Larry Gene Alexander

Publications

• Interpreting the Law and Complying with It
  27 J. CONTEMP. LEGAL ISSUES 203 (2025) · The Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues · 2025
• "Under Color of Law"? Rogue Officials and the Real State Action Problem
  23 J. CONTEMP. LEGAL ISSUES 523 (2022) · The Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues · 2022
• Michael Perry and Disproportionate Racial Impact
  23 J. CONTEMP. LEGAL ISSUES 469 (2022) · The Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues · 2022
• Fish on First
  14 FIU L. REV. 705 (2021) · FIU Law Review · 2021
• Connecting the Rule of Recognition and Intentionalist Interpretation: An Essay in Honor of Richard Kay
  Connecticut Law Review · 2021
• Formalist Textualism and the Cernauskas Problem
  23 J. CONTEMP. LEGAL ISSUES 169 (2021) · The Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues · 2021

• Inciting, Requesting, Provoking, or Persuading Others to Commit Crimes: The Legacy of <em>Schenck</em> and <em>Abrams</em> in Free Speech Jurisprudence
  72 SMU L. REV. 389 (2019) · SMU Law Review · 2019
• Brexit and the Future of Liberal Democracy
  39 CARDOZO L. REV. 845 (2018) · Cardozo Law Review · 2018
• The Need to Attend to Probabilities—For Purposes of Self-Defense and Other Preemptive Actions
  55 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 223 (2018) · San Diego Law Review · 2018
• Bob Nagel and the Emptiness of Supreme Court Standards of Review
  88 U. COLO. L. REV. 325 (2017) · University of Colorado Law Review · 2017
• Bob Nagel and the Emptiness of the Supreme Court Standards of Review
  88 U. COLO. L. REV. F. (2017) · University of Colorado Law Review Forum · 2017
• Alexander on Koppelman on Alexander
  54 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 339 (2017) · San Diego Law Review · 2017
• Redish on Freedom of Speech
  107 NW. U. L. REV. 593 (2015) · Northwestern University Law Review · 2015
• Constitutional Theories: A Taxonomy and (Implicit) Critique
  51 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 623 (2014) · San Diego Law Review · 2014
• Introduction to the 2014 Editors’ Symposium: Laurence Claus’s Law’s Evolution and Human Understanding
  51 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 873 (2014) · San Diego Law Review · 2014
• Introduction for the Symposium
  51 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 971 (2014) · San Diego Law Review · 2014
• Galston on Religion, Conscience, and the Case for Accommodation
  51 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 1065 (2014) · San Diego Law Review · 2014
• Originalism, the Why and the What
  82 FORDHAM L. REV. 539 (2013) · Fordham Law Review · 2013
• Disparate Impact: Fairness or Efficiency?
  50 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 191 (2013) · San Diego Law Review · 2013
• Is Freedom of Expression a Universal Right?
  50 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 707 (2013) · San Diego Law Review · 2013
• Introduction to the 2013 Editors’ Symposium: The Status of International Law and International Human Rights
  50 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 773 (2013) · San Diego Law Review · 2013
• Race Matters
  29 CONST. COMMENT. 31 (2013) · Constitutional Commentary · 2013
• Introduction to the 2012 Editors’ Symposium: The Philosophical Foundations of Intellectual Property
  49 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 955 (2012) · San Diego Law Review · 2012
• Fred Zacharias: Scholar, Colleague, Friend
  48 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 13 (2011) · San Diego Law Review · 2011
• Introduction to the 2011 Editors’ Symposium: The Morality of Preventive Restriction of Liberty
  48 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 1075 (2011) · San Diego Law Review · 2011
• There Is No First Amendment Overbreadth (But There Are Vague First Amendment Doctrines); Prior Restrains Aren't "Prior"; and "As Applied" Challenges Seek Judicial Statutory Amendments
  27 CONST. COMMENT. 439 (2011) · Constitutional Commentary · 2011
• Response to Professor Kent Greenawalt's Lecture
  47 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 1153 (2010) · San Diego Law Review · 2010
• Introduction to the 2010 Editors’ Symposium: Freedom of Conscience: Stranger in a Secular Land
  47 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 899 (2010) · San Diego Law Review · 2010
• Telepathic Law
  27 CONST. COMMENT. 139 (2010) · Constitutional Commentary · 2010

• Introduction to the 2009 Editors' Symposium: Isaiah Berlin, Value Pluralism, and the Law
  46 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 753 (2009) · San Diego Law Review · 2009
• Constitutions, International Law, and the Settlement Function of Law: A Schema for Further Reflection
  11 SAN DIEGO INT'L L.J. 43 (2009) · San Diego International Law Journal · 2009
• Introduction to the 2008 Editors' Symposium: National Borders and Immigration
  45 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 863 (2008) · San Diego Law Review · 2008
• Tempest in an Empty Teapot: Why the Constitution Does Not Regulate Gerrymandering
  50 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1 (2008) · William & Mary Law Review · 2008
• Kent Greenawalt and the Difficulty (Impossibility?) of Religion Clause Theory
  25 CONST. COMMENT. 243 (2008) · Constitutional Commentary · 2008
• Introduction to the 2007 Editors’ Symposium: Informational Privacy: Philosophical Foundations and Legal Implications
  44 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 695 (2007) · San Diego Law Review · 2007
• How to Understand Legislatures: A Comment on Boudreau, Lupia, McCubbins, and Rodriguez
  44 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 993 (2007) · San Diego Law Review · 2007
• Law's Limited Domain Confronts Morality's Universal Empire
  48 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1579 (2007) · William & Mary Law Review · 2007
• Academic Freedom
  77 U. COLO. L. REV. 883 (2006) · University of Colorado Law Review · 2006
• Introduction
  43 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 733 (2006) · San Diego Law Review · 2006
• Compelled Speech
  23 CONST. COMMENT. 147 (2006) · Constitutional Commentary · 2006
• Introduction to the 2004 Editors’ Symposium: What Is Legal Interpretation?
  42 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 461 (2005) · San Diego Law Review · 2005
• Introduction to the 2005 Editors’ Symposium: The Meaning of Marriage
  42 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 821 (2005) · San Diego Law Review · 2005
• Introduction to the Symposium on the Rationality of Rule-Following
  42 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 53 (2005) · San Diego Law Review · 2005
• "Is That English You're Speaking?" Why Intention Free Interpretation is an Impossibility
  41 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 967 (2004) · San Diego Law Review · 2004
• The Jurisdiction of Justice: Two Conceptions of Political Morality
  41 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 949 (2004) · San Diego Law Review · 2004
• Unknowingly Justified Actors and the Attempt/Sucess Distinction
  39 TULSA L. REV. 851 (2004) · Tulsa Law Review · 2004
• Grutter or Otherwise: Racial Preferences and Higher Education
  21 CONST. COMMENT. 3 (2004) · Constitutional Commentary · 2004
• Reports of the Nondelegation Doctrine's Death Are Greatly Exaggerated
  70 U. CHI. L. REV. (2003) · University of Chicago Law Review · 2003
• Mother May I? Imposing Mandatory Prospective Rules of Statutory Interpretation
  20 CONST. COMMENT. 97 (2003) · Constitutional Commentary · 2003
• Constitutional Rules, Constitutional Standards, and Constitutional Settlement: Marbury v. Madison and the Case for Judicial Supremacy
  20 CONST. COMMENT. 369 (2003) · Constitutional Commentary · 2003
• Equal Protection and the Prosecution and Conviction of Crime
  2002 U. CHI. LEGAL F. (2002) · University of Chicago Legal Forum · 2002
• The Supreme Court, the Florida Vote, and Equal Protection
  38 SAN DIEGO L. REV. (2001) · San Diego Law Review · 2001
• Deontology at the Threshold
  37 SAN DIEGO L. REV. (2000) · San Diego Law Review · 2000
• Theory's a What Comes Natcherly
  37 SAN DIEGO L. REV. (2000) · San Diego Law Review · 2000
• Defending Judicial Supremacy: A Reply
  17 CONST. COMMENT. 455 (2000) · Constitutional Commentary · 2000
• Insufficient Concern: A Unified Conception of Criminal Culpability
  88 CAL. L. REV. 931 (2000) · California Law Review · 2000

• Banality of Legal Reasoning
  73 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 517 (1999) · Notre Dame Law Review · 1999
• Unified Excuse of Preemptive Self-Protection
  74 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 1475 (1999) · Notre Dame Law Review · 1999
• "With Me, It's All er Nuthin'": Formalism in Law and Morality
  66 U. CHI. L. REV. (1999) · University of Chicago Law Review · 1999
• Subversive Thoughts on Freedom and the Common Good
  97 MICH. L. REV. 1813 (1999) · Michigan Law Review · 1999
• Affirmative Action and Legislative Purpose
  107 YALE L.J. 2679 (1998) · Yale Law Journal · 1998
• Banishing the Bogey of Incommensurability
  146 U. PENN. L. REV. 1641 (1998) · University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 1998
• Sometimes Better Boring and Correct: Romer v. Evans as an Exercise of Ordinary Equal Protection Analysis
  68 U. COLO. L. REV. 335 (1997) · University of Colorado Law Review · 1997
• Mens Rea and Inchoate Crimes
  87 J. CRIM. L. & CRIMINOLOGY 1138 (1997) · Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology · 1997
• Still Lost in the Political Thicket (or Why I Don't Understand the Concept of Vote Dilution)
  50 VAND. L. REV. 327 (1997) · Vanderbilt Law Review · 1997
• Discrimination by Proxy
  14 CONST. COMMENT. 453 (1997) · Constitutional Commentary · 1997
• Is Morality like the Tax Code?
  95 MICH. L. REV. 1839 (1997) · Michigan Law Review · 1997
• The Supreme Court, Dr. Jekyll, and the Due Process of Proof
  1996 SUP. CT. REV. (1996) · Supreme Court Review · 1996
• Are Smith and Hialeah Reconcilable?
  13 CONST. COMMENT. 285 (1996) · Constitutional Commentary · 1996
• Banning Hate Speech and the Sticks and Stones Defense
  13 CONST. COMMENT. 71 (1996) · Constitutional Commentary · 1996
• Bad Beginnings
  145 U. PENN. L. REV. 57 (1996) · University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 1996
• Impossible
  72 DENV. L. REV. 1007 (1995) · Denver Law Review · 1995
• Fancy Theories of Interpretation Aren't
  73 WASH. U. L. REV. 1081 (1995) · Washington University Law Review · 1995
• Free Speech and Speaker's Intent
  12 CONST. COMMENT. 21 (1995) · Constitutional Commentary · 1995
• Constitutional Theory and Constitutionally Optional Benefits and Burdens
  11 CONST. COMMENT. 287 (1994) · Constitutional Commentary · 1994
• Deceptive Nature of Rules
  142 U. PENN. L. REV. 1191 (1994) · University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 1994
• Liberalism, Religion and the Unity of Epistemology
  30 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 763 (1993) · San Diego Law Review · 1993
• The Public/Private Distinction and Constitutional Limits on Private Power
  10 CONST. COMMENT. 361 (1993) · Constitutional Commentary · 1993
• What Makes Wrongful Discrimination Wrong Biases, Preferences, Stereotypes, and Proxies
  141 U. PENN. L. REV. 149 (1992) · University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 1992
• Book Review of Liberal Neutrality
  8 CONST. COMMENT. 255 (1991) · Constitutional Commentary · 1991
• Book Reviews of Interpreting the Constitution: The Supreme Court and the Process of Adjudication, and On Reading the Constitution
  8 CONST. COMMENT. 463 (1991) · Constitutional Commentary · 1991
• A Tribute to Bernard H. Siegan
  27 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 275 (1990) · San Diego Law Review · 1990
• Of Two Minds About Law and Minds
  88 MICH. L. REV. 2444 (1990) · Michigan Law Review · 1990
• Book Review of The Rights Retained by the People: The History and Meaning of the Ninth Amendment
  7 CONST. COMMENT. 396 (1990) · Constitutional Commentary · 1990

• Understanding Constitutional Rights in a World of Optional Baselines
  26 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 175 (1989) · San Diego Law Review · 1989
• Lost in the Political Thicket
  41 FLA. L. REV. 563 (1989) · Florida Law Review · 1989
• Takings of Property and Constitutional Serendipity
  41 U. MIAMI L. REV. 223 (1986) · University of Miami Law Review · 1986

• Wrongful Death in Aviation and the Admiralty: Problems of Federalism, Tempests and Teapots
  37 J. AIR L. & COM. (1971) · Journal of Air Law and Commerce · 1971
• Constitutional Law - Interstate Travel - The Validity of a State Airport Facilities Tax Measured by Enplaning Passengers
  36 J. AIR L. & COM. 788 (1970) · Journal of Air Law and Commerce · 1970
• Admiralty - Wrongful Death - The Harrisburg Overruled
  36 J. AIR L. & COM. 745 (1970) · Journal of Air Law and Commerce · 1970