Richard H. Fallon Jr

Publications

• First Amendment Exceptions to Otherwise Valid Laws: A Doctrinal and Meta-Doctrinal Perspective
  120 NW. U. L. REV. 691 (2025) · Northwestern University Law Review · 2025
• Non–Article III Federal Tribunals: An Essay on the Relation Between Theory and Practice
  99 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 1691 (2024) · Notre Dame Law Review · 2024
• Political Questions and the Ultra Vires Conundrum
  87 U. CHI. L. REV. (2020) · University of Chicago Law Review · 2020

• Arguing in Good Faith about the Constitution: Ideology, Methodology, and Reflective Equilibrium
  84 U. CHI. L. REV. (2017) · University of Chicago Law Review · 2017
• On Viewing the Courts as Junior Partners of Congress in Statutory Interpretation Cases: An Essay Celebrating the Scholarship of Daniel J. Meltzer
  91 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 1743 (2016) · Notre Dame Law Review · 2016
• Why Abstention Is Not Illegitimate: An Essay on the Distinction Between "Legitimate" and "Illegitimate" Statutory Interpretation and Judicial Lawmaking
  107 NW. U. L. REV. 847 (2015) · Northwestern University Law Review · 2015
• The Many and Varied Roles of History in Constitutional Adjudication
  90 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 1753 (2015) · Notre Dame Law Review · 2015
• How to Make Sense of Supreme Court Standing Cases— – A Plea for the Right Kind of Realism
  23 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 105 (2014) · William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal · 2014
• Three Symmetries between Textualist and Purposivist Theories of Statutory Interpretation - and the Irreducible Roles of Values and Judgment within Both
  99 CORNELL L. REV. 685 (2014) · Cornell Law Review · 2014
• Interpreting Presidential Powers
  63 DUKE L.J. 347 (2013) · Duke Law Journal · 2013

• Why and How to Teach Federal Courts Today
  53 ST. LOUIS U. L.J. (2009) · Saint Louis University Law Journal · 2009
• Constitutional Precedent Viewed through the Lens of Hartian Positivist Jurisprudence
  86 N. C. L. REV. 1107 (2008) · North Carolina Law Review · 2008
• If Roe Were Overruled: Abortion and the Constitution in a Post-Roe World
  51 ST. LOUIS U. L.J. (2007) · Saint Louis University Law Journal · 2007
• Executive Power and the Political Constitution
  2007 UTAH L. REV. (2007) · Utah Law Review · 2007
• Should We All Be Welfare Economists?
  101 MICH. L. REV. 979 (2003) · Michigan Law Review · 2003
• The "Conservative" Paths of the Rehnquist Court's Federalism Decisions
  69 U. CHI. L. REV. (2002) · University of Chicago Law Review · 2002
• JUDICIAL LEGITIMACY AND THE UNWRITTEN CONSTITUTION: A COMMENT ON MIRANDA AND DICKERSON
  45 N.Y.L. SCH. L. REV. 119 (2000) · NYLS Law Review · 2000

• Ruminations on the Work of Frederick Schauer
  72 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 1391 (1999) · Notre Dame Law Review · 1999
• Comparing Federal Courts "Paradigms"
  12 CONST. COMMENT. 3 (1995) · Constitutional Commentary · 1995
• Reflections on Dworkin and the Two Faces of Law
  67 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 553 (1992) · Notre Dame Law Review · 1992
• Claims Court at the Crossroads
  40 CATH. U. L. REV. 517 (1991) · Catholic University Law Review · 1991

• Of Speakable Ethics and Constitutional Law: A Review Essay (reviewing <i>Morality, Politics, and Law: A Bicentennial Essay</i> by Michael J. Perry)
  56 U. CHI. L. REV. (1989) · University of Chicago Law Review · 1989