Michael C. Dorf

Publications

• Overruled Cases as a Tool for Inculcating Legal Realism
  34 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 443 (2025) · William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal · 2025
• Free Speech Versus Antidiscrimination
  39 CONST. COMMENT. 193 (2024) · Constitutional Commentary, Vol. 37 and later (2023–present) · 2024
• Why, or Why Not, Be an Originalist?
  69 CATH. U. L. REV. 683 (2021) · Catholic University Law Review · 2021
• When Two Rights Make a Wrong: Armed Assembly Under the First and Second Amendments
  116 NW. U. L. REV. 111 (2021) · Northwestern University Law Review · 2021

• The Constitutional Politics Heller Launched
  68 DUKE L.J. 8 (2018) · Duke Law Journal · 2018
• Don't End or Audit the Fed: Central Bank Independence in an Age of Austerity
  102 CORNELL L. REV. (2016) · Cornell Law Review · 2016
• Animal Rights: From Why to How
  22 ANIMAL L. REV. 225 (2016) · Animal Law Review · 2016
• Donald Trump and Other Agents of Constitutional Change
  83 U. CHI. L. REV. ONLINE (2016) · University of Chicago Law Review Online · 2016
• Incidental Burdens and the Nature of Judicial Review
  83 U. CHI. L. REV. ONLINE (2016) · University of Chicago Law Review Online · 2016
• Don't End or Audit the Fed: Central Bank Independence in an Age of Austerity
  102 CORNELL L. REV. 1 (2016) · Cornell Law Review · 2016
• Commerce, Death Panels, and Broccoli: Or Why the Activity/Inactivity Distinction in the Health Care Case Was Really About the Right to Bodily Integrity
  29 GA. ST. U. L. REV. (2013) · Georgia State University Law Review · 2013
• Whose Ox Is Being Gored? When Attitudinalism Meets Federalism
  21 J. CIV. RTS. & ECON. DEV. (2012) · Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development · 2012
• Federal Governmental Power: The Voting Rights Act
  26 TOURO L. REV. (2012) · Touro Law Review · 2012
• Spandrel or Frankenstein's Monster? The Vices and Virtues of Retrofitting in American Law
  54 WM. & MARY L. REV. 339 (2012) · William & Mary Law Review · 2012
• The Marginality of Citizens United
  20 CORNELL J. L. & PUB. POL'Y 739 (2011) · Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy · 2011
• Coming off the Bench: Legal and Policy Implications of Proposals To Allow Retired Justices To Sit By Designation on the Supreme Court
  61 DUKE L.J. 81 (2011) · Duke Law Journal · 2011
• Three Vital Issues: Incorporation of the Second Amendment, Federal Government Power, and Separation of Powers - October 2009 Term
  27 TOURO L. REV. (2011) · Touro Law Review · 2011
• First Amendment Freedom of Speech and Religion - October 2009 Term
  27 TOURO L. REV. (2011) · Touro Law Review · 2011
• The Constitution and the Political Community
  27 CONST. COMMENT. 499 (2011) · Constitutional Commentary · 2011

• Foreword: The Most Confusing Branch
  45 TULSA L. REV. 191 (2009) · Tulsa Law Review · 2009
• Abortion Rights
  23 TOURO L. REV. (2007) · Touro Law Review · 2007
• The Coherentism of Democracy and Distrust
  114 YALE L.J. 1237 (2005) · Yale Law Journal · 2005
• Identity Politics and the Second Amendment
  73 FORDHAM L. REV. 549 (2004) · Fordham Law Review · 2004
• After Bureaucracy (reviewing <i>The New Constitutional Order</i> by Mark Tushnet)
  71 U. CHI. L. REV. (2004) · University of Chicago Law Review · 2004
• Constitutional Existence Conditions and Judicial Review
  89 VA. L. REV. 1105 (2003) · Virginia Law Review · 2003
• The Paths to Legal Equality: A Reply to Dean Sullivan
  90 CAL. L. REV. 791 (2002) · California Law Review · 2002
• Equal Protection Incorporation
  88 VA. L. REV. 951 (2002) · Virginia Law Review · 2002
• Can Process Theory Constrain Courts?
  72 U. COLO. L. REV. 923 (2001) · University of Colorado Law Review · 2001
• Good Society, Commerce, and the Rehnquist Court
  69 FORDHAM L. REV. 2161 (2001) · Fordham Law Review · 2001
• The 2000 Presidential Election: Archetype or Exception?
  99 MICH. L. REV. 1279 (2001) · Michigan Law Review · 2001
• What Does the Second Amendment Mean Today?
  76 CHI.-KENT. L. REV. 291 (2000) · Chicago-Kent Law Review · 2000
• Drug Treatment Courts and Emergent Experimentalist Government
  53 VAND. L. REV. 829 (2000) · Vanderbilt Law Review · 2000
• Shared Constitutional Interpretation
  2000 SUP. CT. REV. (2000) · Supreme Court Review · 2000

• Be Careful What You Wish For
  16 CONST. COMMENT. 505 (1999) · Constitutional Commentary · 1999
• Create Your Own Constitutional Theory
  87 CAL. L. REV. 593 (1999) · California Law Review · 1999
• The Relevance of Federal Norms for State Separation of Powers
  4 ROGER WILLLIAMS U. L. REV. (1998) · Roger Williams University Law Review · 1998
• God and Man in the Yale Dormitories
  84 VA. L. REV. 843 (1998) · Virginia Law Review · 1998
• A Comment on Text, Time and Audience Understanding in Constitutional Law
  73 WASH. U. L. REV. 983 (1995) · Washington University Law Review · 1995
• Dicta and Article III
  142 U. PENN. L. REV. 1997 (1994) · University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 1994
• Review Article
  90 MICH. L. REV. 1225 (1992) · Michigan Law Review · 1992
• Levels of Generality in the Definition of Rights
  57 U. CHI. L. REV. (1990) · University of Chicago Law Review · 1990