Mark V. Tushnet

Publications

• Some Thoughts About Free Speech and Hostile Environment Discrimination on College Campuses
  37 J. CIV. RTS. & ECON. DEV. (2026) · Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development · 2026
• Intellectual Integrity, Collaboration, and the Market
  34 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 497 (2025) · William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal · 2025
• The Next Generation of Free Expression Scholarship: A Very Short Manifesto (in Memory of Fred Schauer)
  33 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 999 (2025) · William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal · 2025
• American Legal Realism Today: An Idiosyncratic Restatement
  1 NW. L.J. DES REFUSÉS (2024) · Northwestern Law Journal des Refusés · 2024
• Trust the Science but Do Your Research: A Comment on the Unfortunate Revival of the Progressive Case for the Administrative State
  98 IND. L.J. (2023) · Indiana Law Journal · 2023
• The Kids are all Right: The Law of Free Expression and New Information Technologies
  71 CATH. U. L. REV. 471 (2022) · Catholic University Law Review · 2022
• Populism and Constitutionalism: An Essay on Definitions and Their Implications
  42 CARDOZO L. REV. 2345 (2021) · Cardozo Law Review · 2021
• A Government of Laws that is a Government of Men and Women
  74 ARK. L. REV. 323 (2021) · Arkansas Law Review · 2021
• The President and Individual Rights
  29 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 809 (2021) · William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal · 2021

• The Pirate’s Code: Constitutional Conventions In U.S. Constitutional Law
  45 PEPP. L. REV. 481 (2018) · Pepperdine Law Review · 2018
• Utopian Thinking for Progressive Constitutionalists
  93 IND. L.J. (2018) · Indiana Law Journal · 2018
• Trump v Hawaii: "This President" and the National Security Constitution.
  2018 SUP. CT. REV. (2018) · Supreme Court Review · 2018
• The Possibility of Illiberal Constitutionalism?
  69 FLA. L. REV. 1367 (2017) · Florida Law Review · 2017
• The Coverage/Protection Distinction in the Law of Freedom of Speech—An Essay on Meta-Doctrine in Constitutional Law
  25 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 1073 (2017) · William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal · 2017
• The Lawyer/Judge as Republican Hero
  70 STAN. L. REV. 29 (2017) · Stanford Law Review · 2017
• Parents Involved and the Struggle for Historical Memory­
  91 IND. L.J. (2016) · Indiana Law Journal · 2016
• Preserving Judicial Independence in Dominant Party States
  60 N.Y.L. SCH. L. REV. (2016) · NYLS Law Review · 2016
• Authoritarian Constitutionalism
  100 CORNELL L. REV. 391 (2015) · Cornell Law Review · 2015
• Internet Exceptionalism: An Overview from General Constitutional Law
  56 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1637 (2015) · William & Mary Law Review · 2015
• Popular Constitutionalism and Political Organization
  18 ROGER WILLLIAMS U. L. REV. (2013) · Roger Williams University Law Review · 2013
• A Clerk's-Eye View of Keyes v. School District No. 1
  90 DENV. L. REV. 1139 (2013) · Denver Law Review · 2013
• Epstein's Best of All Possible Worlds: The Rule of Law (reviewing <i>Design for Liberty: Private Property, Public Administration, and the Rule of Law</i> by Richard A. Epstein)
  80 U. CHI. L. REV. (2013) · University of Chicago Law Review · 2013
• The Hughes Court and Radical Political Dissent: The Case of Dirk De Jonge and Angelo Herndon
  28 GA. ST. U. L. REV. (2012) · Georgia State University Law Review · 2012
• Administrative Law in the 1930s: The Supreme Court’s Accommodation of Progressive Legal Theory
  60 DUKE L.J. 1565 (2011) · Duke Law Journal · 2011
• Abolishing Judicial Review
  27 CONST. COMMENT. 581 (2011) · Constitutional Commentary · 2011
• How Courts Implement Social Policy
  45 TULSA L. REV. 855 (2010) · Tulsa Law Review · 2010
• Harry Kalven and Kenneth Karst in <em>The Supreme Court Review</em>: Reflections after Fifty Years
  2010 SUP. CT. REV. (2010) · Supreme Court Review · 2010

• State v. Mann: Why Ruffin
  87 N. C. L. REV. 967 (2009) · North Carolina Law Review · 2009
• Citizen as Lawyer, Lawyer as Citizen
  50 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1379 (2009) · William & Mary Law Review · 2009
• Legislative and Executive Stare Decisis
  83 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 845 (2008) · Notre Dame Law Review · 2008
• Some Skepticism About Normative Constitutional Advice
  49 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1473 (2008) · William & Mary Law Review · 2008
• Heller and the Critique of Judgment
  2008 SUP. CT. REV. (2008) · Supreme Court Review · 2008
• Property, Contracts, and Politics
  105 MICH. L. REV. 1223 (2007) · Michigan Law Review · 2007
• The First (and Last) Term of the Roberts Court
  42 TULSA L. REV. 495 (2007) · Tulsa Law Review · 2007
• The Political Constitution of Emergency Powers: Some Lessons from Hamdan
  91 MINN. L. REV. 1451 (2007) · Minnesota Law Review · 2007
• The "Constitution Restoration Act" and Judicial Independence: Some Observations
  56 CASE W. RES. L. REV. 1071 (2006) · Case Western Reserve Law Review · 2006
• Institutional Support and Approaches to Integration - Introduction
  24 PENN ST. INT'L L. REV. 773 (2006) · Penn State International Law Review · 2006
• Integrating Transnational Legal Perspectives into the First Year Curriculum - Introduction
  24 PENN ST. INT'L L. REV. 735 (2006) · Penn State International Law Review · 2006
• Political Power and Judicial Power: Some Observations on Their Relation
  75 FORDHAM L. REV. 755 (2006) · Fordham Law Review · 2006
• Popular Constitutionalism as Political Law
  81 CHI.-KENT. L. REV. 991 (2006) · Chicago-Kent Law Review · 2006
• Essay: Referring to Foreign Law in Constitutional Interpretation: An Episode in the Culture Wars
  35 U. BALT. L. REV. (2006) · University of Baltimore Law Review · 2006
• Meditations on Carl Schmitt
  40 GA. L. REV. (2006) · Georgia Law Review · 2006
• When Is Knowing Less Better Than Knowing More? Unpacking the Controversy over Supreme Court Reference to Non-U.S. Law
  90 MINN. L. REV. 1275 (2006) · Minnesota Law Review · 2006
• How (and How Not) to Use Comparative Constitutional Law in Basic Constitutional Law Courses
  49 ST. LOUIS U. L.J. (2005) · Saint Louis University Law Journal · 2005
• Meet the New Boss: The New Judicial Center
  83 N. C. L. REV. 1205 (2005) · North Carolina Law Review · 2005
• Defending a Rule of Institutional Autonomy on "No-Harm" Grounds
  2004 BYU L. REV. 1375 (2004) · BYU Law Review · 2004
• Constitutional Hardball, 37 J. Marshall L. Rev. 523 (2004)
  37 UIC L. REV. (2004) · UIC Law Review · 2004
• Transnational/Domestic Constitutional Law
  37 LOY. L. A. L. REV. 239 (2003) · Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review · 2003
• Distinctively Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought?
  101 MICH. L. REV. 1858 (2003) · Michigan Law Review · 2003
• Alternative Forms of Judicial Review
  101 MICH. L. REV. 2781 (2003) · Michigan Law Review · 2003
• Self-Historicism
  38 TULSA L. REV. 771 (2003) · Tulsa Law Review · 2003
• Alarmism Versus Moderation in Responding to the Rehnquist Court
  78 IND. L.J. (2003) · Indiana Law Journal · 2003
• "Sir, Yes, Sir!": The Courts, Congress, and Structural Injunctions
  20 CONST. COMMENT. 189 (2003) · Constitutional Commentary · 2003
• State Action, Social Welfare Rights, and the Judicial Role: Some Comparative Observations
  3 CHI. J. INT'L L. (2002) · Chicago Journal of International Law · 2002
• Law and Prudence in the Law of Justiciability: The Transformation and Disappearance of the Political Question Doctrine
  80 N. C. L. REV. 1203 (2002) · North Carolina Law Review · 2002
• A Goldilocks Account of Judicial Review?
  37 U. S. F. L. REV. (2002) · University of San Francisco Law Review · 2002
• Vouchers after Zelman
  2002 SUP. CT. REV. (2002) · Supreme Court Review · 2002
• Evaluating Congressional Constitutional Interpretation: Some Criteria and Two Informal Case Studies
  50 DUKE L.J. 1395 (2001) · Duke Law Journal · 2001
• Constitution-Talk and Justice-Talk
  69 FORDHAM L. REV. 1999 (2001) · Fordham Law Review · 2001
• Thinking About the Constitution at the Cusp
  34 AKRON L. REV. (2001) · Akron Law Review · 2001
• The Redundant Free Exercise?
  33 LOY. U. CHI. L.J. 71 (2001) · Loyola University Chicago Law Journal · 2001
• The History and Future of Bush v. Gore
  13 U. FLA. J. L. & PUB. POL'Y (2001) · University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy · 2001
• Subconsitutional Constitutional Law: Supplement, Sham, or Substitute?
  42 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1871 (2001) · William & Mary Law Review · 2001
• The Constitution of Civil Society
  75 CHI.-KENT. L. REV. 379 (2000) · Chicago-Kent Law Review · 2000
• Response: Politics, National Identify, and the Thin Constitution
  34 U. RICH. L. REV. 545 (2000) · University of Richmond Law Review · 2000
• Globalization and Federalism in a Post-Printz World
  36 TULSA L. REV. 11 (2000) · Tulsa Law Review · 2000
• The Canon(s) of Constitutional Law: An Introduction
  17 CONST. COMMENT. 187 (2000) · Constitutional Commentary · 2000
• Response: Liberal Political Theory and the Prerequisites of Liberal Law
  11 YALE J. L. & HUMAN. 469 (2000) · Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities · 2000

• Self-Formalism, Precedent, and the Rule of Law
  72 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 1583 (1999) · Notre Dame Law Review · 1999
• WILL THE BRENNAN LEGACY ENDURE?
  43 N.Y.L. SCH. L. REV. 177 (1999) · NYLS Law Review · 1999
• The New Deal Constitutional Revolution: Law, Politics, or What? (reviewing <i>Rethinking the New Deal Court</i> by Barry Cushman)
  66 U. CHI. L. REV. (1999) · University of Chicago Law Review · 1999
• The Possibilities of Comparative Constitutional Law
  108 YALE L.J. 1225 (1999) · Yale Law Journal · 1999
• In Praise of Martyrdom
  87 CAL. L. REV. 1117 (1999) · California Law Review · 1999
• Two Versions of Judicial Supremacy
  39 WM. & MARY L. REV. 945 (1998) · William & Mary Law Review · 1998
• Two Footnotes to Garvey and Coney: A Dilemma About Material Cooperation, And A Concern About The Nomination Process
  81 MARQ. L. REV. 365 (1998) · Marquette Law Review · 1998
• Progressive Era Race Relations Cases in Their "Traditional" Context
  51 VAND. L. REV. 993 (1998) · Vanderbilt Law Review · 1998
• Symbolic Statues and Real Laws: The Pathologies of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act and the Prison Litigation Reform Act
  47 DUKE L.J. (1997) · Duke Law Journal · 1997
• Constituting We the People
  65 FORDHAM L. REV. 1557 (1997) · Fordham Law Review · 1997
• Keeping Your Eye on the Ball: The Significance of the Revival of Constitutional Federalism
  13 GA. ST. U. L. REV. (1997) · Georgia State University Law Review · 1997
• A Public Philosophy for the Professional-Managerial Class
  106 YALE L.J. 1571 (1997) · Yale Law Journal · 1997
• The Crisis in Constitutional Theory
  83 VA. L. REV. 247 (1997) · Virginia Law Review · 1997
• New Histories of the Private Law of Slavery
  18 CARDOZO L. REV. 301 (1996) · Cardozo Law Review · 1996
• Living in a Constitutional Moment: <i>Lopez</i> and Constitutional Theory ?
  46 CASE W. RES. L. REV. 845 (1996) · Case Western Reserve Law Review · 1996
• Interdisciplinary Legal Scholarship: The Case of History-in-Law
  71 CHI.-KENT. L. REV. 909 (1996) · Chicago-Kent Law Review · 1996
• "The King of France with Forty Thousand Men": Felker v Turpin and the Supreme Court's Deliberative Processes
  1996 SUP. CT. REV. (1996) · Supreme Court Review · 1996
• The Hardest Question in Constitutional Law
  81 MINN. L. REV. 1 (1996) · Minnesota Law Review · 1996
• Justice Lewis F. Powell and the Jurisprudence of Centrism
  93 MICH. L. REV. 1854 (1995) · Michigan Law Review · 1995
• Policy Distortion and Democratic Debilitation: Comparative Illumination of the Countermajoritarian Difficulty
  94 MICH. L. REV. 245 (1995) · Michigan Law Review · 1995
• The Whole Thing
  12 CONST. COMMENT. 223 (1995) · Constitutional Commentary · 1995
• The Project of the Harvard Forewords: A Social and Intellectual Inquiry
  11 CONST. COMMENT. 463 (1995) · Constitutional Commentary · 1995
• The Supreme Court and Race Discrimination, 1967-1991: The View from the Marshall Papers
  36 WM. & MARY L. REV. 473 (1995) · William & Mary Law Review · 1995
• The Death of an Author, by Himself
  70 CHI.-KENT. L. REV. 111 (1994) · Chicago-Kent Law Review · 1994
• The Ambiguous Legacy of Watergate for Separation of Powers Theory: Why Separation of Powers Law is Not "Richard Nixon" Law
  18 NOVA L. REV. 1765 (1994) · Nova Law Review · 1994
• The Critique of Rights
  47 SMU L. REV. 23 (1994) · SMU Law Review · 1994
• Why the Supreme Court Overruled "National League of Cities"
  47 VAND. L. REV. 1623 (1994) · Vanderbilt Law Review · 1994
• Style and the Supreme Court's Educational Role in Government
  11 CONST. COMMENT. 215 (1994) · Constitutional Commentary · 1994
• The Significance of Brown v. Board of Education
  80 VA. L. REV. 173 (1994) · Virginia Law Review · 1994
• The Judiciary and Institutions of Judicial Review
  8 AM. U. INT'L L. REV. (1993) · American University International Law Review · 1993
• The Rhetoric of Free Exercise Discourse
  1993 BYU L. REV. 117 (1993) · BYU Law Review · 1993
• The Bricoleur at the Center (reviewing <i>The Partial Constitution</i> by Cass R. Sunstein)
  60 U. CHI. L. REV. (1993) · University of Chicago Law Review · 1993
• The Supreme Court and Its First Amendment Constituency
  44 UC L.J. 881 (1993) · UC Law Journal · 1993
• Disaggregating "Church" and "Culture"
  42 DEPAUL L. REV. 235 (1993) · DePaul Law Review · 1993
• Political Correctness, the Law, and the Legal Academy
  4 YALE J. L. & HUMAN. 127 (1993) · Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities · 1993
• Research and the Justice Mission of Law Schools
  40 CLEV. ST. L. REV. 463 (1992) · Cleveland State Law Review · 1992
• Symposium: Brown v. Board of Education and Its Legacy: A Tribute to Justice Thurgood Marshall, Public Law Litigation and the Ambiguties of Brown
  61 FORDHAM L. REV. 23 (1992) · Fordham Law Review · 1992
• Civil Rights and Social Rights: The Future of the Reconstruction Amendments
  25 LOY. L. A. L. REV. 1207 (1992) · Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review · 1992
• Book Review of Private Property and the Limits of American Constitutionalism: The Madisonian Framework and Its Legacy
  9 CONST. COMMENT. 130 (1992) · Constitutional Commentary · 1992
• Judges and Constitutional Theory: A View From History
  63 U. COLO. L. REV. 425 (1992) · University of Colorado Law Review · 1992
• Playing with the Rules
  90 MICH. L. REV. 1560 (1992) · Michigan Law Review · 1992
• The Left Critique of Normativity: A Comment
  90 MICH. L. REV. 2325 (1992) · Michigan Law Review · 1992
• Culture(s) of Free Expression
  76 CORNELL L. REV. 1106 (1991) · Cornell Law Review · 1991
• Public and Private Education: Is There a Constitutional Difference?
  1991 U. CHI. LEGAL F. (1991) · University of Chicago Legal Forum · 1991
• Two Notes on the Jurisprudence of Privacy
  8 CONST. COMMENT. 75 (1991) · Constitutional Commentary · 1991
• Book Review of Ethics, Politics and the Independent Counsel: Executive Power, Executive Vice, 1789-1989
  8 CONST. COMMENT. 539 (1991) · Constitutional Commentary · 1991
• Scalia and the Dormant Commerce Clause: A Foolish Formalism?
  12 CARDOZO L. REV. 1717 (1991) · Cardozo Law Review · 1991
• Critical Legal Studies: A Political History
  100 YALE L.J. 1515 (1991) · Yale Law Journal · 1991
• Justice Brennan, Equality, and Majority Rule
  139 U. PENN. L. REV. 1357 (1991) · University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 1991
• Foreword
  77 VA. L. REV. 631 (1991) · Virginia Law Review · 1991
• The Flag-Burning Episode: An Essay on the Constitution
  61 U. COLO. L. REV. 39 (1990) · University of Colorado Law Review · 1990
• A Critical Legal Studies Perspective
  38 CLEV. ST. L. REV. 137 (1990) · Cleveland State Law Review · 1990
• Introduction
  39 DUKE L.J. 193 (1990) · Duke Law Journal · 1990
• Comments on Gedicks and Ball
  4 NOTRE DAME J. L. ETHICS & PUB. POL'Y 457 (1990) · Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy · 1990
• Book Review of Class, Race and the Civil Rights Movement
  7 CONST. COMMENT. 361 (1990) · Constitutional Commentary · 1990
• A Republican Chief Justice
  88 MICH. L. REV. 1326 (1990) · Michigan Law Review · 1990
• Translation as Argument
  32 WM. & MARY L. REV. 105 (1990) · William & Mary Law Review · 1990

• Principles, Politics, and Constitutional Law
  88 MICH. L. REV. 49 (1989) · Michigan Law Review · 1989
• "Of Church and State and the Supreme Court": Kurland Revisited
  1989 SUP. CT. REV. (1989) · Supreme Court Review · 1989
• The Name of the Rose
  6 CONST. COMMENT. 15 (1989) · Constitutional Commentary · 1989
• Book Review of The Political Ideas of Leo Strauss
  6 CONST. COMMENT. 443 (1989) · Constitutional Commentary · 1989
• The Constitution as Law
  6 CONST. COMMENT. 97 (1989) · Constitutional Commentary · 1989
• Toward a Revisionist History of the Supreme Court
  36 CLEV. ST. L. REV. 319 (1988) · Cleveland State Law Review · 1988
• SHELLEY V. KRAEMER AND THEORIES OF EQUALITY
  33 N.Y.L. SCH. L. REV. (1988) · NYLS Law Review · 1988
• Patterson and the Politics of the Judicial Process
  1988 SUP. CT. REV. (1988) · Supreme Court Review · 1988
• Constitutional Scholarship: What Next?
  5 CONST. COMMENT. 28 (1988) · Constitutional Commentary · 1988
• Book Review of The Humane Imagination
  5 CONST. COMMENT. 433 (1988) · Constitutional Commentary · 1988
• Faith in the Republic: A Frances Lewis Law Center Conversation
  45 WASH. & LEE L. REV. 467 (1988) · Washington and Lee Law Review · 1988
• The U.S. Constitution and the Intent of the Framers
  36 BUFF. L. REV. 217 (1987) · Buffalo Law Review · 1987
• Community and Fairness in Democratic Theory
  15 FLA. ST. U. L. REV. 417 (1987) · Florida State University Law Review · 1987
• The Concept of Tradition in Constitutional Historiography
  29 WM. & MARY L. REV. 93 (1987) · William & Mary Law Review · 1987
• Tushnet: Comment on Cox
  47 MD. L. REV. 147 (1987) · Maryland Law Review · 1987
• Critical Legal Studies and Criminal Procedure
  35 CATH. U. L. REV. 361 (1986) · Catholic University Law Review · 1986
• Sloppiness in the Supreme Court, O.T. 1935- O.T. 1944
  3 CONST. COMMENT. 73 (1986) · Constitutional Commentary · 1986
• Reflections on the Role of Purpose in the Jurisprudence of the Religion Clauses
  27 WM. & MARY L. REV. 997 (1986) · William & Mary Law Review · 1986
• A Comment on the Critical Method in Legal History
  6 CARDOZO L. REV. 997 (1985) · Cardozo Law Review · 1985
• Anti-Formalism in Recent Constitutional Theory
  83 MICH. L. REV. 1502 (1985) · Michigan Law Review · 1985
• SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE: HISTORICAL FACT AND CURRENT FICTION. By Robert L. Cord. New York: Lambeth Press. 1982. Pp. xv, 302. $16.95.
  45 LA. L. REV. (1984) · Louisiana Law Review · 1984
• The Constitution of the Bureaucratic State
  86 W. VA. L. REV. (1984) · West Virginia Law Review · 1984
• Optimist's Tale
  132 U. PENN. L. REV. 1257 (1984) · University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 1984
• H.L.A Hart
  68 CORNELL L. REV. 257 (1983) · Cornell Law Review · 1983
• Legal Realism, Structural Review, and Prophecy
  8 U. DAYTON L. REV. (1983) · University of Dayton Law Review · 1983
• The Utopian Technician
  93 YALE L.J. 208 (1983) · Yale Law Journal · 1983
• Slave Law: History & Ideology
  91 YALE L.J. 1034 (1982) · Yale Law Journal · 1982
• Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll: Some Conservative Reflections on Liberal Jurisprudence
  82 COLUM. L. REV. 1531 (1982) · Columbia Law Review · 1982
• Legal Scholarship: Its Causes and Cure
  90 YALE L.J. 1205 (1981) · Yale Law Journal · 1981
• Dia-Tribe
  78 MICH. L. REV. 694 (1980) · Michigan Law Review · 1980
• Darkness on the Edge of Town: The Contributions of John Hart Ely to Constitutional Theory
  89 YALE L.J. 1037 (1980) · Yale Law Journal · 1980

• Review of <i>In the Matter of Color</i> by A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.
  45 U. CHI. L. REV. (1978) · University of Chicago Law Review · 1978
• New Law of Standing a Plea for Abandonment
  62 CORNELL L. REV. 663 (1977) · Cornell Law Review · 1977
• The Logic of Experience: Oliver Wendell Holmes on the Supreme Judicial Court
  63 VA. L. REV. 975 (1977) · Virginia Law Review · 1977
• The Constitutional Right to One's Good Name: An Examination of the Scholarship of Mr. Justice Rehnquist
  64 KY. L.J. (1976) · Kentucky Law Journal · 1976
• THE OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES DEVISE HISTORY OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES: VOL. 4, THE TANEY PERIOD 1836-64. By Carl B. Swisher. New York and London: MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc. 1974. Pp. xvii, 1041.
  25 CATH. U. L. REV. 681 (1976) · Catholic University Law Review · 1976
• The Newer Property: Suggestion for the Revival of Substantive Due Process
  1975 SUP. CT. REV. (1975) · Supreme Court Review · 1975