Michael D. Ramsey

Publications

• The Originalist Case Against the <i>Insular Cases</i>
  77 FLA. L. REV. 517 (2025) · Florida Law Review · 2025
• Presidential Power and What the First Congress Did Not Do
  99 NOTRE DAME L. REV. REFLECTION 47 (2023) · Notre Dame Law Review Reflection · 2023
• Originalism and Birthright Citizenship
  109 GEO. L.J. (2021) · Georgetown Law Journal · 2021
• Courts and Foreign Affairs: "Their Historical Role"
  35 CONST. COMMENT. 173 (2020) · Constitutional Commentary · 2020

• The Constitution’s Text and Customary International Law
  106 GEO. L.J. (2018) · Georgetown Law Journal · 2018
• Beyond the Text: Justice Scalia's Originalism in Practice
  92 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 1945 (2017) · Notre Dame Law Review · 2017
• Evading the Treaty Power?: The Constitutionality of Nonbinding Agreements
  11 FIU L. REV. 371 (2016) · FIU Law Review · 2016
• A Textual Approach to Treaty Non-Self-Execution
  2015 BYU L. REV. 1639 (2015) · BYU Law Review · 2015
• Congress's Limited Power to Enforce Treaties
  90 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 1539 (2015) · Notre Dame Law Review · 2015
• The Limits of Custom in Constitutional and International Law
  50 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 867 (2013) · San Diego Law Review · 2013
• International Wrongs, State Laws and Presidential Policies
  32 LOY. L. A. INT'L & COMP. L. REV. 19 (2010) · Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review · 2010

• Panel Two: Foreign Relations Law and Its Implications for Genocide
  Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review · 2009
• Missouri v. Holland and Historical Textualism
  73 MO. L. REV. (2008) · Missouri Law Review · 2008
• The President’s Power to Respond to Attacks
  93 CORNELL L. REV. 169 (2007) · Cornell Law Review · 2007
• Foreign Affairs and the Jeffersonian Executive: A Defense
  89 MINN. L. REV. 1591 (2005) · Minnesota Law Review · 2005
• Reinventing the Security Council: The U.N. as a Lockean System
  79 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 1529 (2004) · Notre Dame Law Review · 2004
• The Empirical Dilemma of International Law
  41 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 1243 (2004) · San Diego Law Review · 2004
• American Insurance Association v. Garamendi and Executive Preemption in Foreign Affairs
  46 WM. & MARY L. REV. 825 (2004) · William & Mary Law Review · 2004
• Text and History in the War Powers Debate: A Reply to Professor Yoo
  69 U. CHI. L. REV. (2002) · University of Chicago Law Review · 2002
• Textualism and War Powers
  69 U. CHI. L. REV. (2002) · University of Chicago Law Review · 2002
• International Law as Part of Our Law: A Constitutional Perspective
  29 PEPP. L. REV. (2001) · Pepperdine Law Review · 2001
• Multinational Corporate Liability under the Alien Tort Claims Act: Some Structural Concerns
  24 UC L. SF INT'L L. REV. 361 (2001) · UC Law SF International Law Review · 2001
• The Executive Power over Foreign Affairs
  111 YALE L.J. 231 (2001) · Yale Law Journal · 2001
• The Myth of Extraconstitutional Foreign Affairs Power
  42 WM. & MARY L. REV. 379 (2000) · William & Mary Law Review · 2000

• Power of the States in Foreign Affairs: The Original Understanding of Foreign Policy Federalism
  75 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 341 (1999) · Notre Dame Law Review · 1999
• Executive Agreements and the (Non)Treaty Power
  77 N. C. L. REV. 133 (1998) · North Carolina Law Review · 1998

• Community Property - Deferred Compensation Plants - Interest of Nonemployee Spouse at Divorce
  19 SMU L. REV. 370 (1965) · SMU Law Review · 1965