Erroneous Precedents, 87 VA. L. REV. 1 (2001).
Randy E. Barnett, Trumping Precedent with Original Meaning: Not as Radical as It Sounds, 22 CONST. COMMENT. 257 (2005).
Thomas W. Merrill, Originalism, Stare Decisis and the Promotion of Judicial Restraint, 22 CONST. COMMENT. 271 (2005).
Michael Stokes Paulsen, The Intrinsically Corrupting Influence of Precedent, 22 CONST. COMMENT. 289 (2005).
Lee J. Strang, An Originalist Theory of Precedent: Originalism, Nonoriginalist Precedent, and the Common Good, 36 N.M. L. REV. 419 (2006).
William Baude, The Judgment Power, 96 GEO. L.J. 1807 (2008).
John O. McGinnis & Michael B. Rappaport, Reconciling Originalism and Precedent, 103 NW. U. L. REV. 803 (2009).
John O. McGinnis & Michael B. Rappaport, Originalism and Precedent, 34 HARV. J.L. & PUB. POL'Y 121 (2011).
Nelson Lund, Stare Decisis and Originalism: Judicial Disengagement from the Supreme Court's Errors, 19 GEO. MASON L. REV. 1029 (2012).
Leslie F. Goldstein, Original Meaning, Precedent, and Popular Sovereignty: Whittington et al. v. Lincoln et al., 82 FORDHAM L. REV. 783 (2013).
Mary Ziegler, Originalism Talk: A Legal History, 2014 BYU L. REV. 869 (2014).
Randy J. Kozel, Original Meaning and the Precedent Fallback, 68 VAND. L. REV. 105 (2015).
Amy Coney Barrett, “Originalism and Stare Decisis,” NOTRE DAME L. REV. (2017)
LAW 73840 Assigned Reading
Paul Baumgardner, Originalism and the Academy in Exile, 37 LAW & HIST. REV. 787 (2019).
Lawrence B. Solum, Originalism as Transformative Politics, 63 TUL. L. REV. 1599 (1988-1989).
Gary Lawson & Guy Seidman, Orginalism as a Legal Enterprise, 23 CONST. COMMENT. 47 (2006).
Robert Post and Reva B. Siegel, Originalism as a Political Practice: The Right’s Living Constitution, 75 FORDHAM L. REV. 545 (2006).
Jack M. Balkin, Abortion and Original Meaning, 24 CONST. COMMENT. 291 (2007).
Jamal Greene, On the Origins of Originalism, 88 TEX. L. REV. 1 (2009).
Jamal Greene, Selling Originalism, 97 GEO. L.J. 657 (2009).
Jamal Greene, Originalism’s Race Problem, 88 DENV. U. L. REV. 517 (2011).
Jamal Greene, Nathaniel Persily, and Stephen Ansolabehere, Profiling Originalism, 111 COLUM. L. REV. 356 (2011).
Jack N. Rakove, Joe the Ploughman Reads the Constitution, or, the Poverty of Public Meaning Originalism, 48 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 575 (2011).
Donna J. King, War on Women’s Fundamental Rights: Connecting U.S. Supreme Court Originalism to Rightwing, Conservative Extremism in American Politics, 19 CARDOZO J.L. & GENDER 99 (2012).
Mary Ziegler, Grassroots Originalism: Judicial Activism, the Abortion Debate, and the Politics of Judicial Philosophy, 51 U. LOUISVILLE L. REV. 201 (2012).
Saul Cornell, Meaning and Understanding in the History of Constitutional Ideas: The Intellectual History Alternative to Originalism, 82 FORDHAM L. REV. 721 (2013).
Helen Irving, Outsourcing the Law: History and the Disciplinary Limits of Constitutional Reasoning, 84 FORDHAM L. REV. 957 (2015).
William Baude & Stephen E. Sachs, Originalism and the Law of the Past, 37 LAW & HIST. REV. 809 (2019).
Christina Mulligan, Diverse Originalism, 21 U. PA. J. CONST. L. 379 (2019).
Adrian Vermeule, Beyond Originalism, ATLANTIC, Mar. 31, 2020
LAW 73840 Assigned Reading
Stephen R. Munzer & James W. Nickel, Does the Constitution Mean What It Always Meant, 77 COLUM. L. REV. 1029 (1977).
Paul Brest, The Misconceived Quest for the Original Understanding, 60 B.U. L. REV. 204 (1980).
Robert W. Bennett, Objectivity In Constitutional Law , 132 U. PA. L. REV. 445 (1984).
H. Jefferson Powell, The Original Understanding of Original Intent, 98 HARV. L. REV. 885 (1985).
Larry G. Simon, The Authority of the Framers of the Constitution: Can Originalist Interpretation be Justified, 73 CALIF. L. REV. 1482 (1985).
David Lyons, Constitutional Interpretation and Original Meaning, SOC. PHIL. & POL'Y Vol. 4, No. 1 (1986).
Robert N. Clinton, Original Understanding, Legal Realism, and the Interpretation of 'This Constitution', 72 IOWA L. REV. 1177 (1987).
Mark Tushnet, U.S. Constitution and the Intent of the Framers, The, 36 BUFF. L. REV. 217 (1987).
David O. Brink, Legal Theory, Legal Interpretation, and Judicial Review, PHIL. & PUB. AFF. Vol. 17, No. 2 (1988).
Samuel Freeman, Constitutional Democracy and the Legitimacy of Judicial Review, 9 LAW & PHIL. 327 (1990).
Richard A. Posner, Bork and Beethoven, 42 STAN. L. REV. 1365 (1990).
Ernest Young, Rediscovering Conservatism: Burkean Political Theory and Constitutional Interpretation, 72 N.C. L. REV. 619 (1994).
Steven D. Smith, Writing of the Constitution and the Writing on the Wall, The, 19 HARV. J.L. & PUB. POL'Y 391 (1996).
Michael C. Dorf, Integrating Normative and Descriptive Constitutional Theory: The Case of Original Meaning, 85 GEO. L.J. 1765 (1997).
Mark D. Greenberg & Harry Litman, The Meaning of Original Meaning, 86 GEO. L.J. 569 (1998).
Stephen M. Griffin, Rebooting Originalism, 2008 U. ILL. L. REV. 1185 (2008).
Mitchell Berman, “Originalism is Bunk,” NYU L. REV. (2009): 1, 59-96
LAW 73840 Assigned Reading
Tara Smith, Originalism's Misplaced Fidelity: Original Meaning is Not Objective, 26 CONST. COMMENT. 1 (2009).
Andrew B. Coan, Irrelevance of Writtenness in Constitutional Interpretation, 158 U. PA. L. REV. 1025 (2010).
Thomas B. Colby, The Sacrifice of the New Originalism, 99 GEO. L.J. 713 (2011).
David Strauss, Why Conservatives Shouldn’t Be Originalist, 31 HARV. J.L. & PUB. POL’Y 969 (2011).
Keith E. Whittington, Is Originalism Too Conservative?, 34 HARV. J.L. & PUB. POL’Y 29 (2011).
Hadley Arkes, A Natural Law Manifesto or an Appeal from the Old Jurisprudence to the New, 87 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 1245 (2012).
Christopher J. Peters, What Lies Beneath: Interpretive Methodology, Constitutional Authority, and the Case of Originalism, 2013 BYU L. REV. 1251 (2013).
Richard A. Epstein, Beyond Textualism: Why Originalist Theory Must Apply General Principles of Interpretation to Constitutional Law, 37 HARV. J.L. & PUB. POL'Y 705 (2014).
Ian Bartrum, Two Dogmas of Originalism, 7 WASH. U. JUR. REV. 157 (2015).
Ronald Dworkin, The Arduous Virtue of Fidelity: Originalism, Scalia, Tribe, and Nerve, 83 FORDHAM L. REV. 2221 (2015).
Richard H. Fallon Jr., The Meaning of Legal Meaning and Its Implications for Theories of Legal Interpretation, 82 U. CHI. L. REV. 1235 (2015).
David A. Strauss, Does the Constitution Mean What It Says, 129 HARV. L. REV. 1 (2015).
Cass R. Sunstein, There Is Nothing That Interpretation Just Is, 30 CONST. COMMENT. 193 (2015).
Gregory Bassham, How Not to Argue for Originalism, 42 J.C. & U.L. 235 (2016).
Cass R. Sunstein, Originalism, 93 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 1671 (2018).
Edward J. Erler, “Don’t Read the Constitution the Way Robert Bork Did,” AMERICAN GREATNESS (2019)
Michael O’Shea, “Normative Foundations of Originalism,” LAW & LIBERTY (2019)
