Paul Finkelman

Publications

• Defeating Antisemitism in the World’s First Democratic Republic: the American Revolution and Jewish Legal and Political Equality
  40 TOURO L. REV. (2025) · Touro Law Review · 2025
• Afterward: A Reply to Commentators
  65 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1197 (2024) · William & Mary Law Review · 2024
• The "Free White Person" Clause of the Naturalization Act of 1790 as Super-Statute
  65 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1047 (2024) · William & Mary Law Review · 2024
• Voting Rights, Democracy, and the Constitution After January 6, 2021
  82 LA. L. REV. (2022) · Louisiana Law Review · 2022

• The Bill of Rights in Historical and International Perspective:How An 18th Century Document Illuminates Liberty in the 21stCentury
  46 OHIO N. U. L. REV. (2019) · Ohio Northern University Law Review · 2019
• The Nefarious Intentions of the Framers
  84 U. CHI. L. REV. (2017) · University of Chicago Law Review · 2017
• Frederick Douglass’s Constitution: From Garrisonian Abolitionist to Lincoln Republican
  81 MO. L. REV. (2016) · Missouri Law Review · 2016
• The Living Constitution and the Second Amendment: Poor History, False Originalism, and a Very Confused Court
  37 CARDOZO L. REV. 623 (2015) · Cardozo Law Review · 2015
• The Necessity of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Difficulty of Overcoming Almost a Century of Voting Discrimination
  76 LA. L. REV. (2015) · Louisiana Law Review · 2015
• Coping with a New "Yellow Peril": Japanese Immigration, the Gentleman's Agreement, and the Coming of World War II
  117 W. VA. L. REV. (2015) · West Virginia Law Review · 2015
• Lincoln v. the Proslavery Constitution: How a Railroad Lawyer's Constitutional Theory Made Him the Great Emancipator.
  47 ST. MARY'S L.J. (2015) · St. Mary's Law Journal · 2015
• Security, Privacy, and Technology Development: The Impact on National Security
  2 TEX. A & M L. REV. 597 (2015) · Texas A&M Law Review · 2015
• Panel Discussion: "Brown v. Board of Education & Affirmative Action in a 'Post Racial' America"
  Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice · 2015
• Original Intent and the Fourteenth Amendment: Into the Black Hole of Constitutional Law
  89 CHI.-KENT. L. REV. 1019 (2014) · Chicago-Kent Law Review · 2014
• The Long Road to Dignity: The Wrong of Segregation and What the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Had to Change
  74 LA. L. REV. (2014) · Louisiana Law Review · 2014
• Who Counted, Who Voted, and Who Could They Vote For
  58 ST. LOUIS U. L.J. (2014) · Saint Louis University Law Journal · 2014
• I Could not Afford to Hang Men for Votes—Lincoln the Lawyer, Humanitarian Concerns, and the Dakota Pardons
  39 WM. MITCHELL L. REV. (2013) · William Mitchell Law Review · 2013
• Francis Lieber and the Modern Law of War (reviewing <i>Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History</i> by John Fabian Witt)
  80 U. CHI. L. REV. (2013) · University of Chicago Law Review · 2013
• States' Rights, Southern Hypocrisy, and the Crisis of the Union
  45 AKRON L. REV. (2012) · Akron Law Review · 2012
• Coming to Terms with Dred Scott: A Response to Daniel A. Farber
  39 PEPP. L. REV. (2011) · Pepperdine Law Review · 2011
• The Cost of Compromise and the Covenant with Death
  38 PEPP. L. REV. (2011) · Pepperdine Law Review · 2011

• The American Suppression of the African Slave Trade: Lessons on Legal Change, Social Policy, and Legislation
  42 AKRON L. REV. (2009) · Akron Law Review · 2009
• John McLean: Moderate Abolitionist and Supreme Court Politician
  62 VAND. L. REV. 519 (2009) · Vanderbilt Law Review · 2009
• School Vouchers, Thomas Jefferson, Roger Williams, and Protecting the Faithful: Warnings from the Eighteenth Century and the Seventeenth Century on the Danger of Establishments to Religious Communities
  2008 BYU L. REV. 525 (2008) · BYU Law Review · 2008
• Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Limits of Constitutional Change
  2008 SUP. CT. REV. (2008) · Supreme Court Review · 2008
• E. Nathaniel Gates
  28 CARDOZO L. REV. 1037 (2006) · Cardozo Law Review · 2006
• <em>Scott v. Sandford</em>: The Court's Most Dreadful Case and How It Changed History
  82 CHI.-KENT. L. REV. 3 (2006) · Chicago-Kent Law Review · 2006
• The Dragon St. George Could Not Slay: Tucker's Plan to End Slavery
  47 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1213 (2006) · William & Mary Law Review · 2006
• The Ten Commandments on the Courthouse Lawn and Elsewhere
  73 FORDHAM L. REV. 1477 (2005) · Fordham Law Review · 2005
• The Roots of <i>Printz:</i>: Proslavery Constitutionalism, National Law Enforcement, Federalism, and Local Cooperation
  69 BROOK. L. REV. 1399 (2004) · Brooklyn Law Review · 2004
• The Strange Career of Race Discrimination in Antebellum Ohio
  55 CASE W. RES. L. REV. 373 (2004) · Case Western Reserve Law Review · 2004
• Locke v. Davey in Historical Perspective: A Brief Introduction
  40 TULSA L. REV. 219 (2004) · Tulsa Law Review · 2004
• Limiting Rights in Times of Crisis: Our Civil War Experience-A History Lesson for a Post-9-11 America
  2 CARDOZO PUB. L. POL 'Y & ETHICS J. 25 (2003) · Cardozo Public Law, Policy & Ethics Journal · 2003
• John Bingham and the Background to the Fourteenth Amendment
  36 AKRON L. REV. (2003) · Akron Law Review · 2003
• Fugitive Baseballs and Abandoned Property: Who Owns the Home Run Ball?
  23 CARDOZO L. REV. 1609 (2002) · Cardozo Law Review · 2002
• The Proslavery Origins of the Electoral College
  23 CARDOZO L. REV. 1145 (2002) · Cardozo Law Review · 2002
• Picture Perfect: The First Amendment Trumps Congress in Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition
  38 TULSA L. REV. 243 (2002) · Tulsa Law Review · 2002
• Speech, Press, and Democracy
  10 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 813 (2002) · William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal · 2002
• The Founders and Slavery: Little Ventured, Little Gained
  13 YALE J. L. & HUMAN. 413 (2002) · Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities · 2002
• Teaching Slavery in American Constitutional Law
  34 AKRON L. REV. (2001) · Akron Law Review · 2001
• Taking Aim at an American Myth
  99 MICH. L. REV. 1500 (2001) · Michigan Law Review · 2001
• "A Well Regulated Militia": The Second Amendment in Historical Perspective
  76 CHI.-KENT. L. REV. 195 (2000) · Chicago-Kent Law Review · 2000
• You Can't Always Get What You Want: Presidential Elections and Supreme Court Appointments
  35 TULSA L. REV. 473 (2000) · Tulsa Law Review · 2000

• Thomas R.R. Cobb and the Law of Negro Slavery
  5 ROGER WILLLIAMS U. L. REV. (1999) · Roger Williams University Law Review · 1999
• Affirmative Action for the Master Class: The Creation of the Proslavery Constitution
  32 AKRON L. REV. (1999) · Akron Law Review · 1999
• Baseball and the Rule of Law
  46 CLEV. ST. L. REV. 239 (1998) · Cleveland State Law Review · 1998
• The Rise of the New Racism
  15 YALE L. & POL'Y REV. 245 (1997) · Yale Law & Policy Review · 1997
• Legal Ethics and Fugitive Slaves: The Anthony Burns Case, Judge Loring, and Abolitionist Attorneys
  17 CARDOZO L. REV. 1793 (1996) · Cardozo Law Review · 1996
• A Bad Marriage: Jewish Divorce and the First Amendment
  2 CARDOZO J. EQUAL RTS. & SOC. JUST. 131 (1995) · Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice · 1995
• Free At Last
  70 CHI.-KENT. L. REV. 865 (1995) · Chicago-Kent Law Review · 1995
• Religious Liberty and the Quincentenary: Old World Intolerance, New World Realities, and Modern Implications
  7 J. CIV. RTS. & ECON. DEV. (1995) · Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development · 1995
• Let Justice Be Done, Though the Heavens May Fall: The Law of Freedom
  70 CHI.-KENT. L. REV. 325 (1994) · Chicago-Kent Law Review · 1994
• Story Telling on the Supreme Court: Prigg v Pennsylvania and Justice Joseph Story's Judicial Nationalism
  1994 SUP. CT. REV. (1994) · Supreme Court Review · 1994
• The Centrality of the Peculiar Institution in American Legal Development - Symposium on the Law of Slavery: Introduction
  68 CHI.-KENT. L. REV. 1009 (1993) · Chicago-Kent Law Review · 1993
• Civil Liberties and Civil War: The Great Emancipator as Civil Libertarian
  91 MICH. L. REV. 1353 (1993) · Michigan Law Review · 1993
• International Extradition and Fugitive Slaves: The John Anderson Case
  18 BROOK. J. INT'L L. 765 (1992) · Brooklyn Journal of International Law · 1992
• James Madison and the Bill of Rights: A Reluctant Paternity
  1990 SUP. CT. REV. (1990) · Supreme Court Review · 1990

• Exploring Southern Legal History
  64 N. C. L. REV. 77 (1985) · North Carolina Law Review · 1985
• Complete Anti-Federalist
  70 CORNELL L. REV. 182 (1984) · Cornell Law Review · 1984
• Book Review
  129 U. PENN. L. REV. 1485 (1981) · University of Pennsylvania Law Review · 1981
• Review Article
  69 CAL. L. REV. 1755 (1981) · California Law Review · 1981

• Fraternities
  8 CHI.-KENT. L. REV. 23 (1930) · Chicago-Kent Law Review · 1930