James A. Gardner

Publications

• New Challenges to Judicial Federalism
  112 KY. L.J. (2025) · Kentucky Law Journal · 2025
• While Waiting for Virtue: Comments on Schlegel’s <em>While Waiting for Rain</em>
  71 BUFF. L. REV. 1025 (2024) · Buffalo Law Review · 2024
• Dividing the Body Politic
  2023 U. CHI. LEGAL F. (2024) · University of Chicago Legal Forum · 2024
• Transmission of Mastery
  69 BUFF. L. REV. 55 (2021) · Buffalo Law Review · 2021
• The Illiberalization of American Election Law: A Study in Democratic Deconsolidation
  90 FORDHAM L. REV. 423 (2021) · Fordham Law Review · 2021
• Illiberalism and Authoritarianism in the American States
  70 AM. U. L. REV. (2020) · American University Law Review · 2020

• The Theory and Practice of Contestatory Federalism
  60 WM. & MARY L. REV. 507 (2018) · William & Mary Law Review · 2018
• Partitioning and Rights: The Supreme Court's Accidental Jurisprudence of Democratic Process
  42 FLA. ST. U. L. REV. 61 (2014) · Florida State University Law Review · 2014
• Election Law as Applied Democratic Theory
  56 ST. LOUIS U. L.J. (2012) · Saint Louis University Law Journal · 2012
• Anti-Regulatory Absolutism in the Campaign Arena: Citizens United and the Implied Slippery Slope
  20 CORNELL J. L. & PUB. POL'Y 673 (2011) · Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy · 2011
• Anonymity and Democratic Citizenship
  19 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 927 (2011) · William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal · 2011
• The Dignity Of Voters - A Dissent
  64 U. MIAMI L. REV. 435 (2010) · University of Miami Law Review · 2010

• Deliberation or Tabulation? The Self-Undermining Constitutional Architecture of Election Campaigns
  54 BUFF. L. REV. 1413 (2007) · Buffalo Law Review · 2007
• What is "Fair" Partisan Representation, and How Can It Be Constitutionalized? The Case for a Return to Fixed Election Districts
  90 MARQ. L. REV. 555 (2007) · Marquette Law Review · 2007
• Democracy Without a Net? Separation of Powers and the Idea of Self-Sustaining Constitutional Constraints on Undemocratic Behavior
  79 ST. JOHN'S L. REV. (2006) · St. John's Law Review · 2006
• Giving the Gift of Public Office
  53 BUFF. L. REV. 859 (2005) · Buffalo Law Review · 2005
• Foreword: The New Frontier of State Constitutional Law
  46 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1231 (2005) · William & Mary Law Review · 2005
• Whose Constitution Is It? Why Federalism and Constitutional Positivism Don't Mix
  46 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1245 (2005) · William & Mary Law Review · 2005
• State Courts as Agents of Federalism: Power and Interpretation in State Constitutional Law
  44 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1725 (2003) · William & Mary Law Review · 2003
• One Person, One Vote and the Possibility of Political Community
  80 N. C. L. REV. 1237 (2002) · North Carolina Law Review · 2002
• The Regulatory Role of State Constitutional Structural Constraints in Presidential Elections
  29 FLA. ST. U. L. REV. (2001) · Florida State University Law Review · 2001

• Stop Me before I Quantify again: The Role of Political Science in the Study of Election Law
  32 LOY. L. A. L. REV. 1141 (1999) · Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review · 1999
• The Positivist Revolution That Wasn't: Constitutional Universalism in the States
  4 ROGER WILLLIAMS U. L. REV. (1998) · Roger Williams University Law Review · 1998
• SECTION 98 AND THE SPECIALIZED PRACTICE OF CIVIL RIGHTS LAW
  20 W. NEW ENG. L. REV. 39 (1998) · Western New England Law Review · 1998
• Liberty, Community and the Constitutional Structure of Political Influence: A Reconsideration of the Right to Vote
  145 U. PENN. L. REV. 893 (1997) · University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 1997
• The Ambiguity of Legal Dreams: A Communitarian Defense of Judicial Restraint
  71 N. C. L. REV. 805 (1993) · North Carolina Law Review · 1993
• The Failed Discourse of State Constitutionalism
  90 MICH. L. REV. 761 (1992) · Michigan Law Review · 1992
• The Uses and Abuses of Incumbency: People v. Ohrenstein and the Limits of Inherent Legislative Power
  60 FORDHAM L. REV. 217 (1991) · Fordham Law Review · 1991

• Protecting the Rationality of Electoral Outcomes: A Challenge to First Amendment Doctrine
  51 U. CHI. L. REV. (1984) · University of Chicago Law Review · 1984
• Review Article
  80 MICH. L. REV. 957 (1982) · Michigan Law Review · 1982

• Legal Idealism and Constitutional Law
  10 VILL. L. REV. (1964) · Villanova Law Review (1956 - ) · 1964
• A Re-Evaluation of the Attorney-Client Privilege (Part II)
  8 VILL. L. REV. 447 (1963) · Villanova Law Review (1956 - ) · 1963
• A Re-Evaluation of the Attorney-Client Privilege (Part I)
  8 VILL. L. REV. 279 (1963) · Villanova Law Review (1956 - ) · 1963
• The Sociological Jurisprudence of Roscoe Pound (Part II)
  7 VILL. L. REV. 165 (1961) · Villanova Law Review (1956 - ) · 1961
• The Sociological Jurisprudence of Roscoe Pound (Part I)
  7 VILL. L. REV. (1961) · Villanova Law Review (1956 - ) · 1961

• The Supreme Court and Philosophy of Law
  5 VILL. L. REV. 181 (1959) · Villanova Law Review (1956 - ) · 1959