Louis Michael Seidman

Publications

• The Ratchet Wreck: Equality's Leveling Down Problem
  110 KY. L.J. (2025) · Kentucky Law Journal · 2025
• <em>Brown</em> Now: The Surprising Possibility of Progressive Reform
  66 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1021 (2025) · William & Mary Law Review · 2025
• Populist and Progressive Strands in American Constitutionalism
  Connecticut Law Review · 2021

• State Action and the Constitution's Middle Band
  117 MICH. L. REV. 1 (2018) · Michigan Law Review · 2018
• The Triumph of Gay Marriage and the Failure of Constitutional Law
  2015 SUP. CT. REV. (2015) · Supreme Court Review · 2015
• Acontextual Judicial Review
  32 CARDOZO L. REV. 1143 (2011) · Cardozo Law Review · 2011
• Should We Have a Liberal Constitution?
  27 CONST. COMMENT. 541 (2011) · Constitutional Commentary · 2011
• Our Unsettled Ninth Amendment: An Essay on Unenumerated Rights and the Impossibility of Textualism
  98 CAL. L. REV. 2129 (2010) · California Law Review · 2010

• The Dale Problem: Property and Speech under the Regulatory State
  75 U. CHI. L. REV. (2008) · University of Chicago Law Review · 2008
• Critical Constitutionalism Now
  75 FORDHAM L. REV. 575 (2006) · Fordham Law Review · 2006
• Torture's Truth
  72 U. CHI. L. REV. (2005) · University of Chicago Law Review · 2005
• Left Out
  67 LAW & CONTEMP. PROBS. 23 (2004) · Law and Contemporary Problems · 2004
• The Secret Life of the Political Question Doctrine, 37 J. Marshall L. Rev. 441 (2004)
  37 UIC L. REV. (2004) · UIC Law Review · 2004
• Democracy and Legitimation: A Response to Professor Guinier
  34 LOY. U. CHI. L.J. 77 (2002) · Loyola University Chicago Law Journal · 2002

• Akhil Amar and the (Premature?) Demise of Criminal Procedure Liberalism
  107 YALE L.J. 2281 (1998) · Yale Law Journal · 1998
• The Crisis in Constitutional Theory
  83 VA. L. REV. 247 (1997) · Virginia Law Review · 1997
• Romer's Radicalism: The Unexpected Revival of Warren Court Activism
  1996 SUP. CT. REV. (1996) · Supreme Court Review · 1996
• Response: The Problems with Privacy's Problem
  93 MICH. L. REV. 1079 (1995) · Michigan Law Review · 1995
• Criminal Procedure as the Servant of Politics
  12 CONST. COMMENT. 207 (1995) · Constitutional Commentary · 1995
• The State Action Paradox
  10 CONST. COMMENT. 379 (1993) · Constitutional Commentary · 1993
• Brown and Miranda
  80 CAL. L. REV. 673 (1992) · California Law Review · 1992
• Confusion at the Border: Cruzan, "The Right to Die," and the Public/Private Distinction
  1991 SUP. CT. REV. (1991) · Supreme Court Review · 1991
• Rubashov's Question: Self-Incrimination and the Problem of Coerced Preferences
  2 YALE J. L. & HUMAN. 149 (1991) · Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities · 1991
• The Preconditions for Home Rule
  39 CATH. U. L. REV. 373 (1990) · Catholic University Law Review · 1990

• Reflections on Context and the Constitution
  73 MINN. L. REV. 73 (1988) · Minnesota Law Review · 1988
• Public Principle and Private Choice: The Uneasy Case for a Boundary Maintenance Theory of Constitutional Law
  96 YALE L.J. 1006 (1987) · Yale Law Journal · 1987
• ABSCAM and the Constitution
  83 MICH. L. REV. 1199 (1985) · Michigan Law Review · 1985
• Soldiers, Martyrs, and Criminals: Utilitarian Theory and the Problem of Crime Control
  94 YALE L.J. 315 (1984) · Yale Law Journal · 1984
• The Supreme Court, Entrapment, and Our Criminal Justice Dilemma
  1981 SUP. CT. REV. (1981) · Supreme Court Review · 1981
• Factual Guilt and the Burger Court: An Examination of Continuity and Change in Criminal Procedure
  80 COLUM. L. REV. 436 (1980) · Columbia Law Review · 1980